Two Plans for Summer Transfers

Sadly I think Plan A is all we will need after the last months results. Still 3 wins in a row now and it all changes again...

 

Steady on Wiz , I'm beginning to think all the Cornwall air is affecting you .

 

I think depth is missing , however bottom clubs in Premier League I genuinely believe are not way beyond our level. Getting there though is another thing all together, the championship is a really difficult league to get promotion from.

 

no not chocolate .... plain digestive ...

 

I reckon they are planning for next year at this level

Which I think is probably very sensible as we're not going up.

 

It almost seems the club don't want to go up, 2017 to 2018 chalk and cheese.

 

Recent results probably show that the existing squad is not good enough to go up at this point.

However, a year's more experience plus some additions ......... then who knows.

Of course that means holding onto Reid, Bryan, Flint etc

 

Don't quitye understand this guys. No Championship squad (with the exception of maybe Wolves) are good enough for the Premier right now - it's all about getting there and then doing something about it. The job in hand right now is to go for promotion - nothing else should matter, there's plenty of time to think about next season.

Unless you've got megabucks to blow and run the risk of breaching FFP rules, you will never build a squad in the Championship that will not then require major surgery to stay up if it gets there.

You may call it realism but I've never heard such fence sitting from a club that has done so well and put itself on the front foot by getting into the top 6 at the halfway point, and then seemingly decide to consolidate for the Championship next season.

Maybe a two pronged plan but only one should have been considered at the half way point given where you got yourself by Christmas. Except for the back-patters, wrong message - seems like preparing the ground for failure..

 

Must admit, agree with OS, that no squad is ready for the prem, until you're in it, you won't know
We've had some good runs, hence the reason we are where are....It was and still is an opportunity to get promotion or at least go for it..
Failure, is not everything, but thinking we will be more ready next season, I don't buy......A few bad results at the beginning of a season quite often turns into a "avoiding the drop mission".....And we know where that can go......restless with the manager, players and coaching staff and then the owner..
Whatever happens, players will come and go, be it, here in the championship or in the prem next season.....It will be all change that's for sure!

 

At the start of the season did anybody expect us to be in the top six in the middle February with a League Cup Semi-Final experience under our belt? I certainly didn’t I would have been happy with a top half finish. Now I’ve said all season I don’t expect us to finish in the top 6 and to drop out of these places will be disappointing but meh if it happens it happens and we go again next season with a young squad and manager with a further years’ experience under its belt. We are punching above our weight with a young upcoming squad against teams with Premiership experience and budgets. Our team can only get better. The policy of buying young potential is the right policy. Panic buying an average jailbird striker from a struggling Championship side for over the odds should not be our business model. Let other clubs flash the cash, only 3 sides can get promoted, spend big and miss out and you will spend time trying to balance the books. Look out cheap we got Baker from Villa for because they had to do exactly this?
I’ve never been more excited in my 40 odd years of supporting City, we are finally doing things the right way building towards the Premiership rather than going for the quick fix with no foundations.

 

Another cheap shot that misses the point altogether. I didn't want him either, not at that price anyway, but he fills a place in the side that we were severely lacking - someone to hold the ball up for the likes of Hoilett et al to benefit from. That's why he was brought in - his past personal history is irrelevant except for an opportunist to make a dig.

The bland acceptance that if you miss out this time you will be better placed to challenge next season is pie in the sky. Whatever 3 teams do go up and will be "out of the way" for next season will be replaced by 3 Premier clubs coming down. That's not to mention the others up and around the current top 6 who wont be going up - do you think they'll be sitting around waiting for you to "improve"?

This isn't necessarily a one shot go at it, teams do need to steadily improve to mount a realistic challenge at the top of the Championship to give themselves a fighting chance, but FFS you're there right and now! Yeah yeah, we know you got a young squad with a young manager and are only going to improve - are you sure?

We are only a few points in front of you at the mo and that can change in a couple of games, but I doubt you'll find anyone over here within the club or in the stands that are thinking right now about how we improve for next season in the Championship - we'll face that when it comes.

 

Personally I think we've had our 'moment' for this season and that was the run to the LC Semi, taking 4 Premiership scalps along the way. The attention we got was unprecedented, but it's clearly taken its toll, and while we are now faltering, some of the in form clubs like Aston Villa and Fulham have since caught, or have caught and overtaken us.

We could still finish in the top 6 but it wouldn't surprise me if we don't. We're entering a crucial run of games up to and including Easter and need victories.

We're not good enough to catch Wolves (who are going to be Champions), or even Villa now, and a top 6 finish is the best we can hope for, but I'm sceptical we'll even make that. The only upside is that there will be plenty of 6 pointers most weeks and we might benefit from those when contenders are playing each other.

 

Still think second spot is up for grabs by anyone in the top 6 who can string a good run together - and that includes you though I accept that your Carabao Cup run seems to have left its' mark. From where you are right now, a top 6 finish minimum with a chance in the playoffs must be achievable and the target - once you're in the playoffs, anything can happen.

As you rightly say, there are a lot of the top teams yet to play each other and others can take advantage from that, but you must put away teams you are expected to beat - Bolton and Sunderland could have been your nemesis.

We just must win our home game in hand tonight against Bolton and then again home against Middlesbrough on the weekend to put pressure on Villa and Derby. Incidenatally, I see Derby also play tonight away at Sheff Wed - that result could be crucial.

 

For goodness sake don't get all prissy again Wiz. The thread you posted was about the direction of your club and open to comments from others as to whether they thought it right - not just to pat each other on the back.

I posted a reply about your club as I'm interested in general - someone else then made a remark about mine.

I'm not here to offend anyone, only for a general chat - and not about Cardiff either.

If you don't like the discussion, you can delete my posts on the subject or maybe close the thread because it's attracting varying opinions as to which is the right approach, not just yours.

 

Just had a bit of a tasty thought.......meeting Cardiff in the playoff final........**** would hit the fan me thinks

 

Mark Ashton is spot on. Whilst many now think we'll most likely be adding to the existing squad for another promo push next year, BCFC are being professional in planning a contingency in the event that we might be playing in a higher league. Both options covered and targets identified. That makes perfect sense to me and I'm excited for the closed season either way as we've done our reputation no harm at all this season.