hypochondriac

He isn't staying. I want the money as soon as possible.

Let's say we do sell everyone and pack it all in before the season starts, in a funny way it will be an easier and less stressful season. I definitely enjoyed the end of last season more than the bit in the middle because all hope had gone and I just watched it and laughed when we conceded another few comedy goals. If we really do just half arse it this season then at least I'll know what to expect by September.

Yeah it's obviously bollocks.

Rasmus is quite an odd bloke When clubs were fixed he wanted them broke We spaffed our money on shit like tall paul and Mo. They hired a Welsh clown And took us straight down Now Bournemouth and Brighton Have taken our crown

Exactly! People were told off last summer for expressing any concerns and that we'd get everything we needed by the end of the window. That ended terribly...

TBF he's something like 11 years younger than jwp

I don't want to see any of it. He's gone. His choice. See you later. We March on.

How coild we possibly make that judgement when we have no idea what the team will be in three weeks? You can't use preseason results and one cup game to judge how we will perform for the rest of the year. We might do terribly but it's foolish to make a judgement at this point.

More than enough? He's had one league game!

Not true really. They had absolutely no reason to state that promotion was the stated aim for this season in such categorical terms.

Pretty much. Also the selling of JWP and reported offers for Smallbone alongside the demoralising loss on Tuesday.

"The lost the argument." Hilarious!

An ITK post from Pilchards earlier in this thread and a different poster saying we were going to sell a lot more than he expected last night.

Absolutely. You'd think that would be one player we would be driving a harder bargain for over someone like Tino or Tella due to what he represents. Maybe we did have an agreement about him leaving following relegation.

You're right. Thinking about it further, there's no way that sports Republic are just giving up this year and looking to go up next year. That would be pointless and cost them loads of money. Let's see if I'm wrong but I don't think there's any chance we sell another 10+ of our best players.

Also they've publically stated they want promotion this year which they didn't have to say and which puts unnecessary pressure on themselves if we then go and sell the whole team. Why would we buy Shea Charles for 15 million and not a Plymouth player for say 1 million if promotion is not the aim? Why would we bring in an entire coaching team at presumably great expense?

We'd be entering new territory for a relegated club in that case. I don't think any club has lost their ten best players before in one window unless they went into administration or something like that.

I fail to see the positives if literally every decent player from last year leaves. It would essentially make this season a write off. I also don't get why the club would do that. Even if they all want to go, why would we allow every single one of them to leave with a couple of weeks left to source suitable replacements? I could see why quite a number of them would stay but all of them leaving seems unlikely to me because we simply wouldn't be able to adequately replace them in time.

I woild be surprised if we sold all of them so late in the window. Would be pretty unprecedented if it did happen I would have thought. All relegated teams manage to hold on to a few of their players for at least a season.

If we can get rid of Onuachu and sell Adams then we could get someone like Piroe as the marquee signing and Collins to bolster our ranks. I'd be happy with something like that.

OK. Are you talking all our better players? Because that would be pretty hard to take. Once Lavia and JWP go we only really have ABK Alcaraz Adams KWP Sulemana Tella Who are saleable and we would want to keep.

I don't think you need a source to know that! Preseason essentially pointless. Potential to lose Sulemana JWP Lavia KWP Tella Smallbone Adams McCarthy Lyanco Bree Onuachu ABK Perraud Mara

At least if we're all pissed off at our demise, we can indulge in a bit of schadenfreude to make us feel better. Please get him Chelsea.

Ronnie Edwards only 5 foot 11 whereas Santos is 6 foot 5. I really think we could do with some height at the back.

All I was saying was that if he didn't want to start Bednarek or Stephens (which he clearly didn't want to) then there were really very few options which made it very likely that he was going to pick some players out of position. Anyway, the poster who went to the game on an earlier page said it was mostly Bree and Lyanco that messed up for the goals so I expect playing anyone other than Lyanco especially would have resulted in an improved performance. Maybe that's what he meant by getting the team selection wrong.