Cheshunto wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:52 pm
Can’t understand how Ray gets in ahead of Adam Thompson
Thompson was a stupid gamble by the club. Brought in on high wages to be a key player despite having made barely 200 professional appearances by 28. We signed him, Smyth and Reilly presumably as first team players and none of them have made any sort of impact. There's also something deeply flawed with our recruitment policy.
I thought Thompson looked a decent player before he got a bad injury up at Grimsby.
I agree there has been plenty wrong with our recruitment but how can Ling or anyone else foresee an injury like the one Thompson suffered.
Anyway, he’s fit now, but a young loanee from Exeter is preferred to him.
Maybe he’ll start at Colchester on Tuesday .
Highwood Man wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:50 pm
George Ray is 28.
Ah ok, I thought he was younger, anyway I thought our defence looked shaky today, and personally I would prefer Thompson or Ogie, maybe changes will be made at Colchester.
Really gets in my goat, in January 1978 I signed Elvis Presley, I didn't know the poor sod had been dead 5 months , did I ?? He played 4 games, was more mobile then our current defense. Also, smelt off
Highwood Man wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:37 pm
Totally agree that Khan looks the only one of the January signings who is capable of playing at this level. But we're playing him at right back because the guy who we signed supposedly as a right back has been totally found out after a couple of games. And how we thought that a striker who was deemed to be surplus to requirements at Colchester of all clubs was going to turn things round for us is a total mystery. Instead of 6 signings, we should have signed a decent right back, Khan and a decent midfielder. That would have done us.
Highwood Man wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:37 pm
Totally agree that Khan looks the only one of the January signings who is capable of playing at this level. But we're playing him at right back because the guy who we signed supposedly as a right back has been totally found out after a couple of games. And how we thought that a striker who was deemed to be surplus to requirements at Colchester of all clubs was going to turn things round for us is a total mystery. Instead of 6 signings, we should have signed a decent right back, Khan and a decent midfielder. That would have done us.
The most sensible comment on here in a long time
Step forward Kenny and our dynamic transfer committee to answer that one . I’d love to know why we didn’t sign anybody from League 1 or the Championship either on loan or permanent. Our rivals did and that’s how they are turning things around . That piss poor transfer window could be the one mistake that puts us down. I feel sorry for our new manager because he has a mountain to climb using poor standard players
Highwood Man wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:50 pm
George Ray is 28.
Ah ok, I thought he was younger, anyway I thought our defence looked shaky today, and personally I would prefer Thompson or Ogie, maybe changes will be made at Colchester.
Apart from Khan I’m not impressed with any of our new signings. Ray looks what he is. A bog standard League 2 squad player
Highwood Man wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:37 pm
Totally agree that Khan looks the only one of the January signings who is capable of playing at this level. But we're playing him at right back because the guy who we signed supposedly as a right back has been totally found out after a couple of games. And how we thought that a striker who was deemed to be surplus to requirements at Colchester of all clubs was going to turn things round for us is a total mystery. Instead of 6 signings, we should have signed a decent right back, Khan and a decent midfielder. That would have done us.
The most sensible comment on here in a long time
Step forward Kenny and our dynamic transfer committee to answer that one . I’d love to know why we didn’t sign anybody from League 1 or the Championship either on loan or permanent. Our rivals did and that’s how they are turning things around . That piss poor transfer window could be the one mistake that puts us down. I feel sorry for our new manager because he has a mountain to climb using poor standard players
My guess is insufficient funds to sign players from League 1 or Championship, you can’t make a silk purse from a sows ear.
Can you imagine what that does to the existing players morale, seeing that parade of poop turning up?
Think that is a touch unfair on Moss & Brown. Hard to rule them out & rate then as woeful when they haven't been given a proper chance.
The crux of it all is none of them would improve our strongest Xl.
Can you imagine what that does to the existing players morale, seeing that parade of poop turning up?
Think that is a touch unfair on Moss & Brown. Hard to rule them out & rate then as woeful when they haven't been given a proper chance.
The crux of it all is none of them would improve our strongest Xl.
It’s not their fault that they have been thrown in completely out of their depth. But that doesn’t change the fact that they are simply not good enough for this level.
