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Billy Hunt said:
I still think they'll go down with West Brom.:( :confused:
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This weekend : Birmingham away to Everton, Pompey at home to Sunderland. Looks like a pretty high chance that Pompey will be 3 points clear with a better goal difference.
 

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It looks like we are going to miss out big time financially. Only three games left and by all acounts it looks like DJ will be confined to the reserves for the rest of the season and Brum will be relegated on the last day of the season
 

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Best thing for DJ's career would be relagation to the championship, otherwise it will be a long 3 years in the stiffs
 

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I said this from the outset selling DJ would be our downfall and whilst I said that is a big mistake,The majority of GPG persons slated me for talking crap, well you have all seen the latest results and I belive with DJ in the side we would have won the lge easy.

ruddy BFC always feck it up at the wrong time.

I still hope to be proved wrong but I just can not see us going up.
 

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:dj: I think the part that is more irritating, is that he is now sat in the reserves doing nish :nono: .

It doesn't benefit us or them while he's in the reserves........at least when he was playing for brum it didn't seem so bad :(

what a waste!
 
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Birmingham City surviving relegation is a better result for us than winning promotion. The former will earn us a few quid, the latter ought to not cost us anything long term but will send our cash-flow into chaos.

However, winning promotions and success on the field is the whole point of football. With League 1 so tight, you have to wonder how retaining DJ until the end of the season would have boosted our league position. The answer is likely to be very much comparable to the sale of Forster.
 

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Sweepy said:
The answer is likely to be very much comparable to the sale of Forster.
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i.e. we'll never know. DJ was just hitting his stride as a pro footballer but as a rookie it's also possible he'd have had a slump in form at some point. One things for sure, he'd have scored more than Willock.
 

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Willock - first 11 games, 0 goals
DJ - first 22 games, 4 goals.

Not a lot in it yet.
 

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Paul O'Brien said:
Willock - first 11 games, 0 goals
DJ - first 22 games, 4 goals.

Not a lot in it yet.
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I meant from then until the end of the season, not comparing the start of their careers at BFC. I know DJ had a slow start but that wouldn't be much use to us know would it?
 

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But looking at the time it took DJ to fit in we can't expect that until next season.
 

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Paul O'Brien said:
Willock - first 11 games, 0 goals
DJ - first 22 games, 4 goals.

Not a lot in it yet.
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These stats are crap really, Dj terrorised defences when he played and to be honest made more than he scored with his movement. The guy was class and had a great touch. Also in stages of games where we where struggling he would be asked to play as a right winger where he also was more than capable of doing a job Willock is shi*e and it makes my blood boil thinking we paid 40k for that berkshire hunt.
 

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blianstillman said:
These stats are crap really, Dj terrorised defences when he played and to be honest made more than he scored with his movement. The guy was class and had a great touch. Also in stages of games where we where struggling he would be asked to play as a right winger where he also was more than capable of doing a job Willock is shi*e and it makes my blood boil thinking we paid 40k for that berkshire hunt.
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Some people have such short memories.

For a long time, he was 'only good for the last 20 mins, can't last a game' etc etc. Yes he is a big loss, but remember he only really hit form for one month.

I cant believe people are still questionning whether selling was the right option - it was the only option IMO. We simply could not turn down Birmingham / DJ's wishes, and hope that DJ carried on his then prolific form. Say he did his cruciate ligament, we would be buggered and slaughtering the board for taking a gamble.

If recently we would have played to our standards earlier on in the season, we would have been as good as up now.

P.s. How many minutes have you seen Willock play? How many times have you seen him play a full 90 minutes? He may turn out to be rubbish but at least give the bloke a chance.
 

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We beat Forest 2-1 and Tranmere 4-1 away without DJ on the pitch and beat Southend 2-0 at home. He would certainly have added something to the squad if we had kept him, but we have had enough good performances and results in every month of the season other than January which were not at all reliant on DJ to show that we could and still should do it without him.

The real loss has been O'Connor and Pratley's poor form since returning from injury.
 

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jonny c said:
How many minutes have you seen Willock play? How many times have you seen him play a full 90 minutes? He may turn out to be rubbish but at least give the bloke a chance.
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yawn yawn yawn, if we'd kept deano and blissett, sinton and bent, paul evans, terry evans, hurlock, merson, ferdinand, etc we'd be in the premier league!

COME ON BRENTFORD, beat swindon and promotion party v Hartlepool!!!

:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :eek:
 

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Inappropriate Smilies Bee said:
yawn yawn yawn, if we'd kept deano and blissett, sinton and bent, paul evans, terry evans, hurlock, merson, ferdinand, etc we'd be in the premier league!

