Someone not too happy.

[Brett&Murphs.]

So what if we missed out on CB. We don’t have unlimited money and if we couldn’t afford the extra 200k then fair enough. Robson has been having a good season at the same level so why not give him a shout now we are not desperate to cling onto championship survival.

He’s out of contract end of next season isn’t he? If they don’t go up which they probably won’t as they seem to be bottlers then we will get him cheaper.

 

[ItsGrimUpNorth]

Beyond obsessive. I've never known a player a club has wanted as much as Critch and the Board did and then refused to pay what Oxford wanted. The whole episode is peculiar and doesn't add up.

We knew straight up the buy out was £1.2 million. No idea why, if Critchley wanted him so badly and the board trusted him, we messed around with bids of 500k and 800k.

Seems like it was a token gesture to fans as if to say “we’re trying” while not trying hard enough.

 

[Jaffa_The_Hut]

Typical AVFTT shit houses I see. Jaffa_The_Hut why haven’t you replied to his tweet instead of moving it to a different platform of social media?

FFS
Look again I have replied and I’ve said for the last time I DON’T DO TWITTER.
Read it instead of shooting yourself in the foot and looking like an idiot.

 

[BFC_BFC_BFC]

We knew straight up the buy out was £1.2 million. No idea why, if Critchley wanted him so badly and the board trusted him, we messed around with bids of 500k and 800k.

Seems like it was a token gesture to fans as if to say “we’re trying” while not trying hard enough.

The player obviously wanted to come to us and it's not unreasonable to expect that Oxford would accept a price below the release clause figure. If we suddenly start paying 20% above our maximum price for incoming players, then that would be sufficient to completely balls up our strategy.

 

[Potts Must Go]

Gave up but read enough to form an opinion of me that you felt brave enough to post anonymously when you could just as easily have called me out on twitter. Utter divvy.

You might delete the mong comment on your Twitter this morning, that's not great really is it. I'll leave that with you, and leave it with others to decide who the divvy is.

 

[Northstandsinger]

We’ve got a decent creative midfielder in Sonny Carey who very unfortunately is injured, but will be absolutely key next season.

Sonny carey is mustard and with bowler, Kirk, dale and cj I think critch will be looking to play Keshi more central when he is back from injury.

 

[coppiceman]

We knew straight up the buy out was £1.2 million. No idea why, if Critchley wanted him so badly and the board trusted him, we messed around with bids of 500k and 800k.

Seems like it was a token gesture to fans as if to say “we’re trying” while not trying hard enough.

We also "knew" that bidding for Bowler was around £1.5m, until that was proved to be made up bollocks.

Poor form outing RP in this way imho, and a bit sneaky to go on another forum to do it. But if you are going to try as hard as he does to get attention, maybe it won't always be the kind you want? Just a thought peeps.

 

[AngelBFC]

Oystonesque window ???

If Koko had been in charge he'd have driven Bowler to Bournemouth 2 days ago.

The tweeter must have had a skinful to post that rubbish.

 

[LANEROSSI]

Will we get relegated-NO

Will Oxford get promoted NO

Will Posh be relegated -probably.

In this window we have held onto a massively big part of our team

Got rid of some dead wood

Collected some incoming transfer cash

Got two players back in the squad who have potential

Come Summer we will be able to get Brannigan or whoever

As a realist and long time supporterof the Pool who hasnt got a short memory

Im happy.

 

[Lytham_fy8]

As was the case last season, when one door closed another one opened. I think we’ll all be surprised over the coming games, I believe we’re starting to fire on 5 cylinders & if that 6th splutters into life who knows. I’m happy the way things have turned out. On Bowler he’s always looked lively but without much end result. That seems to be changing of late, which makes for an interesting rest of the season.

Maybe we're a flat 5 like those Volvos and Audis of the 90s.

I love a five pot warble.

 

[AllezBlackpool]

Poor O/P. Football is all about opinions. This guy has his. People may disagree with him but no need for all the insults. Whatever happened to Phil's Law?

 

[RyanPowell]

You might delete the mong comment on your Twitter this morning, that's not great really is it. I'll leave that with you, and leave it with others to decide who the divvy is.

Again, you've read the tweet, avoided making yourself known and headed straight back to the safety of your username on here. That's a pretty accurate use of the word for you in my opinion, ta'ra.

 

[Martondriver]

We failed to get our top target, but at the same point he’s not played regularly in this League has he?

Interesting thought on the Bowler deal, something will come out maybe.

