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« Reply #860 on: January 31, 2023, 16:57:34 pm »

Hard to believe they support the same team, oh hold on one of um supports Rangers  Cheesy Grin

I agree that supporting another club on here can invite some prejudicial comments but there is no need to resort to bullying. Or did you mean QPR?
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« Reply #861 on: January 31, 2023, 16:59:32 pm »

You do know you are legally liable for anything you write on a public forum, calling me a racist is pushing it, I don’t mind a bit of banter but that’s going too far.

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« Reply #862 on: January 31, 2023, 17:01:08 pm »

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The irony of that comment
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« Reply #863 on: January 31, 2023, 17:04:22 pm »


i’m far from miserable about the situation , just realistic because we are not reaching our potential .

We are a club with a middle of league 2 support. There are a few smaller teams above us and as many if not more bigger clubs below us. Potential is very subjective and every team wants to overachieve but are we really punching below our weight?.
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« Reply #864 on: January 31, 2023, 17:08:18 pm »

For my part, i am not disappointed or elated at this signing .
I am pointing out that we are not in the market for established strikers like those touted in every window.
We can only take on young players that need developing - and then hand them back or let them progress after the work has been done - unless we sign them ourselves of course which we have also done .
i’m far from miserable about the situation , just realistic because we are not reaching our potential .

Agreed....for me this signing is a carbon copy of the Chanka Zimba signing in the January window last season. Something different to what we have and provides a backup option where necessary.
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« Reply #865 on: January 31, 2023, 17:10:05 pm »

The irony of that comment

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« Reply #866 on: January 31, 2023, 17:17:28 pm »

We are a club with a middle of league 2 support. There are a few smaller teams above us and as many if not more bigger clubs below us. Potential is very subjective and every team wants to overachieve but are we really punching below our weight?.


We have a dramatic history of over achieving but as a large Town (near 300k) we do have potential to do better. Do I trace some negativity in your response?
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« Reply #867 on: January 31, 2023, 17:21:16 pm »

KTs definition of spending money is a joke.

He could sign Harry Kane and you would still find a way of putting the owners down.
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« Reply #868 on: January 31, 2023, 17:25:50 pm »

I’m not quite sure what some people are expecting. We have the league’s top scorer and a big squad. It’s not as though we are vying for a Champions League spot. The only incentive being the continued financial pressures of League 1 football. No business operates a model where you might have a workforce of 25, 10 go off sick so you employ another 10.
Established players (like Hylton) command fees, big wages and never guaranteed to improve what we have. You don’t get a ‘Hylton’ until you offload the current one. Many teams don’t ever get a ‘Hylton’…..(insert joke here)
Current high flyers at our level are hardly going to sell, or sign here if someone like Wrexham have their cheque book open.
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« Reply #869 on: January 31, 2023, 17:26:19 pm »

Anyway, Yengi.

We needed a target man, we've signed a target man. Hope he stays fit and can contribute.
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« Reply #870 on: January 31, 2023, 17:30:55 pm »

He could sign Harry Kane and you would still find a way of putting the owners down.

Yes, but there us a massive financial difference between this lad and a Stevens ir Marriott for example.
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« Reply #871 on: January 31, 2023, 17:32:11 pm »

For my part, i am not disappointed or elated at this signing .
I am pointing out that we are not in the market for established strikers like those touted in every window.
We can only take on young players that need developing - and then hand them back or let them progress after the work has been done - unless we sign them ourselves of course which we have also done .
i’m far from miserable about the situation , just realistic because we are not reaching our potential .


Was hylton not an established striker, your theory adds up till we signed him
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« Reply #872 on: January 31, 2023, 17:39:23 pm »

We have a dramatic history of over achieving but as a large Town (near 300k) we do have potential to do better. Do I trace some negativity in your response?
Not negatively just realism. I have heard this large town/catchment area argument before but for whatever reason or reasons this never seems to materialise into higher attendances. There’s often been successful and or good football on the pitch but it never attracts the increased support that other clubs even in our division get. I would love us to massively overachieve and make the championship but even then I don’t see us getting the increased support to maintain it.
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« Reply #873 on: January 31, 2023, 17:41:09 pm »


Was hylton not an established striker, your theory adds up till we signed him

exactly and proves my point we won’t be signing injury prone players at the end of their careers that can’t run on good wages ever again !

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« Reply #874 on: January 31, 2023, 17:47:36 pm »

Still waiting on the last one…
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« Reply #875 on: January 31, 2023, 17:48:39 pm »

Still waiting on the last one…

Another striker?

You think we'll get it over the line?
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« Reply #876 on: January 31, 2023, 17:49:07 pm »

Still waiting on the last one…

Defender or striker?
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« Reply #877 on: January 31, 2023, 17:54:01 pm »

Yep and the mood music I’m getting is 60% 1 signing 30% 2 10% 3…

You said we're waiting on the last one. Does that mean we've been unsuccessful on one?
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« Reply #878 on: January 31, 2023, 17:55:26 pm »

Not negatively just realism. I have heard this large town/catchment area argument before but for whatever reason or reasons this never seems to materialise into higher attendances. There’s often been successful and or good football on the pitch but it never attracts the increased support that other clubs even in our division get. I would love us to massively overachieve and make the championship but even then I don’t see us getting the increased support to maintain it.

Given the Football standard too watch we have in the past attracted crowds regularly in excess of 20000. In a League Two fixture in the last century!! we attracted a crowd of 18000.  Perhaps another way of judging support is that our current away support holds up pretty well. Of course our halcyon days were long ago but under the current Management Set Up it is possible those days can/may return! Where there is a will to succeed, we will succeed.
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« Reply #879 on: January 31, 2023, 18:17:10 pm »

Not negatively just realism. I have heard this large town/catchment area argument before but for whatever reason or reasons this never seems to materialise into higher attendances. There’s often been successful and or good football on the pitch but it never attracts the increased support that other clubs even in our division get. I would love us to massively overachieve and make the championship but even then I don’t see us getting the increased support to maintain it.

When we've had success or played a "top" team, we've regularly attracted higher attendances, but only as many as the ground will
hold, ie, capacity. In the old first and second, on the way up and third south, we had several near capacity crowds. When we had success later, in the seventies and eighties, we had several 10000+ crowds, remember Villa in the cup, 14000+ I think and you couldn't have squeezed any more in. Since we've moved to six seats, we've had several capacity crowds and would have had far more had the ground allowed. As the population of the town has grown the capacity of NTFC has shrunk. A period of sustained succes in a bigger ground would see an increase in support. But we never seem to be able to capitalise on any success we have, as we've seen for the last 60 years.
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