Recent content by tardylum

Unsure why my last post was deleted so would appreciate a message from a staff member to explain.

Burgess has shocked me with how average he has been at passing and I wonder if because Ipswich played him with two other central defenders if he had more space and time than he does with us. No wonder they were relegated easily with him playing regularly at the top level.

The most recent news sounds more positive? As I said the other day, maybe the manager is easier to rush through and the others take a more normal visa process. Like a lot of things in this country there is no speed to any of the bureaucracy and the backlogs are everywhere.

I think most defenders in the league will not mind playing against him. If they are slow, he does not have scary speed and if they are smaller or less powerful he can not bully them either. We need him right now because we have such poor attacking players that we are reliant on him pulling a...

A bad habit all fans have is to act like scorned lovers when a player leaves. I did not think we would miss Darling as much because of Burgess, but a lot of fans suddenly acted like he was a problem for us and useless. I am glad if Norwich lose because we may be in a relegation battle but will...

He is a lovely finisher but I do not think he is good enough ultimately. Chances are not only created for you, he needs to offer more because to me he can be near invisible for long stretches in between the goals.

6m and 25k for five years is looking irresponsible so far. If somebody bids for Vipotnik in January we may have to accept to clear the way for Idah and it will be make or break.

A reason you pay the big fee and wages is because you will not have to wait quite as long for it to start paying itself back.

One shot in 80 minutes has really rocked me. We have a historically bad attacking side and I can not see how that changes around quickly. Dreading games going forward. Surely we can not actually go down.

Do you think Vipotnik has taken a big leap this season? He touched the ball 10 times after the first 10 seconds.

He has been dealt the worst hand in almost every possible way. We have even put him in a position where any call to give him time does not really stand up to scrutiny because we only hired him based on 12 games. He will be 33% there in a weeks time. We will not find out if he is a good or a bad...

How is it any different to other seasons? We always have a plan and know which positions we want to strengthen and usually it is a bad and incoherent plan. I would not be that derogatory about this summer but we focused on strengthening the same midfield position with multiple players who can...

The fact they are not already in place, does show signs of concern but as somebody who has had to go through the visa process before it can be slow. Matos probably took preference and the others might not get fast tracked so I hope things can get sorted and it is just a case of there being a...

Where is this coming from? It has been the drumbeat by people since the summer and is still being parroted despite what is occurring in front of our eyes. We have never been perfect in the summer windows so it does not stand out negatively either but this feels very similar to lots of them we...

It makes more sense to sign a back up keeper than a back up defender. We should not have outfield players contracted who we know will never challenge to be first teamers....unless we go down! It will not make or break our squad but it is not the best use of our resources.