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Selected thoughts from readers26/05/2026 12:18:07
I'm hoping that some club will come in with an offer to tempt Moyes away this summer, Kevin. Unlikely, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
27/05/2026 05:18:49
Kevin and Dennis thank you very much for your posts.
Strip away the commercial wins, and TFG have made no meaningful on-pitch progress. Revenue is set to break £250m and the new stadium is complete, but none of that has translated into squad investment or results. The club finished 13th in 2024/2025 and 2025/2026, attacking data improved, but defence regressed. In their first full window, TFG authorised £28m for Dewsbury-Hall, £27m for Barry (who has looked poorly coached), and £40m for an unproven teenager in Dibling (a massive gamble on potential) and £9 million for Aznou who is not in the Squad.
The most significant football appointment, Technical Director Nick Cox, only arrived in October 2025, ten months after the takeover. Finch Farm still lacks the £10-15m upgrade needed to be first-class. TFG have professionalised the boardroom and finished a stadium, but a club is not a balance sheet or real estate. By failing to dismantle the self-preserving silos at Finch Farm or reinvest revenue into squad quality, they have preserved the exact survival ceiling that has existed for years. The physical infrastructure has changed. The institutional culture of mediocrity has not.
Moyes brought stability and safety which is a genuine contribution. But he has preserved 'Finch Farm'and it's broken culture by never challenging its structure, lowering the tactical ceiling to survival football, and absorbing criticism that belongs to the system behind him. He is the perfect manager for a broken culture and that is why he has to go.
My above article was trying to make sense of TFG's approach, but Kevin's comment actually predict how next season will unfold, unless they make a shape of addressing the issues raised.Dennis Moyes is already going away to the World Cup, but will be back in Sept in Spirit only and I won't be watching and of his Pressers.
A new adventurous replacement would find himself very much on square one and very quickly in danger of falling off it.
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26/05/2026 10:32:56
I resent the fact TFG have not had the decency to turn up once since they bought the club. It's rank bad manners, and does not bode well for their attitude towards the fanbase.
they've got themselves into a bit of a pickle now, and it will be interesting to see how they handle it. BMD will be half full if we continue to play as we have been by Christmas, and that is a form of communication they will not be able to ignore. None of the hundred million granted last year has impacted the team save for KDH, and I don't expect them to release another hundred. Moyes will be told to sell, and wheel and deal. but shedding these crap buys aint gonna be easy, and will leave us with a much shrunken pot. Moyes comms in the last month has also made TFG look like masters, we could easily be in crisis in the Autumn, frantically hunting for a manager when there are none to be found. You know, what we usually do. And so the cycle continues.