Hughton: "I have no doubts we'll be ready come that first game of the season."

[B.W.]

Again, you've got the wrong end of the stick.

I'll try and clarify for a second time just to help you out.

My post was mocking an illogical statement. I didn't write a SINGLE opinion on our transfer activity, a SINGLE comment on how prepared we are.

Yet you seem to be arguing with me........when I never even made a comment about anything!

So, yes, that's why you seem to have targeted my post.

Now, quote something that actually makes sense for you to argue with. Maybe a mirror?

You miss the point with an inane 'joke' in your original post. Then make another one in the latest piece of BS. Well done.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

You miss the point with an inane 'joke' in your original post. Then make another one in the latest piece of BS. Well done.

You actually could start an argument in an empty room
It's amazing to watch.

Now. Please stop quoting my posts. I'm sure you won't be able to resist but please try. It's tiresome.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Going back to the opening statement....I would fecking well hope so, that he has no doubts we will be ready. If we are not ready after 3 months of the summer then we are seriously up the creek.

I am assuming that he is not signing strikers and wingers because either a) he has some in the pipeline or b) he is not seeing it as a priority with baldock and cog still at the club.

What I find interesting is the comments he has made about crofts...." Like having a new signing" .

I imagine he is not singing wingers or strikers (although we have signed one) because these are more difficult players to nail down. If the few rumours we have heard are true we have certainly been pursuing wingers all over the place, so it is not as if we have neglected the positions. Given the way the team is being set up this season I fully expect to see us bring in wide players and at least one other forward.

 

[B.W.]

I agree that time to gel is ideal, but it just isn't the way of things anymore. If you want the best players, at this level, you normally have to wait. I can only see Boro and Derby getting their business done early this transfer window, and even Boro will be pushing Rhodes right to the end of the window. As it stands you are reviewing the clubs transfer window business in a negative light 10 days before the first game, and a full five weeks before the close of the window. That is unreasonable. As I said, I will be joining you on the burn Barber bandwagon if we sign no one else for the final third by Forest, but right now I am willing to wait and see.

I don't blame Barber. He only takes credit for maximising player sales revenue. He says he has nothing to do with recruiting players (unsurprisingly, after last summer's shambles). Well, let's see what happens. The signs aren't good, but if we sign 3 before Forest, I'll give credit where credit is due.

 

[B.W.]

You actually could start an argument in an empty room
It's amazing to watch.

Now. Please stop quoting my posts. I'm sure you won't be able to resist but please try. It's tiresome.

I'll quote whoever I want to quote, thank you.

 

[brightonrock]

The Amex is no fortress now either, teams love coming here and have nothing to fear, so our home advantage is now lost

Perhaps part of that is because a vast number of home fans are so relentlessly negative they actually seem to enjoy huffing and puffing, and booing their team because they're drawing, rather than get behind them for 90 minutes come what may?

Just a thought.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You actually could start an argument in an empty room
It's amazing to watch.

Now. Please stop quoting my posts. I'm sure you won't be able to resist but please try. It's tiresome.

All the time he's quoting you, he's leaving me alone. Look out for b.w.2, as well.

 

[B.W.]

Perhaps part of that is because a vast number of home fans are so relentlessly negative they actually seem to enjoy huffing and puffing, and booing their team because they're drawing, rather than get behind them for 90 minutes come what may?

Just a thought.

Or...


Sami and his team just weren't good enough?

 

[B.W.]

All the time he's quoting you, he's leaving me alone. Look out for b.w.2, as well.

Sorry you felt so left out...

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

All the time he's quoting you, he's leaving me alone. Look out for b.w.2, as well.

B...b....but I thought I was his only special little fella.

You're telling me he is obsessed with other people? I thought I'd be relieved but that hurts.

 

[spanish flair]

Has he ever said that he 'expects' it?

Aiming for it or hoping for it are not 'expecting' it.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/11448038.Bloom__We_have_squad_to_go_up/

This is what he told the Argus in September last year " Bloom: We have a squad to go up"

“That is our No.1 goal this season and I certainly think we have got the squad which could get there.”

Now how do you want the fans to interpret the Chairman's expectations or hopes or whatever you want to call it?

 

[LamieRobertson]

Blimey a lot of handbags around this morning ..we haven't even lost a league game ........................yet.

 

[T soprano]

Perhaps part of that is because a vast number of home fans are so relentlessly negative they actually seem to enjoy huffing and puffing, and booing their team because they're drawing, rather than get behind them for 90 minutes come what may?

Just a thought.

