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You’re talking absolute nonsense. Our team in 2018 was probably worse than Croatia and Italy were the form team in that tournament.

Can’t believe what I sat through tonight. Yes, no one cares about the Nations League but the performance was really embarrassing. Ultimately, there’s not too much to look into these fixtures. All that matter is that the team is primed for the World Cup, and Southgate has delivered at major...

You make it sound like signing 8-10 players in one window can be done cheaply. If it was that simple, I’m sure Robins would sign them. We’re still losing 4 million a year so not really sure what people want us to spend. If we at least broke even, maybe we could be a bit riskier.

Not a bad shout, but Shankland also turned out to not be all that at all…

Yes, but equally, none of us here (afaik) are scouts and know anything about football to the degree our recruitment team does. Some of the shouts made on this thread proves that. Probably my shout of Helik included!

Yes, and to get our team to that level, we need a good 2-3 seasons. Players like Gyo, COH and Hamer will at some point need to be sold and replaced. We spent years in L1/2, the team wasn’t going to ever be in a place to compete that high up the table after one season in the Championship. I’d...

We never really had a chance of Top 6. Mathematically, yes, of course we did. But our overall squad was very clearly not good enough to see it out. There’s no rush to get to the top 6, so long we make incremental progress, I’m happy.

Signing someone like Palmer would be worth the wages of 3-4 (at least) Drysdale and Pask. Besides, I think only Pask made a single appearance last season. The focus this off-season has got to be bringing in 3-4 starting quality players. Operating on a small squad has been effective for us so...

Your abbreviations probably didn’t intend to be that funny…

Perhaps I’m being rather dense, but how does the partnership diversify our income? To me, it sounded like we’d get first dibs on any promising talent coming out of the course… the commercial details were not obvious to me.

Clearly there’s a reason for that. It’s tournament football and the games are are more cagey affairs. Either way, regardless of whether anyone likes Southgate or not, he’s not going to get sacked before this World Cup. That wouldn’t improve our chances. I’m disappointed at our recent results...

I am pretty hopeful about signing Palmer, his stats aren’t as bad as have been made out. Robins and Adi have done enough to earn the trust of the fan base. The reality is, we’re not going to sign Championship players who have excellent stats. People like Swift will be going straight to the...

Has the Government lost a (meaningful) Commons vote yet? The Government will ‘fight’ on, putting out one fire after another in a state of inertia until the next election… Even then, we’re heading for another hung parliament in 2023/24 at this rate. Labour needs more Scottish seats (at least...

I said he’s the most recent example where he has bettered himself.

More often is the case nowadays that when players leave, they often find their careers take backwards steps. McCallum is the most recent example I can think of someone ‘bettering’ themselves after leaving.

Our away form was the 8th best in the division and it was actually our home form that lagged behind. Our home form in 20/21 season was marginally better despite our blistering start. We dropped a lot of silly points at home and if that’s tidied up, I’m confident we can improve on last seasons...

After 2019, the Tories looked set for another decade in power and they’re complacent now. If Labour could make real inroads into Scotland, there’s a pathway to power for them. Would rely on Lib Dems making gains in Tory held areas whilst holding off the Green vote. Knowing the left, it would...

At least two of the teams going down will go back up. Their spending will be subsidised by parachute payments. Watford and Norwich are typical yo-yo teams who are too good for the Championship but not good enough for the Prem. As for Leeds, I think they’ll get automatic promotion. If Burnley...

Not necessarily. It really depends on your recruitment. Brentford sold Watkins for ~30m and replaced him with Toney for a third of that. Toney has probably done better at Brentford than Watkins which is some achievement!

To support what you say, of all the games he’s scored this season, we’ve only lost one game where Gyo has scored. That game was Huddersfield (H). Personally, I don’t think Gyo is ready for the next level, yet. For one more season, we’re the ideal place for him to Continue his development.