hypochondriac

I'm not sure you know what it means.

I'm just crossing my fingers that we have no cb injuries. Anything goes wrong with bednarek or Stephens and it's Lyanco at the back or Charles and then no one to play in midfield. The sooner Lyanco goes and we replace him the better.

He very clearly does have knowledge. There's a few things he was first to. Manning being at the training ground for one.

It's winning against Norwich I'm concerned about at the moment.

None of those players play in the same positions as Lavia and JWP.

Odd that we would let jwp and Lavia leave and then have to play a game with no replacements. Weakens us significantly.

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.