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I can fully understand the downgrading in terms of wages. Having Rasiak, Saga and John all of which are way out of our price range, on our books at the same time is quite frankly ludicrous. But there seems to have been very little thought into the balance of the squad. The only excuse for this can be the extremely rapid fall in attendances. However, bringing in Pekhart (when we had Patterson who looks a better player IMO) and then realising he was **** so having to sign Robertson (also extremely average) just has me wondering if anyone is actually thinking what the are doing.

The quality of signings has been low, but in addition we have also signed players that are very similar to what we have already. Holmes is the exact same player as Skacel. Slow wingers. Skacel less inury prone. Pekhard - Patterson. Tall striker to lead the line. Patterson at least puts himself about. Dyer - Smith. Lightweight wingers that flatter to decieve. Dyer at least has pace. Forecast - Bart. No one really knows if either are any good. Gasmi - Lallana. Luxury players perhaps. Lallana looks a different level. we even replaced former expensive **** with other less expensive ****: Powell - Wotton Saga - Robertson Woeful transfer period if you ask me. If your budget is tiny then your scouting needs to be **** hot. Ours sucks.

Why stop there? Lowe could have auctioned off the position getting people to pay Saints to be the manager.

off to Brighton according to many on here a couple of weeks ago. Is that still the same?

I'm amazed there wasn't at least one out of contract Dutch player we could have picked up based on a recommendation from JP.

£1k a week bottler or £2k a week thief. The agony of choice.

so what, this new loan still allows Chelsea to play Cork in the first team towards the end of the season if they want. Besides Cork is not a CB IMO.

fair point, perhaps they should have cut their losses, but if he had rejoined Burnley for example and was tearing up the place we would have people on here moaning non stop. At present loaning him out is covering his wages, but with every new club the likelyhood that we get a fee reduces.

in terms of numbers then we have BWP. Jesus what a poor squad we have to work with, JP has no chance.

we only needed to match his previous contract to ensure we got a tribunal fee. Therefore if we didn't want him we have done just that. I would imagine his first pro contract was not massive.

thank god. I just wonder if Cork has signed for Watford because it allows Chelsea to recall him at some point towards the end of the season. As Cork had already been loaned to us before, any new loan agreement with us would have to be till the end of the season with no recall.

I am very surprised (and concerned) about this `move'. Cork must have been settled here, he was guarenteed first team football and we were playing a passing 4-3-3??? game. The only reason I could see for a move to Watford was the link wit the manager but for 5 months it hardly seems worth it - unless of course Watford intend to buy him in the summer (which we obviously can't afford to do). I hope we are not relying on Wotton to cover CB.

has Holmes actually done anything yet? If he is the benchmark then god help us.

only one game this season, has he been injured or is wiki out of date?

I think it was a very good move. I can't stand Skacel at left back, he swicthes off and looks like he doesn't give a **** half the time. I like Mills but he is reckless. I hope Molyneux is quality.

why have Coventry not bought him? He's been there on loan several times, surely if he was good enough they would snap him up?

Smith is the same player he has always been. A few flashy tricks, a lack of genuine pace and no real desire to get stuck in when called for. He is lightweight, far too easily bullied off the ball and one kick and he's out of the game. The one thing I like is when he gets to the byeline, if he does that 6 or 7 times a game then that can only help us. Best of luck to the lad. 6 month deal on peanuts is smart.

Skacel and Mills.

neither do I but try Danny Livesey from Carlise for size. Pele from WBA might also be an option.

I doubt there is a sell on clause, at the time Chelsea were paying in hard cash so we probably took that option rather money down the line, also little point in putting in a sell on clause when the player has already got the big money move, any moe from Chelsea is going to be downwards, oh...

the don't want him so they are going to do a deal on his wages. After his poor showings for Fulham I doubt any other club rate him as high as we do.

Perry got one earlier in the season against Brum. Lancashire has a bright future IMO, but at this point he is not strong enough, we need height and a ball winner.

Skacel must be off, no other reason for signing another left back. Amazed Smith has got a deal, he is lightweight.

any suggestions alpine? How about buying Tamika Mkandawire from Leyton Orient, loaning Pele back for WBA or Baird back from Fulham.

Baird and Perry with Skacel and James at fullback, that has to be smallest back four in the history of CCC football. We need to get some height in. 6'3" Danny Livesey from Carlise would be a decent target.