Recent content by mrtrench

Tarkowski? The Stalker bloke?

If it is, he will leave for £5m +, having arrived for half of that. He was on fire at the start of the season and was playing out of position yesterday after not playing much recently. He will enrich the midfield of most championship sides.

Many of the ratings here just show how accustomed we have become to being the best team in the league. We have just secured a draw and a clean sheet away to a side sitting comfortably in the play offs. We gave as good as we got for most of the game. And because we didn't blow them away many...

I agree with the sentiment but I think we will spend much more. Maybe £20m on a striker.

I agree. It's such a shame he's not here to celebrate with us. He must appreciate the irony of his decision to leave for the chance of the Premiership and more money (surely we would have at least matched his current rate next year).

Once it's confirmed, someone needs to send Cal's pump it up video back to him.

You have to say that this approach worked brilliantly : - Best team in the Championship, - Team full of players about to reach their peak at 27 (so they say), - Value of the squad massively greater than purchase prices. - Two big sales from this strategy funded this season's success.

I agree. But he moves on to a Championship side a better player and worth more than when he arrived.

What I like about Ellis' performance yesterday is that you can see the massive improvement from Simms 1.0 and what the coaches have been working on. I mentioned a few weeks ago how his hold up play and laying off had improved. Yesterday we saw him turn his man and run full pelt at the goal...

Interesting. That's called Monte Carlo simulation and it's advanced stuff. I would never have guessed it was used for football.

Quite a defensive midfield.

Boing Boing... Baggies winning so far for a double-bubble : A) Leicester losing so increasing the gap for their safety. B) Wrexham losing. But I see Wrexham have pulled one back since I started typing. Sad face emoji.

Assuming that we make it etc. For me: - Don't be fucking stupid with money. If we are relegated then so be it, but let's do it in a way that leaves us strong financially. - win at leat 25% of home games. - continue to play attractive football

I was looking at the prem table today - for the first time in years. Wolves aside, the next three have 7 or 8 wins each all season. Beat that and we stay up. And it all depends on what happens over the summer.

A long time ago, during work 5 and 11 a side games, I played with two below conference level players. They both dominated every game. The first had had trials with Chelsea as an attacking midfielder. His son played for England ten years later. He was about 40 and overweight. His control was...