What A Sensible Approach Would Be For Next Season.

[lesgeo]

Bring in fourth division grafters: guys who will work their guts out for the club. That is how we stay out of the bottom two if our budget really is going to be that bad.
It shows zero ambition but would, at least, let the club consolidate a bit. It looks like that is going to be the best we can hope for.
If that plan works, then we can start looking at building in the following year.

[cassidystash]

Come on les, you must have noticed that SUFC don’t do sensible any more.

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[mistertonmick]

We certainly want league 2 quality players, a couple of Bishop and Dawson type players and a prediter to play with Loft would be a start, a lot of players need to go and we don’t want a summer of signing anymore non league players unless from National League Premier, a smaller squad to pay for better players.

[JohnGaylesNuttingKit]

100% what we have missed this season – surely Cox can identify those sorts of players?

Can’t see how we could possibly mess it up more than this season, but I am not too confident.

[Sharp_Shooter24]

I’d go for Richie Wellens with total control of the first team but it won’t happen!!

I’d even take Laws but again I’d want him to be allowed to spend the budget wherever he wanted… one things for sure we’d have some goals in the team!!

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[Ferrite]

lesgeo wrote:

It shows zero ambition but would, at least, let the club consolidate a bit. It looks like that is going to be the best we can hope for.

For you, what does “ambition” mean? Because, to me, it doesn’t just mean massive spending. Sometimes, ambition can be sustainability and long-term planning.

[SODIron]

For me, the number one priority should be to get a leader on the pitch. This has been lacking all season, and is largely the reason why we fold under the slightest bit of pressure.

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[lesgeo]

Basically, I agree, Ferrite. The problem is that if we are not aiming for midway up The Championship there are many on here who will claim ‘no ambition’.
Me? – I don’t agree with silly spending for a club with a crowd base as minute as ours is going to be after a number of years of nearly unwatchable crap served up as something purporting to be football.
Living within your means is as important for a business as it is in your own domestic situation as it is in the artificial world of football clubs.
My ‘zero ambition’ was more than a little tongue-in-cheek as I was talking about nothing more than survival next season. I suppose you can argue that constitutes ‘ambition’ in itself.
I would rather like the club to survive. On that premise I do not care to see too much criticism on here of the man who can so easily pull the plug on the whole shebang!
Those who believe in magic money trees will obviously declare my suggestion in the previous posting to constitute ‘zero ambition’.

[Northumbiron]

Our assembled forward line constitutes zero ambition.

[Ferrite]

Les – fair points all. As a wider fanbase, we have to look again at this idea of ambition. I’d love to see our club putting down some deeper roots in the community, that is crucial for our future I reckon.

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[Sanfran49]

JohnGaylesNuttingKit wrote:

100% what we have missed this season – surely Cox can identify those sorts of players?

Can’t see how we could possibly mess it up more than this season, but I am not too confident.

He wanted Hippolyte ! Doesn’t look promising does it ?

Start with a 3 yr contract plan. We need to stop this every 2 years – all change idea. That there is a proper structure some 3 yr deals, some 2 yr deals and 2 yr deals with options. Likewise 1 yr deals with options based on performance.

The Dom Vose ideas have to stop, and yet we have not learned from it and valuable money resources has been wasted. Not the fans fault and now the budget to be reduced further we must get someone in who really does know what they are doing. Who knows where to invest it.

[JoshLyman]

Three words: Musselwhite, Crosby, Baraclough. The last time we were this poor we invested wisely in experience for the spine. The rest just happened to fall into place (luck rather than design?) and we began to soar. We can but hope for better things to come.

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[Iron-awe]

An experienced spine to the team would be the ideal situation at most times but in these times of budget austerity for our club it’s a must have now one would think.

[bartonscorpion]

The club has to start entertaining the remaining fans, the first thing for that to happen, is to kick this one up front rubbish where one player runs and runs until he is at stand still, next thing is to sort out these players that have conflics with either the club or its management, we cannot have our best players either not trying or being ognored by the manager, our club has had too much of this, next is to form a squad of 20 players, the club is too small to carry 51 players, and is there any point in a youth team when no one ever gets picked from it, and if good enough have a couple of bench warming sessions, the club just do not bring players through the system. Next would be to bladder all those managers, asst managers, coaches including G/K coaches and a few other staff that produce nothing, a manager with an asst manager and one coach is enogh for a club our size.
That is my advice to the club, now my advice to supporters is to give the wife an extra £15 for shopping, and listen to the game on radio Humberside, it is far more interesting listening to Tom Newey than sat freezing one’s cobbs of in the Cluggy.

[Iron-awe]

” give the wife an extra £15 for shopping ” how very 1960’s of you BS, bloody hell the dinosaur speaks. Maybe we should let the wife go out and buy a few new outfits to wear too eh BS, you know instead of insisting she makes her own while you go to the pub attempting to ” knock the barmaid off “. What a complete dick you are man.

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