This is the thing it provides a pathway for some of the players you've mentioned and others to LG1. Although with RR and Roberts they still have a year so have FGR got the ££?Quote:
Originally Posted by Evesham Pie
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This is the thing it provides a pathway for some of the players you've mentioned and others to LG1. Although with RR and Roberts they still have a year so have FGR got the ££?Quote:
Originally Posted by Evesham Pie
Was thinking the same thing. In many ways , a more sensible move for players too. Take Wootton for example, If he moves to Pompey as rumoured, big pressure to perform, but go to FG and a different story and he will still be a league one player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evesham Pie
Don't blame him really.Quote:
Originally Posted by MAD_MAGPIE
To get an offer two leagues higher, and a probable pay rise, surely most people would jump at the chance if it came to them.
It will be an intriguing summer for the owners and management team. Head coach gone, top players with a year left on their contracts, key players out of contract. I'm sure they must have prepared for these events to happen though, as it fits with their model of improving players, and selling them on.
It's all a bit new though eh? Not sacking managers every season. Not offloading half the squad, and bringing in a truck load every pre-season, and maybe, just maybe, actually getting some compo money for our manager, and possibly for a player or two.
As long as it’s not Kevin Nolan, great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glad2BeAPie
We need someone who can keep the things IB got right - attempting to play passing football, sometimes succeeding - and improve on the things he got wrong - more intensity, more aggression, more defensive solidity.
Of course, the new head coach will be dependent upon the recruitment team not signing a bunch of lightweight players again as well. Three obvious keywords for Richard Montague and co when looking at new signings: bigger, faster, stronger.
And when they’re looking at stats, here are two areas we always seem to overlook: possession won; and passes made under pressure. Rodri topped both of those in the Premier League this season, so we’re just looking for a level five version of him. Easy!
Exactly. Will we inadvertently become a feeder club for FGR :blue:Quote:
Originally Posted by MAD_MAGPIE
Only joking boys. Easy
That part of the statement made me think we might have been looking to swap anyway? Anyone else with that thought? Perhaps we were going to pull the trigger and got a brucey bonus of compensation from itQuote:
Originally Posted by Oldstripy
I wouldn't worry about that too much. Forest Green don't have a fanbase that are obsessed with crazy gang type football like us. Their fans are a lot more modern thinking than ours, hence why they enjoyed Cooper and Edwards so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Bob
I’ve not really paid much attention to the EFL since our demise, but it’s interesting to note the number of smallish clubs currently in League 1: FGR, Exeter, Accrington Stanley, Morecambe, Cheltenham, Fleetwood, Cambridge, Burton … all clubs with lower average attendances than us, but clearly doing something right.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaltySeaDog
Whether you like their chairman or not, he’s very forward thinking, football results and performance have no respect to the number of fans you have or history, their moving forward steadily with good leadership as we went backwards with poor, there’s not a silver bullet very often other than good leadership/ strategy and patience to be in it for the long term.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyle95
Alan BurchnalL's Green & Black Army.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Bob
WE ARE FGR, WE ARE FGR...