lesj
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Post by lesj on Aug 19, 2024 17:18:43 GMT
Is it the 31st that the window shuts ?
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Post by El Goodo on Aug 19, 2024 17:20:46 GMT
11pm on 30th.
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Post by ilovechadders on Aug 19, 2024 17:21:19 GMT
Is it the 31st that the window shuts ? 30th August at 11pm. But I think 5pm might be the cut-off to play in the Bristol Rovers match.
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lesj
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Post by lesj on Aug 19, 2024 17:21:54 GMT
Thanks
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Post by Andrewlang on Aug 19, 2024 17:28:44 GMT
I'd be surprised if we're in for Wickham tbh. I'm hoping we're still in a position where we can be patient rather than desperate...one becomes the other very quickly though as the window starts to SLAM shut, it's the only explanation for why we ended up with Bonne.
Andrew
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jfox
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Post by jfox on Aug 19, 2024 17:37:06 GMT
The problem we've got regardless if it's Wickham / Hogan (either of which I think would do us well) or someone of that nature is that we then need to get them fit which means they could miss 2/3 matches so were then looking end of September before they can play a proper part assuming nothing is done prior to Saturday... It would be funny but this is the 3rd season running when we have started the season so woefully short of the players we need... it seems to be a running joke now but surely questions need asking of the DOF once the dust settles.Exactly this. I can't understand how the powers that be can be happy for it to operated like this year after year. I know we can't attract players demanding £££ so do we not look in other markets, or lower dowm. I feel Brophy was the last player signed from a League 2 club - ie someone looking to step up and that was 3 years ago. Who was the last from non-league - Jevani Brown ?? If we are now looking at the likes of Wickham then we are in the bargain basement again like Bonne in January. Feel we will end up with an unfit free agent like him and a young loanee from a PL/Champ club. Completely agree with this. Our recent transfer policy frustrates me. I understand needing some experience in defence and midfield to make us more solid, but for all of my time supporting the mighty U’s, all of our best attackers have been virtual unknowns when they signed - Dion, Kitson, Martin Butler, Rendell, Trevor Benjamin (youth), Mullin etc etc. I’d much rather we took a punt on 2 or 3 prospects from lower down rather than one ageing and expensive has-been like Connor Wickham. Would probably cost the same or less as well.
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Post by cufcdenmark on Aug 19, 2024 18:57:05 GMT
Completely agree with this. Our recent transfer policy frustrates me. I understand needing some experience in defence and midfield to make us more solid, but for all of my time supporting the mighty U’s, all of our best attackers have been virtual unknowns when they signed - Dion, Kitson, Martin Butler, Rendell, Trevor Benjamin (youth), Mullin etc etc. I’d much rather we took a punt on 2 or 3 prospects from lower down rather than one ageing and expensive has-been like Connor Wickham. Would probably cost the same or less as well. Agree it would be better to bring in a prospect, but for every Butler or Kitson there is a Dallas, Jevani Briwn or Knibbs (as a striker), and look at all the flack Strang and co. got over signing them.
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Post by Andrewlang on Aug 19, 2024 18:59:17 GMT
Andrew
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danielcufc
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Post by danielcufc on Aug 19, 2024 19:06:12 GMT
Same account has us paying £150k for James Tilley a week ago! Which one’s true 😀
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Post by addyell on Aug 19, 2024 19:29:25 GMT
Were we not heavily rumoured with Bodvarsson from Bolton in January? Only an injury to one of their squad stopping the move if the rumours were to be believed.
Still available on a free, fits the hole of a big man up front and works hard
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foolhandy
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Post by foolhandy on Aug 19, 2024 19:42:09 GMT
One goal every nine games last season. Or is that the market we're in?
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joe77
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Post by joe77 on Aug 19, 2024 19:45:04 GMT
One goal every nine games last season. Or is that the market we're in? Probably, realistically. 😂😎
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Post by addyell on Aug 19, 2024 19:47:44 GMT
One goal every nine games last season. Or is that the market we're in? He played 40 minites as an average, only 11 starts in 36 games. So takes it down to 1 in 4 😉
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joe77
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Post by joe77 on Aug 19, 2024 20:06:38 GMT
The problem we've got regardless if it's Wickham / Hogan (either of which I think would do us well) or someone of that nature is that we then need to get them fit which means they could miss 2/3 matches so were then looking end of September before they can play a proper part assuming nothing is done prior to Saturday... It would be funny but this is the 3rd season running when we have started the season so woefully short of the players we need... it seems to be a running joke now but surely questions need asking of the DOF once the dust settles. If we are now looking at the likes of Wickham then we are in the bargain basement again like Bonne in January. Feel we will end up with an unfit free agent like him and a young loanee from a PL/Champ club. That pretty much sounds like it could be plan A, tbf. Let's hope it comes off. 🙏🙏 We could always sign a free agent after the deadline and give them a month or so to get fit. If not we've always got assurances of January fixes, followed by weeks of getting hopes up, only to have them dashed and a potential deadline day scramble for whoever is left by then! 🤪😂😎 44 games left, though, so no panic. Plenty of time left to sort something.
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Post by Jonah (Option 3 Badge Chooser) on Aug 20, 2024 0:57:03 GMT
Conor Wickham is surely more of a never was than a has been
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