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Reply | Eze money
at 16:38 23 Aug 2025
No fcking chance Nourry should be allowed near a penny of it. |
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Reply | Saito
at 18:18 22 Aug 2025
In fairness Mart, 5’3 or 6’6 their graphics all look the same size on CN’s football manager simulations. |
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Reply | Harvey Vale: The answer to our problems?
at 17:32 18 Aug 2025
I’ve been saying for 12 months that I’m not sure exactly how Chair fits into the setup they’re trying to play. He’s a very good player at this level but he does rather stick out amongst the other small quick boys they’ve brought in. |
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Reply | Madsen and Field midfield
at 12:45 17 Aug 2025
Because they blew the budget on getting him in as our marquee signing. |
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Reply | Wat's the chances of a high scoring draw - match fred
at 15:33 16 Aug 2025
At some point it might be questioned why we are posting a right footed centre back at LB, with an actual LB on the bench and our most progressing midfielders at right back.
As we know from Nourry and Williams, this squad is in rude health so there are serious questions to answer. |
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Reply | The ‘project’…please enlighten me?
at 17:53 15 Aug 2025
And only caring about on the pitch results and how many players we sign is a perfectly fine position to take, but what are the metrics for success or failure?
They blew through £9m last summer, and likely another £20m+ loss to finish 16th last season. Was that *really* a successful season? Now we all know there were extenuating circumstances, several of the signings struggled in a new league and we had horrible injuries. If Nourry had come out and said ‘yeah we are really happy with the business we did, the lads struggled a bit but we think they’re great long term assets, and of course we had horrible injuries’ then I’d hope everyone could understand.
Instead, they fronted up that in fact it was ‘the big beautiful transfer window’, we got everyone we wanted, couldn’t be happier and in fact we didn’t have any injury crisis last season, so by default it was all the managers fault.
That then leaves Nourry and Stephan a big issue as by their own metric, we have no injury issues right now, in fact we are in rude health squad wise so there is no excuse for us not to be extremely competitive against anyone.
Nourry also engineered an issue all on his own because they stated in the last accounts that they spent £9m, yet he then had the PR teams ring round insisting that actually that £9m was only a worst case scenario if everyone smashed their KPI’s, while at the same time insisting we had ‘the big beautiful transfer window’. So which is it? Did we have the BBTF and all the players are amazing and so we are going to realise the £9m? Or was it a bit of a mess and we likely won’t realise the full amount?
Equally this summer, we have spent again and are likely to require a fallow summer next summer to stay within FFP. What equates to success this season? Would another 16th, or even lower be success? Would you as someone who only cares about on the pitch continue to support him in that scenario?
And then we come to the Eze money. If as expected he goes very late in the window and we have wait to January to be able to reinvest it, what is the KPI for allowing Nourry to oversee that once in a generation spend? If we are in the lower half of the tables after 2x big windows, would he have earned the right to spend that last chance money? How high is good enough. 12th? 10th? 7th?
Clearly we disagree about the importance of on/off the pitch stuff, I weight them at 50:50, you weight on the pitch higher, so what would be your metric for this season for Nourry deserving a third season at the helm, considering that S1 was by his own spin a high spending failure of a season?
I, and I suspect others, would really appreciate your thoughts on what he needs to deliver. |
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Reply | The ‘project’…please enlighten me?
at 13:51 15 Aug 2025
Just to pick up on your claim that Nourry is clearly extremely intelligent and would be a PL CEO if he was only a bit more experienced, there is really nothing in his background to support that statement.
After leaving school he set up a e-com marketing consultancy that failed. He then setup as a recruitment consultant which via his dads fabulously well connected black book got him contracts with Retexo (run by another fabulously well connected young private schoolboy) and ultimately a toe in the door at QPR.
The reason he is not a PL CEO is the same reason he was working as a self-employed recruitment consultant before meeting Lee Hoos - no other professional football club would be so utterly insane as to hire a 25 year old recruitment consultant with no football experience to a senior role, let alone an executive role.
None of that should ultimately matter of course, he’s not going anywhere so all that’s important is results on the pitch which as Hunter has said we simply don’t know yet. We know they blew through £9m to finish 16th last season but we won’t know how much FFP headroom they sacrificed to do that until early next year when the accounts come out.
This season in order to justify the extensively discussed downsides - the arrogance, the insecurity, the morale within the grunts around the club, the disdain for communicating with supporters - he needs to produce marked improvement on the pitch, when as North says, if he just gave us some feel good crumbs from the table he would likely have the goodwill to survive another 16th (or let’s be honest, likely lower…..) finishing position.
As it is, he is paying PR companies to place puff pieces calling him ‘the Messi of football boardrooms’ and rewarding his best mate Williams - who utterly took the piss out of the club last season and only came back because Boston sacked him within a year - with a promotion to his official right hand man while he patronises supporters at what was supposed to be a softball supporters forum…. |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 10:00 14 Aug 2025
It’s a bit much to say he improved as he went on, he was targeted all night by Plymouth and they had plenty of success down his side, especially once Talla came on who was unfortunately struggled massively.
Another one btw who by Nourrys public edict should be gone, but instead is still hanging around at 21 with no prospect of ever making it at the club…… |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 07:38 13 Aug 2025
In retrospect, the two most damning takeaways are that Petrie who was already too old this summer by Nourrys edict to paled or the club, was given a new contract by him and not even in the travelling party, instead being played RWB for the EDS team instead, and Dixon-Bonner who was given a new multi year contract by Nourry being sent out at DM to try and desperately rustle up some interested party to take him off our hands.
#cooking |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 07:15 13 Aug 2025
Obviously Mart I wasn’t suggesting you thrown them out together in a league game, I’m an idiot, I’m not a sadist.
As you say, you introduce one or two, minutes here and there with experienced players to hopefully manage them through the game. But even the two centre backs who looked most comfortable out there could never be put into a championship match even with Cook or Morrison alongside them, it would be as traumatic as when Joe Gubbins was ritualistically sacrificed on the pitch at Watford.. |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 22:00 12 Aug 2025
The saddest part about it is that for all the spinning those at the top table will be doing about putting out such a young team, only 3 of the starting 11 actually came through the EDS, the rest were bought in….. |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 21:52 12 Aug 2025
About the only meaningful takeaways are that it’s unsurprising the club are keen to shed Nardi’s generous wage packet, Tuck is infact not the messiah some thought and seemingly has no future here, Burrell is fast and that’s about it.
Cant blame the kids, they have a valiant account of themselves against by far and away the highest quality and strongest opponents physically they’ll have ever played against, but clearly none of them are close to being able to fill injury gaps this season. |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 21:47 12 Aug 2025
I mean you have spent all off season insisting that the EDS kids should be throw into the first team and next season they will make up the core of a title winning team…
No matter which way you try and spin it, they instead, rather predictably, showed that absolutely none of them can be relied upon in a competitive league game this season. |
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