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Yes, Blackburn offered 3 or 4 times more than we'd just paid for him. Telfer really was a strange one - not the slightest bit interested in football, but had a long career and was deemed a bit of a wholehearted player, however else his qualities may have been viewed. Apparently he could ping a...

This I agree with you on. Like when we sold McSheffrey to Blues, just after he had scored the winner against pre season favourites, Sunderland. Blues end up getting promoted, and we probably finished 17th (haven't checked if we did but that's where we always seemed to finish until we got...

I thought you were setting out a scenario if we lost one of our forwards? Even so I don't think we can expect much from Waghorn or Walker next season, although it would be a bonus if either could put this season behind them, and perform as we had hoped they might when they were signed.

While that's generally true, we do seem to have struggled against Bournemouth since we came back to the Championship, and we have also sometimes struggled dealing with a quick turn around in games. The crowd could have a big part to play today so let's hope we turn up in numbers, make it...

Given a full squad available it is touch and go whether Godden would be a definite starter these days and moving forward, but how often do we have that luxury? We need decent back up and Godden provides that. To adequately replace him would be much more costly than his 8k a week. MR sees value...

Only as long as Vik remains fit throughout! It's amazing someone in his position where you always likely to get kicked or receive a head injury has not only been available throughout, but also played the full game in nearly every match. Not sure we could rely on the same happening next season...

While 10 points still gives us a mathematical chance, realistically we need to win all our remaining games to make the play offs. Monday's game is big - just hope we can win again and keep it interesting for a while longer.

Like we did this season with Waghorn?

We always seem to draw against them, and I think that is the likeliest result this time round. The uglier the game the more it will suit them. A big deciding point could be their pitch. This time last year it was rock hard & bobbly and we had to adapt by playing the ball forward earlier, rather...

and over only 42 games

Gyokeres is player of the season for me, and the one of our big 3 I least want us to lose as I think he will be hardest to replace. I suspect he is the most likeliest to leave though, as I suspect he will command the biggest fee.

I didn't see that. If he did though then he was spectacularly stupid, given he has 5 more games to play where he now can't afford a single booking.

Thought he was a little unlucky with the booking yesterday. I suspect if another player had made the tackle they wouldn't have got booked.

Who knows? I don't imagine Waghorn joined us not expecting first team football!! When Patterson was rumoured last Summer I wasn't over keen, as I felt a lot of people that were pushing to sign him were doing so for 'Cov Kid' sentimental reasons, but his performances this season have been good...

In retrospect the signing of Waghorn has cost us quite dearly. He was evidently our flagship Summer signing who was supposed to fit in playing just behind our main striker, be it Godden or Gyokeres. Our investment in him however has not been matched by his return, and looking back we would have...

There were a couple of games at the start of the season where our defence were at 6's and 7's, but apart from that we were mostly competitive. By the end of the season I think the team as a whole had more belief they belonged in the Championship, which helped lead onto the improvement this season.

I don't think we 'all' underestimated the likely improvement. I remember pre season that you were particularly pessimistic, but given the young age of our team and the year's experience of the Championship under their belts, it was reasonable to expect an improvement from our existing players...

There must also surely be an exception to newly promoted teams to the PL, as they are hardly going to be able to compete on a budget based on their previous season in the Championship. Imagine that scenario for us if say we had somehow got promoted this season, but next season could only spend...

Probably an effect of being on the edge booking wise, and to be fair there was still quite a bit of play to go on from there before they actually scored. If we had the ball in a similar situation 9 times out of 10 we wouldn't have made anything out of it.

Funnily enough prior to this injury there were newspaper stories about him being close to getting a call up. At the time of his injury his confidence was really high and he had developed more to his game than being a stopper. When he returned from his injury, while he was still as effective...