January 2023 Transfer Window

[Ragdoll Cobbler]

I think the situation in a nutshell is as follows :
No money available to bring in good quality players that are not kids .
JB doesn’t want to bring in make weights and be left with them just to cover injuries .
Injuries in defence so severe it is likely to cost us results .
The ambition of the board doesn’t match the ambition of the management team .
We are likely to stay as we are , muddle through and hope players come back sooner . In the meantime we lose momentum and slip back rather than surge forward .

Why then, would the whole management team agree new contracts, if they knew there was no money to improve the squad?

[Manwork04]

Why then, would the whole management team agree new contracts, if they knew there was no money to improve the squad?

Errrrr because they want a salary?
I’m fcuking baffled by the KT love in !

[guest2995]

Genuine question Boots, would you rather use the budget to offer a longer contract to a player who is of proven value to both the squad and your plans. Alternatively would you rather pay significantly for a player with a proven track record like say Marquis or Hylton? Of course the third option is to increase your loses from a million per annum to about 2 million and do both? If you were worth say 30 million what would you do?

The options you put forward are not the only options.
In these circumstances i would back the manager in the promotion push and support him with the money to bring in a quality defender that could also see us through into the future.
In the meantime , send out a few on loan or potentially offload . - Dyche and Haynes .
With promotion so close i would extend the budget slightly .
on a separate note , i would do far more to encourage new investment into the club . This doesn’t seem to happen whatsoever and you have to question why .
Are the board happy to bumble along at the top end of Division 2 without over stretching to division 1 and then see what the land deal brings ?
A rhetorical question .

[everbrite]

Is this just your opinion or are you privy to information that the rest of us aren't? And are you related to mysterious curle?

This privy information B & S appears to be entitled too, has been raised by several posters and are normaly dealt with utter contempt. I share your question though! As for comparison with MC - heaven forbid. Could be tho' and very interesting observation.

[Risdene]

Errrrr because they want a salary?
I’m fcuking baffled by the KT love in !

I love KT (there I've said it now!)

I love DB's money more!

I will love both more if after a favourable Judicial Review they complete the East Stand, develop the 17 acres, and put our NTFC in a better position!!!!

[Deepcut Cobbler]

I think the situation in a nutshell is as follows :
No money available to bring in good quality players that are not kids .
JB doesn’t want to bring in make weights and be left with them just to cover injuries .
Injuries in defence so severe it is likely to cost us results .
The ambition of the board doesn’t match the ambition of the management team .
We are likely to stay as we are , muddle through and hope players come back sooner . In the meantime we lose momentum and slip back rather than surge forward .

Your 'thoughts' are a source of information and detail that appear to be from very close to the management team?
I would advise you to be careful about being the mouthpiece for the management team, complaining about the Board on a fans forum, it could put the managerial team in a difficult position if you are enabling their 'leaks' in order to gain fan backing.
I would argue that the managerial team should be well able to fight their own funding and support battles, especially as they have only recently signed new contracts in such a public show of harmony.

[CobblerForever]

The team sheet for the next match will be interesting. Danny Hylton as a Centre Half? - he knows how to stop scoring.

[CobblerForever]

Worth a read;

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport/football/jon-brady-explains-in-detail-why-cobblers-are-happy-to-keep-their-transfer-business-to-a-minimum-in-january-4000842

[guest3063]

I think the situation in a nutshell is as follows :
No money available to bring in good quality players that are not kids .
JB doesn’t want to bring in make weights and be left with them just to cover injuries .
Injuries in defence so severe it is likely to cost us results .
The ambition of the board doesn’t match the ambition of the management team .
We are likely to stay as we are , muddle through and hope players come back sooner . In the meantime we lose momentum and slip back rather than surge forward .

I don't know where you get your information from, it may be correct, there again it may be incorrect. JB certainly suggests that your information is incorrect in the latest interview in the Chron.

[Clarity]

Why then, would the whole management team agree new contracts, if they knew there was no money to improve the squad?

Agreed!

