League 2 General Chat Thread

Bone Idle

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 3, 2019
Messages
732
Reaction score
313
Points
63
Location
Llandogo
Supports
Newport County
Aren’t we restricted to only signing players who have no club - even if they may be available on a free?
Podge has a year left on his contract! so we will probably be looking for a small fee, i see the grimsby fans on twitter are creaming their tighty whities over the possibility of him going back there but what we have heard is his prefered destination is northampton who are also interested but that could change if wrexham offer him stupid money to go there, whatever he chooses to do i wish him all the best he has been a model of proffesionalism during his time with us and has given us some great memories.
Also dom telford is another player flynny has frozen out and is prepared to let go, if anyone wants him i would drive him there myself,
 

Robshep

Well-Known Member
Joined
Aug 22, 2020
Messages
2,649
Reaction score
1,063
Points
113
Location
Wallasey
Supports
Tranmere Rovers
Should have said I haven't seen any suggestion we won't be able to use the pitch on 4 Sep, it's just that it's the next scheduled EFL game after the pitch will be ready. News about progress comes via our landlord the WRU, but all indications are it has gone fine.

If we win at Ipswich tonight and get a home draw, presumably we'll play that before Orient.
If the pitch that Newport are getting is the same as the one at Prenton Park you should get a preview on the 21st. Not a mudbath any more.
 

Robshep

Well-Known Member
Joined
Aug 22, 2020
Messages
2,649
Reaction score
1,063
Points
113
Location
Wallasey
Supports
Tranmere Rovers
Podge has a year left on his contract! so we will probably be looking for a small fee, i see the grimsby fans on twitter are creaming their tighty whities over the possibility of him going back there but what we have heard is his prefered destination is northampton who are also interested but that could change if wrexham offer him stupid money to go there, whatever he chooses to do i wish him all the best he has been a model of proffesionalism during his time with us and has given us some great memories.
Also dom telford is another player flynny has frozen out and is prepared to let go, if anyone wants him i would drive him there myself,
I hope he doesn't decide to try his luck in Azerbaijan then. That could be tricky.
 

Bone Idle

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 3, 2019
Messages
732
Reaction score
313
Points
63
Location
Llandogo
Supports
Newport County
If the pitch that Newport are getting is the same as the one at Prenton Park you should get a preview on the 21st. Not a mudbath any more.
I read somewhere that it was the same type of pitch as wembley stadium has.
I am getting the impression he is not your favourite player.
That is correct bud.
 

Uncle Pastuzo

Active Member
Joined
May 25, 2021
Messages
164
Reaction score
46
Points
28
Supports
Newport
I'm guessing our pitch will be better than Tranmere's - and it needs to be because of the rugby - or their works would have been as drastic as ours and taken as long.

The big question is what happens over the third team using it, the original Newport RFC who didn't play at all last season. Without going too far into rugby stuff, they have guaranteed tenure but can't begin to pay their way. It's assumed efforts are under way to ease them out - why would the WRU spend a fortune on the pitch and have it ruined by a team playing in front of a couple of hundred? - but no news yet.
 

Robshep

Well-Known Member
Joined
Aug 22, 2020
Messages
2,649
Reaction score
1,063
Points
113
Location
Wallasey
Supports
Tranmere Rovers
I'm guessing our pitch will be better than Tranmere's - and it needs to be because of the rugby - or their works would have been as drastic as ours and taken as long.

The big question is what happens over the third team using it, the original Newport RFC who didn't play at all last season. Without going too far into rugby stuff, they have guaranteed tenure but can't begin to pay their way. It's assumed efforts are under way to ease them out - why would the WRU spend a fortune on the pitch and have it ruined by a team playing in front of a couple of hundred? - but no news yet.
Our pitch was done by the same company that did the Man City and PSG pitches amongst others. The reason it was quick was because it was done during the 1st lockdown and they didn't have any other jobs going at the time. Concentration of labour. Think we got a discounted price. We also have to tolerate Liverpool womens team playing on it. Money talks.
 

Uncle Pastuzo

Active Member
Joined
May 25, 2021
Messages
164
Reaction score
46
Points
28
Supports
Newport
I'm not sure ours could have been done any more quickly. We ceded the right to play the second playoff leg at home and they started stripping it immediately after we beat FGR in the first leg.
 