Our model is probably sell to buy bigger and better. We’ve still spent a decent chunk this season, it’s gonna take time.

When Oxford don’t go up i think we’ll get him in the summer.

" it's gonna take time" absolutely correct. This new owner didn't get wealthy by asset stripping a football club - quite the opposite. He is building a football club for the future. We didn't land a league 1 footballer who we probably need but hey there is always the summer. What we need to remember is SS is also looking to deliver a new training ground and an academy. Also, as Brett and Murphs pointed out we are in a position to turn down a reported 3 million pound offer for a player. We have come an awful long way since that incredible day in court. UTMP

 

[TheRealKingKenny]

There was a thread last night about whether we’d want to keep Bowler or sign Brannagan and it was overwhelmingly in favour of Bowler. I personally would rather keep the status quo for now, I appreciate Sadler could be out of pocket so far and money doesn’t grow on trees, we want a sustainable model.

Let’s see if Josh continues his great performances and the likelihood will be that he’ll leave and we’ll still get a decent fee. Then if Brannagan doesn’t get promoted with Oxford we’ll likely get him at a reduced fee. The window certainly hasn’t been a disaster, we’ve kept our best players and we have reinforcements coming back from injury in the coming weeks. We can still have a strong finish to the season and the playoffs were probably a step too far this season anyway.

 

[RyanPowell]

Poor O/P. Football is all about opinions. This guy has his. People may disagree with him but no need for all the insults. Whatever happened to Phil's Law?

It's the easy option for a group of faceless men hiding behind usernames having pops at someone who doesn't hide his face or his opinions.

 

[RyanPowell]

I happen to agree with you

But saying that, it probably isn't much of an endorsement given how much grief i get on this site from the keyboard warriors who no fcuker knows in the real world

Potts and Proud are two posters i do know and they are both good lads to be fair

The club have failed massively to strengthen our midfield thats the point in all this

We agree on a fair bit on fairness over on twitter. People don't always agree, I have plenty of bfc supporting friends, we don't agree on everything. Some people resort to insults from faceless usernames to give themselves a boost thiugh. Sad.

 

[mull]

He's overpriced, based upon the fact that his valuation has been based purely on a predetermined release clause, as opposed to the fee he might expect to command, based on similar transfers. £750K - £1M seems to be around the right sort of price for a CM, making the move from a L1 to mid table Championship Club.

We've no real need to bust a gut to get anyone right now... We're not going up (sorry to break it to everyone) and we're not going down, so what advantage is there to over-spending, when we can do decent business in the summer?

Yep, if we can get a player in at the right price, I'm all for that, but paying a premium in January, just to maybe finish a couple oif places higher in the league (absolutely pointless).

Don't always agree with you BFCx3 but do entirely on this point. All this, 'massive fail by recruitment team' is hyperbolic nonsense.
Look at similar clubs e.g Luton, Millwall. Similar fan bases, finances? Etc. Signed hardly anyone. Sure we didn't get our main target but we kept our gems, added potential and reduced the wage bill by 3 or 4 as well. That to me, at where we re currently at, a pretty canny window

 

[Goldfinger]

I'm turning 29 soon and don't have a brother, idiot.

course you are.......
I know your dad through playing football

 

[RyanPowell]

course you are.......
I know your dad through playing football

You don't at all because my dad's never played football in his life. If you want to see my driving license to verify my age, DM me on twitter or find me on Facebook and I'll send a picture of it to you.

 

[mull]

Will we get relegated-NO

Will Oxford get promoted NO

Will Posh be relegated -probably.

In this window we have held onto a massively big part of our team

Got rid of some dead wood

Collected some incoming transfer cash

Got two players back in the squad who have potential

Come Summer we will be able to get Brannigan or whoever

As a realist and long time supporterof the Pool who hasnt got a short memory

Im happy.

Too post so far. A bit of common sense, realism and perspective. Well done sir

 

[Goldfinger]

You don't at all because my dad's never played football in his life. If you want to see my driving license to verify my age, DM me on twitter or find me on Facebook and I'll send a picture of it to you.

I that case I apologise.
I have you confused with another Ryan Powell, big Blackpool fan.
What are the chances eh........

 

[Mark_GT]

If this mooted £200k gap is reality rather than just conjecture it does seem a shame we didn't land our target last night. That said, we kept our highest value asset for now at least and we have plenty of midfielders on the injured or "slightly risky to start" list who would add to our team.

I imagine the biggest financial pressure ATM is the training ground followed by the East Stand redevelopment, both of which are essential to kick us into the next level. Surely this has a bearing on how and what we spend right now?

