Quote from: LeeB on April 28, 2013, 08:24:03 AMQuote from: Risso on April 28, 2013, 08:07:38 AMDifficult to talk about long term when we're by no means certain to even stay up. I'd have a bit more faith in the long term planning if Lambert and the board had taken the necessary steps to strengthen the defence in January.Like Newcastle and QPR did?What a fabulous argument. Other teams bought shit players so it's a reason for us not to bother. Brilliant. Worked out well that particular ploy.
Quote from: Risso on April 28, 2013, 08:07:38 AMDifficult to talk about long term when we're by no means certain to even stay up. I'd have a bit more faith in the long term planning if Lambert and the board had taken the necessary steps to strengthen the defence in January.Like Newcastle and QPR did?
Difficult to talk about long term when we're by no means certain to even stay up. I'd have a bit more faith in the long term planning if Lambert and the board had taken the necessary steps to strengthen the defence in January.
Quote from: Risso on April 28, 2013, 09:15:50 AMQuote from: LeeB on April 28, 2013, 08:24:03 AMQuote from: Risso on April 28, 2013, 08:07:38 AMDifficult to talk about long term when we're by no means certain to even stay up. I'd have a bit more faith in the long term planning if Lambert and the board had taken the necessary steps to strengthen the defence in January.Like Newcastle and QPR did?What a fabulous argument. Other teams bought shit players so it's a reason for us not to bother. Brilliant. Worked out well that particular ploy.You wanted Samba FFS Risso! You cannot want a guy, then argue using him being woeful, which he has been, means we should have bought better. He was 12m and 120k a week. And has been useless. There is no value in Jan at all, you have to pay mad money. QPR did, and it has not worked, who is to say it would for us.
There is no value in Jan at all, you have to pay mad money.
Quote from: Chipsticks on April 28, 2013, 09:00:30 AMMaybe one day he'll get to do this again.Put a little red cross in the top left hand corner of an empty frame?
Maybe one day he'll get to do this again.
Quote from: Risso on April 28, 2013, 09:15:50 AMQuote from: LeeB on April 28, 2013, 08:24:03 AMQuote from: Risso on April 28, 2013, 08:07:38 AMDifficult to talk about long term when we're by no means certain to even stay up. I'd have a bit more faith in the long term planning if Lambert and the board had taken the necessary steps to strengthen the defence in January.Like Newcastle and QPR did?What a fabulous argument. Other teams bought shit players so it's a reason for us not to bother. Brilliant. Worked out well that particular ploy.Chucking money at the problem rather than developing those you have has worked out tremendously for those two clubs, hasn't it?And if the Jawdees do drop, the business they did in January will just compound their problems.
Quote from: LeeB on April 28, 2013, 09:26:03 AMQuote from: Risso on April 28, 2013, 09:15:50 AMQuote from: LeeB on April 28, 2013, 08:24:03 AMQuote from: Risso on April 28, 2013, 08:07:38 AMDifficult to talk about long term when we're by no means certain to even stay up. I'd have a bit more faith in the long term planning if Lambert and the board had taken the necessary steps to strengthen the defence in January.Like Newcastle and QPR did?What a fabulous argument. Other teams bought shit players so it's a reason for us not to bother. Brilliant. Worked out well that particular ploy.Chucking money at the problem rather than developing those you have has worked out tremendously for those two clubs, hasn't it?And if the Jawdees do drop, the business they did in January will just compound their problems.I don't have a problem with developing our players, but sticking rigidly to a strategy that clearly isn't working is the mark of stupidity and a badly run and managed club. If we go down, it'll set us back years, and our financial state is far worse than Newcastle's.
It's a fine line between sticking to a strategy that doesn't work, and sticking at something till it does work.
Quote from: LeeB on April 28, 2013, 09:44:04 AMIt's a fine line between sticking to a strategy that doesn't work, and sticking at something till it does work.It wasn't working then and it isn't working now. As I said, it's hardly surprising though as we're a badly run club from top to bottom.
I would'nt say we're a badly run club from top to bottom. Mistakes have been made and we should'nt be where we are. I don't think we've reached the comical levels shown by the boards at Wolves and Blackburn.
Quote from: Clampy on April 28, 2013, 09:56:15 AMI would'nt say we're a badly run club from top to bottom. Mistakes have been made and we should'nt be where we are. I don't think we've reached the comical levels shown by the boards at Wolves and Blackburn. Far from it. We have been run badly, but we've put that right in the last 10 months.Just might be a bit too late.
Quote from: LeeB on April 28, 2013, 09:58:30 AMQuote from: Clampy on April 28, 2013, 09:56:15 AMI would'nt say we're a badly run club from top to bottom. Mistakes have been made and we should'nt be where we are. I don't think we've reached the comical levels shown by the boards at Wolves and Blackburn. Far from it. We have been run badly, but we've put that right in the last 10 months.Just might be a bit too late.We've put it right? Which is why we've been in and out of the bottom three all season and had just about the worst season in living memory, with relegation still a very real possibility. We've just gone from one bad strategy to another. You can't continue spending stupid money forever, but you also can't shift immediately to an austerity package and expect it to work.