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Post by stevo501 on Aug 4, 2024 7:39:29 GMT
Why is Strang being blamed. These are some amazing transfers this summer and he’s done some good ones for the past few seasons. Mullin, smith, joe, knibbs, Wes, iredale, jones, gassan, mitov (i think), mannion, jubril, may, digby, Williams, lennet, gibbo and probably a few more I’ve forgotten. All of these are players who either played lots of times for us or players who we’ve had for not long but have gone to bigger and better teams Must get the DVD out on this last weekend before the season starts and watch the Strang highlights reel. Haunstrup. Azeez Lambe, Tolaj , Janneh, Bonne, Cousins & Stevens if we are name dropping. Deegan, Ibhere & McGurk and a few more I’ve (glady) forgotten. Tolaj has turned out to be a solid player, cousins is a good signing, Stevens and bonne were both decent ideas and are solid players. I think he’s been good in recent years |
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Post by hookycrooky on Aug 4, 2024 8:33:59 GMT
You can't put a few poor signings down to one person as there is a chief scout,Head coach etc all involved also we have to take punts due to budget restraints.
Just those up the road take punts on loads from lower leagues and seem to come up trumps that for me is where we fail.
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Post by imp566 on Aug 4, 2024 8:56:28 GMT
Balance is what is needed, he has overseen some blinding signings, with some desperate last minute 'get the numbers up' efforts. By and large, I think he is in credit.
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Post by martinjohn on Aug 4, 2024 9:40:35 GMT
I do find this Strang bashing bizarre. We're playing at the highest standard we've achieved in the last 30 years. We're now in our 4th season as a League One side. We are and will remain (until we've developed the ground) in the bottom 8 mini league based on attendances. We can't expect to be competing at the top of the table (although it would be nice) and on balance, we've signed more great players than not with Strang at the helm.
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Post by Jerry1971 on Aug 4, 2024 10:24:34 GMT
This silly two games in two days needs a rethink next summer. Ridiculous. Absolutely this. It's not about the result as we all know that pre-season results are, to a large extent, meaningless but having watched almost every single pre-season friendly over the last 25 years that we have been allowed to attend, I have never seen such an embarrassing mismatch as I did yesterday. A game that gave some minutes to just three first team players but will have done very little for our young players. A consequence of the Friday-Saturday-Friday-Saturday routine is that should you pick up the inevitable knocks during pre-season it gives a lightweight squad no chance of being able to compensate for those losses. A Tuesday-Saturday schedule might at least give you the option of being able to replace the injured players with those of similar experience to help the young players along. Obviously you wouldn't want to be giving two 90 minute matches to players in four days but it's possible that they could have managed 30 minutes here or there to aid tiring legs and minds. As I said it's not about losing a pre-season friendly, it's about devising a schedule that hopefully means we can avoid any repetition of what happened yesterday and protects our younger players. I actually think a lot of the issue here was in the billing given to the games rather than the schedule. A lot of clubs split over two days - West Brom played yesterday too as an example, so their Friday team against us was very much in the XI category rather than a full fixture and our team against Colchester yesterday was very much ‘XI’. Injuries of course didn’t help, and probably radically revised the plans. Last weekend against Braintree and Ebbsfleet we had a more equal split of recognised first team and youth supplements, guessing that would have been more of the aim for yesterday too. If there was anything to come from our game yesterday it was a chance to see a bit of Taylor Richards and some valuable game time against senior opposition for our youth team. |
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Post by madmarvin on Aug 4, 2024 11:03:19 GMT
Absolutely this. It's not about the result as we all know that pre-season results are, to a large extent, meaningless but having watched almost every single pre-season friendly over the last 25 years that we have been allowed to attend, I have never seen such an embarrassing mismatch as I did yesterday. A game that gave some minutes to just three first team players but will have done very little for our young players. A consequence of the Friday-Saturday-Friday-Saturday routine is that should you pick up the inevitable knocks during pre-season it gives a lightweight squad no chance of being able to compensate for those losses. A Tuesday-Saturday schedule might at least give you the option of being able to replace the injured players with those of similar experience to help the young players along. Obviously you wouldn't want to be giving two 90 minute matches to players in four days but it's possible that they could have managed 30 minutes here or there to aid