 

[straightatthewall]

I imagine the biggest financial pressure ATM is the training ground followed by the East Stand redevelopment, both of which are essential to kick us into the next level. Surely this has a bearing on how and what we spend right now?

These are things that people do need to understand and be patient with. Sad to say, the damage done by the Oystons wasn't limited to those boycott years. They consistently underfunded the football club in favour of their own concerns. The obvious example is the limited capacity under the stands that mean the club is always failing to maximise match day revenues on refreshments for non-corporate supporters. These things need investment to help provide a long-term foundation to build a bigger and better club. Same as the training ground and the East stand. Without the aid of a mega-rich addition to the board, this can only be done on a step-by-step basis. One season in the Championship after COVID really isn't enough to have turned us into a cash rich club who can do what they like.

 

[SeasideKurt]

Don't make bids if you're under financial constraints?

The notion you have to sell Bowler and miss out on CB makes no sense.

 

[Bispham_Seasider]

You don't at all because my dad's never played football in his life. If you want to see my driving license to verify my age, DM me on twitter or find me on Facebook and I'll send a picture of it to you.

There's a pm facility on here too! And the option to send images in them!

 

[BFC_BFC_BFC]

Don't make bids if you're under financial constraints?

The notion you have to sell Bowler and miss out on CB makes no sense.

Why not?

The financial constraints are not necessarily limitations that are due to lack of funds, but rather limitations that have been self-imposed by those who are experts in the type of progressive transfer policy we are adopting in order to develop the Club.

So, yes we want Brannagan and it would seem that he wanted to come here, but not at any cost. We had a max amount that we were willing to pay for him and that was that, you have too draw the line somewhere. If you agree on a transfer policy and then just go and break all the rules just because you get caught up in wanting the player, then the whole strategy is worthless..

It's like starting a business in house development and then spunking your budget and overpaying for a house at the first auction, because you fell in love with the house and got carried away at the auction.

 

[SeasideKurt]

Why not?

The financial constraints are not necessarily limitations that are due to lack of funds, but rather limitations that have been self-imposed by those who are experts in the type of progressive transfer policy we are adopting in order to develop the Club.

So, yes we want Brannagan and it would seem that he wanted to come here, but not at any cost. We had a max amount that we were willing to pay for him and that was that, you have too draw the line somewhere. If you agree on a transfer policy and then just go and break all the rules just because you get caught up in wanting the player, then the whole strategy is worthless..

It's like starting a business in house development and then spunking your budget and overpaying for a house at the first auction, because you fell in love with the house and got carried away at the auction.

I agree the difficulty is with your analogy is that you'd just purchase another house, within your budget. And we decided not to do that.

Either way it's absolutely whatever. Because no relegation. No promotion and the summer will matter more.

 

[EagleDay]

Sounds a right doughnut.

 

[BFC_BFC_BFC]

I agree the difficulty is with your analogy is that you'd just purchase another house, within your budget. And we decided not to do that.

Either way it's absolutely whatever. Because no relegation. No promotion and the summer will matter more.

And if there were no houses as good available, you were under no pressure to buy now cause you didn't really need to) and the house you wanted would be available for the price you wanted to pay in a few months?

As I said...We're not desperate to fill the midfield gap with a make do and mend signing (because it makes no real difference this season).... Critchley wants Brannagan and I'd fully expect us to get him in the Summer.

 

[RyanPowell]

You do know you don’t have to follow someone to read their tweets, for example I’ve read your tweets but would not follow you if you were the only other bloke on the planet

Make yourself known to me and I'll do you a favour and block you then. You know my name well enough so clearly make a habit of reading my tweets.

 

[Hoolahansleftpeg]

So who’s this guy?

Why didn’t you ask him yourself on his Twitter rather than make a post about him on a forum? Pretty poor form and fairly sad if you ask me

 

[Sooty59]

Maybe we're a flat 5 like those Volvos and Audis of the 90s.

I love a five pot warble.

Let's hope we soon get the V6 burble.

 

[Jaffa_The_Hut]

Why didn’t you ask him yourself on his Twitter rather than make a post about him on a forum? Pretty poor form and fairly sad if you ask me

Christ how many more times.

I DON’T DO TWITTER.

Read my reply to him.

I DON’T DO TWITTER.

What’s difficult not to understand here?

 

[1966_and_all_that]

You don't at all because my dad's never played football in his life. If you want to see my driving license to verify my age, DM me on twitter or find me on Facebook and I'll send a picture of it to you.