Robshep

Well-Known Member
Joined
Aug 22, 2020
Messages
2,649
Reaction score
1,063
Points
113
Location
Wallasey
Supports
Tranmere Rovers
I'm not sure ours could have been done any more quickly. We ceded the right to play the second playoff leg at home and they started stripping it immediately after we beat FGR in the first leg.
Ours was replaced because all of the drainage had collapsed and water had nowhere to go. Yours was mainly due to having rugby players gouging furrows in it at scrums and all the other stuff that goes on. Do you have long term plans to find a ground that you do not have to share with a sport that isn't ever going to be good for the pitch.
 

F!RTHY

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 19, 2015
Messages
3,971
Reaction score
1,049
Points
113
Supports
The Bantams
I have a weird feeling our game at the weekend is gonna be called off, too. This is based on absolutely nothing, other than a gut feeling.

I’ll be fucking gutted!
 

Uncle Pastuzo

Active Member
Joined
May 25, 2021
Messages
164
Reaction score
46
Points
28
Supports
Newport
No, there's no reason why with a good enough pitch - this one is apparently a big upgrade on the hybrid it replaces, with twice the projected lifespan - we can't share with the Dragons. The location must be one of the best in the country for public transport and town centre access. The level of the investment in the pitch in itself suggests we are there for the long haul.

This would put us on the same footing as Brentford, Bristol City, Coventry, Hull, Wigan and Rochdale. OK the last three are RL rather than union, but when do those pitches ever get a rest?

The problem is less the rugby per se than the amount of it. Last season rather than take advantage of Newport RFC being mothballed to protect the pitch, the Dragons let Cardiff Blues play a number of games at Rodney Parade when their ground was being used by the NHS, at exactly the worst time of year for it
 

Bottega Don

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 23, 2015
Messages
5,161
Reaction score
1,712
Points
113
Supports
Scunthorpe United
When you consider the amount of injuries you have had, possibly time to start thinking about what your sports science/strength and conditioning coaches are doing surely?
That is obviously part of it in terms of training injuries but these two were just terrible luck. There's little medical staff can do when our keeper gets injured because Swindon's RB doesn't pull out of a loose ball early enough and catches him.
 

Trapdoor

Well-Known Member
Joined
Apr 6, 2015
Messages
1,937
Reaction score
613
Points
113
Location
Here
Supports
Exeter
We signed podge. I guess we are paying all his (high?) wages. I'm happy with that, will be a useful squad member for us with plenty of experience.
 

denzel ecfc

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 18, 2015
Messages
4,081
Reaction score
1,136
Points
113
Supports
Exeter City
We may be doing a Harrogate. Three players with Covid, including Nombe and Key, we are speaking to the EFL tomorrow
 

Monkey Tennis

Well-Known Member
Joined
May 9, 2015
Messages
4,761
Reaction score
2,324
Points
113
Location
Barra
Supports
Bluebirds
In our programme notes, the chairman has said we've increased our playing budget by 25% (it was the 11th biggest in the division last year) and it's 40% higher than what Mark Cooper had at Forest Green!
 

Casey

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 14, 2015
Messages
3,032
Reaction score
753
Points
113
Location
Creepy
Supports
Creepy
In our programme notes, the chairman has said we've increased our playing budget by 25% (it was the 11th biggest in the division last year) and it's 40% higher than what Mark Cooper had at Forest Green!
Jammy bugger. We had an interview on Friday where we were told we had the lowest or maybe second lowest in the division.

Yems said "It is what it is and we just have to get on with it"

We are spending a fortune putting up a scoreboard which is said to be similar to the one at Colchester. Because that's important...!

Casey
 

Chris FGR

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 18, 2015
Messages
11,176
Reaction score
5,468
Points
113
Supports
Forest Green
In our programme notes, the chairman has said we've increased our playing budget by 25% (it was the 11th biggest in the division last year) and it's 40% higher than what Mark Cooper had at Forest Green!

So you’re budget was 15% higher then ours last season? Surprised at that tbh.

We’ve since lost 3 of our highest earners as well and only made 1 signing with EFL experience. So presumably we must have a bottom half budget this season.
 

