January transfer window

In fairness it's impossible to say at the moment Breadman. I certainly don't think losing Cravies and N'gog is a massive blow to our starting 11, the Juke could be pretty useful going off what I've read about him, and if Trotter is the box to box midfielder we've been missing for years then we could actually hold the ball in midfield and beote of a threat going forward.

What's essential; as I'm sure Dougie knows, is to get a defender and a striker when the loan window reopens!

Sorry lads, but I'm not buying it.

Everybody knew going into January that we desperately needed a left back and we don't score enough goals.

Letting two strikers go wouldn't be a problem if he'd brought at least two in.

But he didn't.

He's gambled on a bloke who already looks like he can't hack it in the Championship and gives us no reason to believe he's any better than the two who've left.

So in nett terms, we are were we were a month ago but with less cover available.

The fact that he put all his eggs in one basket by wasting all month chasing Mason says a lot about his lack of a Plan B.

As for the defence, ditto McNaughton.

Do we seriously believe there weren't any experienced defenders out there to pick up?

The latest figures I could find indicate that there are nearly four thousand professional players registered in England alone.

Surely there must be someone available.....?

I'm pretty sure Mason will sign for us once the loan window opens, he's had some personal problems I believe. Dawson could well be done as well and with him rejecting Wigan, hopefully he'll sign for us instead.

We obviously need a full back as well and fingers crossed we'll get one in as well.

Maybe I'm being too optimistic!  

Boggersbelief wrote:

If we can get a left back in on top of that then we are laughing.

  

No, we are fucked.

Natasha whittam wrote:  

No, we are fucked.

I'm not a negative old bint. We are far from fucked

Believe it or not, Boggers, in life, I'm generally quite a positive person.

But I'm also a realist.

And all this "there's a long-term plan in place" guff coming out of the club is just smoke and mirrors, designed to mask the fact that we are well and truly fucked.

This is like the early 80's but with one big difference: Back then we were skint, but now not only are we skint, we're £170m in debt.

Gartside gambled on staying in the Prem long enough to get the new TV money and clear the debt.

Coyle fucked that up by getting relegated and we are now officially screwed.

What we need is a manager who can operate on a budget of precisely zero pounds, get the players in the squad performing to the best of their ability and scour the market for cheap replacements, whilst keeping us bobbing along in the middle of the Championship until the dead wood has been removed.

Freedman is not that man.

Look at the league table. We are flirting dangerously with going down. Again......

I'm not saying it's an easy job; that's why Dougie's on the big bucks, but forget all this back room, restructuring and long-term bollocks, his primary objective is to keep us in the Championship and it looks to me as though he is failing.

We've gone backwards massively under Freedman and if we all keep crossing our fingers and backing him, I can only see it ending one way: Relegation and in 12 months time we'll look back and ask ourselves "how did that happen?"

And the answer is, yet again Gartside gambled on a manager who wasn't up to it and backed him for far too long.

For a squad as shit as ours, we need some loan help. Not getting those loans during the regular transfer window does not mean we won't get them during the loan window. There will be some players who can do a job for who saw moves being made with no interest in them from other quarters and/or saw players brought in for their position. There will be people who want to play (unlike our ponces) who would jump at the chance to come to a team where they are almost guaranteed to be better than the players already there. Not difficult, you only need to be able to pass, control and shoot a bit and have a little common sense. Having players who can't do what is required doesn't help the team.Sending them on loan elsewhere at least saves the club some money. What sense is there in having a striker who can't score goals, on the pitch or on the bench? Get them out and make funds available to loan players who may be able to assist us in our current plight. Not brain surgery, I think.

Nixon tweeted tonight, news of Dawson and Bolton Wanderers in mirroe tomorrow, mmmmm, what to make of that.

MartinBWFC wrote:Nixon tweeted tonight, news of Dawson and Bolton Wanderers in mirroe tomorrow, mmmmm, what to make of that.

Sounds exciting!  

If he does join, let's hope he will be on loan for the rest of the season and not here for a month.

MartinBWFC wrote:Nixon tweeted tonight, news of Dawson and Bolton Wanderers in mirroe tomorrow, mmmmm, what to make of that.

I do hope there is some truth in this.

The news is that he will join us when the window opens.

Good. He can organize the back four like he did last time. The future will be looking a lot brighter if we can get him back till the end of the season.

I'm not too bothered anyway. Without him we finish lower midtable, with him we finish a little higher, then he returns to WBA and a premiership club buy him.

If he is as good as he was last time the club may free up some of the Ngog money to make him the mainstay of our defence. He's a Rochdale lad with family there, so why would he want to go back to WBA to get splinters in his arse and never play?

It's a real shame we couldn't get him on a loan with a view to a permanent deal and pay the money we did for Cahill from Villa.

I know we have no money so I will stop dreaming I guess!

He just really is wasted at WBA.

Sorry but I think there are far more important positions to strengthen than centre half, left back for a start. With Wheater back soon it's just another waste by Freedman.

Agreed 63 but if you score more than the opposition it doesnt matter how shit the defence is !!! So maybe 4-4-2 and more than one fit striker might help ????

Tigermin wrote:Agreed 63 but if you score more than the opposition it doesnt matter how shit the defence is !!! So maybe 4-4-2 and more than one fit striker might help ????

Quite true and Dawson is at both ends when it matters, scoring goals and defending.

Sounds good to me

Calm down he ain't commin here. Who in their right mind wants to risk being associated with a relegation scrap when you don't know which way it will go.