unification
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If the future is all about finding these little gems again and then selling them on they may has well walk now..what a great idea to keep breaking your squad up every season and then gambling that the conveyor belt keeps churning them out.
Does anybody really believe that we can reach the championship with such a model without further investment on top, let's not be fooled by play off places as that's another gamble and we have been the best part of 30 pts + from auto promotion. we've also seen players we've been in for go to higher based clubs and that's without bringing the likes of Wigan Blackburn and the bigger clubs that drop into league one.
It’s not an alien approach. Peterborough have got as high as the Championship taking gambles on non-league players who they could sell on. Crewe under Gradi developed their own players and bounced around second to fourth tiers. I can take your point regarding making yourself sustainable in the second tier, but it’s an approach that leads you to keep buying and developing talent.
As for today’s news, we’ve got a dud of a management set up, haven’t we? From the approach-driven professionalism of DE (whatever you think of him now, he’s been the only Chairman to nail the right approach with OUFC since the move to the Kassam) to the mess we have now. An absent, unprepared owner, an out-of-depth former schoolteacher as an MD, a scouting network that’s a shell of it’s former self and KR who is cutting a desperate figure. He has no idea where his striker is coming from and, whilst we all bellow at it being his fault, I think the real mess on this front comes from above him.
Why would any player want to come under? A year ago you’d have players saying ‘Kemar Roofe, John Lundtrsam and Chey Dunkley came through here. Sign me up’. Now what? No one wants to come – KR sounds defeated by it, missing out on targets and watching videos of new ones.
Can we get it started? TIGER OUT.
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