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+----- Thread: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 (/showthread.php?tid=10147)
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - Lord Snooty - 01-02-2021
Yes that is frustrating about Mbenza. I'm always shouting "skin him" at the telly, but he never does. Probably why Frazier never gets into position, the ball hardly ever comes over. But you're right, he ought to be there whether the ball comes in or not.
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - jjamez - 01-02-2021
Tbf snoots, before the weekend mbenza had put a lot of lovely balls into the area for Campbell to get nowhere near, it's been a tale of the tape all season. Yes mbenza is extremely reluctant to take a man on and everything, but maybe in part it's because for x amount of seasons he's not had a striker willing to gamble
It's almost like a circle one won't gamble because he doesn't think it's coming and the other won't do it because he doesn't think the other will gamble.
I've felt that the last few games Toffs has been reluctant to whip it in too, instead him, Aarons and obrien play neat patterns and end up passing it back to sarr, then it goes to vallejo, bacuna out to toffolo and rinse and repeat
Out of all the strikers being linked so Gregory, Jackson, elijah and jukevitczcezcztzh I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd go for lukas, sure he ain't quick but he's no slower than what we got I imagine, but he'll win the ball in the air and be a constant threat, he's not shabby with scoring with his feet either.
I do feel fans on another site are doing a discredit to Jackson, the guy was/is highly rated and was wanted by Bournemouth in the summer to replace King if he went, he's not had the greatest of seasons this time, but there's something there, also he's rapid, like quicker than anyone we have rapid.
Gregory I liked him a long time at Halifax and when he left there, I felt he was the sort of striker that would suit town when waggers first came in and just before then. Probs would have wanted him when we first came down too. But too much like ward and Campbell and has had his fair share of injuries, now 32, might be too late for him.
Elijah, I don't know enough about him other than Fulham tried him as a cb and during his loans out he became a striker, 6"3ish, having a good season in league 2, but it's also his first good season, so he's either clicked and developing or he's peaked. Much like watters that Cardiff signed.
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - theo_luddite - 01-02-2021
Like you - if we were going to get Gregory it was when he left The Shay and went to Millwall, not now that he's playing a bit (and often injured) part at Stoke.
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - WakeyTerrier - 01-02-2021
What do we need as a forward, is it a fox in the box or someone who can hold the ball up and bring other players into play?
Ideally both!
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - Amelia Chaffinch - 01-02-2021
I would have Tommy Smith back but only if we needed him but we don't. I really don't think we should be signing any more has beens or nearly has beens with or without injury problems. We're still behaving like there's no money. Where did it go?
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - WakeyTerrier - 01-02-2021
Deans back pocket.
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - theo_luddite - 01-02-2021
Wages, transfers and loans paid back to DH for the most part AmChaff. It's very easy to say where did the money go when you don't see the accounts and balance sheets on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
25 players/coaches on an average of £10,000 per week x 52 weeks = £13 million a year as an example.
In addition to the astronomical wages some players get, you've all the coaches, other staff and younger players to pay plus other equipment costs, that you try to get sponsors to pay for, but that isn't happening much either. Even office staff on minimum wages still need paying. No idea what running costs for the stadium are (not our issue I know, but they get a payment from us based on %age of our gates - or season tickets as there's no gates to count) or the training grounds costs.
Yes we've some money coming back in from transfers but the headline numbers don't come in at the point of transfer. They are almost always over whatever the length of the players contract or negotiated for a larger lump sum and maybe a shorter number of years. So IF we got £15m from WBA for Grant, it will likely be £3m per year over 5 years (I believe his contract length). Whether we've already got the first £3m or that is spread into monthly payments across each season too I don't know. Need to ask Town's bean counters how that works. Fact is we've not brought in 'owt like as much in transfer fees as we've spent and we've let a lot go for free at the end of their contracts after paying silly money in the Prem.
The only other thing that shortens the repayments is if WBA sell him on or cancel his contract inside the 5 years - then they have to pay the outstanding sum in full, pronto.
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - Lord Snooty - 01-02-2021
I don't accept any of the blame being given to Dean Hoyle for all this. If he's sold the club to somebody with a considerably larger bank account than his own, of course he's gonna want the money back that he lent the club.
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - WakeyTerrier - 01-02-2021
(01-02-2021, 15:00)Lord Snooty Wrote: I don't accept any of the blame being given to Dean Hoyle for all this. If he's sold the club to somebody with a considerably larger bank account than his own, of course he's gonna want the money back that he lent the club.
Money that he had written off prior to promotion to the Premier League and accepted he would never see again.
He's played the lottery losing every year.
Struck lucky with the Jackpot once
Demanded all his losing ticket money back
Stinks if you ask me.
RE: t'Yorkshires v t'Oatcakes - 30/01/21 - Lord Snooty - 01-02-2021
I don't agree. He said he never expected his money back when he was the owner. If he hadn't got poorly, he would still be the owner and not wanting it back. Now he's sold the club to somebody with more brass than he has, he wants it back.
I don't think there's owt wrong with that.