Your initial post on AVFTT confirms my fears about Twitter. You recognise the anger of your twitter post and tone it down significantly in your original post here. Moreover, because this forum does not limit the number of characters you can use when posting, you provided a fuller and better explanation of your view than Twitter allows. Regardless of whether I agree with your position or not, I would much prefer to discuss the matter in a more accessible and articulate way than Twitter provides for. That is why I much prefer this forum as a facility for discussing all things tangerine. Also, the fact that forums like this favour the use of pseudonyms means that users can be more open about their views than they would be if using their real names. I don't see that as being a bad thing.

 

[B_Side_The_C_Side]

I don't 'do' twitter but....I read some of your replies and 100% you are on my ignore list
Don't bother to reply...I dont give a shit.

 

[Recidivist3]

Your initial post on AVFTT confirms my fears about Twitter. You recognise the anger of your twitter post and tone it down significantly in your original post here. Moreover, because this forum does not limit the number of characters you can use when posting, you provided a fuller and better explanation of your view than Twitter allows. Regardless of whether I agree with your position or not, I would much prefer to discuss the matter in a more accessible and articulate way than Twitter provides for. That is why I much prefer this forum as a facility for discussing all things tangerine. Also, the fact that forums like this favour the use of pseudonyms means that users can be more open about their views than they would be if using their real names. I don't see that as being a bad thing.

Part of me wishes that you’d replied to him last night

thanks for the follow up btw,

 

[Hoolahansleftpeg]

Christ how many more times.

I DON’T DO TWITTER.

Read my reply to him.

I DON’T DO TWITTER.

What’s difficult not to understand here?

Maybe I haven't read the whole of your pathetic thread sniping at someone online? The O/P was enough...

Of course you don't do twitter, its much more convenient to sit and hide behind your username whilst posting his actual name all over here instead .

 

[This is Ska]

To be fair Ryan has come on here to elaborate his views after becoming aware of this thread by all accounts. He’s also recognised the tone may have been ott. I don’t agree with his opinion but every credit for fronting up on here.

Whatever our opinions we are as one in our support for the Tangerine Wizards. UTMP.

 

[Eternaloptimist]

What's the capitals Supporters about? Is that a dig at me?

Backwards would be losing a central midfielder who was massive in how we played and didn't replace at all. Let alone spend hundreds of hours trying to get a player and generally dithering over 250k. Karl did the same on the regular let's face it and we lost our heads about it.

Keeping players is fantastic, especially Bowler. But the overreaction is insane, considering the majority of those delighted we kept him were slagging him off months ago.

Not at all Kurt, it was a dig at the O/P
Everyone has their own opinions but it was the way it was said without one bit of acknowledging of how far we have come under Sadler and Critch.
Always hard to decide who on this forum are genuine supporters as opposed to those who come on here as WUMs or they know naff all about the club and spout a load of shite.
Reading your posts Kurt, you are in the former.

 

[Jaffa_The_Hut]

Maybe I haven't read the whole of your pathetic thread sniping at someone online? The O/P was enough...

Of course you don't do twitter, its much more convenient to sit and hide behind your username whilst posting his actual name all over here instead .

Hang on a minute I haven’t named anyone here he’s already named himself by posting on Twitter.
And as for hiding behind a username that’s utter crap, for you information I’ve already explained to him exactly who I am in a P/M. I certainly don’t have anything at all to hide and I most certainly have not been abusive in anyway shape or form to anyone on this thread so why would I want to hide behind anything especially my username?

 

[Simonized]

You've screenshotted my tweet, came off twitter, loaded up an anonymous message board to ask who I am/criticise what I've said. My name is on my twitter handle and make no attempts to hide who I am. So why didn't you ask who I am on twitter instead, or were you more interested in posting on here to start a thread off and hiding behind a username?

Ryan, I have some sympathy for you but he has got the info from an open domain in which case he has done no wrong.
You are stating things like they are facts in your twit and unless you are privy to the facts(work for BFC, OUFC or you are CB's agent) everything in your Twitter is a rumor and therefore is open to criticism or ridicule.

 

[Martonmosser]

Course you will, because you're a gobshite hiding behind a username. Muppet.

Keep posting in that tone to a few on here and you might find a few seeking you out come Saturday

 

[RyanPowell]

Keep posting in that tone to a few on here and you might find a few seeking you out come Saturday

Most seem to know me, if I was worried about being sought out I wouldn't have made an account and confronted people would I? I drink in the Armfield every match day from 12.30ish in middle floor bar.