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Daily Telegraph reporting that L****ster have put a price of £50m on Maddison. Would we get any of that? Spurs are apparently favourites to sign him. They're years too late in making that decision IMO, when you look at some of the rubbish they've signed in the meantime.

When I saw the thread title I thought you were willing to flog your family for 20 quid

My best explanation is that after our terrible start to the season we had to knuckle down, keep our feet on the ground and try to prove our Championship credentials in every match. But all last week the talk was about marching into the playoffs, which was premature and over the top. The hype was...

Ratings on here are always (understandably) skewed by the result, with everyone upgraded or downgraded by at least two marks according to the outcome. We were well beaten in virtually every department today, so nobody deserves great scores, but I’ll put what I think Is realistic. 3’s and 4’s all...

That's a fair point!

Let’s say that after getting possession, the team keeps the ball for 2 minutes. If the three players mentioned in the stats win 3 tackles per game each, that could be 18 minutes of possession gained or 20% of the match. A simplistic way of looking at it I know, but that potentially turns a 40-60...

The stats are pleasing but not surprising. Sheaf and Eccles both have very clever technique in winning the ball. It's a definite skill. With Hamer it's more that he's a human dynamo. Edit: actually if anything I'm surprised the numbers aren't higher. Eccles in particular seems very adept at...

That sounds like it was after my time. Not sure it's wise to out yourself as a toffee apple cider drinker!

A Campbellburger was essential to settle the nerves before a game 🍔

A long extension to the contract of a high quality player. What are you doing to our club Mr. King?

Yeah it took me a while (the nineties were already after my time 😁) but then I realised you were just tellin' stories.

Ah I see you are pulling my plonker. Although I haven't necessarily got a plonker ;)

As I said, they had run us down to the point where we had to make a distressed sale on deadline day. So under those circumstances and at the time they chose to cash in, they probably got as much as they could. It doesn't make it any less annoying.

Yes, and what you are saying is not contrary to what I am saying.

Don't know about that, have reliable numbers ever been made public? Even if it's true, the money only went into keeping us afloat in the absence of meaningful investment.

In excess of £100,000 wow. It still rankles with me that we were in such a bad state that we couldn't achieve anything like Maddison's obvious (to most) potential value, or keep him longer and build around him. At that time we had been turned into a small town club run by charlatans.

That's altruism for you.

You're the third to mention it, and the spelling keeps getting longer and longer :) It was a haunting chant that rang around the whole ground.

And Walker got into similar positions but was ignored. tbh if we want to get promoted, I see both of them as decent backups rather than automatic starters.

The midfield three was impressive, with them seemingly being entrusted to be flexible and rotate. If you’re playing that way, realistically you need 5 or 6 guys who can fit into that system, tweaking it from week to week according to the opposition, and to cater for fatigue and injuries etc...