Or if The Entertainment is rubbish people show frustration like in Victorian days people would throw rotten vegetables on stage if an act was rubbish at the theatre..... I've just ordered 11 cabbages and a crate of rotten tomatoes for the Forest game

 

[T soprano]

Blimey a lot of handbags around this morning ..we haven't even lost a league game ........................yet.

Only 10 days to go for that now

 

[brightonrock]

Or...


Sami and his team just weren't good enough?

Nobody is disagreeing with that. But the number of so-called 'fans' of our club who actively enjoy being misers is fast becoming an embarrassment. Arguing amongst ourselves about which 'crew' is the worst influence in the NS. Snide, self-satisfied little digs at Barber and Bloom and the pies and FFP and queues and trains and the ticket line and loans and Nathan Jones and stewarding. Click on any thread on here. Any tweet or Facebook post by the club. What do you see? Dickheads being dickheads because they want to be able to say "I told you so" if we lose. The types who boo JFC when he's announced in the 18. The types who can't wait to go to the fans forum to moan at Bloom for not spending enough. And then there's the likes of me, neutral to the club's business, who get branded "rose-tinted spectacle wearing club lickers" because we're not throwing our toys out of the pram and wailing to the high heavens because we're not bidding for Jordan Rhodes. The same people who moaned we spent too much on CMS, want us to splash out twice as much on a "proven" name who could be just as poor, or snap a cruciate in the first game. These are the same people who moaned like spoilt brats when we were in the playoffs, and absolutely DELIGHTED themselves last season when we were struggling. The same people who slagged off Barnes to no end, and now see we could do with him back.

Here's an idea. Have a day off. Enjoy the sunshine. Have a cup of tea. Read a book. Walk the dog. Call the parents. Take up swimming. Learn Spanish. Enjoy life. Then, when the rage has subsided, meet back at the Amex in a fortnight and have a pie and a beer with your mates and a hearty sing song. Because this constant, 24/7, ever-escalating impotent angst is showing people up for the childish, petty, pitiful examples of 'adults' that they are.

The collective blood pressure of this forum would pierce the ionosphere.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Forest are in danger of losing Antonio and Lansbury before we play them - that should help.

Wonder how the Forest forum is re the possibility of losing those 2.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Only 10 days to go for that now

I put the ''yet'' in just for you

 

[Steve.S]

Please see my point about players needing time to gel in pre-season (especially when you need to bring in so many players because you ****ed up the season before).

Did you not see what happened as a result of leaving it late last season?

You are talking about one season, I can give Gus's last season where he got in 4 players in the last week of the window and Ulloa in January and yet finished in the playoffs. Last season we had an inexperienced manager who wanted to change the system we played, add to that some not so good players and the end result was finishing at the wrong end of the table. Look back through time, most clubs will still be doing business in the last week of the window and then will get in loan players when the window shuts.

 

[Biscuit]

Mostly turgid boring football under poyet although around 6/7 games we were very very good over a couple of seasons but rarely won...rubbish away from home mostly.League 1 was very good although that was league 1 after all. If you enjoyed poyets football then fair enough,but I was put to sleep as it was so so predictable it was unreal. Poor recruitment and negative tactics is making poyet look good...that's the size of it.

I disagree with almost everything you've put here but that's football.

Personally I enjoyed our romp to 4th with a goal difference of +26! If you found that a boring season I imagine Oscar Garcia and Sami Hyypia put you into an unresponsive coma!

And as for bad recruitment, perhaps you're not giving Gus enough credit for his excellent recruitment? He brought in Gordon Greer, Radostin Kishishev, Liam Bridcutt, (Admitedly Marmite but now playing in the top flight) Ashley Barnes, Will Buckley, a chap called Vicente, Íñigo Calderón, Tomasz Kuszczak..

People like to point out the handful of duds he signed but when you compare it to our recruitment post-Poyet it's fades into insignificance.

Oh and as for ''very good over a couple of seasons but rarely won." - he took us from the bottom end of League One to the Championship play-offs with a win rate of 44%. That's incredible.

 

[Justice]

I disagree with almost everything you've put here but that's football.

Personally I enjoyed our romp to 4th with a goal difference of +26! If you found that a boring season I imagine Oscar Garcia and Sami Hyypia put you into an unresponsive coma!

And as for bad recruitment, perhaps you're not giving Gus enough credit for his excellent recruitment? He brought in Gordon Greer, Radostin Kishishev, Liam Bridcutt, (Admitedly Marmite but now playing in the top flight) Ashley Barnes, Will Buckley, a chap called Vicente, Íñigo Calderón, Tomasz Kuszczak..

People like to point out the handful of duds he signed but when you compare it to our recruitment post-Poyet it's fades into insignificance.

You have a point with recruitment signing players like Wayne Bridge seem to have come to a sudden halt.