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Post by percy on May 4, 2024 12:04:07 GMT
And at the end of next season when he can leave on a free what will you say then? I would say thank you for keeping us in league 1 and giving us time to bed in a replacement before Evans leaves. Let him leave on a free, if he's got us halfway to safety surely that's better than the cost of relegation for a poxy fee of around 3 or 400k that we'll receive. Getting promising youngsters is all well and good if you have a structured approach whereby you have a conveyor of talent. Selling Evans and replacing with a youngster, putting all that pressure to fill his boots is a disaster waiting to happen. I'd never bet on the gas to be relegated, I don't gamble anyway but I was correct in predicting our relegation last time we spouted the same nonsense. I suppose fans have short memories? Not sure what nonsense and time you are referring to, but it has has no more to do with this time than the multiple times we have sold our best players. Sometimes we do better, sometimes worse. No one is suggesting all youngsters. Rossiter, Sinclair, Wilson, Martin plus others to come in say we arent doing that. Anyway, I am hopeful we can build a team whether Evans decides to stay on or (probably) take his chance for the Championship now. |
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Post by supergas on May 4, 2024 12:15:35 GMT
As a club we averaged 1.13 goals per league game this season. Evans wasn't involved in nine games and in those we averaged 1.33 goals per game. So the stats suggest the hole is not as massive as you might think... Plus I don't get this thing about why young talent will automatically fail - other than some of our fans have seemingly already decided it will...none of the relegated teams had a particularly young squad this year - in fact the ten squads with the lowest average age in terms of minutes played had an average finishing position of tenth... I don't think young talent will automatically fail, but we have a habit of making a total mess of it and often totally destroying youngsters confidence. You need a really good system, whereby young players are bedded in alongside experienced pros, not just chucked in at the deep end. IMO we need to keep Evans and bring in talent to learn from him so we have a player there ready to replace him. By the way I think getting young hungry players in is the way to go, but I have absolutely zero confidence in us getting in right. I'm not directing this at you in any way, but the only constant 'we' in this is the fans. There is a new manager and coaching staff, new owners, there are new training facilities and they will walk into a pretty new squad of team-mates. So far as I can see, the biggest problem will be the fans at the grounds getting on their backs if they make mistakes, and the fans on social media expecting us to have a squad full of cheap but experienced players who for some mysterious reason can't get a contract anywhere else in the 92.... ...might be time to risk a few uncut diamonds from the National League and see if Taylor has been able to put in place a system that can polish them up.... |
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Post by woolavingtonpirate on May 4, 2024 12:22:29 GMT
I would say thank you for keeping us in league 1 and giving us time to bed in a replacement before Evans leaves. Let him leave on a free, if he's got us halfway to safety surely that's better than the cost of relegation for a poxy fee of around 3 or 400k that we'll receive. Getting promising youngsters is all well and good if you have a structured approach whereby you have a conveyor of talent. Selling Evans and replacing with a youngster, putting all that pressure to fill his boots is a disaster waiting to happen. I'd never bet on the gas to be relegated, I don't gamble anyway but I was correct in predicting our relegation last time we spouted the same nonsense. I suppose fans have short memories? Not sure what nonsense and time you are referring to, but it has has no more to do with this time than the multiple times we have sold our best players. Sometimes we do better, sometimes worse. No one is suggesting all youngsters. Rossiter, Sinclair, Wilson, Martin plus others to come in say we arent doing that. Anyway, I am hopeful we can build a team whether Evans decides to stay on or (probably) take his chance for the Championship now. The nonsense I refer to was selling JCH and giving Garner a squad of "talented" youngsters, that worked out very well 👍 |
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Post by percy on May 4, 2024 12:29:54 GMT
Not sure what nonsense and time you are referring to, but it has has no more to do with this time than the multiple times we have sold our best players. Sometimes we do better, sometimes worse. No one is suggesting all youngsters. Rossiter, Sinclair, Wilson, Martin plus others to come in say we arent doing that. Anyway, I am hopeful we can build a team whether Evans decides to stay on or (probably) take his chance for the Championship now. The nonsense I refer to was selling JCH and giving Garner a squad of "talented" youngsters, that worked out very well 👍 Well agree, selling our top scorer and not getting any strikers was stupidity! Fortunately we arent doing it this time. Lets see who we bring in too. |
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Post by mrgasman on May 4, 2024 12:34:34 GMT
Dont give Taylor any of a possible transfer fee he will only buy rubbish players Conteh isn't rubbish. He’s been on the bench past 5 games… you’re right he isn’t rubbish but again another strange TAYLOR decision. |
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Post by holmesgas1 on May 4, 2024 12:35:55 GMT
Dont give Taylor any of a possible transfer fee he will only buy rubbish players Talk about trying to set someone up for failure. As someone would say. “You cannot be serious”. |
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Post by popuppirate on May 4, 2024 12:46:18 GMT
He’s been on the bench past 5 games… you’re right he isn’t rubbish but again another strange TAYLOR decision. He's 21, and Rossiter needed some game time. Taylor knew Conteh will be in his plans next season and hopefully for many more to come. Let's judge Taylor after at least 15 games next season |
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Post by peterparker on May 4, 2024 12:52:37 GMT
He’s been on the bench past 5 games… you’re right he isn’t rubbish but again another strange TAYLOR decision. I mean the reason why was pretty obvious to anyone paying attention |
