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This is undoubtedly true

In 3 years only Bayliss and Shipley have come through from Youth. And that was in both cases in L 2. It is going to be even harder in the Championship. So unless they are outstanding (Newton?) we are unlikely to see any of the youth players break in without at least one loan spell to (say) a...

Cover for McFadzean/Hyam in case either is not up to the tempo in the Championship (nobody ever said Hyam is quick). This might be Dacosta and Pask. Nobody really knows much about either. Replacement for Sam MacC (Mason not up to it - too easily bullied, Dacosta is not a left back) Striker who...

How is it negative or snide?. It is really good business and all football clubs are businesses. Spare me the emotion. It has been our business success over the last three years that partly explains the rise. Robbins rarely buys duds. Please don't kid yourself. It is highly unlikely that we...

Also it means we have filled two of the three potential gaps in what was our best starting eleven last season. Walsh has gone but we have Hamer for that slot. O'Hara retained. Now we just need a better replacement for Sam MacM than Mason. And we haven't used our loan options yet although one...

Good business this. Hopefully he develops, gets spotted and we make good cash selling him on. We want to chip a bit of cash in to cover the trading deficit, and buy one or two replacements. We need young tyros like O'Hare, not all the old codgers like Collins, Fox and Madden being suggested...

I wear mine. Rather pleased with it.

I am not sure that if any of us were O'Hara, Coventry would be our first choice. Back stop maybe. At his age and with his potential he must be thinking of a place where he cane showcase his attacking ability and earn a really good wedge. We fail on both counts. Whether we care to admit it to...

that was how I read it

Which is why Allen's at Bristol is my favourite. I cannot remember a year when we scored so many 'good' goals rather than scrambled efforts. Shipleys 25-30 yarder at Donny not even in with a shout for instance

Couple of high grade loans needed next

What position is this Dacosta chappie?

It is going to be a long hard season full stop. And was always bound to be so. I also wonder that only Rose, of the current back three, has the requisite pace. Hyam wasn't quick even in League 2 (look at the third Yeovil goal in the 2-6). Robins does like buying lots of centre halves...

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