Step forward Kenny and our dynamic transfer committee to answer that one . I’d love to know why we didn’t sign anybody from League 1 or the Championship either on loan or permanent. Our rivals did and that’s how they are turning things around . That piss poor transfer window could be the one mistake that puts us down. I feel sorry for our new manager because he has a mountain to climb using poor standard players
My guess is insufficient funds to sign players from League 1 or Championship, you can’t make a silk purse from a sows ear.
Agreed.
Because the budget had been squandered in the summer.
Step forward Kenny and our dynamic transfer committee to answer that one . I’d love to know why we didn’t sign anybody from League 1 or the Championship either on loan or permanent. Our rivals did and that’s how they are turning things around . That piss poor transfer window could be the one mistake that puts us down. I feel sorry for our new manager because he has a mountain to climb using poor standard players
My guess is insufficient funds to sign players from League 1 or Championship, you can’t make a silk purse from a sows ear.
Agreed.
Because the budget had been squandered in the summer.
Paying up contracts to appease moaning fans
Who wanted staff sacked is going to leave a budget short
Step forward Kenny and our dynamic transfer committee to answer that one . I’d love to know why we didn’t sign anybody from League 1 or the Championship either on loan or permanent. Our rivals did and that’s how they are turning things around . That piss poor transfer window could be the one mistake that puts us down. I feel sorry for our new manager because he has a mountain to climb using poor standard players
My guess is insufficient funds to sign players from League 1 or Championship, you can’t make a silk purse from a sows ear.
Agreed.
Because the budget had been squandered in the summer.
Well then we should have brought in only two or three quality players instead of one decent player and four donkey's.
My guess is insufficient funds to sign players from League 1 or Championship, you can’t make a silk purse from a sows ear.
Agreed.
Because the budget had been squandered in the summer.
Well then we should have brought in only two or three quality players instead of one decent player and four donkey's.
In Travis' Q&A he said they were originally only planning 3 signings, even if they'd been real quality it still left us with a very thin squad.
The fact the 3 would've been Khan, Coleman and Brown really beggars belief. Only one of those anywhere near ready to come in and make an impact.
Another weird contradiction from Ling's podcast was that KJ supposedly didn't want to bring in anyone who would stand in the way of Matt Young's opportunity... so why then sign 2 x U23 players that would be in direct competition with him not only in the CM position but as the "young prospect" getting development time on pitch?
Makes no sense to have 5 young midfielders in the squad (Kyprianou, Young, Papadopoulos, Brown, Coleman) and shows up the academy as a white elephant if you just end up signing someone else's youth players instead. Don't need a big bloated coaching setup to do that.
PoundhillO wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:49 pm
That’s what happens when the best choices are removed due to budgetary reasons, the budget was clearly insufficient.
I'm not so sure it was. We should have gone for quality but instead we went for quantity. All we did was replace injured players with inferrer ones and now we're paying for it.
Because the budget had been squandered in the summer.
Well then we should have brought in only two or three quality players instead of one decent player and four donkey's.
In Travis' Q&A he said they were originally only planning 3 signings, even if they'd been real quality it still left us with a very thin squad.
The fact the 3 would've been Khan, Coleman and Brown really beggars belief. Only one of those anywhere near ready to come in and make an impact.
Another weird contradiction from Ling's podcast was that KJ supposedly didn't want to bring in anyone who would stand in the way of Matt Young's opportunity... so why then sign 2 x U23 players that would be in direct competition with him not only in the CM position but as the "young prospect" getting development time on pitch?
Makes no sense to have 5 young midfielders in the squad (Kyprianou, Young, Papadopoulos, Brown, Coleman) and shows up the academy as a white elephant if you just end up signing someone else's youth players instead. Don't need a big bloated coaching setup to do that.
Matt Young looks better than either Coleman or Brown and he's only 18. What a mistake it was signing those two. Should have signed a League 1 or Championship player instead. Now we're in the sh*t.
Because the budget had been squandered in the summer.
Well then we should have brought in only two or three quality players instead of one decent player and four donkey's.
In Travis' Q&A he said they were originally only planning 3 signings, even if they'd been real quality it still left us with a very thin squad.
The fact the 3 would've been Khan, Coleman and Brown really beggars belief. Only one of those anywhere near ready to come in and make an impact.
