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Personally I'd take the eye watering money and then use the kudos of being a Prem player (of sorts) to get the next job a bit higher than I would have had I stayed with us.

You have to ask that if we have three young centre backs there should be no need to acquire, except possibly as a stop-gap. Otherwise why bother with them? My main concern about the back three is that neither Hyam nor MacF are very quick. But generally speaking there are more important gaps -...

Frankly would rather have Walsh but I realise he is beyond our budget. I suspect O'Hare will be too. You would think one of the moneyed clubs at the top of the Championship would fancy him.

You guys will have seen this before, but I was pleased this morning

He is absolutely not a better defender than Sam M I have just sat through the Pompey 3-3 full match film on YouTube and Mason was continually physically bullied. He is nifty on the ball but off it he will be dumped in the Championship.

There were some cracking individual results under Mowbray. Millwall 4-0 away, Bury 6-0 at home. Peterboro - fight back from 2-0 down to win 3-2. But (unlike most) when he signed Joe Cole I feared the worst. The success had been built on young loans and a good hardworking central midfield. Then...

goes for less because a) he is older b) he is better than other players but not by as much as McCallum is

Rose. Easier to replace

Every club is a "selling club" bar the top 3 or 4. The only way we can survive is by selling one player a year for good money. We have not done too badly lately - McNulty, Chaplin (at a profit), Bayliss and McCallum, all of whom were replaced by upgrades despite the wailing and nashing of...

Robins took a while to realise that Doyle was not up to it in L1

I had forgotten how good the Allen goal was. Even so Godden then Walsh then Allen

Walsh was the big hole that needed to be plugged as Shipley or Westbrooke are cover of sorts for O'Hara. So if this deal for Hamer happens it is good news. Next up, I hope is a younger centre half to upgrade McF, and a left back as Robins clearly does not think Mason is good enough. Stick in a...

Hopefully this will plug our weakest area - the loss of Walsh alongside the the question marks about whether Kelly can cut it at Championship level.

Does the number of away fans in the Championship make B'ham less painful?

I doubt if he wanted to, TS got him on. As a rule you don't refuse when asked as people will smell a rat, whether there is one or not. Just go on, play a straight bat, and get through to the other side unscathed without committing to something you cannot deliver. He's done that before, sounds...

For those hooked on "settled squads" [which is the cliche number 2 after "we need wingers"] it is a jolly good job Robins didn't take that view - in the case of either cliche. It is only "settled" when it's good, but even then returning loans, the Willis sort of situation, the fact that there...

I forgot about Meyler

Politic would exactly fit and is an area we have been weak. 2 good loans from Premier League clubs. Maybe even three.

I think it was the Rod McDonald signing that really kicked off the Robins era. He had steadied the ship while being doomed to relegation, and manufactured a win at Wembley with existing material. The key thing was what would happen over the summer, with a number of players going - some we were...

Westbrooke to Shipley to Godden -> goal Wycombe Away. Top grade play by all three