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I believe we're bringing in players to help us progress primarily ...

... any future financial benefit is a bonus, not the aim.

If KLD wants a return on his investment a Post Office Savings Account would be a better option.

We also need experience to match potential if we are ever going to succeed as a club. Look at our 4 strikers and the 2 men in our engine room playing CM. All kids.
 
If Still and Hellberg were never linked, I wonder if everyone would still be as negative about Beale? If it was the same old names and Beale in there as an option.

Must admit I was very underwhelmed till today, but I'm trying to see it more pragmaticly today.

He's a young coach who's got tonnes of experience coaching young players. Just because we've heard of this guy, and he's been at a club (bit of a basket case) in our league, and Rangers who are playing second fiddle to Celtic (who were under Postecoglou) then we have decided already he's going to be gash.

I'm going to try and be positive, clean slate and see how he does with what's at his disposal at our club.
 
Mowbray spent the majority of his time with us with no Stewart, no Cirkin the sicknote hardlys and zero CBs going into May last season. He did not deserve to be sacked at all unless we had a top managerial replacement.

He’d completely run out of ideas and criticised his boss and the owner. They did the right thing getting rid of him. His course had been run
 
Hes far from great i agree but alot more experienced than Beale and had a bond within the squad. Was that worth ending for Beale??

Still not sure what you mean about freezing players out? Bennette has been injured and all our strikers were given game time?

Giving someone 5 minutes to waste time at the end of the game is hardly valuable game time mate. Rusyn has 250 minutes of football with us. I’ve mentioned it before numerous times go and have a look on FotMob at every championship clubs most played striker this season. Most of them cost less than Rusyn and are less experienced. It’s a piss poor excuse because he couldn’t get the team to play around a striker.

Jack Clarke was piss poor everywhere he’s been before Sunderland because he was sat on a bench playing 20 minutes here or there. Give him game-time and he’s thriving. You can’t expect young lads to just come on as a sub and score the one chance they get, if any at all, every game.
 
Dodds said he wasn't doing anything different apart from media duties so assumed he was doing most of the coaching when Tone was here.
Could well be the case, I've no idea. I know Dodds mentioned he did a lot of the game planning for upcoming runs of games. I took that as Dodds having a big overview of the stats/performance of the squad on the training pitch and in games so he knew who was peaking or dripping off in terms of their stats etc and he fed that to Tone and Venus for them to make the call on who played.
 
Giving someone 5 minutes to waste time at the end of the game is hardly valuable game time mate. Rusyn has 250 minutes of football with us. I’ve mentioned it before numerous times go and have a look on FotMob at every championship clubs most played striker this season. Most of them cost less than Rusyn and are less experienced. It’s a piss poor excuse because he couldn’t get the team to play around a striker.

Jack Clarke was piss poor everywhere he’s been before Sunderland because he was sat on a bench playing 20 minutes here or there. Give him game-time and he’s thriving. You can’t expect young lads to just come on as a sub and score the one chance they get, if any at all, every game.

Yeah ill give you the Rusyn argument. Thats all though
 
Ekwah is not the answer week in we


Back in the Prem where we belong in place of lesser teams like Burnley and Luton.

Our fans show the ambition by turning up so its about time the owners did

And that's it, just another Luton or Bournemouth waiting for their turn to drop?

Would keeping Mowbray on, who was clearly struggling, be showing ambition?
 
A CDM, Striker and CB.

I do get your frustrations mate I agree we need a CDM desperately to replace what Evans gave us and I’d have Seelt at CB instead of O’nien. But Rusyn is more than good enough to lead the line. TM had more than the tools required to do a job at this level and his stubbornness eventually cost him.

If we were to sign the CDM and play Rusyn then realistically 2 of Neil, Ekwah and Bellingham miss out. So there’s another tough decision to be made.
 
All three promoted teams are fighting against the drop ...

... hardly a huge force tbh.

Yeah but they are millions of pound better off, learnt from an experience and be about 4 steps ahead of us next season the same way Leicester, Southampton and Leeds have been in current league positions and Sheff Utd and Burnley tearing the league apart and going straight back up last season with another huge pay day
 
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Yeah but they are millions of pound better off, learnt from an experience and be about 4 steps ahead of us next season the same way Leicester, Southampton and Leeds have been in current league positions and Sheff Utd and Burnley tearing the league apart and going straight back up last season with another huge pay day

All yo-yo clubs who'll eventually end up skint and relegated ...

... we've been there tbh.
 
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