January Window - Deadline Day Match Day Thread (Combined)

Yes, I think I’d be happy with 8th as well. A true indication, probably, about where we are currently. But it’s more interesting to look at the points total and that shows we’d be 15 points behind 6th place, a huge, huge gap. Whereas atm we’re only 9points off with a game or two in hand. So I’m not convinced that computer table tells a true picture.
I guess in the end we just need to get as many wins as possible and put pressure on those above us. Winning some of those games against those better teams will be important, Barnsley, Blackpool etc.

As to this window, or actually until the end of the season, I think the best hope is that MT with the owners can put in place some kind of recruitment/scouting team/even DOF (though that would be unlikely) so that we’re in a better position to get players in during the summer. Can’t remember exactly but iirc we’ve got several players out of contract in the summer so we need to be ready.

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Why's it unlikely we'll have a DoF or HoR when we've always had one in recent years? If we don't employ one is MT up to dealing with recruitment on his own, rather than with the assistance of a DoF/HoR? As MT certainly had one at Exeter and I assume one at Rotherham.

You say it as if DoF and HoR are the same, I’m not sure they are. Certainly iirc Tommy W did both from November 2020 when Tis was appointed. The DoF will oversee transfers and football operations but a HoR would concentrate on recruitment and transfers. Overlap perhaps but not the same. Did MT have one at Exeter? I’m sure he may have done at Rotherham. But don’t know.

I said ‘unlikely’ to a DoF because that would make sense to appoint one before you start recruiting but as we're in the window now getting transfers in now is the priority and the infrastructure stuff will likely come later. That’s why I said unlikely atm.

Have we ‘always had one in recent years’? And I mean a proper one not just one of the managers mates. I though Tommy W was the last one.

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Tariqe Fosu seems to have performed quite well last season for Matt Taylor (see numbers below) and is still a free agent, I wonder if he could be tempted here? On his day has Championship quality (see Brentford below) and was class in League One previously for Oxford.