v Sheffield Utd (h) - 2/11/24 - k/o 12:30pm

[superniko]

39 minutes ago, G Somerset Rover said:

 

I’m personally underwhelmed by Eustace and our recruitment team but the buck starts and ends with our owners. Years and years of neglect was always going to bite us on the arse sooner rather than later and despite the (IMO misleading) start to the season, it could well end up being this time round that we do drop.

Sums it up perfectly for me 

[superniko]

8 minutes ago, KentExile said:

They both had massive wage budgets when they were promoted from the championship 

Edit - compared to pretty much every team without parachute payments

Have you anything to back that up as I’m pretty confident that’s completely not true - especially Luton who have very little coming in given their capacity

Edited 1 hour ago by superniko

[KentExile]

10 minutes ago, superniko said:

Have you anything to back that up as I’m pretty confident that’s completely not true 

Ipswich's wage budget when they were in League 1 was £19.8M which is about average for a championship club, then they would have had promotion bonuses + the wages whoever they signed once they were in the championship

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/24205704.ipswich-town-accounts-2022-2023-financial-year-revealed/

And £5M of transfer fees last season too with no sales

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ipswich-town/transfers/verein/677/plus/?saison_id=2023&pos=&detailpos=&w_s=

 

Luton's wage bill in their promotion season was apparently £27.6M, a £10M increase on the previous season, which I think was mainly on expensive loans

https://swissramble.substack.com/p/luton-town-finances-202223

Edited 1 hour ago by KentExile

[Waggy76]

4 hours ago, Crimpshrine said:

How much did we pay for Cantwell  ? 

I can't see him hanging around too long. I bet Waggott sees him as the next phase of operation 'wash our own face' if he can sell him on at a decent profit.

That thought crossed my mind today..

[islander200]

If Wednesday comes and the only changes to the starting 11 are Gueye for Ohashi and Weimann for 1 of Dolan or Hedges then I'm gonna be critical of Eustace, he doesn't have the best set of attacking players but he needs to find another way rather than doing the same thing over and over

I'd agree with KentExile that maybe 3 at the back with Beck and Brittain at wingback is worth a try and get 2 of Leonard,Ohashi and Gueye up top with Cantwell as the 10 behind, Dolan should not be playing as the 10 for us he is too wasteful with possession.

It's hard to portion too much blame to recruitment the budget was less than what we received for Gally Ennis and Whalstedt ffs, so not only did they have a pitiful budget but we also took an age to appoint Park ,Gestede and the other fella. They will have buttons to play with again in January but pace is desperately required so hopefully they can find someone in the bargain bin 

Don't think we will go down as there are poorer squads in the division and we have a good start on them but it will happen eventually with these owners now they stopped helping pay the bills never mind investing in the squad.

They will hang onto us till the bitter end.Depressing 

[Trinidad Rover]

People forget, after a decent start to the season, we brought in c£35m on transfer fees the last two years (possibly more?). We spent, what, £2m? As ever, you get what you pay for. 

That is fundamentally the problem and who is to blame for that….? Our repugnant owners. 

We are going nowhere and wont in a hurry. At this point I’m almost apathetic to the players and Eustace, who I do not rate at all.

[speeeeeeedie]

In the second half especially Rovers were outclassed today. Sheffield Utd were better in every department. 

Rovers final ball was awful and could not get anywhere near their goal. 

As we all know it all goes back to Venkys. Proper funding would negate performances like today as there would be better calibre personnel available. Instead we get to watch Cantwell, a class above the rest, try to play with 2 new strikers who are starting to look out of their depth and "skill" players Dolan and Hedges who produce nothing. 

[ABBEY]

2nd half it took us 4 and half minutes to possess the ball and that was from a handball as well. 

[47er]

44 minutes ago, islander200 said:

 

Don't think we will go down as there are poorer squads in the division

I think that was the outlook and the hope at the Club from the start.

We simply "over-achieved" early on.

[speeeeeeedie]

Does anyone else think that Gueye should have been sent off for elbowing the Sheff Utd defender? He got away with it if you ask me.

[rigger]

14 minutes ago, speeeeeeedie said:

Does anyone else think that Gueye should have been sent off for elbowing the Sheff Utd defender? He got away with it if you ask me.

If Gueye did elbow the other player then yes, he should have been sent off. It happened in front of me and I could not say for certain that he did use his elbow. If he had tried to kick the player, he would have probably have missed him.