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solihullkev

As per my other post I agree the board do not come out of this well. Poor end to last season board should then either have sacked Gary or fully backed him (beyond 4 games !). If we sacked him we would have paid compensation on his contract but whoever came in could have done their own wheeling and d...

solihullkev

What was said to Gary on Saturday ? What changed between Saturday and tonight ? Was it really as short term as "if we don't beat Macc you are toast". If he wasn't good enough tonight then he wasn't good enough on Saturday and we have wasted 4 days before loan window shuts to get someone ne...

solihullkev

As bad as last 6 months have been hope there are not too many short memories : - 2015/2015 season was as good a season following the club as I have had ; and he did it from scratch. 11 players made their debuts 3 years ago this month at Lincoln - finding / developing Mo ; (whilst I would rather we h...

solihullkev

Chairman says Mo joined us on £300 a week ! Surely that is either wrong or there were lots of add ons for appearances etc.

Chief Exec of Mansfield on the radio yesterday (radio 5 live) said her players were on between £800 and £5000 a week !

solihullkev

We are 75k apart with Fylde. JP reported player keen to join.

We would pay GJ more than that in compensation if he gets sacked this week I would suggest.

But Rowe, get him on loan til Jan, and get on with it.

solihullkev

.....you don't sack a manager and let someone else inherit what Johnson was looking to build on. Instead it's the words of the late Graham Taylor, "you got us into this mess, now get us out of it"

solihullkev

Excellent piece ; spot on.

solihullkev

As at tonight I would be happy with floating in the bottom half ; currently we look sunk. Forget the "we're only two games in" nonsense. Other than Flinders there have been no redeeming features this season and the trend from the end of last season carries on. It's no good having a big ban...

solihullkev

solihullkev

Roll another one not replaced

solihullkev

And we would sell him ; holiding out for someone in on loan

solihullkev

Without a plan or strategy

solihullkev

If you meant Agbonlahor, Villa never paid him off. His contract expired in the summer and, unsurprisingly, was not renewed

solihullkev

Not sure he ever played for Villa ?

solihullkev

The money won't last that long if relegated ; which is why any apparent strategy is fatally flawed.

Relegation would be very different financially this time to 2015 ; you cannot keep relying on something like a legacy or a player pulling you out of the mire.

solihullkev

Lord Elpuz - as for RCS, do you say if we had not sold Mo we would be insolvent ? Plainly not. We did not need Mo money to survive as was repeatedly said. On that basis, we should either have kept Mo or sold and used some of the money to improve team / squad. To do neither is the problem. If reports...

solihullkev

RCS - if that is the strategy then presumably we would be insolvent now without sale of Mo ?! Re sale of Mo - GJ must have known for weeks his son was interested ; that seems very unlikely to have only materialised in 48 hours before the sale. If that is right, he should have done his buying before ...

solihullkev

After one game compared to end of last season we have lost Mo, Pell, Winchester. No evidence (yet) we have replaced it. Players like Akinde have moved elsewhere. We have money in the bank and no strategy.

The transfer window was played very poorly.

solihullkev

Thanks Jon

solihullkev

JP has reported that someone has joined Longlevens from Evesham but no conclusion on any other business for CTFC ! I do maintain JP has been below his usual high standards this summer - Mo transfer another case in point.

solihullkev

In 9 months we could be the richest club in the National League

Truly dreadful transfer strategy from management and board. Out flanked. Not how you manage things ; too last minute when others have us over a barrel

solihullkev

JP's reporting has been a bit hit and miss this summer which may reflect a desire not to let cat out of the bag. Question then is who is he working for ?

Our transfer strategy this summer has been very poor. Would love to play Gary and the board at a game of poker.

solihullkev

....transfer deadline day and no tweets from Jon Palmer today, his last one retweeting a call for minor league pre season friendlies ?

Are we not in the game today ? What is our position ? Loans only ?

solihullkev

"Cheltenham were only a penalty Miss away from taking a point"

Think I saw a rather wider gulf between those two teams yesterday

solihullkev

Our strategy since May has been very poor The squad should have gelled in pre season friendlies. Instead the one player who came out of those shining was Mo. Too much tinkering We should have got the deal with Mo to go signed up sooner ; could perhaps then have kept Winchester and Pell and got anoth...

solihullkev

Jack Dunn's descent is surprising ; thought he would have a career at championship level at each

solihullkev

On the bright side, assuming Salford get promoted next season and we don't spunk the Elisa money, we could be the richest club in the National League in 2019/2020

Ominous.

solihullkev

Because he knows he will have £1million + banked before season starts but wants business done before then so clubs /players don't get greedy

Sound commercial sense

solihullkev

It will percolate down ; premier clubs tend to do buisness post World Cup. Eisa will be sold when a Championship side needs to replace a striker gone elsewhere.

He will be gone before start of next season.

solihullkev

Well done Coventry. If we have promotion ambitions next season, Cov's promotion has to be good news for us.

Are we to believe that is it for Tisdale at Exeter now ?

solihullkev

You will struggle to identify a more selfless chairman in the football league.

A superb servant to the club and town.

Remarkable how young he started and how long he kept going as chairman given his family and other business and political interests.

Top man.

solihullkev

What an extraordinary response Ben. Likely to be highly topical in summer

I am sure many will miss your posts

solihullkev

SAFC debt free now - over £120 million wiped off in a stroke

Just need to deal with some millstone contracts ; but in a great position to pick up some young talent.....

solihullkev

RCS - maybe Sunderland will be in the game now....

solihullkev

Safc's debt is a bit illusory as it is all owed to the owner ? Issue is whether he wants to realise anything or put into admin ? I accept Short seems to have no interest in doing anything.

They still have two more years of parachute payments !

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