Yes, very good points - a very different team and system now.
If we're playing Everton every week my mum would expect to get on the score sheet and she's wheelchair bound with Multiple Sclerosis.
That seems like a hell of a jump, and actually not what I'm saying at all.
Yep would much rather the club signed a fully functioning centre forward as a stop gap between Welbeck and Ferguson.
The flip side is we sent White out on loan for a fantastic season with Leeds while we had Duffy making mistakes galore, then White comes back and we only get 1 season out of him. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but little doubt in my mind White was ready and should have played instead of Duffy that season.
I don't disagree with you on this, you don't change transfer policy because of Ferguson being the answer, BUT, if the manager thinks and judges he is good enough to be in the first team, you do not send him out on loan. The purpose of a loan is for players not able to get into the first team who need match experience. If they're good enough for first team football, then get them in. I think we still need forward options if we can bring someone in, but in the meantime, if RDZ thinks he's good enough, are we going to argue?
Yes, fortunately not.
All true. But the damage with Connolly was all done before he went out on loan in the first place. Maybe if the loans had come first he'd be a different player now. Or, as I say, if he'd had the current team to come into with less focus on goals from the strikers.Yes, very good points - a very different team and system now.
However, Connolly also failed to make an impact at Venezia or ‘Boro so there are personal stumbling blocks there too - like being a complete drama queen when he doesn’t get what he wants. He should not have been fast-tracked into the under 23s at the age of 17 imo, or gone out on loan to ’Boro because he wasn’t happy with the amount of game time he was getting here - he wasn’t ready - other individuals with more inner self-belief and maturity at the same age would be. Hopefully Hull or somewhere can sort it out but he’s already a really bad investment (is he still on a £20,000 pw week contract?!)
But comparing Ferguson and Connolly is still like chalk and cheese for the reasons I outlined above
I would suggest the ONLY comparison between the two is that they are both contracted to Brighton and Hove Albion.Yes, very good points - a very different team and system now.
However, Connolly also failed to make an impact at Venezia or ‘Boro so there are personal stumbling blocks there too - like being a complete drama queen when he doesn’t get what he wants. He should not have been fast-tracked into the under 23s at the age of 17 imo, or gone out on loan to ’Boro because he wasn’t happy with the amount of game time he was getting here - he wasn’t ready - other individuals with more inner self-belief and maturity at the same age would be. Hopefully Hull or somewhere can sort it out but he’s already a really bad investment (is he still on a £20,000 pw week contract?!)
But comparing Ferguson and Connolly is still like chalk and cheese for the reasons I outlined above
Cycling vultures is something I would definitely love to see - even if it is just going round and round in circles!
There was no damage done to Connolly. He showed great promise and deserved his crack at the first team. What has happened isn't damage, it's an arc of a career path that happens to many players that can show great promise, but ultimately fall short at the very highest level. Hypothetically had we sent him out on loan before scoring 2 goals against Spurs - sliding doors he might still be exactly where he is now.
Yep - as I said ‘chalk and cheese’
I share your viewpoint (as stated categorically above) but have a feeling it’s falling largely on deaf ears
(btw I have to eat my hat if Buonanotte is sent out on loan and he is PL untested! 
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Aaron supposedly turned down a loan move, didn't he? Guess that was after Spurs, so summer 2020?
Troy Townsend was rather perplexed that Everton didn't play the same defender who man marked Halland, going instead with the less mobile Cody and Tarkers, which in turn rather played into our hands.I don't disagree with you on this, you don't change transfer policy because of Ferguson being the answer, BUT, if the manager thinks and judges he is good enough to be in the first team, you do not send him out on loan. The purpose of a loan is for players not able to get into the first team who need match experience. If they're good enough for first team football, then get them in. I think we still need forward options if we can bring someone in, but in the meantime, if RDZ thinks he's good enough, are we going to argue?
Interesting your comments on Everton though, they held Man City to a draw at the weekend and limited them to a solitary goal. Did Pep bring your mum on as a sub in that one?
Everton had only conceded 20 goals in 17 games before playing us, only 6 other teams had better defensive record. Ferguson scoring against Arsenal then Everton, then saying it was just that Everton can't defend doesn't quite ring true. Everything needs perspective and context, but I would say Coady and Tarkers being made to look akin to the Keystone Cops was something of credit to our players, not to discredit the achievement because of that.
The online abuse he got when he was too casual & had an open goal cleared off the line can't have helped him any.
