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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 14th January

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Janice

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Could be that people have fat fingers and are hitting that button while scrolling on their phones.

However if that's not the case then I don't blame you for not putting up with it, Herc.
Why dont the mods just take off the negative ratings for itk posters... problem solved !
 

Janice

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They have nothing else to do so why not waste their time on the idiots giving negative ratings. :rolleyes:
I meant to take off the option to,neg rate them ! So we avoid the problem altogether, dealing with the source not the symptoms!
 

Rob

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I meant to take off the option to,neg rate them ! So we avoid the problem altogether, dealing with the source not the symptoms!

You've got it backwards haven't you? The source is people not reading the rules or being idiots. The symptom is that they neg rate the ITKs. If we stopped them doing that they'd still continue to break the other rules they've not bothered reading. We deal with the source by banning them.
 

Hercules

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2 years ago we were very interested. He (Maddison) wanted to go where he was going to play, and not develop. I do not blame him there. If we are to succeed, then we have to convince him that he is coming straight in with same chance as everyone else.

Obviously talking to a lot of clubs. We have a relationship with Norwich. Won’t say more than that for now :barefoot:
 

HobbitSpur

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2 years ago we were very interested. He (Maddison) wanted to go where he was going to play, and not develop. I do not blame him there. If we are to succeed, then we have to convince him that he is coming straight in with same chance as everyone else.

Obviously talking to a lot of clubs. We have a relationship with Norwich. Won’t say more than that for now :barefoot:

Definately not dissing the ITK and apologies if misunderstood/misread Hercs post but surely a player who does not want to develop is a million miles away from Poch's ethos.
 

Danners9

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Definately not dissing the ITK and apologies if misunderstood/misread Hercs post but surely a player who does not want to develop is a million miles away from Poch's ethos.
think it means a player choosing to go into one team's first team squad over going into another team's PL2 development squad.
 

PhezTHFC

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think it means a player choosing to go into one team's first team squad over going into another team's PL2 development squad.
Exactly how I would also view things as well. Learn more playing important games then PL2 games imo
 

diamond lights

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If we can convince him that he will be in first team squad, training every day with the others with the chance of playing if he shows enough in training hopefully that'll do it.
I hope if we want him Poch will put in a call personally - really like this kid.
 

Ghost Hardware

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I like the idea of Maddison but I'm not sure how he is an upgrade on what we have. He will add to the depth, but I feel like we should be looking for players who will improve our attack. I understand it's obviously difficult and expensive to do this, but we have Lamela and Sissoko (who Poch rightly or wrongly rates) so I'm not sure how Mad will get much time unless we get injuries.

I guess I'm not sure how he fits in with this supposed name player who would go straight in that JJ and Herc have alluded to. Unless we are looking to move on Sissoko (which I would be happy with) and/or Lamela (which I really would not be happy about).
 

HobbitSpur

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I like the idea of Maddison but I'm not sure how he is an upgrade on what we have. He will add to the depth, but I feel like we should be looking for players who will improve our attack. I understand it's obviously difficult and expensive to do this, but we have Lamela and Sissoko (who Poch rightly or wrongly rates) so I'm not sure how Mad will get much time unless we get injuries.

I guess I'm not sure how he fits in with this supposed name player who would go straight in that JJ and Herc have alluded to. Unless we are looking to move on Sissoko (which I would be happy with) and/or Lamela (which I really would not be happy about).

Sorry if I appear to be facetious, honestly not my intention, but surely injuries are the exact reason why we should be looking at players akin to Maddison
 

WiganSpur

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Don't see why Maddison can't get minutes for us this season. Character wise he looks to have similarities to Dele which is great.

Had Barkley been fit we'd have signed him so surely there's room for another AM?
 
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