Bridcutt Injured Again

Surely we have to cut our losses with both Bridcutt and Stewart and exclude them both from the 25 man squad in January. Central midfield has got to be strengthened in the next window. We also need an experienced centre half, a goal scorer and a winger IMHO.
 
HodderSeasider said:
Surely we have to cut our losses with both Bridcutt and Stewart and exclude them both from the 25 man squad in January. Central midfield has got to be strengthened in the next window. We also need an experienced centre half, a goal scorer and a winger IMHO.
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And a manager
 
I stick up for the board a fair bit, but this signing is hard to defend.

The writing was on the wall that this signing would be a disaster one way or another yet people that get paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year thought it was a good idea. Very strange.

Even more strange when you think that Bishop signing fell through on a medical, so we’re told and he’s played more or less every minute since signing for Pompey.

Massive January transfer window coming up for the club, a poor summer has led to us relying on the winter window. A very bad place for a football club to be.
 
Thatseasider said:
I stick up for the board a fair bit, but this signing is hard to defend.

The writing was on the wall that this signing would be a disaster one way or another yet people that get paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year thought it was a good idea. Very strange.

Even more strange when you think that Bishop signing fell through on a medical, so we’re told and he’s played more or less every minute since signing for Pompey.

Massive January transfer window coming up for the club, a poor summer has led to us relying on the winter window. A very bad place for a football club to be.
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Even stranger is the signing of Ward. After saying several times, when asked, he would not be offered a new contract, then sign him, albeit on a short term deal. After the WC break, when as Appleton so cheerily informed us, the injury situation was even worse, he’s not even in the match day squad. As Alice said, curiouser and curiouser.🤔
 
Albert Ross said:
Even stranger is the signing of Ward. After saying several times, when asked, he would not be offered a new contract, then sign him, albeit on a short term deal. After the WC break, when as Appleton so cheerily informed us, the injury situation was even worse, he’s not even in the match day squad. As Alice said, curiouser and curiouser.🤔
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I saw him walking past the Community trust entrance on Saturday looking glum. Feel sorry for him TBH, a good pro.
 
We will bring in more quality in Jan thats for sure, its the only way we can go to progress. Most people on here have identified 4 positions
that need strengthening CH, DM, ST, and a winger or you could say Hector, Rosier, Vydra and Bowler praps I'm dreaming, quite a few people I think would go for that. What would it cost I here you say ,or the Board wont spend that much, well if those 4 are fit to go its the kind of injection that has to happen if we are to stay in this division.
 
Mark_GT said:
I saw him walking past the Community trust entrance on Saturday looking glum. Feel sorry for him TBH, a good pro.
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If he was looking glum, he and Appleton should be besties.😁 I know what you mean though, after being out all that time, he probably thought he had one more chance to prove himself. And now can’t even get on the bench.
 
FLATBACKFOR said:
We will bring in more quality in Jan thats for sure, its the only way we can go to progress. Most people on here have identified 4 positions
that need strengthening CH, DM, ST, and a winger or you could say Hector, Rosier, Vydra and Bowler praps I'm dreaming, quite a few people I think would go for that. What would it cost I here you say ,or the Board wont spend that much, well if those 4 are fit to go its the kind of injection that has to happen if we are to stay in this division.
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And who's paying the Championship wages all this quality will demand?
Bowler is on 22k a week Forrest will want a chunk of that paying what's our top earner on 5/6/7/8K?
 
poolseasider said:
And who's paying the Championship wages all this quality will demand?
Bowler is on 22k a week Forrest will want a chunk of that paying what's our top earner on 5/6/7/8K?
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SS must have known before he bought the club the average Championship wages. We have two choices, we either start paying lower end Championship salary or we accept a life like Rotherham and yo-yo on league one wages. There isn’t an in between.
 
Just to throw a rock into the Pool, of the fit players available to us at the moment, Sonny Carey is not yet up to the mark. If Grant Ward is fit, he would be more use to us right now.
 
poolseasider said:
You need to lower your expectations we pay Lge 1 salaries so not a chance unless we break that structure are we bringing in quality in Jan.
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Well that's it isn't it.
Because the summer window was so poor it really does look like we'll have to basically have a summer window in January.

Can we actually afford to do that? Most likely not, have the board done a cost benefit analysis and decided League One for the next 3/4 years is acceptable whilst infrastructure comes online? Maybe, I hope not but its possible.

My personal view is that Appleton has been dealt an unlucky hand, but he's done zero to improve it or be practical about the position he finds himself in.
I think he'll be gone before January and someone will come in with the only remit of survival.
 
Thatseasider said:
Well that's it isn't it.
Because the summer window was so poor it really does look like we'll have to basically have a summer window in January.

Can we actually afford to do that? Most likely not, have the board done a cost benefit analysis and decided League One for the next 3/4 years is acceptable whilst infrastructure comes online? Maybe, I hope not but its possible.

My personal view is that Appleton has been dealt an unlucky hand, but he's done zero to improve it or be practical about the position he finds himself in.
I think he'll be gone before January and someone will come in with the only remit of survival.
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The infrastructure was always going to be debt(from Sadlers mouth) and wouldn't go on players wages(debt)as he was already putting in six figures whatever that is every year.

So we had to work smart like last season a combination of improving players Marv/Connolly finding gems Grimshaw/Bowler and get decent loans Sterling/ Whintle for example.

Then the project went tits up with Critch leaving employ a coach nobody wants and apart from Jerry hasn't improved anybody,sign a load of loans who Patino is the only one who's worked out(not recently) or they've been injured and signed a couple after their first games thought they'd be decent but also haven't been any good.

Wrong coach,wrong players brought in,wrong ticket prices and probably wrong budget to push on from last season.

Will January change anything I seriously doubt unless whoever is coaching us can get tune out of what we've got.
 
poolseasider said:
Will January change anything I seriously doubt unless whoever is coaching us can get tune out of what we've got.
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I think it *could*, because we could bring in 4 players that change our season Ala Charlie on loan.
However I think I agree with you at this point i'm highly skeptical we can significantly move the needle in January, and it's looking like relegation.
 
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