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I'm pretty sure it was for a pre planned block on Bidwell who had been marking Hugill, and which then allowed him a free run to the back post unmarked. Stroud was positioned right in front of it so got a perfect view. That said refs don't normally spot those or view the tussling as both ways and...

and over only 42 games!

It depends how well we use that money. We will severely disadvantaged by losing Gyokeres and simply having a bit more money to buy a replacement doesn't guarantee a successful replacement and a better team, even though it will give us more leeway to strengthen other areas of the team. The last...

I don't buy into the Burnley first refusal scenario. Seems to me its 2+2=5 type guesswork. In that scenario what happens if at the end of the season Everton offer £20m and Burnley only want to pay £10m? What happens if Gyokeres wants to go a club other than Burnley?

You could put this same kind of post up at any point in the season. The Championship is notoriously unpredictable with teams constantly drifting in and out of form, often against most people's predictions. Its a cliche but it really is best to take each game at a time and see where you're at...

Their player that really impressed me was their left wing back, Bramall. Not sure how he's progressed since that game but he looked a class above that night.

What's more surprising with Sunderland is that they have done so well even though their main forward has been, and is injured. They are on a bit of a roll at the moment and our match against them in a couple of weeks is going to be much tougher than any of us expected at the start of the season...

Although I can advocate an increase in season ticket prices and possibly match day tickets too, the one area the club must continue to offer almost giveaway deals is on kids tickets, particularly while we are not filling the ground.

I think we were still playing 4 at the back at this point and I certainly remember not being too impressed with McFadzean's start for us, where he seemed to overdo the playing out from the back, and where he often seemed to leave the defence exposed in doing so. Looking back now Fadz and the...

I would expect season tickets to rise as high as £400, so approximately £17.50 per match. People will inevitably moan but that's pretty good value against likely match day prices. I think the £20 game band will be stopped but it will be interesting how the club set up matchday prices. There is...

People need to check his record out in this league. He has started off with numerous hopeless cases and turned them round. I would expect the same this time, and those people thinking that our upcoming game at their place hasn't become more difficult are sadly deluded.

Got to love football fans. Am sure many of those expressing confidence in us winning today have spent much of the week bemoaning the merits of Wilson, Norton-Cuffey, Panzo, Doyle, Allen, Palmer etc as not being good enough, even though they are all likely starters today. Let's hope that...

Are we seriously doing this again? Weren't West Brom supposed to be boycotting the last time we had tickets sold at this price? What happened to that? Even though the game was in the week before Christmas we still ended up with our biggest crowd of the season. If we want to compete in this...

It is an extremely common name in Zimbabwe.

There were no official recordings of away attendances back in the 60's and not much segregation either, so estimates of away support from then is very difficult to guage. I wasn't around myself in the Hill and early top flight years, but I know the club ran organised trains to away games until...

Davies seemed to have a bit about him, certainly in the lower leagues, and I thought he had the potential to be much better than his subsequent career has turned out.

The better players in the league below is definitely the way for a club like us to go in terms of permanent signings. Younger, hungrier players have much more upside than experienced players with bigger wage demands on their way down. The January window is always very hit and miss in terms of...

Just a couple of points: 1) I am amazed how Gyokeres hasn't had more bookings shouting at refs this season. The amount of times he is fouled where a foul is either not given or the defender not booked is beyond belief. Equally if he as much as lays a finger on a defender when tussling for the...

There is no link on mine to i follow at the moment but there is a message saying one will be available an hour before kick off.

Not sure that is quite the case, albeit I agree with your view on the motives of the investors. If he hadn't hit the ground running like he did he wouldn't have been sold at that point. Even when he was, it was deep into the Summer before he was sold. I remember him playing a pre season friendly...