I'll repeat what I posted sometime ago.A long standing season ticket holder I go to games with wrote a long, complaining letter to the club in January.The response was that he got the usual 'consultation' phone call from the club in early February.During that call, the person from AVFC said that 'the best business the club did in January was NOT spending any money in the January window'.Remember, this is when we still a little bit of hope that we might stop up so my mate was livid at the time and took it as confirmation that the club had already given up and resigned itself to going down.
Absolutely correct to spend nothing, we needed 6 or 7 players to have given us any hope and that would have been 40-50m gamble.The big mistake was last summer when we didn't buy a keeper when Sherwood had proved he had no faith in Guzan & not replacing the 32m striker with a proven player. That might have given us a chance!
Quote from: Gareth on May 12, 2016, 10:54:15 AMAbsolutely correct to spend nothing, we needed 6 or 7 players to have given us any hope and that would have been 40-50m gamble.The big mistake was last summer when we didn't buy a keeper when Sherwood had proved he had no faith in Guzan & not replacing the 32m striker with a proven player. That might have given us a chance!Disagree with that entirely. A goalkeeper and a forward worthy of the name could have made a big difference to us.We were only* 8 points off safety despite being so woeful going into Feb.We needed to follow up that win against Norwich with a mini run -possibly winning three on the bounce at some point in the second half of the campaign. Which seems unthinkable with the current bunch of muppets, but with a different dynamic in the changing room that even two to three new faces could bring (and the likes of Lescott, Gabby, N Zog and Bacuna banished) you just never know. I don't think it would have taken £50 million to do that. £15 million could have given us a fighting chance. The bulk of that going on a forward, then a goalkeeper and possibly a centre half on loan. We needed that whether we stayed up or went down anyway. To do nothing, not even a loan, was disgraceful.
Quote from: andyh on May 12, 2016, 12:20:01 PMI'll repeat what I posted sometime ago.A long standing season ticket holder I go to games with wrote a long, complaining letter to the club in January.The response was that he got the usual 'consultation' phone call from the club in early February.During that call, the person from AVFC said that 'the best business the club did in January was NOT spending any money in the January window'.Remember, this is when we still a little bit of hope that we might stop up so my mate was livid at the time and took it as confirmation that the club had already given up and resigned itself to going down.out of interest, has your mate renewed/is he renewing?
three extra players in the right positions (goalkeeper, forward and centre-half) it may have been do-able.
Quote from: KevinGage on May 12, 2016, 01:04:03 PMQuote from: Gareth on May 12, 2016, 10:54:15 AMAbsolutely correct to spend nothing, we needed 6 or 7 players to have given us any hope and that would have been 40-50m gamble.The big mistake was last summer when we didn't buy a keeper when Sherwood had proved he had no faith in Guzan & not replacing the 32m striker with a proven player. That might have given us a chance!Disagree with that entirely. A goalkeeper and a forward worthy of the name could have made a big difference to us.We were only* 8 points off safety despite being so woeful going into Feb.We needed to follow up that win against Norwich with a mini run -possibly winning three on the bounce at some point in the second half of the campaign. Which seems unthinkable with the current bunch of muppets, but with a different dynamic in the changing room that even two to three new faces could bring (and the likes of Lescott, Gabby, N Zog and Bacuna banished) you just never know. I don't think it would have taken £50 million to do that. £15 million could have given us a fighting chance. The bulk of that going on a forward, then a goalkeeper and possibly a centre half on loan. We needed that whether we stayed up or went down anyway. To do nothing, not even a loan, was disgraceful. You've expressed my view. And Alladyce has shown that it was possible to turn around a flagging squad with 3-4 well-placed additions.Sadly, as others have said, the malaise is far deeper here than at Blunderland.We really are a shambles, thanks to the fuck-uppery by Lerner and others.
Norwich / Sunderland / Newcastle all spent only one of them survived ..us spending might have improved our pathetic haul of points but would it have saved us ...I'm no so sure