How quickly we have gone from putting out a weakened team is 'disrespectful to the competition'.... to a Cup game is unimportant now we have a chance of getting our trotters back into the Championship. 😊
You make a lot of insightful comments and your analysis is often very good. For me, there is enough unknowns that we may not rotate and we may well learn something. A 4th roudn trip to Newcastle or Man Utd could be the funds we need to sign Morley permanently.
Sometimes you have a habit of making statements about your opinions as absolute facts and this can sometimes detract from the point you are trying to make and may come across as dismissive of the original poster. I do not believe you are trying to be dismissive but feel this is perhaps why some people go on the defensive over your comments! Maybe a few more "perhaps" and "likely" might help along the way.
I don't think having "funds" from the FA Cup is relevant in any acquisition of Morley. Our owners have the money to buy him now if they want to, but quite rightly will not pay a silly fee. As others have said, it is not just the transfer fee to consider, it is also the wages. Bolton's players will be generally on higher wages than ours. There is a limit under the financial rules to our wage budget so we can't pay silly money. Also if you do give any new player high wages it has a knock on effect to the rest of the squad.
In any event the 4th round of the FA Cup is well after the window closes.
I'm definitely quite assertive with my opinions - that's just ingrained and probably won't change as that's my writing style. A lot of what I write professionally is opinion-based and I'm not in the habit of qualifying everything with 'in my opinion' because that's not how it works.
But you're right in that tone can be misconstrued in writing. I'm definitely not going out of my way to wind anyone up (ok, maybe a little with the cheeky 'Bloomfield to...' threads 😉).
Surely it has to be assumed that every post is 'in my opinion'. 'Player A is worst player ever' opinion. 'Player B is the best player ever' opinion. Etc
Fair enough, it's something I think you could improve, starting a sentence with "Perhaps" or using "I believe" doesn't seem to onerous but each to their own. I think it would make a more positive contribution.
"Perhaps, it'll be a game between two heavily rotated teams - I don't believe it will tell us anything about our ability to compete with Championship opposition"
Maybe I've interpreted the rules on FFP incorrectly. From what I have read on this message board we cannot sign Morley for more than a certain amount of money OR pay him a certain wage because of our football related income this season.
I am assuming 50% of ticket sales from an away trip to a 50k plus ground that was full, would increase our FFP and might allow us to sign Morley and pay him the wages to come here.
If I've misunderstood how that works then happy for someone to explain that a bit better for me.
This for me is why I think we might see as close to full strength as possible for Pompey and why the Cup is quite important for us as it stands today.
A number of Man Utd's academy players are being earmarked for loans to Championship and League One clubs this January. Harry Amass (17, LB), Dan Gore (20, CM) and James Scanlon (18, AM) all being talked up as having been approached according to the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail. Unlike the first team, the youth teams are doing pretty well at United this season and their youth players are quite highly rated. They want to send players to clubs which will actively aid their development too so Wycombe would be high on that list I'd imagine.
And now what Kaspi is planning to do in order to eradicate all credit card fraud and in order to precipitate a totally cashless society, what they're planning to do, what they've already tested on the academy trialists, they're going to subcutaneously laser tattoo that mark onto your right hand, or onto your forehead. They're going to replace plastic with flesh. FACT!
One thing about Portsmouth is that it is coming after all the other "thick and fast TM" games, not before. With eight games until the next match after Pompey, there is recuperation time in there.
I'd still expect some rotation, but it may be different to the level we would see if it was the Tuesday and Huddersfield was the Friday.
Not sure about the wage part of it, but I thought "football fortune" included injections of wad from the owners? Whereas in the championship it's not that simple.
Which is why your Birminghams can lash 15m on a player in this tier, but couldn't in the tier above?
They'd have the revenue to absorb wages better than we would too.
Didn’t I read on here that our spend on first team inc wages was set as fixed % of our overall football related spend. If such spend includes academy investments and infrastructure investments, then we have spent quite a whack on that including the setting up of the academy structure plus the Harlington improvements.
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Thought that was a middle finger until getting my nose closer to the screen 😛
'Little Wycombe' shouldn't be calling the FA Cup a distraction. Even if it is.
Can we really be 'Little Wycombe' when we have a billionaire owner? 🤔
This is our last season.
Little Wycombe actual spends, big Wycombe potential spends?
How quickly we have gone from putting out a weakened team is 'disrespectful to the competition'.... to a Cup game is unimportant now we have a chance of getting our trotters back into the Championship. 😊
You make a lot of insightful comments and your analysis is often very good. For me, there is enough unknowns that we may not rotate and we may well learn something. A 4th roudn trip to Newcastle or Man Utd could be the funds we need to sign Morley permanently.