COME ON BRENTFORD, beat swindon and promotion party v Hartlepool!!!

:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :eek:
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To true!:sorted: :sorted: Look forward not back.
 

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AB said:
The real loss has been O'Connor and Pratley's poor form since returning from injury.
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Agreed!!
 

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Given that Owusu has scored 7 in the 13 games he started since DJ left and compare that to 5 goals from 25 games prior

54% vs 20%

No brainer

Fact is midfield has been poor
 

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he only need two more appearences until we get the £100,000 hopefully one of those will be today then on the last game of the season when they stay up and he makes his 10th appearence we'll be £200,000 richer!
 

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dj came off the bench today at last... still no joy for paul smith
 

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blianstillman said:
These stats are crap really, Dj terrorised defences when he played and to be honest made more than he scored with his movement. The guy was class and had a great touch. Also in stages of games where we where struggling he would be asked to play as a right winger where he also was more than capable of doing a job Willock is shi*e and it makes my blood boil thinking we paid 40k for that berkshire hunt.
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Ah it must be great to have finally found the new Stuart Talbot huh.
 

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Holysmit said:
Ah it must be great to have finally found the new Stuart Talbot huh.
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Not really i just think even though he scored at the weekend he was a waste of 40k, 40k to us is alot of money and i feel we had people within our squad to cover and as much of a job as he has or may potentially do.
 

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blianstillman said:
Not really i just think even though he scored at the weekend he was a waste of 40k, 40k to us is alot of money and i feel we had people within our squad to cover and as much of a job as he has or may potentially do.
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Isn't hindsight great, eh?
 

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blianstillman said:
is that looking back and thinking i was wrong to down talk him before his goal, or the fact that we shouldnt have signed him?
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If Willock scores in the next 2 (winning) games, he will be a hero....that's how fickle fans are.
His lob against Swindon was exquisite, and hopefully will feed him with the confidence all strikers need.



back the boys and :thetruth: will follow
 

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SmiffyBee said:
If Willock scores in the next 2 (winning) games, he will be a hero....that's how fickle fans are.
His lob against Swindon was exquisite, and hopefully will feed him with the confidence all strikers need.



back the boys and :thetruth: will follow
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Willock and 450k for Campbell was the best piece of business that Bees ever did - FACT

watch as willock fires us up!!!
 

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Substitute today v Newcastle. Hopefully will play and earn us £90,000 share of first add-on.
 

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he came on as a sub. brum relegated however.
 

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lol 9 appearances. Typi-****ing-cal.

I wondered when this thread would arise, but it wasn't for the reason I expected.
 

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He made his 10th appearance today by my and Soccerbase's reckoning.

Reckon we mde £150K today via Brum and the Coca Cola dosh - no real consolation though.
 

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Is Pompeybee excused the general disappointment about losing the money due if Birmingham stayed up?
 

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brighton bee said:
do we get 100k then?
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if its confirmed as DJ's 10 appearence then we get 90K as 10k goes to Yeading and part of that i think to Stevenage.

i hope if Brum go back up and DJ's still there that the terms are then brought back into force which means 10 goals and another 10 appearences means more money!

i think we miss him or a player of his ability since he left.(my opinion)
 

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wanderer paul said:
if its confirmed as DJ's 10 appearence then we get 90K as 10k goes to Yeading and part of that i think to Stevenage.

i hope if Brum go back up and DJ's still there that the terms are then brought back into force which means 10 goals and another 10 appearences means more money!

i think we miss him or a player of his ability since he left.(my opinion)
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Turning point of the season......


We would have pi55ed this league with him!!!
 

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kendo said:
Turning point of the season......

We would have pi55ed this league with him!!!
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DJ weren't all that.

He was good. Now he's gone.

Get the feck over it.
 

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Pete_the_Bee said:
DJ weren't all that.

He was good. Now he's gone.

Get the feck over it.
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its not that we miss HIM (DJ).. we miss a player of his ability. Whether it be DJ or someone else. He went, good for him, but the replacement well......... another thread is sooooo big that i think we know what people think of Willock
 

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North London Bee said:
He made his 10th appearance today by my and Soccerbase's reckoning.

Reckon we mde £150K today via Brum and the Coca Cola dosh - no real consolation though.
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You forgot to mention the £400k we would have to pay in bonuses, should we win auto promotion - something which would plunge us into deep financial strife. Still no consolation though from this end either. Like everyone else, I want to see it happen on the pitch...
 

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strikers no matter what quality would struggle in our team as we dont create anything
 

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Well, we saved £400k in bonuses that would be paid for winning the title and are in an excellent position to save a further £400k next Saturday. :sorted:
Suddenly, everything's rosy in the garden again. :rolleyes:
 
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