Your all wrong my friends. AM no longer posting on the new format.
I may be similar, but being truthful has been known to rile many on here
Yeah. Whatever
I must admit i didnât think we HAD that many season ticket holders 
Says the poster who sees things in rose tinted glasses.
How is Jon Whitney nowadays ?
How do you know?
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AM lite ?
Find it hard to believe it isnât AM. There seem to be so many similarities in the posts.
Those season ticket sales should cover the rent to the pension fund. Now all we have to do is find some money to pay the players, oh, and sign some new ones. Two centre-backs, a central midfielder and a striker are needed before 4th August.
OK. Point taken, but the gentlemanâs persistent invective riles me, which is probably what he is trying to achieve.
As for rose tinted glasses - donât let my glass half full demeanour fool you. I can only remember a couple of times when we were this far from a team so close to the start of the season.
As for JW, I know it was a jibe but I was never happy that he was made permanent manager.
The WFC situation is normally not as bad or as good as perceived, so hoping for the best as usual.
Peace and love (Ringo style)
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Glad you made it over pal. Was worried you were lost in transition.
It is a shame Ancient Moaner has joined Moaning Old Git in virtual purgatory. In a strange (very strange) way they made me feel better.
Itâs usually bad at WFC but it is never that bad.
Apropos of nothing in particular, but it has just dawned on me that, while our squad was propped up by loanees for the entirety of last season, with 10 days to go until Plymouth, we still havenât recruited enough players- purely in terms of numbers- to replace even just the players contracted to Walsall FC that have left since Fleetwood. The same is true even if you consider Dylan Parker a new signing, & not a promotee.
Yes, we lost Ozzy, Cuvelier, Jackson (3 of our highest earners), Gillespie, Flanagan, Butterfield and Shorrock. Thatâs 7 contracted players plus Fitzwater, Nagoya, Shaibu and Bielik(!) - 11 in all. Weâve brought 4 in plus Parker - thatâs 6 down on a squad that avoided relegation by the skin of its teeth. We need at least 3 decent players to have any chance of doing anything this season. Itâs pretty sh!t really.
Yes but as discussed before, most of the players you mentioned didnt cut it. So 7 Flanghan esque players leaving is neither here nor there.
I want quality - the budget spent on 3 of these ilk - not spread thinly over 6 or 7.
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What youâve gotta remember (and Iâve been saying this for years), is a lot of the loans we take, we take because they cost us nothing.
Itâs not that we particularly wanted Shaibu - we begged Brentford for anything, and thatâs what they sent. Even Bielek - he wasnât even fit, he was leant to us because we begged for anything, and ultimately got a player who was weeks away from fitness, and realistically wouldnât play that season.
When you realise how WFC works, what drives the club - when that dawns on you, it all makes sense. Remember, the first cheques paid every season are to pay Uncle Jeff his rent and his loan repayments. If nothings left after that, itâs tough titties.
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Agreed, and I think that is what Dean is trying to do - but when youâre limited by your budget, and the fact the club outright refuses to deal with most agents, not only are you shopping in the bargain bucket, youâre shopping out of only a small section of that bucket.
While I agree with this sentiment completely, would you say that*, letâs say we sign Egert on Monday or before, that even then weâve sufficiently replaced the quality that was here from January, but isnât today?
*A genuine discussion point, by no means meant as a rhetorical question.
Looks as if when we do sign Egert it will be most definitely be after the 31st July (saving on a months salary) or on the Friday before the Plymouth game.
Its ok saying Dean is looking for quality over quantity , but look at the facts. We donât offer competitive salaries neither do we contracts so where is this quality coming from? .
We have no real history of signing quality in bulk ⌠I think we all know that this squad will be propped up by loans.
âWe have no real history of signing quality in bulkâ
This is very true.
I was in my late teens, the Summer we signed Leitao, Byfield, Angell, Bennett, Hall, and Aranalde. Wish I could go back and bask in it, because I didnât appreciate at the time what a sheer anomaly of a Summer it was.
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But look at the reward that followed 