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41  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: January 2024 Transfer Window on: February 16, 2024, 11:43:02 am
Dwight gayle anyone?
42  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever? on: February 15, 2024, 15:17:00 pm
Funny how some people come over completely different on TV.
Also true of message boards
43  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: January 2024 Transfer Window on: February 12, 2024, 16:53:20 pm
Isn’t it a nice sunny day today… let’s hope it gets even better 🤫
It was sunny earlier on which was lovely but then the wind picked up and it got cold quite quickly
44  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Bolton Wanderers (h) on: February 10, 2024, 16:19:38 pm
Another point on the total
45  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Bolton Wanderers (h) on: February 09, 2024, 18:44:10 pm
2-1
46  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: February 09, 2024, 16:04:23 pm
I ALWAYS TYPE WITH MY KNOB WHEN I POST ON THIS SITE, JUST MAKES ME FEEL SUPERIOR....

THEY TELL ME YOU GUYS HAVE GOT 4 FINGERS AND 1 THUMB, SHAME YOU'TR NOT LIKE US WHO ARE 5 FINGERS AND A THUMB
You’ve a lot of knobs to choose from in Peterborough
47  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Players Under & Out of Contract on: February 09, 2024, 15:57:21 pm
I can’t believe anyone would keep Patrick Brough he’s absolutely terrible at defending.
That’s a bad attribute for someone whose main priority is to defend.
48  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: February 09, 2024, 09:30:03 am
So we are now having a "review" because it seems it was a mistake to put them on general sale. But this must be down to more than one person, the ticket office decide to sell them, pass that on to the media to put it out, but no one thought "this is not the way we usually do it" Huh?Huh?Huh???
  It's not the first time we've sold tickets, the game is not next week, so surely someone MUST have had doubts about no priority for STH's ?
Maybe they can void them all and put them on resale to ST holders first as usual
49  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: February 08, 2024, 17:12:27 pm
Always likely to sell out
I imagine I follow will be very busy that day for those who’ve failed to get tickets.
50  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever? on: February 07, 2024, 08:19:35 am
That's fair enough. We move kick off times anyway, I'm sure we'd get our own schedule and any teams in the Prem no longer have the 3pm Saturday routine.
I just don't see anything on the horizon that is going to transform Sixfields into a money maker without significant investment. With the lack of foreseeable investment I'd personally move somewhere fit for purpose. After all, it has taken over 10 years to get one stand finished to a standard that isn't much better than when it was first built.
As alluded, the Saints are one of the top teams in the country and probably wouldn't want to entertain us anyway.

The way football goes we must be due our turn with someone with a bigger chequebook.
 
I have no idea regards our current owners wealth , he may be wealthier than anyone knows.
51  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Jon Brady, the future on: February 05, 2024, 14:20:14 pm
You make some valid points/criticisms but provide no solutions other than owners simply putting in more money and therefore more debt.  What happens next year when we have the same issue?

If you look back at the history of this club these owners and manager are facing the exact same challenges every other owner and manager this football club has ever had.
I take all your points on board but I also think it’s fair to say that the club has never had such backing crowd wise in many many years.
If we can’t find a new owner or David is prepared to accept investment partners if he can’t fund a stable league one club himself at this time when we are getting nearly 100% ticket sales income on a regular basis then it hurts me to say it but there is no future for the football club other than league two football with the inevitable smaller crowds and smaller incomes.
In a nutshell something HAS to change because we all know what will happen if it doesn’t because we’ve all seen it before….
52  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Jon Brady, the future on: February 05, 2024, 13:45:56 pm
Goode money and free Chelsea money = Danny Hylton.
It’s why I rarely get excited by cash injections.
Of course it does  Grin
Goode money plus Chelsea money = no cash bids in the region of 200k which is what Exeter have been doing, the same Exeter our own club chairman/spokesman Kelvin thomas quoted earlier this season as a club we are about the same budget as.

That is comparing apples with apples
One club puts in large bids for players and one club doesn’t put in large bids for players.

You can polish turds as much as you like but the above is fact and not conjecture.

