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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 00:38 29 Jan 2026
So, it’s our risk taking that is causing injuries? I wasn’t aware how much more daredevil we were compared to the league.
And, if the club hire someone, we should trust them and not question it at all because they know better. That’s what you’re saying, yes?
And they are giving 100% so what more can we ask?
How about be better at the job, as opposed to the straw man of being asked to try harder? No? Okay.
You’re aware of the personal relationship between the CEO and Williams? |
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Reply | Christian Pullella
at 22:44 28 Jan 2026
The strategy is fine, if niche when you factor in our labour costs to make it happen (including Nourry - time is money.
The issue is 4 Aussie signing from the same agent. None of Jen
First Team players. Data led? Remarkable coincidence.
Someone is making money somewhere. They always are. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 21:51 28 Jan 2026
Mr Realist, you haven’t answered my questions? You’ve only answered whether you agree with me about bringing someone in from the football world and giving him 3 years.
What about all those questions at the top?
Please could you answer those and follow them through to reach the conclusion you are pushing?
Happy to discuss in person if you’d prefer. [Post edited 28 Jan 21:54]
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 21:48 28 Jan 2026
But is he learning? Are we improving on the fitness and conditioning front? To use your own words, where is the quantitative evidence? |
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Reply | Christian Pullella
at 15:37 28 Jan 2026
That is really good to hear, BAW. Hope it’s true.
Obviously, it would be mad of an agent to bad mouth a club he’s doing business with, even to friends, so a small pinch of salt required, but genuinely hope it’s true.
And, as Clive has said, several things can be true at once (good atmosphere, good signings, bad signings, poor performance function, etc). |
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Reply | Christian Pullella
at 14:40 28 Jan 2026
Registered address and office address are different things. I doubt they actually work out of there. |
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Reply | Christian Pullella
at 14:00 28 Jan 2026
Centre Circle Consulting Ltd. Registered address in Pinner. Led by a Matthew David Moore. They have more than just these 4 Aussie lads as clients, about 35 in total. |
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Reply | Christian Nourry - Two Year Anniversary
at 12:10 28 Jan 2026
Yes, the accounts, if they are transparent, for last season (including the summer when we signed Celar, Madsen, Dembele at al), should be enlightening. Should be March. The accounts released in March ‘27 for this current season with all our signings, will even more interesting. We’ll also know by that point where we are league wise and whether we’ve sold anyone in the summer of 2026 or Jan 2026 for big money. So March ‘27, after over 3 years in the role, would seem like a very fair point to judge based on outcomes.
In the meantime, you can only judge on inputs, which comprise of two things, broadly: actions and behaviours. Everyone knows where I stand on those two. |
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Reply | Frey
at 09:16 28 Jan 2026
As has been said, we don’t know if he moved for a “fee”, just that the deal was worth £500k to us, which could be a fee or could be the value of his contract we’re no longer burdened with.
Good spot about the ownership though. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 07:29 28 Jan 2026
What do you think about my post at the bottom of page 2? Do you agree? |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 21:55 27 Jan 2026
Good question.
Is Stephan ignoring the advice of the Performance function or is that function not giving the type of advice previous managers/head coaches received?
I don’t know.
But I absolutely agree that Burrell’s injury was coming. I was exasperated that he wasn’t taken off at HT against Leicester. Perfect moment to rest him.
Agree that Kone, and Madsen, are ticking time bombs regards injuries unless they get a break soon. Feels inevitable. Varane was the same, but that’s already happened.
Dunne is another. Widely known to be playing through a hip problem. Worry he could aggravate it and be out for a while.
But like I said, no idea what the answer to that question above is.
What I would say is, if Stephan is ignoring Ben Williams, I would imagine BW is in Nourry’s ear fairly regularly about it, and it could shorten Stephan’s reign… |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 21:05 27 Jan 2026
So you don’t think it’s possible to have fewer injuries at this stage of a season? You think the Performance function is doing as good a job as is possible?
That is effectively what that post is saying, isn’t it?
Fair play if you believe that. It’s quite depressing and defeatist, imo.
But also, no matter how well you do at something in a professional capacity, you should always be striving to do better, shouldn’t you? That is the job. And it is also the whole point of competitive sport. So surely the rhetoric should be about aiming to do better next season, by doing something different. Not arguing there isn’t a problem.
As an aside, I think we are one of the only clubs in the land whose performance function is led by a guy whose entire career background was in cycling, and who came in and said he was going to bring principles from that world into football as he believed it would give us an edge. Call me a lunatic, but perhaps he’s wrong and it’s disadvantaging us.
And, further to that, why not put it to the test and hire someone who’s spent their career in football to lead that aspect of the club and see if it improves it? Give them 3 seasons like Ben Williams will have had. Then we’ll know for sure. Agree? You might be proven correct! |
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Reply | Christian Nourry - Two Year Anniversary
at 20:53 27 Jan 2026
Talk to people who work at the club. Not sure you’ll find a huge amount of agreement there.
And the pitch doesn’t strike me as something that would happen at a well run club.
I grant you that he has a plan. I don’t think it’s wildly different to the previous regime’s plan, and it’s too early to say if he’s on course to executing it or not. We haven’t sold any of the players he’s signed yet for big money, and we don’t know if we’re going to finish in a similar position to the last two seasons or finish top half.
The key point that has been raised is trust. Personally, I don’t see much effort being made to rectify that and build trust (yet!). How he handles this season’s injury and conditioning issues could go a long way to rebuilding that trust, but it will require him to put club over colleague/friend. |
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Reply | Frey
at 07:13 27 Jan 2026
I’m sure it’s what Dave has been told/leaked by the club too, hence why he is reporting it as such. |
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Reply | Frey
at 21:59 26 Jan 2026
Think the word “If” might be doing a lot of heavy lifting in relation to this purported fee… |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 21:00 26 Jan 2026
Well, at least Thomas-Asante won’t be playing on Sat. That’ll be a 3 game ban for him at some point this week when the EFL deliver their retrospective punishment. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 20:52 26 Jan 2026
Pretty sure our CEO referenced this “3 game week criteria” regards the head coach search after we hired Stephan. |
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Reply | Frey
at 20:48 26 Jan 2026
Yeah, thank you, Michi. Enjoyed your performances last season. Without him, we’d have been well and truly screwed last season.
Joins the pantheon of quirky but fondly remembered journeymen players from the continent who had relatively short careers at Rangers, such as Polter, Sylla, Leistner, and Wszolek.
Good luck, sir. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 12:09 25 Jan 2026
Indeed. It’s very clear all available funds are being put towards enabling our CEO to play real life ‘Football Manager’.
The ground and the facilities within it are falling apart. I’m not sure that side of things is getting any attention or budget.
The category 1 academy status, once it’s actually delivered, could be great for the club, but there is a long way to go before that is realised.
Also intrigued to see what happens with the Trust’s activity now Andy Evans has retired.
As you imply, everything comes back to stands and expectations of ourselves as a club. [Post edited 25 Jan 12:10]
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