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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: July 04, 2016, 14:51:40 pm
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Much of what you say is quite feasible and also realistic. In this instance Man04 comments upon which you based your reply on does have some merit. At the moment we have lost just one major player in RH. IMO all those who have left the Club(incl loanee's) are replaceable. Holmes is not so easy to replace, but we have the blue print now so we should at least try to do so! Just as a reminder we played ok prior to Holmes comeback in December, but even so Man04 is correct Holmes should be replaced with "as good replacement" as possible. We need a decent goal scorer as a foil to Revell and perhaps a L1 or Championship midfielder to compliment JJOT. As for Robson-Kanu he was as Shoey pointed out without a club, but for his Euro exploits he may well have been a possible target. Now Premier Clubs are having a re-think! Lastly people are panicking that Oxford are now signing players but those signings are hardly going to concern too many L1 clubs; in fact their last signing illustrates that. We need to shore up the defence which we have done. So at the moment we are a player away from making a top replacement for Holmes plus another goal scorer. If we can resolve those two issues we have potentially a championship challenging side. Apart from Charlton there is not a lot to worry about in L1 and that includes SUFC.
Ah yes, plucky old Hal Robson-Kanu. Prior to the tournament (note the date of the article below) he was only being linked with minnows like Southampton, Swansea and Watford so I'm sure we would have been in with a very very good chance of signing him. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/watford-southampton-scrapping-out-wales-7877424
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: July 01, 2016, 11:50:51 am
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Caolan Lavery possible new striker
From another one of those totally pointless Twitter feeds. Credibility immediately lost by claiming he's on the verge of joining on a season loan (unlikely since he's out of contract).
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: June 22, 2016, 16:23:22 pm
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D'Ath to Portsmouth is on Twitter
As time goes on people are going to have to get much better at distinguishing between genuine rumours and the thousands of 'football insider' accounts which spring up on Twitter on a daily basis.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: June 21, 2016, 12:24:22 pm
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Having said that perhaps it implies that Adam smith is going nowhere which would be great news but only if we get him to sign a new contract
Yep. If Smith stays without signing a new contract that's arguably pretty poor news for us.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: June 20, 2016, 10:22:42 am
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Then again, if Diamond (for instance) suddenly picked up an injury in a match and it was a choice of Cressie coming on or a young lad without a lot of league experience signed to be cover for a full back, I'd be delighted that he was still here for us.
Not sure where all this dislike for Cresswell comes from. If we start next season with him as the 'worst' defender in our squad it just shows have far we've come over the past couple of years. That accolade would recently have gone to the likes of Matt Heath, Russ Perry and Paul Reid 2.0 in recent times.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: June 18, 2016, 07:33:22 am
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After Ricky leaving and Adams and seeing this again. Makes you winder if contracts 2 years, 3 years etc. are actually worth the paper that they ate written on.
In the case of Holmes his ongoing contract was the sole reason we received £xxx,xxx as opposed to £0 so I'd say in that instance it was worth considerably more than the paper it was written on.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Ricky Holmes hands in transfer request
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on: June 15, 2016, 10:39:55 am
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Without Ricky Holmes we are relegation candidates. It's not so much the playing value that must be taken into consideration it's the cost of his loss to us. I'd suggest £500,000 isn't much good for the long term future of the club if we are back in league two and all momentum is lost. It could set us back years. If we have any ambition we'd make him see his contract out and sod the cash. We need to consolidate in league one not sell our best players and come back down. I don't see Oxford or Bristol rovers selling their best players. Same old cobblers, A pound note flutters by and we feel compelled to sell. He is still our player and he should be made to see out his contract. Whatever cash is offered you are not going to replace Ricky Holmes. Man Utd couldn't replace Ronaldo Spurs couldn't replace bale We as sure as hell won't replace Holmes. If he goes we are right in the **** as far as I'm concerned.
Blimey. A few months ago the club was on the brink of not existing, on the back of incredible success since then some of our assets have become attractive/valuable. This is a (relatively) good problem to have.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Ricky Holmes hands in transfer request
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on: June 15, 2016, 10:01:38 am
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Strange he should ask to be allowed to leave without anyone actually making a bid. Unless of course someone has, has been refused and Holmes didn't like it.
Multiple bids already refused according to the club. Chron sort of implies the multiple offers have all come from the same club (at least that's my reading of the article).
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: JPT New Format
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on: June 11, 2016, 09:26:09 am
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Because they knew the answers that they would get and they wouldn't be positive. This is a money decision and will improve attendances at matches involving the PL teams...
Clearly a financial decision but don't think it has much to do with match attendance levels. Including the Prem sides has bumped up the prize fund by over £1m with the expectation that there'll be decent rewards for winning games, getting through the group stage etc (I.e clubs can potentially make good money from the tournament even if they're playing in near-empty stadiums).
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Paddy Kenny
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on: June 10, 2016, 15:06:32 pm
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I don't understand why you lot get so touchy..... Makes perfect sense. bring in a experienced goal keeper who can coach and also double up as a number 2 when we lose one of our keepers this summer.
He'll be number 3 whatever happens to Clarke/Smith. Both he and Page said this.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?
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on: June 06, 2016, 16:12:11 pm
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He had to leave Oxford to avoid the conflict of interest of being the Chairman of the FL alongside being a personal stakeholder in one of its constituent clubs. Don't think he'd be able to involve himself with us for the same reason.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: June 03, 2016, 12:00:34 pm
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All of this uncertainty is due to wilder and knill leaving, I think the players and their agents are using the transition and uncertainty to engineer moves
All of this uncertainty?! Is that one fringe-player leaving (who apparently wanted to leave while Wilder/Knill were still in charge) and another free agent who played less than 15 games for us taking a better/longer offer elsewhere?
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: June 03, 2016, 11:37:57 am
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This is what you get if you don't tie down your players to decent contracts.
Easy in hindsight to cherry-pick the players you believe we should have given 'decent' long-term contracts to.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Summer Transfer Targets
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on: June 03, 2016, 10:48:23 am
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Danny Rose is a huge loss. This ain't going too well so far is it? Phillips is an attacking right-back so I imagine that'd be the end for Moloney if we sign him. Surely we have room in our squad for 2 right-backs...?
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