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A "good week's training" at SFC is probably the equivalent of playing 5 games. Plus we get far more injuries in training.

looks like Prince Harry

I expect the club expected to be able to move them on more easily. Trouble is we are said to be right bastards on loan deals, Dickson expressed himself on this last summer. He ain't going to play and we ain't going to let him walk free or subsidise his pay at Brentford or Yeovil wherever it was. Thus he's resigned to watching the game from the stands for a season and going through the motions in training, no doubt with the development group. Don't think he even plays in their matches either. NB it was Crawley Town, he could have gone there but as he would have had to take a pay-cut he wanted Saints to pay up some of the last year of his contract. Apparently Saints refused and now he's in limbo.

putting in a good shift won't be enough. We'll more than likely go into the game bottom of the table and failure to get points will see us tailed off by at least 3 points. So NA has to look at his walking wounded and calculate if any of the injured players are capable of giving us a hand up even if they're only 80% fit. Half an hour from Ramirez is probably better than 90 minutes from JWP or Guly.

What like Seaborne you mean, did we "sack" him, did we flip. Otherwise highly likely but you can't sack them for being overpaid or useless, same as the civil service really. If we could sack Dickson I'm sure we'd have done that by now but as long as he keeps his nose clean and turns up for training where and when required there's nothing you can do about it. Under normal circumstance if you want to get rid of a player before the expiration of his contract and you can't sell him you just have to bite the bullet and pay him all he is owed under the terms of his contract.

sounds like a team a chairman might pick

that's handy then because he doesn't have one. He's a physiotherapist not a psychologist.

Yes that would be an excellent move and far less harmful to the club. In fact I think I'll give NC a call and suggest it to him

I think I could quite reasonably say that come what may none of the 3 players cited will be playing in the NPC next season. Whether any or all of them will still be with us on the 1st February isn't so easy.

the question then becomes would NA accept that as he has his own coaching team. Now to me he'd see that as his position being undermined unless he specifically asked for help in the defensive coaching.Crosby coaches the defence I think and it would be seen as an assertion thatr his work isn't good enough.

But that's assuming you have a real PL squad with a lot of players of a fair old ability who don't get much game time in the League. Our problem is that we have about 12/13 players of something approximating to PL standard and the rest would struggle in the NPC. So when you come up against a side like Leeds who have at least 17/18 players of Championship standard you're f*cked.

Outed ? with a name like Andy Beal that can't be difficult, he's probably on facebook and not the millionaire poker playing big loser.

Layers as in staff ? Now let me think who else have I heard that about recently...don't worry It'll come to me :rolleyes:

Ramirez was obviously prioritised both in time and money. Now weren't Bologna saying we couldn't provide sufficient guarantees for future payments or something like that? Strange that soon afterwards news of a loan taken out by SFC against future receipts leaked out. I'd guess Ramirez took virtually all we had and most of what we could borrow to the detriment of other deals. If we could just get him on to the pitch it would help.

Even ultrachanger Wenger put a couple of first teamers into his side, just to give the lads a bit of guidance. I'm sure we could have played 2 as well, I'd have put Maya in at least cos he needs all the English football he can get plus a chance to work with Jos in match conditions just in case and one of Steve Davis or Morgan as captain and to set the tempo.

Fortunately so because I personally don't think that that striker has been up to much these last few games. Transparent against Spurs, West Ham you can discount because he was probably in a miff when he eventually came on and 2 or 3 sitters missed against Fulham which would have eased our situation if any of them had been converted. Personally if anyone offered us 5 million for him I'd snap their hand off.

Mayuka is a second striker really. May well adapt to playing wide though.

I can pass on Boruc, just needed to make up our mind and get on with that in May or June but then I'd think he was looking for more money and a longer contract then. Think he'll come good, if only we had a defence. None of them would make most PL sides, including Clyne cos he's just too lightweight at the moment.

In fact what we didn't get is what we're missing most of all.

Chelsea at home would have been a good money spinner but as I'd guess we're not paying out too many bonuses just now it won't make much difference.

It's something I could well believe but then I'm pretty credulous. One thing that always puzzles me is Billy Sharp, think NA made a big pitch to get him here with the prospective of PL football and then he gets shipped out after just a couple of sub appearances in the PL; Sharp says (well if you believe the BBC anyway) that NA told him it was the best thing for him(going to Forest that is). Now I'm not at all sure that NA is the sort of bloke who would sell the club to a protegee in January and then dump him in August, seems he'd have a bit more faith than that.

For me the only 2 signings that you could bet your house on as being Adkins signings would be Forte and Sharp with Chaplow being a strong possibility. All the rest are down to the nebulous "transfer committee".

that's why we had to get a loan from the BVI then.

you can't sack players, you can wait until their contracts expire or you can sell them or loan them out. One of the unfortunate aspects of fixed term contracts I'm afraid.

think they're long gone anyway, financially speaking anyway. There's the equity of course but no doubt they've written that off already.