Another weird contradiction from Ling's podcast was that KJ supposedly didn't want to bring in anyone who would stand in the way of Matt Young's opportunity... so why then sign 2 x U23 players that would be in direct competition with him not only in the CM position but as the "young prospect" getting development time on pitch?
Makes no sense to have 5 young midfielders in the squad (Kyprianou, Young, Papadopoulos, Brown, Coleman) and shows up the academy as a white elephant if you just end up signing someone else's youth players instead. Don't need a big bloated coaching setup to do that.
Was it a board member who was responsible for getting us to sign young players . Maybe hoping we could to develop them and then sell them on at a profit. If that's the case then signing them at this time of the year is nuts. That might show a business brain but its definitely not a footballing one and it could cost us dearly.
Well then we should have brought in only two or three quality players instead of one decent player and four donkey's.
In Travis' Q&A he said they were originally only planning 3 signings, even if they'd been real quality it still left us with a very thin squad.
The fact the 3 would've been Khan, Coleman and Brown really beggars belief. Only one of those anywhere near ready to come in and make an impact.
Another weird contradiction from Ling's podcast was that KJ supposedly didn't want to bring in anyone who would stand in the way of Matt Young's opportunity... so why then sign 2 x U23 players that would be in direct competition with him not only in the CM position but as the "young prospect" getting development time on pitch?
Makes no sense to have 5 young midfielders in the squad (Kyprianou, Young, Papadopoulos, Brown, Coleman) and shows up the academy as a white elephant if you just end up signing someone else's youth players instead. Don't need a big bloated coaching setup to do that.
Matt Young looks better than either Coleman or Brown and he's only 18. What a mistake it was signing those two. Should have signed a League 1 or Championship player instead. Now we're in the sh*t.
& to think we paid £60,000 for Coleman !!!!
Total madness
In Travis' Q&A he said they were originally only planning 3 signings, even if they'd been real quality it still left us with a very thin squad.
The fact the 3 would've been Khan, Coleman and Brown really beggars belief. Only one of those anywhere near ready to come in and make an impact.
Another weird contradiction from Ling's podcast was that KJ supposedly didn't want to bring in anyone who would stand in the way of Matt Young's opportunity... so why then sign 2 x U23 players that would be in direct competition with him not only in the CM position but as the "young prospect" getting development time on pitch?
Makes no sense to have 5 young midfielders in the squad (Kyprianou, Young, Papadopoulos, Brown, Coleman) and shows up the academy as a white elephant if you just end up signing someone else's youth players instead. Don't need a big bloated coaching setup to do that.
Matt Young looks better than either Coleman or Brown and he's only 18. What a mistake it was signing those two. Should have signed a League 1 or Championship player instead. Now we're in the sh*t.
& to think we paid £60,000 for Coleman !!!!
Total madness
I heard it was £80,000, but whatever, it was a waste of money.
That one was definitely a Ling signing, he said so himself
PoundhillO wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:49 pm
That’s what happens when the best choices are removed due to budgetary reasons, the budget was clearly insufficient.
100% right.
However, I think that KJ spunked his budget on too small a squad and the Board didnt want to invest more.
PoundhillO wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:49 pm
That’s what happens when the best choices are removed due to budgetary reasons, the budget was clearly insufficient.
100% right.
However, I think that KJ spunked his budget on too small a squad and the Board didnt want to invest more.
Chocolate_brownie wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:33 pm
It really is hard to pick the worst out of Ray, Nouble, Coleman, Moss and Brown.
Coleman is really, really, really bad. If you’re signing a player from the conference you better make sure he’s one of the best in that tinpot division. This clown was playing for one of the worst teams in that division and I’m completely convinced that he wasn’t even their best player.
Nouble. A striker who hasn’t scored a single goal for Colchester this season. One of the maddest signings I’ve ever seen. I simply cannot understand the logic behind this one.
Ray. Crap. Nothing more too it really. Actually makes our defence worse when he plays. And his head looks like a Lego man’s head.
Brown. A child. Looks like he’d get bullied playing U23s football. Shouldn’t be anywhere near a League 2 squad, unless it’s as a ballboy.
Moss. I can’t even really remember who this one is. He played something like 2 or 3 games then vanished.
Khan is the only player who isn’t complete cack but it looks like he’s being played completely out of position so wouldn’t really matter if he was C. Ronaldo.
