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LD19SAFC said:
I see Aleksic is back to his warming the bench duty. 55 minutes on the clock yesterday and we didn’t have a single player warming up despite being desperate for a change in the game, something different.
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I would of had him and AA on early doors to be honest.

Anyway, back to transfers. Have Ba being seen recently. Disappeared from the face of the earth.
 
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FellTop said:
Interesting to read the comments about the difficulty of breaching the gap to the premier league.

It is clear the value of players and squads are higher, and the talent of individuals is very good. However, the beauty of football is that it is a team game. I think a lot of promoted teams recently have gone down the wrong track. Ipswich for example have bought lots of players, when actually they were on a huge crest of a wave already. The strategy for them should have been tweaking what they had. Luton gave us a clue as to how a championship side can still be problematic for a premier league. Sometimes you need to retain the core of the side that has earned you promotion, or the manner in which you earn it.

I remember when Wilder took Sheff Utd up in 2019. He had developed a relatively unique style of play. Folk said it wouldnt work in the prem, but they survived easily and some of the bigger clubs coulnt figure them out. If memory serves he signed on a couple of big fee players - Berge and McBurnie. Many of his championship side, went and had a good premier league campaign.

For me it is not about buying 10 new players and hoping you can blend a team. It is about taking those players you believe can do it, and then giving them a helping hand here or there. Evolution not revolution.

Personally I think it would be 3 or 4 max new first 11 players is all I would want.
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Just looked at promoted teams over the the last ten years and seven are currently still in the top league with five of them in the top half of the league so it shows that survival is not impossible , this is dependent on on how well run your club is , how good your recruitment team is , the financial backing that is in place , the competence of your manager ,and most importantly the quality of of your team and how they can cope playing at a higher level or replacing players that have reached their ceiling .The model appears to be reaping some rewards and meeting some if not all of the above criteria but I do not think we are miles and miles off target so it is achievable.
 
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flandersmackem said:
Its an interesting debate and probably worthy of its own thread... But in real terms and trying to be as unbias as possible...who in our current squad could "comfortably " make the transition to the PL.... IMHO I reckon, Hume, Jobe, Neil, Le Fee and maybe Cirkin... After that i'm struggling
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I think we'd need to add the equivalent of a Bold, Schwarz, Reyna (?) + a goal scorer - - - Not impossible for 100M ? But might not meet the young and resell model.
 
LD19SAFC said:
It would require serious investment with the current squad. Imagine the likes of O’Nien and Hume up against PL class forwards? Ouch. Both got tortured against the filth last season in the cup
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Playing devils advocate here but was that not due in some large part to the standard of coaching (Beale and Doddsy) and the tactics they were asking the team to adopt. I’d like to think that if we played that game tomorrow then we would see a different standard.
 
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Evil Jimmy Krankie said:
Playing devils advocate here but was that not due in some large part to the standard of coaching (Beale and Doddsy) and the tactics they were asking the team to adopt. I’d like to think that if we played that game tomorrow then we would see a different standard.
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Spot on this, we were right at the start of our freefall with the fiasco that was Beale. Don't think the players were anamoured either.
 
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Evil Jimmy Krankie said:
Playing devils advocate here but was that not due in some large part to the standard of coaching (Beale and Doddsy) and the tactics they were asking the team to adopt. I’d like to think that if we played that game tomorrow then we would see a different standard.
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They’d absolutely murder us. Wouldn’t be a contest. Not worth discussing

On to transfers - we’ve drawn 10 of our last 18 games (including the FA Cup). Can we find the quality to bring in to start winning more games? I hope so.
 
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LD19SAFC said:
They’d absolutely murder us. Wouldn’t be a contest. Not worth discussing

On to transfers - we’ve drawn 10 of our last 18 games (including the FA Cup). Can we find the quality to bring in to start winning more games? I hope so.
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Didn’t say they wouldn’t beat us. I’m saying the standard of our performance would be better.
 
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CR17 said:
I also think RLB’s style has more of a chance at survival in the PL than the Martin style at Saints, Kompany at Burnley etc. we are getting good st countering without the ball
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I agree - think it's similar in a way to Forest (obviously we're light years off their level!).

I can cope with the idea of us going up and coming straight back down again. What scares me is how our fans will take endless defeats. Some have very short memories
 
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Rade Prica said:
Where’s this from mate?
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Will cut this short,

cousin has a house/holiday rent just outside Durham,which he rents out. He’s been contacted by someone within the club if they can use it for a short 5/6m deal.

and asked if he has another one near by they can use.

Just waiting on them to reply for more details.

if I get anything I’ll post it on
 
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Bucky1989 said:
Will cut this short,

cousin has a house/holiday rent just outside Durham,which he rents out. He’s been contacted by someone within the club if they can use it for a short 5/6m deal.

and asked if he has another one near by they can use.

Just waiting on them to reply for more details.

if I get anything I’ll post it on
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Cheers mate, appreciate the info
 
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Bucky1989 said:
Will cut this short,

cousin has a house/holiday rent just outside Durham,which he rents out. He’s been contacted by someone within the club if they can use it for a short 5/6m deal.

and asked if he has another one near by they can use.

Just waiting on them to reply for more details.

if I get anything I’ll post it on
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What they asked to rent a house and decided to hoy in that there was a 5-6m deal involved.
Sounds about right the way were always leaking our business out.
 
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