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As soon as you have to pay a fee that eats into your wage budget... 1m over three years is suddenly £6-7k less a week you can offer. Hence my entire point about the total cost.

I don't think there are dozens and dozens of good quality championship 10s available and willing to sign for us on a free this summer. Certainly not less risky ones.

No. But Cal isn't a random free agent, he has relationships with the manager, players and fans and is generally settled. That takes a lot of the risks generally associated with new signings away.

Explain?

Relies on the right free agent being available though... and comes with the same risk as any other new player.

? It's a fair question, we're living off last year's success and the rearrangements won't help.

25k/w is 1.3m a year. £3.9m for 3 years or £5.2 for 4. You think we can replace even his previous output for that sort of money (fee+wages)?

What’s he on? Surely we could offer him a decent amount.

I’m not saying it’s bad, just there may be room for improvement. WhoScored is telling me that 12% of his crosses found a teammate.

He’s got everything a full back needs. Defensive work has been impressive in recent weeks too (his pace is a massive asset at both ends of the pitch). A little bit more work on delivery and more development of the link up between him/Cal/Tatsu and he’ll be a standout player in the championship.

I’m not sure about those 5,000 or so new ST holders. Probably depends on our league finish. A good end to the season would also help, but if we finished lower than 10th I wouldn’t be surprised to see less than 50% renew.

While our attendances this year have been great, I do wonder what we’ll be getting next year.

Ridiculous comment.

He's coming back from injury, managing minutes probably

Feel a bit sorry for Newcastle, injuries have killed them.

scrooge songs are more for fans enjoyment than players anyway

Can’t wait for this week’s episode of 101 ways to waste a 1-0 lead

Most of Birmingham’s good attacking play was down the left through Dembele or Stansfield which would’ve pushed Milan back more.

I would have been tempted to bring Eccles on for Allen or Cal. I did think we looked a bit tired last 5/10, and especially with a game on Weds maybe a sub or two would’ve helped. But can’t really question a 2-0 home win.

eh? That image clearly shows Allen was playing closer to O’Hare than he was Sheaf. It’s semantics because people will always describe a back “4” despite Bidwell and MVE actually playing as high as/higher than Sheaf. I stand by 4123/4141 being a more accurate description, purely because Allen...