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Transfer News, Gossip & Speculation Transfer Thread - Summer 2025 Edition.

Transfer news
As has already been suggested several times, by good sources, league football was not on the table at the time we could have apparently got this deal done.
Although it can also be said that league football wasn't on the table when the club did reportedly make an offer. There's nothing to say making an offer wasn't the trigger for the EFL club coming in, or being alerted to the potential that a deal could be done. We just don't know; I'm sure this sort of thing has happened hundreds of times over a number of years, but the difference in the social media age is that more people become aware of things.
 
The extrapolation is nobody signs until they sign.

Claiming after the event 'we would have signed x' is never possible to prove or disprove. The Cashman situation shows how close people can think it is done and still not be done.
Fair enough, but the way you worded it made it seem like you were saying we had no chance and this situation proves it.

If all you're really saying is that you shouldn't count your chickens before they're hatched, then I completely agree. But, that still doesn't mean we wouldn't have signed him.
 
Our gates were well up last season, just under 5K average, leaving us 15th in the table but way behind some clubs such as Bradford who averaged nearly 18K! Your average crowd left you 2nd in the National league behind Oldham and would leave you in 8th place in league two, although of course there would be more away fans bumping up your crowds quite a lot.
We were significantly above Oldham av attendance. Stop sneaking in those ribbers me little scummer, i'm watching ya 😄😄😄
 
Our gates were well up last season, just under 5K average, leaving us 15th in the table but way behind some clubs such as Bradford who averaged nearly 18K! Your average crowd left you 2nd in the National league behind Oldham and would leave you in 8th place in league two, although of course there would be more away fans bumping up your crowds quite a lot.
I assume you're taking your attendance figures from Football Web Pages. For some reason, I don't think their average figures are correct. If you extract to an Excel Spreadsheet, our crowds were the highest in the National League. If you look at all home games (including cups) then theirs (including their play-off quarter final) is 6408 and ours is 7139.

If you exclude cup and play off games and just look at the 23 home games in the regular league season, ours is 7339 and Oldham's is 6073.

Whichever way you cut it, we had the highest crowds in the National League last season, not Oldham (and by some distance too).

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I assume you're taking your attendance figures from Football Web Pages. For some reason, I don't think their average figures are correct. If you extract to an Excel Spreadsheet, our crowds were the highest in the National League. If you look at all home games (including cups) then theirs (including their play-off semi final) is 6408 and ours is 7139.

If you exclude cup and play off games and just look at the 23 home games in the regular league season, ours is 7339 and Oldham's is 6545.

Whichever way you cut it, we had the highest crowds in the National League last season, not Oldham (and by some distance too).

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Did someone tell Cashman this?!?!?!?!
 
Did someone tell Cashman this?!?!?!?!
I'm not sure, I was just correcting our friend from up the A12 who was under the misapprehension that we weren't the best supported club in the National League (although he's not disputing we're the biggest club in Essex!).
 
I assume you're taking your attendance figures from Football Web Pages. For some reason, I don't think their average figures are correct. If you extract to an Excel Spreadsheet, our crowds were the highest in the National League. If you look at all home games (including cups) then theirs (including their play-off quarter final) is 6408 and ours is 7139.

If you exclude cup and play off games and just look at the 23 home games in the regular league season, ours is 7339 and Oldham's is 6073.

Whichever way you cut it, we had the highest crowds in the National League last season, not Oldham (and by some distance too).

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It’s because for some reason, that page has included Wembley as a ‘home’ game for Oldham and as part of their average attendance.

As you say, ours was much higher.
 
All the excuses last season was we couldn’t do anything early and we missed out on players and that hindered us at the start of the season
I don’t want to be hearing that this year because we can do early business
How we getting on with this . Cashman would have been a quality signing for us and we ****ed around and missed out. Don’t worry tho eh
 
Our gates were well up last season, just under 5K average, leaving us 15th in the table but way behind some clubs such as Bradford who averaged nearly 18K! Your average crowd left you 2nd in the National league behind Oldham and would leave you in 8th place in league two, although of course there would be more away fans bumping up your crowds quite a lot.
Not sure that is 100% correct. The stats appear to include Oldham's home play-off game against Halifax. We had to play this round away at Rochdale. Whereas across the regular season I believe Southend's attendances were higher. Happy to be corrected I have got this wrong.
BTW, I write this as someone who lives in Colchester!
 
I think if this data analysis continues for too long. We could dip out on our other prime targets.
Don’t the club trust Kev to make the call on a player ?
 
Our gates were well up last season, just under 5K average, leaving us 15th in the table but way behind some clubs such as Bradford who averaged nearly 18K! Your average crowd left you 2nd in the National league behind Oldham and would leave you in 8th place in league two, although of course there would be more away fans bumping up your crowds quite a lot.
Er, no it didn’t! We were 1,000 up on them on average. Something has gone awry with the calculation of Oldham’s average on FootballWebPages’ NL attendances page. I’m guessing that’s where you looked?

Oldham’s average was around 6,000 going into the last game - on FWP and everywhere else. We were 1,000 + ahead. One attendance of 10,000 in their final match does not add 2,000 to your average over 23 matches!

If you click to see their game by game attendances there were loads with 4k and 5k attendances. We certainly had a higher average than them last season.
 

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