Summer transfer thread

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TopCat_ said:
I think the Moyes season and the Grayson/Coleman debacle, the place was (rightly) pretty negative - the fans got nothing back from the players for their support. Since then, it's been 95% positive, only straying into negativity during that awful period when Phil F Parkinson was our manager
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mate, the fans were completely drained at the time, all they wanted was to see a team that tried and i honestly can not blame a single person for how they felt, at least they still paid for a seat and went to try to support the lads but it has certainly become a far better place for lads to play i feel.
 
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smithy in nl said:
neil wants to be here he wouldn’t of went to league one if he didn’t!
Strikes me as a man with great ambition and I believe he will want to be the man to get this club back from the brink.
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Absolutely! Let's face it, he's not getting a PL job any time soon and we represented the biggest chance he had of getting back in to the PL. We are easily the biggest club he will ever manage
 
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TopCat_ said:
Absolutely. Contracts aren't worth the paper they are written on, although tying AN down to a longer deal would at least protect the club from a financial perspective should someone try to poach him
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Even if he had a contract, he could still walk away
 
samwise_new said:
remember just a few short seasons ago when the very first stray pass in a game would have boo's and cat calls from the crown with a very audible change in the atmosphere?

i don't think it is just the recruitment team that has changed (and a sterling job they appear to be doing) but the crowd is much different, harking back to the 'better days' where if there was a stray pass or we went behind they would sing like feck and get behind the team, make no mistake, players do take notice of that and a supportive crowd, especially a large one, is what they obviously prefer to play in front of...while it was never 'the fans fault' there was a time when the SoL was deemed a pretty toxic place to play during and after the years of a badly run club.

i may be wrong but i do feel it is helping to bring lads here, the club in general have a much better reputation now and the fans are showing they are supportive of these younger lads and giving them a chance.

yes i am getting bored waiting for news, just want them all in and the window slammed.
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Good post mate. Back in my days of season tickets and home and away I only remember getting behind them, and young lads in particular always got loads of extra support. If it was a homegrown lad even more so. I still think we are that crowd and a lot of the negativity of more recent times was down to the fact we spent big money on people who had no interest in us, other than as a pay check. I never liked the groaning and whinging when I was there, but I did used to feel like some of the players we had were frauds. I dont think that of any of the current lot, and that is down to how we recruit and promote from within. I honestly think this lot will get supported to the hilt, and given every chance to shine. Just look at Cirkin and Clarke and how they shine for us, and we have taken them in. Neil, Embleton are a massive for us as well, and they will want success more than anybody. These young lads we sign will feel 10 feet tall when they play for us I reckon, and with Alex Neil supporting them all the way, and the squad as tight knit as it seems, I reckon it must be awesome to be in amongst it.
 
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smithy in nl said:
neil wants to be here he wouldn’t of went to league one if he didn’t!
Strikes me as a man with great ambition and I believe he will want to be the man to get this club back from the brink.
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Here's a bit from Tom Whites podcast with Roker Report. He discusses a bit from when Natalie Sawyer interviewed Neil after Norwich's promotion........<laugh>
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Flash Gordon said:
Jack Clarke will be an almost nailed on starter in our first team for as long as we can keep hold of him. It wouldn't surprise me if we use Bennette inverted off the right.
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Also it’s good to have a left footed winger on the left when needed and the opposite. I doubt he’ll play much at all until after the break.
 
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