Championship - 2022/23

Hungbo scores for Huddersfield...

 

A good goal too.

 

Go on Burnley

 

I've always liked Ashley Barnes!

Admirable fellow!

 

93rd minute penalty for Brizzle City pulls them level with Sunderland.

 

Every day Scum lose is a good day in my book

 

Mixed bag of results today really. Boro, Millwall and Blackburn all win, Sunderland and Norwich draw. Scum lose.

 

Hard to disagree.

I shall raise a glass to Barnes but by 10am tomorrow he will revert to the cheating, duplicitous, malodorous **** that he is.

 

Puts us down to 8th. Most teams are on level games with us now. So it’s a fair reflection of where we are as a team.

 

Nicely researched. But, in the end , we are going to have to win some games.

 

That's awfully old fashioned of you!

 

On the plus side perhaps Sheffield United don't look as daunting a task now!

 

Down to 8th.

Don't worry though. It's highly unlikely we finish outside the play off places.

 

Looking forward to the mass clear out we have this summer, so we can start from scratch. These 15 won’t be here next season for various reasons.

Okoye
Gaspar
Kaba
Kamara
Louza
Choudhury
Sarr
Pedro
Martins
Davis
Araujo
TDB
Bacuna
Clevs
Gosling

I hope Manga and Costa are ready to bring in 10+ players as well as a new manager.

 

Sheffield Utd will not be looking forward to our visit not because of us but because 'boro have closed the gap from infinity to 7 points after a poor run from Sheffield and Middlesbrough hitting their straps . However, clutching at straws, now is the time to put a run together as opposed to Dec/Jan or February.
6 points from the next 2 matches and with a reasonable run in I can see no reason why ....etc etc

I'll get me coat !!

 

Agreed to that if we don’t get promoted .
If we do I would like to think Pedro, Louza and Sarr will still be here . Maybe Choudry , but he maybe doesn’t have the technique to thrive as a EPL midfielder.

 

I think when that happens will be back to square one, relying on loans from udinese again.

Prepare to welcome back to Watford our former stars, Isaac success, masina, zeeglaar.

 

I’d like to think there will be a mass clear out too. But it does all depend on which league we’ll be in.

Assuming we don’t go up, it’s probably easier to predict who will still be at the club.

Here’s my take on who stays.

Bachmann
Morris
Porteous
Cathcart
Hoedt
Sierralta
Ferreira
Gaspar
Kone
Louza
TDB
Cleverley
Kayembe

 

7% chance of promotion as it stands, but at least that’s 2% more then Coventry.

 

That is genuinely horrible and I also think that Louza would go and probably Sierralta too (full Chile international whose career has stagnated with us). Bayo and Ngakia will still be around, Sema should be too and might be able to wring another season out of Asprilla before he realises his career is going nowhere with us. But we would pretty much need to bring in a whole bunch of attackers and won't have the money for any proven goalscorers. Fun times!

 

Pretty grim stuff. Could maybe see Martins coming back, and maybe 1/2 more from Udinese (Isaac and Masina??). Potentially add Hurtado to the mix?

Think in that scenario next season would be a consolidation, add in a few more £1/2m potential-based signings then attack promotion the season after

 

Yes Sema and Asprilla should be part of things. My error to omit them. Some of those loan players could be part of the squad too. Fletcher, Quina, Pollock and Hungbo.

Hungbo scored a cracker today, and Fletcher scored last week. From what I’ve seen, Fletcher is better than both Manaj and Assombalonga.

I don’t think we’ll retain Bayo and I think Ngakia will be sold (released).

 

Fletcher is utter, utter garbage, this is pure desperation talking.

 

I agree, he is utter garbage, but is better than the two strikers I mentioned.

 

Yeah fair enough, I guess it depends what you’re aspirations and expectations are for next season though. Fletcher had his loan cancelled with an MLS team and has scored 1 goal in 15 for Wigan. If he was our starting striker next season then we won’t be anywhere near the promotion spots with a striker that very, very rarely scores goals, and never has done throughout his entire career.

When we were a potless club regularly fighting relegation we regularly picked ourselves up a cheap 15/20 goal a season striker, I think even with reduced parachute payments next season and a worsening debt situation, if we can’t pick up a more effective striker than Ashley Fletcher it really is the beginning of the end, or probably closer to the end than that.

 

Rather Bayo than Fletcher

 

Great point. Remember how good Danny Graham was.

 

Fletcher could be our modern day Peter Beadle. What a depressing thought.

 

Look, lets no rewrite history and pretend that the fanbase genuinely thought we were going to challenge for automatic promotion or even comfortably make the playoffs

Just get behind the lads FFS, we can still catch Millwall!!!