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What about guns?

2 things: 1. it’s far more difficult for youth to break through into a team challenging towards the top of the Championship vs when we were in L2. 2. we’re getting pillaged on what seems like an annual basis as a result of EPPP. The deck is stacked against us until we run a Category 1 academy.

Burroughs will get a gig at L1 or L2. Howley I’m less certain on.

Thing that concerns me with Toffolo is that he’s neither quick enough to consistently provide an overlap nor good enough on the ball to invert. Don’t think he’s a terrible player but he’s quite similar to Bidwell in that sense, albeit better and a couple of years younger.

I do think the more athletic box-to-box midfielder is what we’re missing from our starting 11, but as MMB said I’d be more keen on moving Eccles on to make way for that signing.

Preferred Alki David tbh.

It’s not solely about trusting King, it’s as much trusting the landlord. They haven’t done anything ‘off’ so far in our dealing with them, but there’s a clear track record of their history in business.

2 points on this: would you get that much for him now? And would you still expect to get the same fee if he has a decent season but only 1 year left on his contract? Assuming he’s not on astronomical wages, I’d be tempted to keep him on for another year and use him both as cover for Grimes but...

Couldn’t imagine Sheaf being on Kitching’s shoulders in the Colly if we had won the playoffs.

Need a bit of that arrogance though. Feel like Simms would apologise to the opposition keeper if he scored now.

The pass completion will as much be down to the tactics Cardiff use. He’s winning a massive amount (quantity) of aerial duels which implies they’re going long a LOT. As a result, less likely to have people around him and the duels he wins equally unlikely to land at a teammate’s feet (as I’m...

Aggression goes a long way. He may not be dissimilar in terms of playing style (don’t know enough about him) but if Simms could apply himself properly and utilise his physical attributes we wouldn’t be having the conversation about moving him on. It’s moot.

Almost works to our advantage, though, for someone who cost a very modest fee.

So the 20% figure given just a few weeks ago was…what…guesswork? And now he’s got the real figures? I’ve farted more sense than that whopper talks.

Did we not get some other muck thrown in as well? Edit: Callum Reilly.

Kind of the point. We want to keep him, ergo it would take a price that likely no one would pay to prise him away.

More I think about it I think Jimmy Dunne would be a really smart signing. Gives us the improvement at CB and the RB cover in one.

Agree with a lot of this, but I still think it’s important that we have someone more capable in the air, even if only to build our attacks from them. Away from that, though, Simms lacks the movement and technical ability to cause the opposition other issues. Someone called out we effectively...

This is it. If someone offers £3m or thereabouts for either Simms/BTA then they can go. If someone offers £15m for Wright you’d certainly have something to think about.

Best make those 10 minutes count then!