tiring legs and minds. As I said it's not about losing a pre-season friendly, it's about devising a schedule that hopefully means we can avoid any repetition of what happened yesterday and protects our younger players. I actually think a lot of the issue here was in the billing given to the games rather than the schedule. A lot of clubs split over two days - West Brom played yesterday too as an example, so their Friday team against us was very much in the XI category rather than a full fixture and our team against Colchester yesterday was very much ‘XI’. Injuries of course didn’t help, and probably radically revised the plans. Last weekend against Braintree and Ebbsfleet we had a more equal split of recognised first team and youth supplements, guessing that would have been more of the aim for yesterday too. If there was anything to come from our game yesterday it was a chance to see a bit of Taylor Richards and some valuable game time against senior opposition for our youth team. A lot of clubs do split over two days but in the main these are clubs with large squads so can do so with more ease. We've even done similar ourselves in the past but have ensured that if we play the kids together then they are playing a team from a much lower level of football than a full strength football league side. There is a vast difference between giving them experience of league football within a team of experience and slinging them in together. As already mentioned the injuries revised the plans but that's why you need to have a schedule that takes that possibility into account. |
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Post by imp566 on Aug 4, 2024 13:43:52 GMT
I do find this Strang bashing bizarre. We're playing at the highest standard we've achieved in the last 30 years. We're now in our 4th season as a League One side. We are and will remain (until we've developed the ground) in the bottom 8 mini league based on attendances. We can't expect to be competing at the top of the table (although it would be nice) and on balance, we've signed more great players than not with Strang at the helm. The other thing I would add about Strang's role in the recruitment process is that he works with the manager to draw up a list of 'targets', the Strang does the negotiating. I know that we have heard from all 3 of our latest managers who say they choose the players, and Strang does the business. He knows how much we can afford to pay them and his role is crucial in ensuring we stay within our budgetary constraints. |
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Post by smartspud on Aug 4, 2024 14:37:19 GMT
I do find this Strang bashing bizarre. We're playing at the highest standard we've achieved in the last 30 years. We're now in our 4th season as a League One side. We are and will remain (until we've developed the ground) in the bottom 8 mini league based on attendances. We can't expect to be competing at the top of the table (although it would be nice) and on balance, we've signed more great players than not with Strang at the helm. The other thing I would add about Strang's role in the recruitment process is that he works with the manager to draw up a list of 'targets', the Strang does the negotiating. I know that we have heard from all 3 of our latest managers who say they choose the players, and Strang does the business. He knows how much we can afford to pay them and his role is crucial in ensuring we stay within our budgetary constraints. This last paragraph is so true. It seems to me over and over again people never see it, and then go on Strang bashing. He does NOT make the ultimate decision. |
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Post by lesj on Aug 4, 2024 16:46:52 GMT
Was Monk @ yesterday's game or was Corr in charge of the team ?
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Post by amberisbackdrink on Aug 4, 2024 16:51:26 GMT
Was Monk @ yesterday's game or was Corr in charge of the team ? Good question - Corr was on media duties so was wondering that too. |
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Post by Funky Monk on Aug 4, 2024 16:52:01 GMT
Presume Corr was in charge as he did the press after. You'd hope Monk was still there, mind!
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Post by szechuan on Aug 4, 2024 17:03:27 GMT
Monk was indeed there.
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Post by El Goodo on Aug 4, 2024 17:27:52 GMT
Morrison missed out with a personal issue, not an injury.
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Post by kentishu on Aug 4, 2024 17:37:01 GMT
I don't really hold any firm views on Strang, not sure I would actually recognise him tbh, on the whole he seems to have done alright, but I do think this latest batch of Strang bashing is a little unfair. We have clearly made offers, and are waiting for the outcome, it's a frustrating process but until the players decide, there's not much anyone, including Strang, can do.
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Post by hersey on Aug 4, 2024 22:50:52 GMT
I can see the point playing two conference sides in as many days. But two FL teams seems a big ask.
WBA should have played Birmingham
Real CUFC v Essex gypsy version
CUFC kids v WBA kids or St Neots @ St Neots
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