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Monty13

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  1. I don’t think anyone is calling for the club to stick the knife in or attack her husband. A simple this does not reflect the views of NCFC style statement should be the response, if she can’t support that that’s a huge conflict of interest. I’m one of those that has the view that Zoe is her own person and shouldn’t be tarnished by association with whatever her husband does just because she’s his wife, but by that same token she has to embody that. Publicly supporting the core values of NCFC shouldn’t be an issue for any employee.
  2. Exactly it’s not hard to write it should have been out and made already. Taking the time to make a short distancing statement that’s so obviously required is not a good look IMO.
  3. I really don’t see Ben Gibson staying he’s apparently one of the top earners and, as much as I personally like him, he’s done little to deserve that if true.
  4. What they should be doing is distancing themselves from his comments. A simple statement would usually be expected not getting tweets pulled, story’s already out there.
  5. Too late anyway, already seen it reported on in national press and Sky Sports.
  6. I doubt that when you include, agent fees, signing on fees and wages. Didn’t lose much is more likely which isn’t a bad return anyway for a punt. The point being he was a total flop as a player so judging Knapper on one signing (that’s just a loan anyway) is really premature.
  7. No Marshall was 2018. There were a lot of signings in 2017, some players who became staples to be fair but also a lot of crap, was pretty 50/50.
  8. Marley Watkins was Webbers first signing, let’s give Knapper some time maybe.
  9. The Pinkun tweets been deleted, they’ve replaced it with a tweet saying they don’t support discrimination, which in itself makes it clear the comment was discriminatory, at least from their perspective. People are questioning why they posted it in the first place, which I find odd. Journalists job is to print what is said, hiding what he said would be doing him a favour he doesn’t deserve. The failure if there is one, and maybe we’ll find out more when the whole interview is released, is potentially failing to challenge him on what he said not publishing it.
  10. I don’t think anybody was suggesting we’d have kept Buendia after another relegation, perhaps even more unlikely we’d keep hold if he’d steered us to an unlikely survival. The fact we sold him wasn’t an issue given our model, the timing and manner was.
  11. Which is true, someone clumsily, inadvertently or unthinkingly saying something racist does not make them a racist. His comment as said though appears racist whether intended or not. Especially because by all accounts it’s clearly not true about two of those mentioned by name, the five of which seem to have only been linked together because of the colour of their skin.
  12. The amount of obnoxious abuse one poster gave for even suggesting this was a possibility…I also doubt it.
  13. I’m not sure. I agree it would have been met with much nashing of teeth on here but I doubt the psychological damage would have been so pronounced. It’s clear we bought Tzolis and Sargent with an eye in future value, a few older heads and freebies would have been far cheaper. Let’s not pretend there was no money to spend, we brought in more than Rashica, Sargent and Tzolis. Of course nothing is certain, I would just argue the effect of losing Buendia was highly probable to be highly destructive and played out as expected IMO. Yes keeping him was also massively uncertain, I would simply argue it was less so.
  14. I do agree Purple in part. However I think the argument is, or at least mine would be, you’re right we don’t know if we would have still been relegated with him (I suspect we likely would) or whether we even would have been much better than the previous PL campaign. The issue is his sale cut the legs off that season before it began, probably led to Farkes dismissal, Smiths appointment and a period of declining fortunes we are just now showing signs of recovering out of with the help of Attanasio. It may be long term it kickstarted a series of events that leads to a stronger future, but that certainly wasn’t intentional. What’s undeniable is the money spent from his sale did nothing to improve our fortunes that season.
  15. It’s been so obvious that’s what happened based on the chain of events, but at least Webber now confirms it. I understand his frustration but he clearly wanted to spend the cash, if the cash wasn’t there that’s just an unfortunate reality of our situation, there was no changing it.
  16. Not to knock him, because he’s a great team player, but goals is where they are incomparable.
  17. He’s our best player IMO, shades it over Sara for me. A striker who can score 25+ goals a season at this level (which he likely would have done if not injured) is unbelievably valuable. He really is a complete no. 9 at this level. I wouldn’t swap him with any other Championship striker personally.
  18. I think he’s suffered for years from not being a defensive midfielder when so many people want one on the pitch. Then because he’s the most defensively minded of our CMs he seems to get stick for not being a specialist. Where as Sara in comparison is a great player but far worse than Kenny defensively, Nunez is improving but ditto IMO. We have finally seemed to settle into a system that works defensively without a specialist DM though, at least at this level.
  19. This. Ipswich is objectively the team you want to play in the playoffs regardless of any other rival reasons.
  20. **** that, much rather stop them having a big day out at Wembley after beating them across two legs and have to sit at home while we are. That would be the perfect.
  21. I think many people have always been far too critical of the mistakes he makes compared to what he brings in terms of carrying the ball and his passing ability. I do think this season at times he’d looked just about as good as he ever has, yesterday being a case in point.
  22. Yes 100%. If we fail to get promoted and sold Rowe but kept the rest I’d be over the moon personally. He’s a great player with huge potential, but he’s not essential to the team like Sargent, Gunn, Sara and Sainz have all become IMO.
  23. I’d have gone Kenny personally but all three were excellent.
  24. I’d add Kenny to those 4 and probably Stacy as well. Losing any one of those 6 on their current form could be enough to derail us.
  25. Why’s everything so black and white? Who actually thought our form was “nothing to do with the injuries”? The issue people were questioning wasn’t that we were worse because we had injuries, it was that we were so poor with a few key injuries we were producing relegation form.
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