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Charlie Boy talking
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grapevinesque length waffle , not for someone like me with limited attention span6
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So it’s only been Bristol Rovers away and Crawley at home where we have been shit. Rightho.6
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January transfer window will see more exits than entrants then.6
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My take on that is more out than in come January, Jones is here for the long haul and Charlie is a delusional twat10
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I am used to the occasional barbed comment and that is all fair game but somethings I draw the line at …….42
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Pretty sensible comments overall
January is not the time for overhauling your squad, we found that out last year when we tried it and signed some rubbish. Trim some deadweight and add a couple of good players that could push us into top 6 contention9 -
If it's more out than in, I get the horrible feeling the "outs" might be somewhat more for money than "shifting dead weight". We'll see I suppose.2
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Methven waffle
Incompetent
PR Poppy cock
We've gone backwards under their ownership
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Had a warning from day 1 from 2 different sources that follow a team in the North East. Is kind of reinforcing their precautionary communication. Crimplene beige suits and shaking hands a lot - possibly style over substance. Who knows...1
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I can never understand why Charlie is the one communicating with the fans. Why don't they use someone with less baggage?9
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I get the feeling there is a 2 or 3 year plan to get us promoted - but we have to be told every year that the aim for each season is promotion, although they know it’s not realistic.Bit of a giveaway selling a decent midfield skipper and the division’s top scorer - both to promotion rivals though.8
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Methven smuggling out a long winded PR piffle piece after 5-0 & just before Christmas.17
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But by the sounds of it they want to get rid of 4 or 5 (by all accounts the training pitch can only fit 22 players 🙄) so bringing in even a couple of players would mean getting rid of at least half a dozen.NabySarr said:Pretty sensible comments overall
January is not the time for overhauling your squad, we found that out last year when we tried it and signed some rubbish. Trim some deadweight and add a couple of good players that could push us into top 6 contention
Problem is most of the players are under contract past the summer so it will need another club actually paying money for them, and we saw in the last 2 transfer windows how hard it was to get rid of players (we paid up Kirk & Fraser's contracts and Taylor is only here because no-one would buy him).
Which half a dozen are we going to sell ??2 -
Lets all be patient!, we're just a few points behind schedule, Rome wasn't built in a day, it takes a long time to turn a tanker, its a long term project, and a painful process, first you need to look under the bonnet, then you need to build from the back etc etc etzzzzzzzzzzzzz8
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Sorry, I didn’t read past the word grapevinesque; my attention span is…now what shall I have for breakfast?oohaahmortimer said:grapevinesque length waffle , not for someone like me with limited attention span2 -
He seems to have waited for a game where we were not shit to come out with this. Having said that, fair enough in some respects. Not sure how he explains if the improvement doesn't happen but maybe he will find a way.1
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If it’s what he says moving on 4, 5 or more deadwood players and bringing in 2 or 3 good players all good as far as I am concerned. But my biggest concerns are firstly trusting the bloke, and secondly who will take on the deadwood players and would they voluntarily move on?8
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Some will be loans out (Asiimwe), some will be ending short term deals or loans (Potts, A. Campbell), some they will try to move on (Edun) but easier said than done.CharltonKerry said:If it’s what he says moving on 4, 5 or more deadwood players and bringing in 2 or 3 good players all good as far as I am concerned. But my biggest concerns are firstly trusting the bloke, and secondly who will take on the deadwood players and would they voluntarily move on?0 -
Of course, what is more important is what he says to the money men who can't be happy.1
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As usual with his interviews a lot of common sense and a lot of waffle
But if there is a way of trimming the squad and getting in more quality then that’s got to be the aim, the problem is 90% of the recruitment has been woeful,7 -
There's something about Charlie boy that I find really annoying.
I just can't warm to the bloke.
This has nothing to do with where he was educated or what colour trousers he wears, it's the way he comes across as a patronising prick.
All he's interested in is saving his job and taking a decent wage every month.
Get us promoted mate and maybe I'll change my mind.
But all the while we are struggling around in the middle of league one I shall continue to think you are a wrong fit for this club.31 -
That’s what I was thinking, at some point they’ll pull the plug, if things aren’t progressing, just cutting the wage bill each year, will not cut the mustard.MuttleyCAFC said:Of course, what is more important is what he says to the money men who can't be happy.0 -
Claims that the recent success at both Oxford and Sunderland were both down to the sterling work he did before leaving. So if he could get the boot by the end of the season we should get promoted end of 26/27 season. Sounds good to me.11
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Him talking 250k would be the first.Mendonca In Asdas said:
That’s what I was thinking, at some point they’ll pull the plug, if things aren’t progressing, just cutting the wage bill each year, will not cut the mustard.MuttleyCAFC said:Of course, what is more important is what he says to the money men who can't be happy.0 -
Yeah, they are so much better at overseeing summer overhauls.NabySarr said:Pretty sensible comments overall
January is not the time for overhauling your squad, we found that out last year when we tried it and signed some rubbish. Trim some deadweight and add a couple of good players that could push us into top 6 contention10 -
I get the belief that things take time to turn around but whenever i hear it, i can't help thinking of Chris Powell and what he did and it just becomes excuses - yes, its good to hear something but lets be honest, most of the 'pruning' that needs doing relates to players they've brought in and some significant 'planting' still needs doing. Planting we could all see was needed back in the summer.8
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Some communication is generally better than none but this won’t cut it.
Rather than trying to placate supporters with a lot of waffle about KPIs and oil tankers, more germane questions for Charlie to address would be to explain why Andy Scott is still in post and what he and Rodwell do all day.
The problem with trying to trim the squad is that no one will want the players we need to unload owing to our exceptionally poor recruitment.Self-justificatory claptrap won’t cut it with supporters, who can see themselves that the club is, at best, stagnating. Nor do we need any elucidation from him about results and the team’s style of play - we can see for ourselves how poor it’s been. A good number of us have also been around long enough to remember how a well run club should function.
it would be good to hear from the majority owners but I expect that’s a forlorn hope in the current set-up.16 -
Lloyd Jones and Thierry Small are both important players. Yet out of contract in the summer. Hope we keep them aboard the slow moving tanker.12
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Selling players because the training pitch is only big enough for 22 players, what a load of bollocks.
He will be telling us next we have to sell some players because we only have 22 parking bays at Sparrows Lane17
