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Offline Ads

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #135 on: May 31, 2018, 07:56:32 PM »
Agree re the start. Top 6 after the 5th game and you have momentum. Playing catch up is tough.

We need a lot more pace through the side.

It makes your margin for error almost non-existent. A draw down at Bristol was a poor result only because after Reading we had 1 point and not 6 or 7.

Offline VinnieChase84

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #136 on: May 31, 2018, 08:34:08 PM »
Could Tony be having issues getting money out of China for our funding with them clamping down?

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #137 on: May 31, 2018, 08:39:52 PM »
Weren’t Fulham 17th towards Christmas?  This league being as long as it is means you can have a decent run from Christmas onwards and still go up.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #138 on: May 31, 2018, 08:44:56 PM »
true but it took a play off final  against us at our worst to do it and I'm going to bet my house now that no one goes on a 23 game unbeaten run this season coming. Much better to go straight up. Cardiff went off like a train and only derailed once for a few games, but by then they had built up a big cushion. Even at our best, we were only ever playing catch up.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #139 on: May 31, 2018, 09:04:38 PM »
It also shows that the equivalent of a couple of bad runs before Xmas, as we also had, leaves you pretty fecked. And even a run of form rarely seen isn't enough to finish top 2. W18 D5 L1 and it still wasn't enough.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #140 on: May 31, 2018, 09:11:29 PM »
As in the final the cautious/ safety first approach cost us I feel.
Would like to see us go at side's from the off - as the Wolves game for example - most clubs have a dip at some point and others go on incredible runs like Fulham did.We had too many bad patches to be worthy of automatic promotion

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #141 on: May 31, 2018, 09:20:59 PM »
Fulham prove the issue of a bad start. They're a much better side than Cardiff, but when you're a 6th of the way there after 5 games, it's easier to have a dip at some point.

Offline brentastonb6

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #142 on: May 31, 2018, 09:48:51 PM »
Steer

Bree
Chester
Elphick
Taylor

Jedinak

Green
Grealish
Hourihane
Albert

Kodjia

Is probably the best side we can put out now. Left hand side of defence is not as I would like, but that's a side easily capable of top 6, so I do not agree we've been left with nothing or starting from scratch. I think there's a great deal of anxiety exaggerating the situation into the chaos of not knowing for sure quite what will happen this summer.
Sarkic over Steer any day for me , there’s one squad improvement that’s cost nothing.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #143 on: June 01, 2018, 04:07:21 AM »
Weren’t Fulham 17th towards Christmas?  This league being as long as it is means you can have a decent run from Christmas onwards and still go up.
The Fulham run wasn’t decent it was phenomenal and they still failed to make auto.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #144 on: June 01, 2018, 04:12:23 AM »
I've not seen that, if you're referring to the 7500 Steps to the Holte Blog on the matter from earlier in the year. Swiss Ramble definitely stated £39 million if nothing changed, which it now has to the tune of £12 million one way and commercial revenue the other way.

£39m is the amount we can lose over a 3 year period. The big question is how much money we need to save this coming season to stay within that £39m figure.
Does the £39M figure change if we don’t go up next season?

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #145 on: June 01, 2018, 05:00:26 AM »
You can lose an average of £13m a year in this division, so it's always £39m over a 3 year period for us now until we either leave this division or there's a rule changes. However that's only if the owner injects £8m cash into the club each year. If he doesn't then it's a £5m a year loss, so then we could only lose £15m over 3 years.

Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #146 on: June 01, 2018, 06:53:30 AM »
The thing that changes next year is that were currently have to compensate for a massive loss the first year we came down. That will drop out of the three year calculation next year

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #147 on: June 01, 2018, 07:02:51 AM »
Isn't 2 summers ago equally big though? Somewhere we need to level it out, set a base and go from there.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #148 on: June 01, 2018, 07:09:00 AM »
Hasn't the Doc not done the same as Lerner? - gambled all on a couple of seasons of throwing money around? And, interestingly, we have - as with the post-MON years - a number of 4 or 5 year contracts to wind down.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #149 on: June 01, 2018, 10:52:36 PM »
Tony is apparently ready to listen to offers for us now of £100m.

 


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