Therefore one would assume Jon Brady is at the end of his tether signing a load of cheap signings and loans  (in fact he was due to have to sign yet another loan making six when you can only play five rather than being able to BUY a couple of players he had targeted)

It would be easy for him to see very little future of progression at the cobblers given this strategy and he is clearly venting his frustration.

Now I’d imagine (and at this point it is my own opinion rather than fact) that Jon realised that next season will need a big rebuilding job in arguably a more competitive division with big spenders likely coming up and down and he has realised the club will not be able to give him the tools to achieve this (ie) adequate financial backing given that he couldn’t bring his targets in during the Jan window.

Make no mistake we will need to BUY
2 strikers to replace Simpson and Bowie
A new first choice goalie
A replacement for Marc Leonard
A replacement for Sam sherring
A couple of wide players.

That’s at least seven first team players but in reality we will probably need three more squad players on top of this.
Given we can only get in five loans I’d imagine Jon would see the chances of the club buying five players in the summer when they can’t buy him one in Jan as very very unlikely and hence the club will do its usual trick of going back down in the second season as it isn’t prepared to spend to the required standard to ensure league one survival,

It keeps happening , the fans and more importantly Jon have seen it before and I’m sure he will be gone because of this before the start of next season.

David bower has failed to keep us as a stable league one club before and nothing makes me confident that he has learnt from those mistakes (at least he’s never come out and acknowledged things will be different this time as far as I’m aware).

That’s how I feel in a nutshell and I really hope David sees fit to back the club to help it on the field , mind you I like many others probably thought the same as the Jan window ticked down and it’s now clear Jon didn’t get the backing he was hoping for so maybe I’m just living in hope rather than expectation.

I think Jon now knows his stock is high and he will consider other jobs if he is backed financially better than he is here.

As always time will tell
53  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Jon Brady, the future on: February 05, 2024, 12:12:19 pm
Exeter's money probably came from selling last seasons leading scorer Sam Nombe to Rotherham for a club record fee.
Where as when we sold Goode…..
54  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Jon Brady, the future on: February 05, 2024, 11:29:45 am
Do you know what the budget is comparatively? I'd love to know where we stack up. Perhaps a thread dedicated to that would work.

In terms of competing. I would say that the vast majority of the time JB has given a good account of himself. In fact, possibly excelled. So I was surprised that he said what he said, considering I don't think he could do a lot wrong against a side with the obvious resources available to Pompey. The problem is. All of us can only read between the lines. I heard a quite credible story the other day, that might explain his demeanour more. Completely unrelated to budget. But who knows.
I remember once that Kelvin once mentioned that we had a comparative budget to Exeter….
It’s worth noting this season Exeter were reported to have put in bids of £200,000 for a couple of striker targets…
Does anyone on here think we will be doing that anytime soon?
55  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Jon Brady, the future on: February 04, 2024, 09:37:38 am
FFS, that could be applied to EVERY manager in the football league.
I think it’s fair to say Jon would be tempted by a different club where he was free to pursue more of his targets.
56  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Jon Brady, the future on: February 04, 2024, 09:15:12 am
+1

I think he does have to take some of the blame. Some of the players he has brought are simply not good enough e.g. Monthe, hondermark, etc, aren't good enough. I was there yesterday, and the players have to take a lot of the blame for that too, as it was atrocious.
That’s down to budget surely
If we had an owner with more financial clout than David then we could probably get in more of Jon’s first choice targets.
57  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Jon Brady, the future on: February 03, 2024, 18:23:30 pm
I’ve just listened to it. And that’s a genuinely concerning interview.
Shades of the wilder east stand interview
58  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Portsmouth (a) on: February 03, 2024, 15:40:20 pm
They could beat us with 9 men.
As KT pointed out we cannot match the top teams in this division.
David has taken the club as far as he can.
59  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: January 2024 Transfer Window on: February 02, 2024, 07:38:23 am
It looks like we’ve decided to go with what we haven’t got…..
60  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: January 2024 Transfer Window on: February 01, 2024, 13:12:48 pm
Not asking too much is it
Not forgetting the extra revenue from gate receipts with increased  attendances, maybe show some appreciation and invest. not asking for millions.
I think KT and DB will prove the doubters wrong.
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