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What is a Hamer type though? There is simply not a straightforward replacement for him, and I don't think MR was prepared to just bring another midfielder in to make up the numbers when we already have so many midfielders. It looks like we were interested in O'Brien and Swift to some extent who...

Then I don't understand why you are not manager and MR is!!

Welcome to the Football Manager world where a computer game trumps reality! It appears MR was interested in O'Brien but he went to Middlesbrough. He would clearly have made it into our first XI but aside from him he clearly wasn't prepared to spend on the other midfielders that were available...

Dalglish and Strachan were both prone to giving sarcastic answers to inane questions, which were more often a statement of fact than an actual question.

He joined Forest as their great team was on the wane, and before their next decent team took shape. If I remember right they signed Fashanu at the same time, who was a real flop for them. Although he didn't score like he had at Cov he was still their top scorer for 3 seasons, even with...

In terms of space the O'Hare of old would cover more ground than Palmer, and probably knit in more closely with Sheaf & Eccles. What we don't know yet is if we will get to see the O'Hare of old, or whether the injuries will have a long term effect on him.

Their 2nd goal was particularly poor. With Fadz out of position the professional thing to do would have been to engage their goalscorer before he got anywhere near our area, and brought him down if necessary and taken a yellow card. Retreating back into our own area inviting the guy to shoot was...

Can't think of any either, despite there being plenty of signings. I remember we could have sold Telfer for a tidy profit to Blackburn soon after signing him, but turned down their offer!

Not sure its a 'love in', but he does deserve to be shown some respect as a player who gave his all for us and undoubtedly at times played through injuries to the detriment of his long term career. The Dabo that played in our League 1 winning season and started in the Championship was far from...

With us supposedly after a LCB where does that leave Binks? He can't get in the team now, so if we sign Kitching or another LCB he falls even further down the pecking order. If we let Bidwell go can he fill in at LWB?

If we don't sign anyone today this site will be on meltdown tomorrow, with all the rumours, sightings at KFC and ''the lights are still on at the Ricoh'' type rumours. I can't wait!!

A bit of an exaggeration to claim O'Brien was amongst the worst players we've had. The season after he left there was near enough a whole team that were worse!

Clearly for their own mental well being they should stay well clear, but human nature and curiosity means some will end up being made aware of comments made on here, either directly or through mates. Consequently I am uncomfortable with the throwaway 'he's shit/ lazy' type comments made on here...

The reason they weren't so effective with us were more to do with Coleman's tactics (or lack of them). We tended to only send one of our centre backs up which meant we were easier to mark. Apparently we didn't practice them very much either, so as a result and in contrast to the likes of Stoke...

If Bidwell is likely to go I wouldn't be averse to a deal involving somekind of Palmer/ McCallum exchange if it was in our favour, particularly if we do have an attacking midfielder lined up from Europe. All bullshit I suspect though!

Agreed on that. Must have a better chance of scoring if you don't allow the opposition time to organise their defensive set up against it. I suppose the counter argument is that the attacking team also need time to send their centre backs up, and organise defensively against a possible counter...

As a former long thrower myself I think I was bloody fantastic :)

Maybe my memory is being selective on Palmer given so many seem to have the opposite view. But for it being a 0-0 draw I would look back to check! I can mostly just remember being really frustrated that when he had often shown great skill to get in a dangerous position, that he was then wasteful...

Palmer is a problem for us creativity wise. He is excellent at creating space and finding a yard on his markers with a bit of trickery but his final ball or shot is more often than not poor. If he had been in the same position as Ayari when he played in Wright yesterday, Palmer would have either...

Don't the highlighted already apply, yet poor errors are still made even with VAR. I don't see how paying them more automatically would equate to a better performance.