Hanley gone

[AucklandRover]

Plenty more fish in the sea..I'm sure Coyle will find a good replacement ..

Alf - I think you mean, "Plenty more fishing..."

[alfinyalcabo]

Alf - I think you mean, "Plenty more fishing..."

Tabac Aucks,I can see both the a Clarets and Rovers going down next season.lol

[robinrover]

Surprisingly despite my negative posts recently I don't think we will drop even if we lose Duffy however we will only be prolonging the agony as we will the season after
Selling your better players and replacing with everybody's cast offs usually ends one way.

[needle]

Surprisingly despite my negative posts recently I don't think we will drop even if we lose Duffy however we will only be prolonging the agony as we will the season after
Selling your better players and replacing with everybody's cast offs usually ends one way.

What an odd statement "we will the season after" How can you be so confident we`ll stay up after losing two of the best centre halves in this division, but without knowing any facts on what will happen over the next two years proclaim we will go down the following season . Odd !

[Bobcrompton1896]

What really grates with me,is not losing Hanley but letting him go for such a bargain basement price - particularly with Newcastle awash with cash from player sales aka Townshend & Wiljnaldum not to mention parachute payments and 50,000 gates every week. Its not even as though Hanleys contract was running out...

Whoever is in charge of outgoing transfers needs sacking fast!!

[AucklandRover]

Bob - I must admit I was expecting about 8 million with add-ons.
I doubt very much that local staff would have had anything to do with accepting the actual figure received. I'm sure that holding out for another week or so would have seen the offers climb.

[robinrover]

Needs I feel we should just about have enough about us to stay up that's not to say it will be by any great margin skin of teath springs to mind
the following season we would become weaker
Marshall out of contract
byrne (who I believe will be influential this season)goes back to city
Conway will become in usable as the last bit of pace he has disappears
the left back role goes bare again
on top of all that venkys continue to show zero ambition
if the drop won't happen this season it will the following one
success is everyone pulling together
idiotic owners with no ambition
a bare boardroom
a patchwork cheap squad
fed up decreasing fan base
venkys could of gone for it as let's be honest that's our only chance of clearing the mess we are in
sadly we are facing many years sliding down the league's still many millions in debt.

[Bobcrompton1896]

You paint a bleak picture,robin. I believe Venkys are putting about £2 million a year into the Academy,but if they think it will turn out 6-7 Championship standard players yearly as regular as clockwork I think they could be mistaken,yet again!

Given the direction they are taking,you would think they would have set up a network with someone like Gary Bowyer as "chief scout" to "add value"to the squad in wheeling and dealing players,but I guess that means actually spending money even if only £1-2 million total a year for a squad-full of players.

[Despair]

Again guys - 'bang on the money'. Bleak it may be seen as, but in my book - reality.

Its akin to treading into quicksand, struggle to get out - but sink further. Or, stay 'dormant' and hope for the best !

They may well be putting in 2m or whatever to whatever, but I personally have zilch sympathy for their dilemma.

[bigmoon]

When Newcastle came sniffing it was always a question of when Hanley would go, it was all about price. £6M is a fair price, in my opinion.