FAO Duxbury & Pozzo

Disgrace. P1ss off both you. Idiots.

 

What’s your reasoning for saying that dear fellow?

 

Defensive recruitment has been nothing short of a scandal.

 

Of course they’re not beyond criticism and are not perfect but this is completely stupid and pointless thread.

They’re not billionaires and they won’t financially gamble with our future by spending more than we have.

They have a clear model, it’s frustrating at times sure, but in the main it works or at least has for as long as they have owned us.

They like to buy midfielders and forwards because they have the most potential upside in value. They don’t like spending money on defenders, so far they’ve got away with it.

You’ve only got to look at the championship and league one to see plenty of examples of what a genuinely bad owner will do to a club.

 

We will be in the Championship after this season due to their disgraceful recruitment policy.

 

I agree that signings have been lacking in that area, but I’m surprised to see you’ve turned on pozzo from this (unless you’re trolling) IMO the departure of the Pozzos will lead to a swift downturn in our fortunes. To echo a19tgg, they have a system that has worked well for us. And frankly, why should they spend their money if they don’t think they’ll see a return on it? What they’re doing is a million miles away from a Mike Ashley sports direct style system of ownership.

 

I’m not necessarily happy but I’m a realist. So what if we get relegated? We'll still be in a far better position than when they bought us.

We are massively over achieving for a club of our size, go through the championship and it’s littered with clubs far bigger than us that have been ruined by bad owners.

Money in itself doesn’t even guarantee success, but unless the Qatari royal family or an oil billionaire want to buy us (which obviously they don’t) would you seriously trust anybody else to run us better?

 

Exactly. I'm glad the majority of the fan base are like this. Even if we lose, we can smile and go again. Apathy is definitely the right attitude.

Enjoy the ride.

 

Nobody is happy Rookerylad. But I'd much rather be battling it out in the PL than the championship or even league 1 under baz, and for that we should be grateful

 

Except for the fact that they're well on their way to putting us back in the Championship.

 

Personally I'd love to see us in the Conference South in the next 10 years. Proper football, proper fans, proper stadiums. It's what dreams are made of.

 

Your sarcasm is really good.

 

Oh dear

 

No point is asking them to go. They just need to wake up a bit and smell the coffee before it's too late.
We were sleepwalking towards the Championship at the end of last season. Most fans could see this. We are now jogging towards relegation. They need to stop it before it turns into a sprint.
They have said very little about the transfer dealings or how much was available to spend.
They must know that our defence is awful, they must be aware of how the fans feel and they can surely see the dross on the pitch.
They are not fools, so we can only trust that they have the club at heart and they have done a good job so far. Unfortunately, their business brains can't physically help on the pitch with our current crop of turds.
Who will be the next Manager is down to them and the fans will need to trust them.

 

They don’t really need to say anything about how much is available to spend though. It’s a matter of public record every time our latest set of accounts are released.

I can’t remember off the top of my head but I’m sure our last set showed either a very small gain or loss of £2/3m. They also effectively lend the club money so to an extent we are running at a loss if they don’t put some of their own money in every now and then.

What is available to spend is effectively what we’ve been spending up to now, with us needing to sell the odd player every now and then when the price is right to help us break more or less even.

 

Yet they allow Giraldi to handle the transfer budget again and again.

 

Giraldi was having a big row with the stewards just before the end of the game as they wouldn't allow him access to the tunnel, despite several non playing squad members taking the exact same route across the dugout without being stopped. Seemed really strange!

 

That transfer money to use figure would be in the January 2020 accounts made available to the Premier League.
By then we will be well on our way to relegation.

 

The pozzos ‘don’t do relegation ‘ so why are we so confident they would stay, if we get relegated?

 

Am I missing something? Are we signing Min Jae then. No idea who he is, but any defensive recruits seem exciting.

 

Good point. This would be disastrous.

 

I think Javi's biggest fault is keeping faith with players who are clearly out of form.
If the team wins the players out of favour have no real voice but once they lose then divisions appear and factions develop.
I've played in teams where,because the captain was inept,it became divisive and that pollutes any chance of success.
I think Javi is as good as gone and his failure to drop people who are not worthy of a start is his major undoing.

 

I think it was our expectations they'd push on with us but we know with Udinese they just do enough to keep the side up. Also same with Grenada. Relegation battle after relegation battle.

 

This thread was so obviously started by a troll that I'm surprised anybody at all is posting serious responses.

Time to vacate the premises. I am. Goodnight.

 

Which players are these?

Despite the awful start, there's not really been a player who's been consistently dreadful and obviously out of form in my opinion.

 

I've been going to quite a few Wealdstone games the last two years. And you are right, it is a far more enjoyable experience in that league.

 

Oh come on, Femenia has been awful for a long while now. I'd argue that Doucoure has been nowhere near his best as well.

 

Femenia, Cathcart, Deeney. Could add Hughes and Doucoure as well.

 

Is that the referee for our next match?

 

Although it came late in the window, not taking 40m for Doucoure and re-investing in some defenders, does look like a shocker of a decision. He was poor towards the end of last year, and has continued that form on with some aplomb