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It could be fair to expect a rebuild to include all that lot. What it shouldn't include though is relegation. This is what management is all about. Managing and fire fighting an unfavourable situation but seeing the job through in the end. Not saying we will be relegated however and currently we are a proud L1 club.
When you rebuild you start with the foundation. We haven't.
Lots of punters mention the expected “ rebuild” in their critiques yet seem to not want to be part of what that entails?Rebuild from the position we were left with at the end of last season means: Buying players that you can afford, not who you desireWatching many disjointed formationsLosing loads of gamesA lot of Head-scratching performancesPlayers looking abject and lost for 90 minsBeing frustrated that you already knew all this …..yet hoped it wasn’t true!If anyone is unsure what our “ rebuild “ means, please crawl from under that stone and give your head a wobble………. Rtid
Quote from: sha66y on November 25, 2021, 03:20:17 pmLots of punters mention the expected “ rebuild” in their critiques yet seem to not want to be part of what that entails?Rebuild from the position we were left with at the end of last season means: Buying players that you can afford, not who you desireWatching many disjointed formationsLosing loads of gamesA lot of Head-scratching performancesPlayers looking abject and lost for 90 minsBeing frustrated that you already knew all this …..yet hoped it wasn’t true!If anyone is unsure what our “ rebuild “ means, please crawl from under that stone and give your head a wobble………. RtidI said this before the season started and the talk was of a rebuild with a mid-table finish. I pointed out then that while people were happy with that as a target, they wouldn't be happy with us not winning every week. Admittedly it's going a bit worse than that, but people needed to be prepared for some ugliness this season
Quote from: DRNaith on November 25, 2021, 09:36:30 pmQuote from: sha66y on November 25, 2021, 03:20:17 pmLots of punters mention the expected “ rebuild” in their critiques yet seem to not want to be part of what that entails?Rebuild from the position we were left with at the end of last season means: Buying players that you can afford, not who you desireWatching many disjointed formationsLosing loads of gamesA lot of Head-scratching performancesPlayers looking abject and lost for 90 minsBeing frustrated that you already knew all this …..yet hoped it wasn’t true!If anyone is unsure what our “ rebuild “ means, please crawl from under that stone and give your head a wobble………. RtidI said this before the season started and the talk was of a rebuild with a mid-table finish. I pointed out then that while people were happy with that as a target, they wouldn't be happy with us not winning every week. Admittedly it's going a bit worse than that, but people needed to be prepared for some ugliness this seasonA bit worse? I'd say heading for League 2 is a lot worse.
Quote from: sha66y on November 25, 2021, 03:20:17 pmLots of punters mention the expected “ rebuild” in their critiques yet seem to not want to be part of what that entails?Rebuild from the position we were left with at the end of last season means: Buying players that you can afford, not who you desireWatching many disjointed formationsLosing loads of gamesA lot of Head-scratching performancesPlayers looking abject and lost for 90 minsBeing frustrated that you already knew all this …..yet hoped it wasn’t true!If anyone is unsure what our “ rebuild “ means, please crawl from under that stone and give your head a wobble………. RtidWe are only rebuilding because we have been mismanaged by our current owners. They will claim that relegation is part of the rebuild process. Not long ago there was a 5 year plan to get us back into the championship. Some people still believe the crap they come out with though.
Quote from: Canadian Rover on November 25, 2021, 09:01:04 pmWhen you rebuild you start with the foundation. We haven't.Dead right, CR. Keeper, CB, DMF, and CF. In other words, the spine of the team.RW hasn't successfully addressed any of this.
But we were not as of the 14th January we sold our most influential player and never replaced him. We were reliant on loan players. We couldn’t even offer appropriate contracts to players we wanted to keep they turned them down. Halliday Wright and James. Which shows the level of money we were offering. We replaced them with players who cost less.
Quote from: scawsby steve on November 25, 2021, 09:08:06 pmQuote from: Canadian Rover on November 25, 2021, 09:01:04 pmWhen you rebuild you start with the foundation. We haven't.Dead right, CR. Keeper, CB, DMF, and CF. In other words, the spine of the team.RW hasn't successfully addressed any of this.All comes down to available funding…..
