Did I miss the memo that Championship clubs must give work experience to lower league German players and coaches?

[Jezzard 16]

And did the rest of the Championship? Otherwise I cannot see the logic. With a final year of parachute payments, a strong squad which at times (and too inconsistently) last season had been about the best team in the league, and a serviceable manager that was beginning to get things together, we should have been aiming top 2. Instead....well we''re asked to give these guys time to get use to the Championship. Webber''s biggest achievement has been to convince many NCFC fans that this had to be a season of rebuilding, rather than out best chance in the coming years of promotion. I get we need to save money, -surely the transfer fees of Murphy, Brady, Olssen and Howson have overdone this - but surely we could have speculated on getting in some players who can play at this level (a few more like Hanley) and go for promotion. Because, if the objective is as it seems to just survive this season and just hope that we can pull off another 50/1 shot like Huddersfield Town, why bother keeping on Klose and Pritchard for another year''s big wages when they''ll surely leave next summer. Infuriating. Thrown away our final, really good, chance of promotion in the hope of being Huddersfield Town. Huddersfield''s promotion was a blue moon event; it doesn''t make it the rule rather than the exception that teams with better and better-paid players are more likely to get promoted.

[Baldyboy 0]

Webber is not the saviour everyone claims! If he was that good why didn''t Huddersfield fight harder to keep him?

[Indy_Bones 441]

[quote user="Baldyboy"]Webber is not the saviour everyone claims! If he was that good why didn''t Huddersfield fight harder to keep him?[/quote]Maybe because he''d already got the system in place, which oddly enough was good enough to get them promoted.What''s more, despite their foray into the Prem, we''ll ALWAYS be seen as a bigger club with a stronger opportunity than they will, and Webber saw a chance to improve his career long term with a better club than the one he was at.I fully expect that if and when things turn round better for us, there will be another bigger club come in for him, and he''ll be leaving for them as well.

[Chip20 69]

[quote user="Baldyboy"]Webber is not the saviour everyone claims! If he was that good why didn''t Huddersfield fight harder to keep him?[/quote]

How do you know how hard Huddersfield did or didn''t fight to keep him? Because the Internet says so?

[Chip20 69]

[quote user="Baldyboy"]Webber is not the saviour everyone claims! If he was that good why didn''t Huddersfield fight harder to keep him?[/quote]

And who is the ''everyone'' claiming that Webber is the saviour? You can''t mean that literally, surely?

[TCCANARY 263]

[quote user="Chip20"][quote user="Baldyboy"]Webber is not the saviour everyone claims! If he was that good why didn''t Huddersfield fight harder to keep him?[/quote]

How do you know how hard Huddersfield did or didn''t fight to keep him? Because the Internet says so?

[/quote]At the time local paper said"A large proportion of the delay in finalising the move would have been a combination of Huddersfield Town

officials initially trying to persuade him to stay then, once accepting

the inevitable exit, getting the best agreement in place for him to do

so".

[TIL 1010 4,717]

Is this the longest thread title ever posted ? [:P]

[Feedthewolf 4,844]

[quote user="Jezzard"]And did the rest of the Championship? Otherwise I cannot see the logic. With a final year of parachute payments, a strong squad which at times (and too inconsistently) last season had been about the best team in the league, and a serviceable manager that was beginning to get things together, we should have been aiming top 2. Instead....well we''re asked to give these guys time to get use to the Championship. Webber''s biggest achievement has been to convince many NCFC fans that this had to be a season of rebuilding, rather than out best chance in the coming years of promotion. I get we need to save money, -surely the transfer fees of Murphy, Brady, Olssen and Howson have overdone this - but surely we could have speculated on getting in some players who can play at this level (a few more like Hanley) and go for promotion. Because, if the objective is as it seems to just survive this season and just hope that we can pull off another 50/1 shot like Huddersfield Town, why bother keeping on Klose and Pritchard for another year''s big wages when they''ll surely leave next summer. Infuriating. Thrown away our final, really good, chance of promotion in the hope of being Huddersfield Town. Huddersfield''s promotion was a blue moon event; it doesn''t make it the rule rather than the exception that teams with better and better-paid players are more likely to get promoted.[/quote]Oh come on. We had spent almost two years floundering under Neil. His tactics were one-dimensional, his transfer signings were shocking, our recruitment team was useless, we offered big contracts to players with little to no resale value... it was a shambles. I applaud the board for trying something different and appointing someone with a vision of a clear footballing philosophy from the ground up, and trying to build something sustainable for the future. If people really want to throw that away after seven games and appoint a Neil Warnock clone, maybe the problem is with them and not with the board.

[lake district canary 4,530]

[quote user="Feedthewolf"]I applaud the board for trying something different and appointing someone with a vision of a clear footballing philosophy from the ground up, and trying to build something sustainable for the future. If people really want to throw that away after seven games and appoint a Neil Warnock clone, maybe the problem is with them and not with the board.[/quote]

Totally this ^^^.

[Icecream Snow 761]

[quote user="TIL 1010"]Is this the longest thread title ever posted ? [:P][/quote]Don''t tempt Waveney [:P]

[Bill 1,788]

I suspect te club took a long view and the decision was made to take a step or two back and regroup so to speak.What ever the whines on here our budget if we stay in the Championship does not afford PL wages - which a number of players were on. The recruitment on firts team players was not performing, with numerous players such as VOO, RVW ......... costing, but not delivering. Yes we could have thrown everything at getting back up to the PL this season but failure to do that most likely would have broke the club, As it is we are still stable, still able to develop players and all is before us, Maybe some of us have seen this all before and are fully aware that the club has it''s ups and downs, hence we are not howling to the moon as if the world is about to end.A look at where Farke is coming from can be found herehttps://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/13/borussia-dortmund-young-talents-ousmane-dembele-tottenham-champions-leagueWhich rather begs the question of why would they have him if he was supposedly so bad ? And does suggest what is happening at City.