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But the difference in wage would. If they were both £3k per week I’d agree. Waghorn was apparently £13k per week. That’s my point.

Exactly this. Keeping Max rather than signing Waghorn would have meant an extra £8-9k per week to spend / invest on other areas of the squad. Signing 31 year old Waghorn, with no sell on potential, for high wages (sign on fee?) was one of the worst bits of business in the past few years...

Wilson 5 Let 4 in and flapped a couple of crosses. Some decent distribution though. Dabo 5 His cross field balls were atrocious and nearly always cut out and turned over. A lot of their good opportunities were created down his side at us expense. It seems they saw him as a weak link. Got...

Too light in midfield at the outset.

This is awful.

I’m watching from my place in in the Costa Blanca, Spain. Ifollow wouldn’t work until I switched on the VPN. Tried various countries - nothing worked. Turned back off / nothing then VPN ON, selected “Madrid, Spain”. Works. Bizarre. Anyway. Formation all wrong. Dabo and McNally and Eccles...

Davros Reminds me, the Dowie podcast on Undr the Cosh was worth a listen.

Stuck in a hospital bed (my own fault and I’m not looking for sympathy from you dangers, just explaining the time on hands) for the last couple of days so been listening to podcasts. Undr the cosh: The Dowie one was ok, the Nardiello (Jr) one was interesting (local lad, apparently was going...

We’d had loads of strikers that did incredibly well elsewhere. Mark Hateley went on to play for Milan and England, for a while he was by any measure a top level striker. Gary Bannister probably has a top flight goals to game ratio to match anyone prior to (re) joining us. Did Keegan actually...

It’s a tricky one, we’ve had some great strikers that were here only briefly - John Hartson springs to mind - so I’m basing my pick on being here for a good while and in their prime whilst here. Keane wasn’t here long enough on that basis and Regis was in his pomp at WBA. So Dublin & Speedie.

Good to see Jodi Jones get 75 mins against a strong Italy side in a competitive fixture. People might say “only Malta though” but fair play to the lad. I’m not saying sign him up - just fair play and it must give him some satisfaction to be playing in that game after all he’s been through.

I remember SkyBlueBeliever suggesting Hyam should be called up for Scotland.

Pressley was such a strange management story. For a time worked wonders playing every game away from home, points deductions, rubbish budget, players developed and sold on negativity all around. I thought he’d go on to great things. Was it soon after he had a fight with someone in the dressing...

Exactly, the chasing down and pressing and hurrying opposition defenders is key to our game. We’ve seen Gus do this a few times and create clear opportunities as a result. For all of his weak points, Jamie Allen did chase well. Sheaf does so albeit from a deeper role. Palmer started off here...

Full of cold? The match yesterday not good enough medicine? Some great Tunes and the magic of Vick(s) should have improved things, no? Tried to think of a COVonia pun but couldn’t. (….tumbleweed….)

The speed and energy and determination that he showed yesterday to get back and put pressure on for that “nailed on” Blackpool non-penalty was incredible. Having watched it back, not sure that Wilson get his foot to that ball and Hamer did commit much of a foul (what does anyone else think?)...

Last line made me chuckle. I had a little look at the squad he was part of to see who was competing with him for a place. The legend that was Leigh Jenkinson was a wide attacker, to be fair so were Wegerle and Ndlovu. We had Borrows and Burroughs as full backs who were almost wing backs and...

Wilson 6 No clean sheet. Some good clearances and saves but also rushed out and made a hash of a couple of things. Improving all the time. With Moore likely off in the summer it’ll be interesting to see who we bring in - backup or competition? Burroughs 5 Young kid, was expected to cover...

I think you’ll find I was spot on.

McNally looks awake, rest of defence a bit sleepy. Eccles mixed, some immature pass choices - understandable, some decent play. No one in the centre circle for us. McDire not racing to cover and intercept.