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Perhaps if we have two crocks in James & Kelly we might just get a complete half season out of them.

The first part is exactly right. That is the rationale. The weekly wage is less important than the value of the total investment. Nobody is saying he will stay long term. And given how we have missed Kelly, it is obvious how dependant we are in our relation fight on a strong defensive midfielder.

Limited budget means you can have players who can make a difference or 'cover' - but not both. In this context what 'cover' actually means is an indulgent expenditure on a player we don't really need. Pask is 'cover'. If the new player is better than Pask then he is not actually 'cover' at...

Absolutely. Defence is fine - probably one of the tightest in the Championship now they are all present and correct. It's goals we need badly. The two at Millwall both came off defenders. We need someone who will unsettle a good Championship defence enough to create chances., Who is Bobby Gould...

I liked Davies - particularly good game against Stoke in the Cup. But he is League 1 level and so had to go. But it was perfomance rather than attitude that was the issue surely. He put up with being in and out of the team

Never mind Crowley, James sounds just the ticket. At least he fills one of the two desperate needs - Kelly replacement. However I am always puzzled by the logic behind the thinking of the parent club to switch a 'loan out' part way through the season - See Giles last year. Barnsley seem a well...

Sounds like James Allen to me

Since when is everybody a world authority on other Championship teams' reserve players?

Shipley and Allen really only play because Kelly is injured. We need to concentrate on cover for Kelly.

Isn't that what O'Hare is supposed to do. With a limited budget, why duplicate? Fill the holes first

The comparison with Bright is not necessarily positive. He was a lovely player to watch, and scored a couple of good goals, but I thought he pulled the midfield out of shape. It ceased being a team, and became all about him. So, for all Robins ability to get results out of difficult players, I...

Mind you wasn't that another young star in the making I saw playing there - Ben, what was his name now?

Sounds like a sales pitch to get rid of him

Rather than just picking names, isn't it better to identify where the main needs are, and then decide whether those names being mooted fit the identified need? Just because a player may be good, doesn't men they meet a need. Or is that too sensible? We want imho 1. Firepower up front - which...

Loans are affordble tho

...the one thing we need

I think that is what I said

We are at 23 games - half way - and on points per game, 17th. I suspect somewhere a couple of places higher would be great by the season end. Of our results so far this season beating the much better placed Reading sticks out as the oddball. Conversely we should do much better in the reverse...

As I was at the 4-1 in Mowbray's time, I'm going for a repeat, Hamer to chip the goalie, rather than Armstrong. Actually, no I'm not. 1-0 to them - queue the meltiest of all meltdowns on here Incidentally, and it should be no surprise I guess, interesting to see how fickle opinion is on here -...

1. We are fighting to escape the relegation zone 2. But we currently have one of the tightest, if not the most tight, defence in the Championship 3. Why on earth then would you want to change it by bringing in Giles? 4. Mark Robins is Sam Allardyce's secret love child.