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Back in the day, we all did the Football Manager cheat of adding a new manager to Man City/Chelsea then buying a rubbish player to bolster your own coffers. We just need Hiddink to do this in real life now... Danny Ireland, the 50 million pound goalkeeper who never played...

I’m going off what Boddy has said in April. To briefly summarise, he talks about having 5 loans and the need to improve our own talent. I don’t disagree. The loan market is instrumental for just about every Championship team, so we’ll need to pick up 2-3 starting quality loans minimum. We’re...

I remember reading a month or two ago that the UK vaccination program was showing that the vaccines were reducing hospitalisation and death rates despite increasing infection rate. With the vaccines showing early signs of efficacy against the ‘Indian variant’, we should be optimistic for...

A club of our stature needs to make a good use of the loan market. However, I do seem to recall Boddy saying something along the lines of us needing to develop and bring in our own talent. Perhaps I’m being optimistic, but now we’ve survived the first season, you’d hope we can get more...

Frankly, we look a better team whenever Kelly played. At some point, we need to reduce our reliance on Kelly defensively for someone who can do his job just as well, but sounder on the ball. Earlier on the season, we conceded too many cheap goals with misplaced passes in our own half. Looking...

Is 15 in 38 not a good return? I doubt we’ll sign him anyhow.

I’m backing Lebron and AD to repeat...

Fair play to him, but still wasted those 4 years of his original contract playing U23s. The most important developmental years were wasted.

Wasted his career for a short term earnings. Was never ever going to make the grade at Everton.

'That fucker thinks he can take on the red army. I fucked Germany. I think I can take a flash lamp in a fucking waistcoat.' At first, the various English speaking accents was a bit disorientating for me - I usually like historically authentic movies. But, it was a genius move because it kept...

In The Loop is a great movie. Off topic, The Death of Stalin by Ianucci is also a great movie.

Surprised myself here. Last I checked I was virtually in the centre but ever so slightly in the green quadrant. It’s the first I’ve not been in that quadrant and in my late teens, early 20s was about as left and libertarian as could be. I don’t like the political compass as a metric, it’s too...

Let’s stay on topic here. My argument is very much the Government has increased its deficit with its response to COVID and that needs to managed. Therefore, increasing public sector pay by more than the 1% it already has isn’t a sound idea at this moment in time. It’s furlough scheme has kept...

2019 was the election to settle Brexit. Personally, I wanted a second referendum on Brexit. But, the difference between Labour’s and Conservative’s policies was night and day. For the Conservatives, a vote for them was a vote to ‘Get Brexit Done’. They had a deal that was ‘ready’. Labour, on...

Nope, that wasn’t my point. Struggling businesses who are losing money or have greater expenses aren’t going to increase their staff’s wages. The Government finds itself in a similar position. Less tax income, more expenditure and so on. So increasing the wages of public sector staff isn’t...

Not the point I’m making at all. Government expenditure and the deficit has increased and this has largely been driven by COVID. Handing out pay increases to public sector workers just make sense given that context. A lot of private businesses would struggle to offer their staff 2-3% increases...

On principle, I don’t think many people would disagree with the concept of giving nurses more than 1% pay rise. The reality is, the amount the government has borrowed since COVID makes it unlikely the Government will increase the pay of public sector workers. It has to come from somewhere and...

Australian and NZ meat is very popular in that region. The assumption is that British will also be popular there too.

One look at Walker’s goal scoring record versus Biamou’s tells you everything you need to know.

Brexit nor EU membership is enough to save a failing business. £100 million over 10 years is a lot of money. Even if Brexit was a catalyst, those losses are clearly not sustainable.