LCFCJohn

Yeah, maybe. You would just think that if Brighton valued him, he’d have had his contract extended, gone to a Championship club to improve his development at a higher level or both. The lack of either of those suggests that they don’t see a place for him going forwards.

It seems that he is in the last year of his contract at Brighton and hasn’t signed an extension when leaving on loan as is often the case. Is that the understanding of others? Seems odd as he seems to have done really well at this level so I wonder why he hasn’t stepped up, or why Brighton haven’t extended. Maybe an opportunity for us anyway if he does end up performing well and is available on a free!

I’m not sure about Huddersfield but speaking with a Sheff Weds fan at work today, the opinion there seems to be that they have a strong starting line up but little in the way of squad depth. Whilst we have a lot to improve upon, we do have the most depth available to us and should be able to benefit from this over the congested periods.

It is. You can forgive mistakes when you can see the effort and just more energy, rather than players with a face on them going through the motions. Last night was very far from perfect, as was Saturday. But as long as you can see that effort, and it being a work in progress from a young side, there’s so much to get behind. That’s why it is disappointing that they were booed on Saturday as it was more tactical issues than anything else.

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I’m not sure we should bring him back unless there is a clear place for him to get minutes here. If he is smashing it by January though, a similar situation to Braybrooke but with a move to L1 could be good. Obviously it’s a fine balance not disrupting him from having a full breakout season. We’d also need to see where we are. If we have pushed on and are towards the top of the league, a move to lower L1 could be helpful without disruption to us. If we were struggling, that would be more complicated.

I don’t see as much the other way. My issue is when I have to think twice about posting something balanced, with positive aspects and negative aspects as I know there are people who will refer to me as a negative boo boy or whatever because I haven’t just essentially said everything is perfect which is all some want to see on here.

Possibly an unofficial agreement to let him go at a later point? Obviously nothing is guaranteed such as avoiding injuries etc. But you’d think there’d be something. From the clubs point of view, they likely see an opportunity to get more for him down the line which is fair enough. Also a risk we take if he didn’t kick on or got injuries etc.

Well thank you. Sometimes you have to think twice about even posting anything with balance on here nowadays as there are the positivity police waiting to jump on anything that is not the positive parts so glad to see there are posters who appreciate balance 👍🏻

Would you give an arsonist credit or goodwill for calling the fire brigade?

I’d agree if we were going to put ourselves in financial shit. But otherwise, perhaps it’s being over thought a bit? There’s loads of games and Gray and even Kangasniemi are young and the latter come from a very different league. Neither may expect to play much. Regardless of what has happened this deadline day or in the case of Faes, whether he goes to Turkey or gets terminated, longer term the position is quite unstable. Faes, Okoli and Souttar you’d imagine won’t be here beyond this season so it’s quite good to have some succession planning for once!

A positive day on and off the pitch with the win and clean sheet, reinforcements in such as Riis and Lundstram and getting Mavididi and Skipp out. In terms of the game, it was a polar opposite opposition to MK. We did struggle to play out through their press and need to work on this as any ambitious sides in the league will use this as a blueprint you would think. But going forward, I thought we created genuinely more clear chances than Saturday, took some that arrived and we more expansive, without the gripe I had from Saturday with the congestion around the 18 yard box. I don’t want to be too harsh on Reid. Yes he had 3 good chances but he was in the right place. He’s an experienced player and shown last season that when the chances do come, he can finish. Hopefully signing Riis means not playing him as the striker as he seems more natural in the space behind. McCarthy for his bombscare playing out, made some great saves to keep us in it. I think Martin will just need to try and find a way to manage the way he wants to play whilst accepting that we don’t quite have the ability to do it around the back. Page was excellent driving forward and Braybrooke very impressive again as was Joseph. Alves much better than Watson was on Saturday. Just good to get the win monkey off our backs really.

What happened there Pretty mixed half, some chances created, couple for Reid, Bristvic with one. But we really look uncomfortable at the back, struggling to deal with their press and rode out luck. But goals change games and it’s great to see us take those chances when they arrived and the timing. Hopefully we continue with that intent. We know this side isn’t set up to defend a lead so we need to keep playing and go at them.

Ffs, McCarthy is like Ward levels of bad. This is bad news!

About as good as we can put out that. I think people are overthinking the Kangasniemi thing. He is young and come from a very different league. Martin is under pressure after the poor start to the season and off the back of a clean sheet, will be hoping to repeat that. Howell and Alves were much brighter than Watson and Burns so good that they start. McFarlane as well.

That 4 year contract might out survive the club at this rate At the end of the day, how the player does for us dictates how we judge the rest. If the player contributes, is part of a successful team and endears themselves to the fanbase with the way they conduct themselves and effort etc, the rest never gets commented on. I will wait and see how he does before I judge. There’s no reason he doesn’t have the ability to do well at this level if he is here for the right reasons. As a club, we are also very unlikely to outgrow him in that 4 year duration.

He’s a leader type and captain too I believe. Not a bad thing to have in the midfield there. As always, whether it is a good transfer is down to the terms you mention but also the attitude of the player. Under Pearson this would be excellent as we’d be confident the player is coming here for the right reasons.

This myth that the reason we are not winning games is due to people posting on an online forum is the biggest gaslighting going

Yes I realised you were. Still a long time. Not related to the 10 men bit, but in the title season, we came back from 2-0 down quite a bit and you had confidence we would. For years now, the mentality, set by the owner and through the managers he employs, isn’t one of a team that can mentally come back from a 2 goal deficit. If you think we were coming back to win that game 3-2 or 4-2, you’re of course entitled to that opinion. There is zero evidence to suggest that was ever going to happen of course and puffing to a 2-1 defeat was the likely outcome based on what we have seen over and over in recent years.

Probably due to after a whole 10 years then!

It’s not, it’s what we saw with our own eyes. Did you not see the fact we had half our team all crowded together occupying the same space much of the time? Or the lack of width on the left (not so much on the right) or the lack of movement to provide options?

Agreed. Saying we should be wary of it based on the past few years is not saying it will happen. And the forum doesn’t need a thread about promotion, it is clear many are arrogantly just assuming we will get promoted as they did last season. It’s across all topics without being obviously labelled.

I mean we were 2-0 with 11 men and technically won the rest of the game, when down to 10 men 1-0 so in terms of that particular game, they’d be an argument to say we were better with Skipp off. Yes it is a bit tongue in cheek as there are other factors at play but it’s not the best example to use to argue going down to 10 men affecting/costing us the game. I reckon most of us realised when we went 2-0 down the game was gone regardless.

Pepple is an interesting one. Quite a local lad, from Kettering and played for Oadby. Has played outside this country in his youth years. Probably a bit costly given that Plymouth already sold Tolaj.

Already 2-0 down at Burton when Skipp was sent off. Let’s not pretend it affected the outcome.