Killeen30 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, Supervillan78 said: Chester? I would have said that last season when he had Terry along side him making him look better than he is but he has a lot to prove. As been mentioned though he’s playing through the pain at present which is admirable. Edited January 20, 2019 by Killeen30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted January 20, 2019 Moderator Share Posted January 20, 2019 11 hours ago, dounavilla said: I think we need another thread title change to say " we need a whole new squad" More than you know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerner's Driver Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 14 hours ago, av1 said: McGinn and Grealish are the only decent players we own. Decent when compared with what? Those two are clearly the best players we own, but on their day, when the team is collectively in form, as they were when Smith first came in, they all looked decent, even Hutton and Taylor, who admittedly have reverted to type of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said: Decent when compared with what? Those two are clearly the best players we own, but on their day, when the team is collectively in form, as they were when Smith first came in, they all looked decent, even Hutton and Taylor, who admittedly have reverted to type of late. That's the problem. Every dog has his day so you would expect the odd decent performance out of a professional footballer, but by and large I think the vast majority of our squad are poor. To phrase it another way, do we have any players aside from the two I have mentioned that you would be sorry to see leave? Is there any position that you don't believe needs to be upgraded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted January 20, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2019 12 hours ago, Nigel said: Far too early to be judging the keeper! I'm able to judge his first three games. And they've been poor, hence my reservations. I don't think that's OTT at this point. I haven't written him off at all yet, like I did in Nyland's case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted January 20, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2019 This window is becoming a bit of a disappointment after the initial promptness of the keeper signing, I was hoping that we’d have seen a couple more through by now (yeah I know, Hause). The biggest plus has been retaining a loan striker which probably tells it’s own story. Hopefully there’s stuff going on behind the scenes and one or two are on their way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Since it looks like we'll be down in this league for another season at least perhaps we should try for Nick Powell from Wigan. He's out of contract in the summer so we can either try and sign him then or if Wigan want's a few bobs make a bid now. He'd be an OK squad player for a midtable Championship side fighting for the play off spots. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killeen30 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) I have to hold my hands up and include myself in this but I am looking forward to us being linked to someone worth getting excited about and hopefully signing them. So then we can ALL stop bitching about our current players... Edited January 20, 2019 by Killeen30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Our scouting of players, thorough scouting, has been piss poor for many years now. We spunk a lot of money on pretty average players. When Southampton were in the championship a few years ago and paid 1 million pounds for schneiderlin who was a cracking talent. We would never be able to pull off anything like that. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killeen30 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Just now, Johnnyp said: Our scouting of players, thorough scouting, has been piss poor for many years now. We spunk a lot of money on pretty average players. When Southampton were in the championship a few years ago and paid 1 million pounds for schneiderlin who was a cracking talent. We would never be able to pull off anything like that. All of the above is and has been my opinion for a number of years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 About James Chester, pretty sad if true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 7 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: About James Chester, pretty sad if true. He needs to be rested then. Its not like he has been brilliant and our defence solid with him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Papers continue to link us with every PL player not quite good enough to claim a regular spot at their parent club. Harry Arter this time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan4Life Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 6 minutes ago, sne said: Papers continue to link us with every PL player not quite good enough to claim a regular spot at their parent club. Harry Arter this time. Massive no thanks to Arter in my view 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 We need new defenders, what about good defenders from the teams with lowest goals against in League One? Maybe worth a punt for half a million on either of these two? Matty Pearson 24 years old - right back for Luton Town who can also play centre back or left back. He's scored 3 goals in 28 appearances this season and part of a team 2nd in the league. Ethan Pinnock 25 years old - left-footed centre back for Barnsley who can also play left back. He's scored one goal from 25 appearances this season and part of the league's 5th place team. Both clubs have good defensive records this season. Those players are still young enough to develop into better players and may be worth a punt at a cheap price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Arter be alright I think. Gets through loads of work, which most of our team refuse to do at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villabromsgrove Posted January 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2019 We need to target the best up and coming players who are currently playing for smaller clubs. Forget about players who can't get into their Premier teams, because they come with the wrong price tag, motivation and attitude. It's been our downfall for years. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TrentVilla Posted January 20, 2019 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2019 28 minutes ago, villabromsgrove said: We need to target the best up and coming players who are currently playing for smaller clubs. Forget about players who can't get into their Premier teams, because they come with the wrong price tag, motivation and attitude. It's been our downfall for years. Yep that and young overseas talents and coaching our own kids. This is what we should have been 3 years ago rather than a top scorer trolley dash, money down the drain loans and rolling sleeves up and hoping. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Cant we recruit Norwich's head of recruitment? Watching them just highlights exactly what we lack. Bags of energy, fight, Pace, incisive and accurate forward passing done with pace also great Left & right backs full of energy and who can go past their man with ease. Everything we lack actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 11 minutes ago, danceoftheshamen said: Cant we recruit Norwich's head of recruitment? Watching them just highlights exactly what we lack. Bags of energy, fight, Pace, incisive and accurate forward passing done with pace also great Left & right backs full of energy and who can go past their man with ease. Everything we lack actually Very frustrating that both their full backs came through their U18's, although I think they pinched Aarons from Luton when he was 15 or so. Still, our full backs are probably on 10 times what the Norwich ones are on, but have a tenth of the ability and effort levels. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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