Quote from: Canadian Rover on November 25, 2021, 09:01:04 pmWhen you rebuild you start with the foundation. We haven't.Funds may have been an indicator tempered by a pandemic? We had virtually no income last season due to no spectators ,where do people expect extra funding to come from.
Ben Whiteman sale for one.No L1 Clubs had income but they’re not all suffering the same, are they? Even Clubs coming up from L2 are doing far better, because they all had squads to start with. We saw fit to get rid of most of ours!You can’t call it a rebuild season without the resources in place to effect the said rebuild.
Quote from: steve@dcfd on November 26, 2021, 07:35:47 amBut we were not as of the 14th January we sold our most influential player and never replaced him. We were reliant on loan players. We couldn’t even offer appropriate contracts to players we wanted to keep they turned them down. Halliday Wright and James. Which shows the level of money we were offering. We replaced them with players who cost less.Pandemic, Manager leaving, ……unable to strengthen existing squad…Rebuild with less budget…..preseason shamblesAll governing factors to a poor start……I believe your whole argument along with a few others is that the Board should have made more funds available regardless ?
Quote from: sha66y on November 26, 2021, 09:05:48 amQuote from: steve@dcfd on November 26, 2021, 07:35:47 amBut we were not as of the 14th January we sold our most influential player and never replaced him. We were reliant on loan players. We couldn’t even offer appropriate contracts to players we wanted to keep they turned them down. Halliday Wright and James. Which shows the level of money we were offering. We replaced them with players who cost less.Pandemic, Manager leaving, ……unable to strengthen existing squad…Rebuild with less budget…..preseason shamblesAll governing factors to a poor start……I believe your whole argument along with a few others is that the Board should have made more funds available regardless ?Not regardless but we were told on here at the time the budget was 8th in the league yet it had been reduced due to Covid. We sold our main player and did not replace him. We offered contracts to at least three players and they were rejected. Therefore the club knew they have to be replaced. We gave six young lads contracts without the new manager seeing them. We signed two players in January who were not fit enough to really contribute to end of last season. Yes the manager left but we don’t know the full story. Two previous managers had also left with other full story. The decline really started from that point. So we are in a rebuild but we couldn’t afford a permanent goal keeper or Defensive midfield. The club did not expect a relegation fight but here we are. Will the rebuild continue in the next transfer window big question.
Was it a million pounds up front though?A lot of deals involve a down payment with the balance to follow.
Vaya I have said this before from information given by RW on Radio Sheffield. Having signed Knoyle Williams Rowe Close and Hiwula all required as have been proven. He said £1500 a week at least for a goalkeeper we couldn’t afford. He also said he had a list of 15 players for DM all were out of our limit of about £4000 a week at that time unless we could have sold two of our players. Since then we signed Barlow and Gardner both on low wages. After the mix up of the last day of the transfer window we signed Dodoo and a short term contract for Olowu. Then they are the loans could be little payments or larger payments we don’t know. He’s already said majority of his budget were taken up by the 12 /13 players we had on our books six young lads had been signed before he came
Quote from: steve@dcfd on November 26, 2021, 04:15:29 pmVaya I have said this before from information given by RW on Radio Sheffield. Having signed Knoyle Williams Rowe Close and Hiwula all required as have been proven. He said £1500 a week at least for a goalkeeper we couldn’t afford. He also said he had a list of 15 players for DM all were out of our limit of about £4000 a week at that time unless we could have sold two of our players. Since then we signed Barlow and Gardner both on low wages. After the mix up of the last day of the transfer window we signed Dodoo and a short term contract for Olowu. Then they are the loans could be little payments or larger payments we don’t know. He’s already said majority of his budget were taken up by the 12 /13 players we had on our books six young lads had been signed before he cameA defensive midfielder was also required Steve - why not sign one instead of any of the other players that have been signed? There's more than 15 of them out there.