[Bingers]

Couldn’t agree more with this. It has to be the right player, it has to be the right price, they have to have the right character and not a disrupter. Combine getting those things right with lots of money being splashed by our league and even the league below it’s not surprising we may have missed out on targets or the right players aren’t available. The people begging for a signing would also be the first people to send moaning posts on here when we waste money on the wrong person. Having been worried about our future a few seasons back I’ll take having a decent squad that starts to regularly challenge and hopefully achieves promotion than have a chairman or club that spends what they don’t have and we have that worry again of getting into trouble! Personally think everyone had done enough to earn our trust they are doing the best for the club.

Wise words.

[Mysterious Curle]

As for comparison with MC - heaven forbid. Could be tho' and very interesting observation.

The plot thickens.

B&S somehow manages to make me look upbeat.

[guest3566]

I get the feeling that either the excuses are being drip fed out slowly before the transfer deadline,
or they have a" super smashing great" signing under their hat to surprise us all.

[Melbourne Cobbler]

The options you put forward are not the only options.
In these circumstances i would back the manager in the promotion push and support him with the money to bring in a quality defender that could also see us through into the future.
In the meantime , send out a few on loan or potentially offload . - Dyche and Haynes .
With promotion so close i would extend the budget slightly .
on a separate note , i would do far more to encourage new investment into the club . This doesn’t seem to happen whatsoever and you have to question why .
Are the board happy to bumble along at the top end of Division 2 without over stretching to division 1 and then see what the land deal brings ?
A rhetorical question .

So in essence both then. Incidentally when you say you would do far more to encourage investment into the club what exactly would that entail?

[Arminder Shwami]

This privy information B & S appears to be entitled too, has been raised by several posters and are normaly dealt with utter contempt. I share your question though! As for comparison with MC - heaven forbid. Could be tho' and very interesting observation.

We know from previous cross-examination of BS that:

a) their source was lost when Dean Austin was sacked;
b) they have no connection to anyone whatsoever at NTFC; and
c) their only interaction with Mr Brady was when he coached their kids and all postings are based on their interpretative powers arising from that experience.

I may be paraphrasing slightly.

[guest3548]

The plot thickens.

B&S somehow manages to make me look upbeat.

Almost 

[Madrid Cobbler]

Worth a read;

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport/football/jon-brady-explains-in-detail-why-cobblers-are-happy-to-keep-their-transfer-business-to-a-minimum-in-january-4000842

It's a good article and I agree with JB's overall policy. It really does say something that a good number of our best players are already signed up to the end of next season, which almost certainly means we will be better placed to compete in League 1 than last time, assuming, of course, that we go up.

And there's the rub. These players have probably signed up with L1 in mind. I'm still hoping we'll get another defencder and striker in to make sure we've got enough cover to keep us in the autos. Although the coaching staff are clearly excellent motivators, after what happened at the end of last season, I'm not sure it will be easy to keep this set of players up for it if we lose out again and we're still in L2 next season.

[guest2995]

Some absolutely hilarious accusations and assumptions made against me here …
Wildly off the mark in just about every respect .
I will let you people get on with it and keep quiet
Funny - i thought it was a football message board .

[Manwork04]

Some absolutely hilarious accusations and assumptions made against me here …
Wildly off the mark in just about every respect .
I will let you people get on with it and keep quiet
Funny - i thought it was a football message board .

It is until you say anything against KT, then you become the vanquished.

[random1]

SHOCK & HORROR POST INCOMING

I think that KT and everyone involved have done brilliant work in signing up our main players on "long term" deals

I said long time ago there is a reason Prem clubs do it and lower league clubs should do the same.

It give the players security, the playing staff something to work on / with and gives the fans something / someone to believe in and get behind at their players.

So thank you and well done KT, JB and all 

The next step / question is the quality of the next sets of players  - in theory you want to add players better than your base - if some of those coming are better then we have some hope of surviving in L1, if not then IMHO its a missed opportunity.

As we all know, the game is won by strikers but they cost a lot of money and so are the biggest gamble - despite being top goal scorers, that is where we struggle -

Personally I would like to see us invest a small amount in a young goalscorer from either lower league or failed Prem youngster - small risk for big reward, hopefully that is what they are all working on as I type.