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Neil M · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 2593 Location: Aberdeen

If the board are serious about moving this club forward, the MUST start learning from their mistakes instead of repeating them. Our squad is very small, we need Lewis's input - badly - to get out of this league. Selling any of our best players right now for anything less than a ridiculously high price would be professional suicide. I hope that thinking has stopped.

I agree completely that bored journalists pick up on what is written on forums like this, but that does us no favours whatsoever. It is usually negative towards our club and puts ideas into other peoples' heads. Namely the players and the clubs involved read it and something *can* develop from that. Hopefully it goes away this time. Then maybe we should stop assuming that our best players are far too good for us and speculating too much about that on here. Maybe we should wait until something is really going on (which it might well be now in this case).

Castle · Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 4940

I guess the gamble is that we keep Lewis for this season in the knowledge that he will leave in 9 months for a pittance but even with him in the squad we still don't gain promotion. That said wihout Vaughan i think we have no chance of winning the league. With him in the squad we have a much greater chance although I still make Ayr favourites. I suppose it all comes down to the fee. Anything less than 100k and I don't think it will be worth it but having said that I am not I a position to say how much 90k could help the club. Considering we had to lay off a number of non playing staff only a couple of months ago then I'd imagine it could help greatly.
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Crazy Englishman · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 12:15 pm Post subject:

i think everyone on here is taking the wrong view on this. Yes LV is a huge asset at this point in time, but he is also a liability to the teams developement. As it stand and the way you are all talking, we are becoming a one man team and that would be a disaster for all.

People forget we have goals all over this squad and waiting to step up are Yaw and jonny Court who given the chance could i suggest have a positive impact on the team.

Yes LV is a positive asset for the rovers but he is not irreplaceable, no one is thats why its important that we the fans get behind all the players throughout the season.
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rw89 · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 2148

Strathallan Rover · Joined: 29 Nov 2014 Posts: 652

How anyone can call a striker who, if fit, can score 20-25 goals a liability is laughable. No way will JC & YO be able to step up and fill the gap if LV was to leave. We need to win promotion this year and it will only happen with LV at Stark's Park.

Craig_1986 · Joined: 18 Jun 2011 Posts: 1841

Vaughan is the best player at the club. Selling him would be madness and I doubt we'd see any player, current or new, fill the void if he was sold on. In fact I'd go as far as saying we won't the league without him. That's how influential of a player he is and he's pivotal in terms of how Smith sets up his team.

Mad Steve · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 45

The board need to work out how much more money we make in the Championship, work out how much we would get for LV next summer and if the difference between any potential bid for him now and what we'd get next summer is smaller than the extra money to be made in the Championship then the bidding club should be told to get lost.
Once man does not make a team, but the scoring stats make a compelling argument to keep LV regardless of money offered.
If we were to cash in right now then would we have sufficient time to add a quality replacement to the squad?
This sort of nonsense is exactly why I would have the domestic transfer window closed the moment league football starts.

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Crazy Englishman · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 1:49 pm Post subject:

StarksBarmy · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 4030

Unlike most on here it seems, I don't look solely at the goals we will lose if he goes, more so the service he will provide to others. He is the perfect player to sit slightly deeper and provide that bit of imagination and guile between the midfield and strikers. To have a quality player who can play up top, in the hole behind or even out wide if required is a god send when our squad is 11 or 12 players plus the development squad...

After last season, our board owe us the decision which gives us best chance of getting back where we were and unless the money is pretty crazy, that would be Vaughan staying put, end of.

Crazy Englishman · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 3:15 pm Post subject:

StarksBarmy · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 4030

Don't think it's a case of relying on Vaughan for promotion, more a case of being seriously handicapped if he is sold.

For me, we are favourites to win the division as it stands. If we lost Vaughan tomorrow, I would be leaning towards Ayr Utd, not because we are a one man team but because like any side in world football, if you lose your best player, you are weakened on the whole.

Neil M · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 2593 Location: Aberdeen

With the size of squad we have. we depend on ALL our best players. Other that that we'd be looking at youth players, emergency loans etc.

Crazy Englishman · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 4:01 pm Post subject:

CALDERON · Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 1723 Location: Aberdeenshire

A player who has scored in every game bar one this season is many things, a liability is certainly not one of them.