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Post by percy on Apr 21, 2024 6:52:50 GMT
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Post by timsburygas on Apr 21, 2024 7:21:55 GMT
Seems a sensible approach, Will be good to have a development team.
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Post by daniel300380 on Apr 21, 2024 7:24:05 GMT
Looks like we are looking more at the longer term. A development side, long contracts for young players that have potential etc. |
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Post by CornishPasty_Gas on Apr 21, 2024 7:31:51 GMT
Sensible approach in my eyes.
L1 is going to be uber tough next year, big clubs along with Wrexham and Stockport throwing money at it, I'd say it's going to take something massive to get out next year. Personally 10-12th would be fine with me.
Bit of a sobering outlook, but the last thing we want to do is throw money away again and end up with real financial issues in the future.
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Post by percy on Apr 21, 2024 7:43:57 GMT
Sensible approach in my eyes. L1 is going to be uber tough next year, big clubs along with Wrexham and Stockport throwing money at it, I'd say it's going to take something massive to get out next year. Personally 10-12th would be fine with me. Bit of a sobering outlook, but the last thing we want to do is throw money away again and end up with real financial issues in the future. Agreed. What will be key to the short term future and sustainability will be getting the recruitment right. Fingers cross George is the man for the job. Not going to be easy. |
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Post by vaughan on Apr 21, 2024 7:47:57 GMT
Basically this is just sugar-coating that the playing budget is being cut dramatically. Dare I suggest that 25 per cent reduction quoted from deleted Forum member came from an indiscreet staff member who is friends with Lee Johnson. You can join the dots. Tut, tut.
In Friend, we trust...
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Post by horfield on Apr 21, 2024 7:53:51 GMT
His interview doesn't reflect to well on wonder boy and his scouse mafia when they were running the club from top to bottom.
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 21, 2024 8:24:33 GMT
His interview doesn't reflect to well on wonder boy and his scouse mafia when they were running the club from top to bottom. Why would he when he wants to give an excuse to cut the budget drastically? |
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Post by pucklegas on Apr 21, 2024 8:28:29 GMT
A bit of a sobering interview, stevenage were up there this season on an inferior budget, Exeter do well with their youth, as do the 82 ers, developing local talent.
Hope we don t assemble a Ben Garner type squad, not streetwise and rolled over too many times.
We have to trust George and Matt to be imaginative with their approach, JCH and Azza were decent acquisitions, as opposed to stefan payne and Luke McCormick who has time to turn it around but ain't looking like a wise investment.
The budget reduction means cannot afford a busy treatment room.
The timing is excellent as so many out of contract, personally would keep Rossiter if he proves his fitness, non plussed about everyone else.
Baggott and Vale would be decent to get in the building, not sure how achievable that would be especially with Vale.
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 21, 2024 8:33:43 GMT
Basically this is just sugar-coating that the playing budget is being cut dramatically. Dare I suggest that 25 per cent reduction quoted from deleted Forum member came from an indiscreet staff member who is friends with Lee Johnson. You can join the dots. Tut, tut. In Friend, we trust... I guess the issue is were we getting good value for money for that extra 25% or was it just wasted on the likes of Wilson, Hunt & Friend(!)? Whatever happens we can't keep losing £5m every season or we won't have a club to support or moan about! I'm far from convinced a Development Squad is good value for money for a mid table L1 side. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 21, 2024 8:43:51 GMT
I see progress - which I assume means Championship football - has now increased to 3-5 years.
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Post by rovers78 on Apr 21, 2024 8:55:03 GMT
More of the same next season then.
Indirectly, this interview is saying “we’ve looked at the accounts, the business we did last summer, and the way the club has been ran for the last 2 years, and agreed it was an absolute shambles.”
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Post by WeAreTheGas on Apr 21, 2024 8:57:43 GMT
Not the most exciting of interviews, but in a way I appreciate the realism of it rather than coming out with grand expectations for us to compete for the Play Offs next season etc.
It’s quite clear from that the budget is being cut (and rightly so, the losses are unsustainable) and that young players with potential to develop and sell on will be the order of the day.
I’d suggest a good target for the next three years would be to just try and establish ourselves as a top 10 L1 club, considering it’s a position we’ve achieved once in the last 24 years or so.
Oxford are a blueprint for the sort of club we should aim to become in the short-medium term IMO. No they haven’t managed to make the jump up to the Championship yet, but they’re constantly finishing in and around the top 6 year-in year-out.
For me that’s the way to go up sustainably and in a way that gives you the best chance of staying up when you get there. Rather than us bouncing between L1 and L2 (and usually scrapping around lower-mid table when we are in L1), and then suddenly bursting into the Play Offs out of nowhere. It’s not gonna happen, realistically.
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Post by madgas on Apr 21, 2024 9:05:37 GMT
Good budgets, bad budgets I can't get too excited... its about the signings you make. Naturally cash helps but we'll see.
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Post by Kipper on Apr 21, 2024 9:26:45 GMT
What has gone wrong at Sheffield Wednesday, a big club really in the doldrums? I thought the club would have pushed on, really establishing themselves. If the club is relegated that will be another tough team for Rovers to compete with!!
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Post by rememberhalifax on Apr 21, 2024 9:30:20 GMT
We did have a very decent developement squad a few years ago but nothing came of some very promising players apart from Hooke who was not one of my bets to make it
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 21, 2024 9:32:28 GMT
What has gone wrong at Sheffield Wednesday, a big club really in the doldrums? I thought the club would have pushed on, really establishing themselves. If the club is relegated that will be another tough team for Rovers to compete with!! Just look at what happened with their manager during the summer. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 21, 2024 9:59:43 GMT
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Post by Quarters on Apr 21, 2024 10:01:47 GMT
Though development games would have given the walking wounded the chance to improve/prove their fitness.
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Post by nickchippenhamgas on Apr 21, 2024 10:43:35 GMT
I see progress - which I assume means Championship football - has now increased to 3-5 years. We are at least 10 years away for even the possibility of sustaining a championship side, like ok at Sheffield Wednesday? Straight back down, they’ve got the money and the premiership ground and they might be back with us?! We are a long way from having a decent ground, still lots to do at the quarters, paying off losses, inability to buy quality players that don’t get injured |
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