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It may seem counter-intuitive but I would have thought we could get better than Sheaf for less than the money we can get for him

Will MVE attract > 5m pnds? It would be nice to get a good replacement and turn a profit (that's not as easy as it sounds as we have seen with Vik & Hamer).

Odd thing is when Wharton played for Blackburn against us in autumn 23, I thought he had a bit of a mare. It was also one of the worst games I have ever seen since promotion.

I suspect all we'll see is the departure of the usual suspects plus 2-3 incomings all in defence. And the incomings most likely will be blokes from Europe we have never heard of. Good outside bet - Frank persuades DK to forego his veto on loans

It would so tarnish his reputation. To adapt Winston Churchill he would have been a rat and then been a rat again

He was as hard as f**k though

Me too, but for the sanity of those on here, I hope we do better. If we plateau then DK will be gone, and who knows what comes after?

Ok I'd take Ballard. But please don't tell me that Thomas is hard (see comment above). He terrorizes nobody. The litmus test is "who would you least like to bump into on a dark night?" Historically the answer was always Roy Kean or Neil Ruddock. That's the type we need - they get into the...

You know that regular thread "Name the unpopular opinion you have about (enter subject e.g. your football team). Well mine is that we need a real brute at the back - even harder than Kitching, who is pretty hard, a real shithouser. For those of a certain age who remember him, "six foot two...

Strange how in most years the season ends and the glass is actually half empty. The profit is most likely in the players we want to keep. Nicking a few quid for BTA or Eccles barely counts. In the Championship there was the width of Bobby Thomas's haircut between finishing 10-11th and...

....or alternatively "we scraped into the play off places with a record low total of points and miles behind the 3rd place team with little expectation of winning at Wembley. The next level is to be clearly the best in the play offs or else it is a lottery longshot each year. As we saw" And...

"We have a strong negotiating position for just about all our players because they’re all contracted for another 2 years"....alternatively we are stuck with contracted players, some quite expensive, that we don't want but are unable to sell.

Comments so far concentrate on attacking weaknesses - Simms and wright are rubbish etc etc. At the same time there is general satisfaction with the defence except for left back - but it sounds as though we have one lined up for that. The stats tell the exact opposite story (the fans have got it...

Whether he is one of our own or not, or whether he cost anything are utterly immaterial. Is he good enough on the pitch is the only material question? Certainly not as a starter. Keep him as a squad unless we get an offer

Wilson is as good as you are going to get for permanent number 2

It's win - win tonight for me. Win we go up Lose - we are not ready anyway and likely to get less than 11 points in the Prem. Better to take the summer to beef up the defence in particular Will watch quite chilled.

3. Drop Sheaf. Too slow too similar to Grimes, not penetrative. Bring in Allen to rough them up 4. Simms for BTA. The experiment failed. We need height in the box 5. Resist the temptation to play EMC.

On the key decisions 1. Stick to 433 or variant. 442's success rate is rubbish and 5 at the back pointless 2. Back 4 and goalie as you were (even tho I am a huge Bidwell fan).

The wedge will be spent. And more. There is no yellow brick road. As Burnley and Sheffield United will discover. I hate all the unkindness on here when we lose. It is not as if wright did not try, he went all over the place to get the ball as did Rudoni, who was closely shepherded all game...

I dread to think what the ratings thread will be like if we do get to the Prem and have week after week 4-0 thumpings at home....