SSN Billy to Burnley Link

[steve@dcfd]

RobTheRover wrote:

Its not about 4th or 5th best, but SOD certainly does have a list of targets ranked in preference order.  JR asked for plans B through E if Plan A didnt come off.

I would expect  a manager of Sean's ability to have ranked his list. He would have done last year also. Yet out of the players brought in only One John Oster was  regular first team player and he still has not signed ?. So they must have been E(5th) and F(6th) players on last years list. Without the Sean bringing in Billy and Jason and the other loanees who improve the first team we would not have improved our position, in fact I believe we would have been worst.

I know we cannot compete with large wages I am being realistic so its about time the club  JR was and stop saying we are aiming for the playoffs when we cannot afford to buy or spend as yet £500,000 on one player.

[River Don]

PACMAN wrote:

steve@dcfd wrote:

5minstogo wrote:

PACMAN wrote:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/rovers/Rovers-may-go-for-loan.6334476.jp

I think the last couple of paragraghs are key here, if we were to land Sharp the majority of our budget would be gone and comprimises would have to be made elsewhere.

Hmmmmm.....................lets move on shall we, I'd rather see 3-4 quality additions than one plus a few squad players, it is a team game after all!!  

I was just thinking the same. As much as I'd love to have Billy, we can't afford (literally) to put all our eggs into one basket.  We need strengthening all round.

Sean has been given the largest budget in Doncaster History thats what JR said. The Targets of Billy Sharp, Jason Shackell or Elliot Ward have been there also. Did we think when setting this substantial increase in budget that our No1 targets would come cheap if so we are naive!!. To get a striker or centre half of the quality of our two targets was going to cost. I do not believe that Sean or JR are naive so lets not start now getting fourth or fifth best.

Newsflash...............Shackell & Ward are no longer options and if Burnley, armed with the parachute payments and a reputed £7m fee for Fletcher from Wolves, are seriously interested Billy Sharp won't be an option for longer either!!

FFS, wake up and smell the coffee!! We are a small club in a big league and our biggest ever budget is small change to some.

I hate to say it but for those who were unconcerned about the effects parachute payments have on the league, well here it is in all its glory! Burnley, a similar size club to Rovers with worse facilities have been transformed in to big time Charlies and we simply can't compete with them.

[selby]

The biggest difference between our club and Burnley is the big chump they have for a manager.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Good call

[Drover]

PACMAN wrote:

steve@dcfd wrote:

5minstogo wrote:

PACMAN wrote:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/rovers/Rovers-may-go-for-loan.6334476.jp

I think the last couple of paragraghs are key here, if we were to land Sharp the majority of our budget would be gone and comprimises would have to be made elsewhere.

Hmmmmm.....................lets move on shall we, I'd rather see 3-4 quality additions than one plus a few squad players, it is a team game after all!!  

I was just thinking the same. As much as I'd love to have Billy, we can't afford (literally) to put all our eggs into one basket.  We need strengthening all round.

Sean has been given the largest budget in Doncaster History thats what JR said. The Targets of Billy Sharp, Jason Shackell or Elliot Ward have been there also. Did we think when setting this substantial increase in budget that our No1 targets would come cheap if so we are naive!!. To get a striker or centre half of the quality of our two targets was going to cost. I do not believe that Sean or JR are naive so lets not start now getting fourth or fifth best.

Newsflash...............Shackell & Ward are no longer options and if Burnley, armed with the parachute payments and a reputed £7m fee for Fletcher from Wolves, are seriously interested Billy Sharp won't be an option for longer either!!

FFS, wake up and smell the coffee!! We are a small club in a big league and our biggest ever budget is small change to some.

He does'nt need to smell the coffee!when will you learn SOD prefers a good cuppa tea!  
Actually what I think 5minstogo was saying is he does'nt believe(and I agree with him) that signing Billy will take up most of the budget and if we do sign him we will not sign any other players but squad players BECAUSE we have supposedly already bid for shackell and his wages(said to be probably out our wage range by SOD last season).So IF Shacks had signed for us that would mean that we would not have enough in the budget anymore to sign Billy then????I don't believe that.More poverty pleas by the club to try and get players without paying over the odds is more plausible,understandably.