Sometimes you have a habit of making statements about your opinions as absolute facts and this can sometimes detract from the point you are trying to make and may come across as dismissive of the original poster. I do not believe you are trying to be dismissive but feel this is perhaps why some people go on the defensive over your comments! Maybe a few more "perhaps" and "likely" might help along the way.
I don't think having "funds" from the FA Cup is relevant in any acquisition of Morley. Our owners have the money to buy him now if they want to, but quite rightly will not pay a silly fee. As others have said, it is not just the transfer fee to consider, it is also the wages. Bolton's players will be generally on higher wages than ours. There is a limit under the financial rules to our wage budget so we can't pay silly money. Also if you do give any new player high wages it has a knock on effect to the rest of the squad.
In any event the 4th round of the FA Cup is well after the window closes.
A fourth round opponent will be known by January 14th.
I'm definitely quite assertive with my opinions - that's just ingrained and probably won't change as that's my writing style. A lot of what I write professionally is opinion-based and I'm not in the habit of qualifying everything with 'in my opinion' because that's not how it works.
If there's a need to make clear that something is an opinion, I'll do it, but I don't think there was there.
just write FACT at the end.
That just sounds like I'm throwing a strop
But you're right in that tone can be misconstrued in writing. I'm definitely not going out of my way to wind anyone up (ok, maybe a little with the cheeky 'Bloomfield to...' threads 😉).
Surely it has to be assumed that every post is 'in my opinion'. 'Player A is worst player ever' opinion. 'Player B is the best player ever' opinion. Etc
Wycombe are by far the greatest team the world has ever seen: fact
I think that Gareth Ainsworth will keep Shrewsbury up. FACT.
Fair enough, it's something I think you could improve, starting a sentence with "Perhaps" or using "I believe" doesn't seem to onerous but each to their own. I think it would make a more positive contribution.
"Perhaps, it'll be a game between two heavily rotated teams - I don't believe it will tell us anything about our ability to compete with Championship opposition"
Maybe I've interpreted the rules on FFP incorrectly. From what I have read on this message board we cannot sign Morley for more than a certain amount of money OR pay him a certain wage because of our football related income this season.
I am assuming 50% of ticket sales from an away trip to a 50k plus ground that was full, would increase our FFP and might allow us to sign Morley and pay him the wages to come here.
If I've misunderstood how that works then happy for someone to explain that a bit better for me.
This for me is why I think we might see as close to full strength as possible for Pompey and why the Cup is quite important for us as it stands today.
And if not, they'll be absolutely facccht
A number of Man Utd's academy players are being earmarked for loans to Championship and League One clubs this January. Harry Amass (17, LB), Dan Gore (20, CM) and James Scanlon (18, AM) all being talked up as having been approached according to the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail. Unlike the first team, the youth teams are doing pretty well at United this season and their youth players are quite highly rated. They want to send players to clubs which will actively aid their development too so Wycombe would be high on that list I'd imagine.
And now what Kaspi is planning to do in order to eradicate all credit card fraud and in order to precipitate a totally cashless society, what they're planning to do, what they've already tested on the academy trialists, they're going to subcutaneously laser tattoo that mark onto your right hand, or onto your forehead. They're going to replace plastic with flesh. FACT!
Flymofrank, yesterday
One thing about Portsmouth is that it is coming after all the other "thick and fast TM" games, not before. With eight games until the next match after Pompey, there is recuperation time in there.
I'd still expect some rotation, but it may be different to the level we would see if it was the Tuesday and Huddersfield was the Friday.
Not sure about the wage part of it, but I thought "football fortune" included injections of wad from the owners? Whereas in the championship it's not that simple.
Which is why your Birminghams can lash 15m on a player in this tier, but couldn't in the tier above?
They'd have the revenue to absorb wages better than we would too.
What did Sheff Wed get points deducted for in the Championship? I think it was last season? They didn't go into administration.
Eight games?!
If ever there is a mad riddle to try and work out.
Where are you starting these 8 games from, and talking about the next match AFTER Pompey just to confuse it further :-)
Didn’t I read on here that our spend on first team inc wages was set as fixed % of our overall football related spend. If such spend includes academy investments and infrastructure investments, then we have spent quite a whack on that including the setting up of the academy structure plus the Harlington improvements.
Not sure I'd take many of Uniteds first team right now