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Post by bathtubpirate on May 4, 2024 12:54:39 GMT
He’s been on the bench past 5 games… you’re right he isn’t rubbish but again another strange TAYLOR decision. I mean the reason why was pretty obvious to anyone paying attention Go on? |
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Post by peterparker on May 4, 2024 13:00:12 GMT
I mean the reason why was pretty obvious to anyone paying attention Go on? So Rossiter could get minutes and Conteh replaced him every time. Clearly intentional and planned |
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Post by bathtubpirate on May 4, 2024 13:03:06 GMT
So Rossiter could get minutes and Conteh replaced him every time. Clearly intentional and planned That was my impression, but wasn't 100% |
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Post by supergas on May 4, 2024 13:14:13 GMT
He’s been on the bench past 5 games… you’re right he isn’t rubbish but again another strange TAYLOR decision. He's been involved in all bar two of the games since he was signed in January. Four (not five) games from then bench probably not only benefits the team in other ways but allows the manager and coaches to send him on during those four games with some in-depth tactical analysis of what's happened so far and what they want him to change when he gets involved. |
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Post by paddingtongas on May 4, 2024 13:48:41 GMT
Not sure what nonsense and time you are referring to, but it has has no more to do with this time than the multiple times we have sold our best players. Sometimes we do better, sometimes worse. No one is suggesting all youngsters. Rossiter, Sinclair, Wilson, Martin plus others to come in say we arent doing that. Anyway, I am hopeful we can build a team whether Evans decides to stay on or (probably) take his chance for the Championship now. The nonsense I refer to was selling JCH and giving Garner a squad of "talented" youngsters, that worked out very well 👍 But that was the way the owner at the time, WAQ, wanted to go…… |
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Post by Topper Gas on May 4, 2024 14:19:38 GMT
And at the end of next season when he can leave on a free what will you say then? I would say thank you for keeping us in league 1 and giving us time to bed in a replacement before Evans leaves. Let him leave on a free, if he's got us halfway to safety surely that's better than the cost of relegation for a poxy fee of around 3 or 400k that we'll receive. Getting promising youngsters is all well and good if you have a structured approach whereby you have a conveyor of talent. Selling Evans and replacing with a youngster, putting all that pressure to fill his boots is a disaster waiting to happen. I'd never bet on the gas to be relegated, I don't gamble anyway but I was correct in predicting our relegation last time we spouted the same nonsense. I suppose fans have short memories? What we need to do is sell Evo for £500K+ and sign a replacement for £250K, similarly with Collins we needs to spend similar money to replace him. Although you just know MT will be told to find replacements on the cheap and expect them to produce a similar number of assists and goals. |
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Post by rovers5charlton5 on May 4, 2024 14:39:07 GMT
The nonsense I refer to was selling JCH and giving Garner a squad of "talented" youngsters, that worked out very well 👍 Well agree, selling our top scorer and not getting any strikers was stupidity! Fortunately we arent doing it this time. Lets see who we bring in too. Don't forget we signed the goal machine Stefan Payne ! |
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Post by Topper Gas on May 4, 2024 18:17:08 GMT
Well agree, selling our top scorer and not getting any strikers was stupidity! Fortunately we arent doing it this time. Lets see who we bring in too. Don't forget we signed the goal machine Stefan Payne ! Hanlon replaced JCH not Payne, he replaced Harrison. |
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Post by frattonender on May 4, 2024 18:27:59 GMT
It would be the first time the Portsmouth News had picked up an exclusive about a player signing more than a couple of hours before it happening for several years. 'The News' is going to be publishing these sort of articles about all sorts of players over the next couple as months as they're desperate for Pompey content to generate clicks.
If it gets reported as credible by our local BBC reporter, that would be more of an indicator that it's likely to happen.
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Post by neilv93 on May 4, 2024 19:28:30 GMT
As others have said - if he's not signing a new deal, he has to be sold this summer. We're not going up next season and we're not likely to be playoff contenders, so we need to maximise the fee whilst the value is at its' peak.
Any chance of convincing Pompey to let us have Anthony Scully or Gavin Whyte in return please!? And whilst we're on the subject, let's get Big Elk back again now Ipswich are confirmed to be PL-bound.
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Post by Gassy on May 4, 2024 19:55:07 GMT
Not sure what nonsense and time you are referring to, but it has has no more to do with this time than the multiple times we have sold our best players. Sometimes we do better, sometimes worse. No one is suggesting all youngsters. Rossiter, Sinclair, Wilson, Martin plus others to come in say we arent doing that. Anyway, I am hopeful we can build a team whether Evans decides to stay on or (probably) take his chance for the Championship now. The nonsense I refer to was selling JCH and giving Garner a squad of "talented" youngsters, that worked out very well 👍 Curious. having a look at our squad on that relegation season where they'll all playing: JVS: NL Williams: Back up L2 Kilgour: L2 Rodman: Retired Grant: Rovers McCormick: Rovers Leahy: L1 Westbrooke: L2 Nicholson: L2 Hanlon L1 Only 4 of them still at L1 level. Not sure if they're all first team players either. Shows how poor that team was |
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Post by Colyton Gas on May 4, 2024 20:14:51 GMT
 Recall when we were 91 st in the league and loaned Guy Branston from Aldershot who were the only team below us!!!! Scored at home with his first touch and ran to taunt the Bradford bench one of his many former employers.Had the turning circle of the P & O Ferry. |
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