[Drover]

River Don wrote:

PACMAN wrote:

steve@dcfd wrote:

5minstogo wrote:

PACMAN wrote:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/rovers/Rovers-may-go-for-loan.6334476.jp

I think the last couple of paragraghs are key here, if we were to land Sharp the majority of our budget would be gone and comprimises would have to be made elsewhere.

Hmmmmm.....................lets move on shall we, I'd rather see 3-4 quality additions than one plus a few squad players, it is a team game after all!!  

I was just thinking the same. As much as I'd love to have Billy, we can't afford (literally) to put all our eggs into one basket.  We need strengthening all round.

Sean has been given the largest budget in Doncaster History thats what JR said. The Targets of Billy Sharp, Jason Shackell or Elliot Ward have been there also. Did we think when setting this substantial increase in budget that our No1 targets would come cheap if so we are naive!!. To get a striker or centre half of the quality of our two targets was going to cost. I do not believe that Sean or JR are naive so lets not start now getting fourth or fifth best.

Newsflash...............Shackell & Ward are no longer options and if Burnley, armed with the parachute payments and a reputed £7m fee for Fletcher from Wolves, are seriously interested Billy Sharp won't be an option for longer either!!

FFS, wake up and smell the coffee!! We are a small club in a big league and our biggest ever budget is small change to some.

I hate to say it but for those who were unconcerned about the effects parachute payments have on the league, well here it is in all its glory! Burnley, a similar size club to Rovers with worse facilities have been transformed in to big time Charlies and we simply can't compete with them.

But Burnley especially with Laws in charge are likely to squander or ill invest their windfall and Hull City who have already spent unwisely need their share to just cut-down their debt a fraction whereas teams like Blackpool and us(well run and comparatively finacially sound) if we ever inherit some of these funds are likely to make good,steady progress and growth slowly over the years with it.

[CusworthRovers]

I know this is an old cliche, but it basically does come down to Sean/Ryan and the Board.........they want what is best for the club, they really want us to push on and improve the quality, they know what the club can/cannot afford and they know how to achieve this. Only they know what we are capable of financially and where we can take this club of ours. Only they know what will ruin the club. It really is the old chestnut of 'In Sean/Ryan we trust'..........and we have no reason to doubt them, all us cheeky monkeys can do is have a good old chin wag and throw our uneducated, clueless and speculative tu'penneth worth in.

[pkt_drfc]

Bloody hell our rejected bid is going down all the time now it stands at  £450,000  oh and Burnley have bid £1 million

Burnley make £1m move for Sheffield United star Billy Sharp after Doncaster bid bounces
By Sportsmail Reporter
Last updated at 10:34 PM on 2nd June 2010
Comments (0) Add to My Stories Burnley manager Brian Laws has made a £1million bid for Sheffield United striker Billy Sharp - after Doncaster had a £450,000 bid rejected.

Meanwhile Burnley bad boy midfielder Joey Gudjonsson has signed a two-year deal at Huddersfield. The Iceland international was suspended for two weeks in April after criticising Brian Laws.

Sheffield United will move for Stoke goalkeeper Steve Simonsen if Paddy Kenny is lured to QPR.

[hoolahoop]

Barmby Rover wrote:

If BS would put so many bums on seats how come it didn't happen last season. It would take an extraordinary signing to make a significant difference to crowds, and with the current financial set up of football that is not going to happen. If Burnley have offered Billy a lot in wages, then he will go I would have thought. Get real, that would not be the end of the world, Rovers would not be automatic relegation candidates and we would still be getting a striker of some kind. We would still win games,SOD will still be manager, and JR will still be working to improve Rovers chances of signing good players. Let's wait and see what happens and stop panicking over one player, the rest of the squad that have not signed yet are just as important, if not more so.

He was an unknown quantity when he started with us last season and I would wager that we did have an increase in attendances and a decrease when he was out of the team injured and whatever hopes of a P/Off push disappeared.
He would raise the gate imo, by how much ? well hopefully that remains to be seen BR.

[bigal]

According to 606 S. United accept a 1.5 million offer for
sharp sorry but do not no how to put the link up