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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: January 2024 Transfer Window
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on: December 30, 2023, 08:20:01 am
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I think that leaves out important context though. Out of your table Bowen is obviously the greatest manager in our history, which is fair company. Other than Wilson who is about to drop like a stone, the other comparable names on that list are arguably two of three of our best managers out of the 34 managers since Bowen. How many of those had such a financially gulf between the top and the bottom of League one at the time? How many led into their league one first year campaigns after two successive seasons in League 1 with points totals that would have given you promotion most years?
When you design a table that excludes the majority of our managers because they never did well enough to leave league two to begin with, and are only really left with comparisions with the top 10% of Northampton managers in the last 60 years, the records looks fair less run of the mill.
I think up until the now, the lack of league experience would have put other teams sniffing around Brady with too much determination, but if we end up top half coming into January then I think we're entering the first period were we will really come under some pressure to keep him if other managers get the January heave ho.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Oxalona@ home
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on: December 23, 2023, 17:20:26 pm
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Will Tim O stop going on about the playoffs. Walk before you run mate.
Caught my favourite little Tim quote for a while in the post match interviews, "You could call this a truism, but it's something that tends to be true"... We're on negative GD, lost more than we've won, and even the players are playing it down as impossible. Good form or not, the top 10 will have two to three times our budget, Brady has got us comfortably hitting above our weight, and long may it continue.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Rise of Sam Hoskins
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on: December 23, 2023, 12:58:52 pm
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Well, there is zero chance of us spending £800k unless we're selling Hoskins for £2m, and even then I think it'd be better just using that money to get better quality free agents and spread it out on 3 or 4 options.
A League One club with the ability to spend almost 6 figures that isn't going for promotion narrows it down a lot. Reading and Wigan might be obvious shouts, maybe Carlisle if they takeover leaves them with a lot of money.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Oxalona@ home
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on: December 23, 2023, 12:55:29 pm
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I know I'm an outlier, but I really only care about Peterborough. Everybody else is pretty much the same, in as far that I'm sad when we don't beat them, but I don't really care that much.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Oxalona@ home
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on: December 19, 2023, 09:46:50 am
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The appleton hangover reminds me of a time a Torquay fan got VERY annoyed because a fan on here suggested we should be beating teams like torquay, and used to rant around 'San Sixfields' everytime our name came up.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: January 2024 Transfer Window
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on: December 12, 2023, 07:59:54 am
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100% in hindsight Goode didn't make the grade, but to Brentford that outlay was worth close to nothing, so worth taking a punt on him. Goode was younger than Hoskins, but you pay a premium for goalscorers in the market.
I personally think £750k for Hoskins would be absolutely garbage deal for us, but I'm pretty confident the club wouldn't be tempted for under a million. If you get near £1.5 - £2m and you're getting close to two thirds of the yearly budget for one player who could be one bad tackle away from being worth nothing to us, you'd probably take it, but because his age we're unlikely to get that amount of interest for him and therefore he's 75% chance likely to stay in my opinion.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: January 2024 Transfer Window
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on: December 11, 2023, 11:53:45 am
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Tim was also talking about how the club should probably seriously consider offers of over and above £750k for Hoskins. Peterborough wanted £5m for JCH last window, and he's currently sitting in the table with 7 goals. Even with the extra years JCH has comparatively, I think we should probably at least be looking at breaking our transfer record by a fair bit for the first NTFC player to score 20 in the league since before I was born in the late 80s. He does have some wild opinions at time. I have nothing much to add other than we know what we want, and hopefully we wait for the right person up front not just any available person, as that has mostly worked out for us so far.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Rise of Sam Hoskins
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on: December 02, 2023, 12:51:16 pm
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Bookies obviously don't rate him to keep it up, 25/1 to be top scorer, while Rhodes and Bishop are even with him on at 11 goals are only 6/1 and Charles who is also even on goals scores is 7/1. Might be worth a go if anyone is feeling brave.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Jon Brady
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on: November 29, 2023, 11:39:06 am
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Mark Bonner get's sacked by Cambridge. You wonder if we'd lost that game and the Burton one before it whether that would have been Brady's fate.
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The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: MK Dons away Bristol Street Motors Trophy 21/11/23
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on: November 22, 2023, 08:21:16 am
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I think maybe a bit telling that almost all the chances we had last night came from either Wyatt's corner or him winning a soft penalty, and he's about a couple of seasons from being first team regularly and knowing out luck probably injured for 6 months now - obviously with Hoskins, Pinnock, Bowie, Leonard, Appere and even Sowerby (maybe even McGowan after last game) there's a lot more creative outlets to come back for Saturday, but we didn't not create a lot at all, which the wing-backs, midfield and strike force all have to share a bit of blame for.
Likewise, soft defending. Dyche needs to get a good long run of game's somewhere playing comptetive mans football, as he's not ready yet, Odimayo looks a bid dodgy in centre back, and whether that is partly to do with lack of fitness, but Lintott and Koiki didn't offer a lot defensively or going forward.
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