Attempt at an unbiased view...........

Quoted from BIGChris

Do you know what the budget is? Do you know if Paul has spent it, or has he just failed to bring in the player(s) he wants?

My understanding is that there is still room within the budget set to bring in the marquee striker we all (?) crave but for whatever reasons Paul has been unable, thus far, to land that big fish

But will a marquee striker make any difference if PH sticks to his limited tactics.  Look what we did to Connor Jennings!

Used to be very supportive of Hurst - felt to consecutive 4th places, Wembley appearance was very acceptable especially as only one side gets promoted automatically (which makes nay sort of 'failure' twice as bad IMO)
But.... we should be building on that and quite patently are not

Failure to buy a regular goalscorer is going to be Hurst's downfall - I posted yesterday that GTFC had as many shots as most top teams yesterday but nowhere near the amount on target or (obviously) goals.

I agree with earlier comment - would rather Hurst have spent a large amount of budget on a decent, proven goalscorer rather than some other positions.

We are uncreative, lack a spark in final third, aren't brave enough, too safety first...rather like the man in charge

Time for a change I think, especially if we lose/draw Tuesday

I am afraid Plan B is make Plan A work.

There was a rumour on this board that we had Rory Fallon training with us this
close season -i d'ont know if that was true or not, but i see he has scored back
to back goals for the Gypsies in L2, that beggers the question if he WAS here
why didn't we take the option on him?

Quoted from BIGChris

Do you know what the budget is? Do you know if Paul has spent it, or has he just failed to bring in the player(s) he wants?

My understanding is that there is still room within the budget set to bring in the marquee striker we all (?) crave but for whatever reasons Paul has been unable, thus far, to land that big fish

What do you mean 'your understanding' I thought you were on the board? If that's correct and you represent the fans shouldn't you know the answers to your questions & pass on the answers to the fans?????

Quoted from TAGG

What do you mean 'your understanding' I thought you were on the board? If that's correct and you represent the fans shouldn't you know the answers to your questions & pass on the answers to the fans?????

I am not on the board and never have been!

Quoted from headingly_mariner

But that is the problem, if there was that statement of intent in the budget that we could have the good squad we have and a top striker signing at this level we would be fine. The issue is the budget for me, we are one or two big signings from being a title challenger. Our board one man`s money has such a lack of ambition with regards to budgeting, they haven't taken note of how clubs like Crawley and fleetwood have made it out of here, they signed a good squad for the level and made a few key signings of players on the up like Tubbs and Vardy, these players got them promoted and sold for massive profit. The club is being lent enough money to keep it operating but just not enough to make a success of it. Sometimes you really do have to speculate to accumulate and that is not PH's fault.

Quoted from BIGChris

Do you know what the budget is? Do you know if Paul has spent it, or has he just failed to bring in the player(s) he wants?

My understanding is that there is still room within the budget set to bring in the marquee striker we all (?) crave but for whatever reasons Paul has been unable, thus far, to land that big fish

Is that a striker with his own tent? We already have one who couldn't hit a marquee from the inside.

I still maintain that strikers do not want to play for this team because they think they will not get fair treatment from the manager.

They know that PH messes about with one up front, two up front, one and half up front and so on. The one constant is LJL. Unless a new striker is a quicker, better and more prolific target player than LJL he has no chance of regular first team action. So spending on a poacher will be a waste of money because he won't play enough games to make it worthwhile. For the striker it will be a waste of time because he will spend more time on the bench than on the field.

Quoted from BIGChris

Do you know what the budget is? Do you know if Paul has spent it, or has he just failed to bring in the player(s) he wants?

My understanding is that there is still room within the budget set to bring in the marquee striker we all (?) crave but for whatever reasons Paul has been unable, thus far, to land that big fish

My understanding is that the budget is again smaller than that of previous seasons and is a competetive budget for the play offs but lacking in terms of challenging for the league. Are you saying the budget is there to spend the 50-100k on a transfer fee?  That is the kind of money  has been spend on Tubbs, Vardy and Gray's transfer fees.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

My understanding is that the budget is again smaller than that of previous seasons and is a competetive budget for the play offs but lacking in terms of challenging for the league. Are you saying the budget is there to spend the 50-100k on a transfer fee?  That is the kind of money  has been spend on Tubbs, Vardy and Gray's transfer fees.

That is implying that the Board, JF or both made a conscious decision to only aim for the play-offs. This is a specific statement, do you have any evidence to validate this? This isn't an attempt to have a go at the poster but could imply something that simply isn't true.