The Jovial Forester

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 20, 2016
Messages
4,536
Reaction score
2,321
Points
113
Location
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Supports
Forest Green Rovers
In our programme notes, the chairman has said we've increased our playing budget by 25% (it was the 11th biggest in the division last year) and it's 40% higher than what Mark Cooper had at Forest Green!
Sounds plausible, we really haven't been the same moneybags on the playing side since we got in the EFL from what I've read, hence the younger signings for the most part.
 

Chris FGR

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 18, 2015
Messages
11,176
Reaction score
5,468
Points
113
Supports
Forest Green
I thought we overachieved for most of last season given our squad so Cooper deserves credit for that especially if those figures are right.

Be a big ask for an inexperienced manager like Edwards to get us up there in his first season, he’s made a pretty good start mind.
 

Monkey Tennis

Well-Known Member
Joined
May 9, 2015
Messages
4,761
Reaction score
2,324
Points
113
Location
Barra
Supports
Bluebirds
So you’re budget was 15% higher then ours last season? Surprised at that tbh.

We’ve since lost 3 of our highest earners as well and only made 1 signing with EFL experience. So presumably we must have a bottom half budget this season.
Not sure those exact maths add up, but yes, our budget was bigger than yours last season.

A lot of it was spent on signing a bunch of new players for Dunn, and then for Jolley, and then having about 30 players in the squad for what was left of the season, so it was more a case of chucking more money at it to try and keep us up (but the aim was definitely top half last season).

It's obvious that's one of the reasons Cooper came here - bigger budget being spent on fewer players. So far I imagine we've got a lot of that in hand at the moment, as the new players don't seem like they'd be paid significantly more than last year's - perhaps a January recruitment push to sneak into the play-offs!

Nah, we'll be mid-table.
 

Bone Idle

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 3, 2019
Messages
732
Reaction score
313
Points
63
Location
Llandogo
Supports
Newport County
Seeing as our efl cup game against southampton has virtually been confirmed will be played at dave that means our first league game at home will be orient in early september as expected.
 

Conker

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 18, 2015
Messages
7,108
Reaction score
1,733
Points
113
Supports
Mansfield Town FC
Twitter
@CONKS__
Barrow managerial budget was bigger than FGR playing budget last season.
 

dedwardp

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 23, 2015
Messages
2,365
Reaction score
601
Points
113
Supports
Colchester United

Salford looking to move to the AJ Bell Stadium.
 

denzel ecfc

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 18, 2015
Messages
4,081
Reaction score
1,136
Points
113
Supports
Exeter City

Salford looking to move to the AJ Bell Stadium.
How incredibly odd that this is on the unofficial site, with nothing on the official website.
Or maybe not.
 

Bottega Don

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 23, 2015
Messages
5,161
Reaction score
1,712
Points
113
Supports
Scunthorpe United
Salford's ground might be the worst located ground in the FL, no matter where they move it will be better.
 

saddler78

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 16, 2015
Messages
1,233
Reaction score
302
Points
83
Location
walsall
Supports
walsall

Salford looking to move to the AJ Bell Stadium.
12000 they struggle to get 2000 home fans in now
 

The Terminator

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 18, 2015
Messages
4,368
Reaction score
1,040
Points
113
Supports
Leyton Orient
AJ Bell Stadium IMO is in a much worse location. Although it has a bigger capacity and probably offers better facilities.

Moor Lane will probably cost too much to redevelope into something bigger now, seeing as they've already smashed it down once already!
 

Indian Dan

‘Absolute calamity!’
Joined
Jan 18, 2015
Messages
10,156
Reaction score
3,324
Points
113
Location
Corsham
Supports
Swindon

Salford looking to move to the AJ Bell Stadium.
They’ll have to rename it the AJ Bellend Stadium
 

Forum statistics

Threads
16,422
Messages
1,189,952
Members
8,392
Latest member
feby2112

Latest posts

Stronger Security, Faster Connections with VPN at IPVanish.com!

SITE SPONSORS

W88 W88 trang chu KUBET Thailand
Fun88 12Bet Get top UK casino bonuses for British players in casinos not on GamStop
The best ₤1 minimum deposit casinos UK not on GamStop Find the best new no deposit casino get bonus and play legendary slots Best UK online casinos list 2022
No-Verification.Casino Casinos that accept PayPal Top online casinos
sure.bet
Need help with your academic papers? Customwritings offers high-quality professionals to write essays that deserve an A!
Top