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Stockdale is an ex-England international and played most of his football in Premiership. He ought to be better than Burge. As someone mentioned, he’s on massive wages at Bham. It’s also rather silly to get overhyped by one performance. If we can get a better GK, then I’d happily make that signing.

He needs to be sacked apparently.

We have Hyam, Bayliss, Chaplin and Hiwula all contracted starters. Players like McCallum are coming through and others in the U23s are apparently close to making the step up. Bayliss could leave, but we’ll get a healthy fee if he does. As could Burge and Willis, but think Willis will end up...

We’re 11th, 7 points off of playoffs, after 32 games, the comparison between Slade’s 17 games is plain stupid. Now we’ve beaten Rochdale, I can see us winning the next 2-3, equally we’ll probably go on a losing run after that. That’s been the pattern this year, and that’s indicative of a naive...

It’s February, so mathematically, automatic promotions is still a possibility, despite being virtually impossible. I’m just as frustrated as the next person about our recent run, but if we step back, we’ve had the chances to win games we’ve lost/drawn. To me, that’s a positive in the sense...

It’s worth noting that Portsmouth lost twenty (yes, 20) games last season. We’re a newly-promoted team and we’re not at risk of getting relegated. So there is no real justification for sacking Robins. If we were to start off badly next season, there could be a decent case to sack the manager...

Case and point was the Gillingham game. Bakayoko missed a sitter then a little bit later Willis makes a rubbish header and we concede a penalty. It is frustrating, but at least we creating the good quality chances as it means there’s something to build on. Or Blackpool? I wasn’t there, but...

I’d say a bit of both. We’ve certainly had the chances to have better results than we’ve got. Tactically, however, I would say we are generally quite cautious and mainly concede from mistakes.

For years our fan base has bemoaned the club’s lack of a long term plan. Yet, we have a manager who is our best since relegation from the Premiership, and we have one of the youngest teams in the league. Why don’t we give them time to develop and the manager time to build the squad. We’ve spent...

Evidently. However, who expected this move? It weren’t long ago MR was saying JCH could be a 20 goal-a-season striker. Seems rather abrupt to me.

The same Peter Crouch that’s signed for Burnley this window?

Fair point. Again, I can’t see why we’ve got rid of him for free though? With Ogogo, the mutual termination probably waived the signing fee we would have owed him, so that’s a positive.

I can’t work out why we got rid of JCH for nothing when teams were willing to pay a fee? It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Apparently, both Portsmouth and Sunderland were after JCH and willing to pay a fee according to Robins earlier on. Willis was aware of the interest in him but didn't want to go -- that's a good sign!

At least 5 of the listed signings were signed or identified as targets before Badlan assumes the role of Head of Recruitment. Westbrook, Bosma and JCH were signed before Badlan cane in. Bakayoko and Chaplin were ‘identified as potential targets’ last year according to Robins when we signed them...

Frankly, JCH was that physical option in my view. Personally, I liked what he bought to the table, but he was pretty inconsistent. Equally capable of dominating games and being anonymous in the next. This transfer blindsided me. With Bakayoko back in the fold, I hope he has a good positive run...

I'm glad he's doing well for Everton U23s, I saw he was on the bench against us in pre-season and another game for them and made an assumption off that. Probably jumped the gun a bit. But, he's yet to make a single senior appearance since the FA Cup for us and he's 21 now. Frankly, he shouldn't...

What would that be?

He didn’t have to call an election, the Conservatives had a majority and an election wasn’t due for 18 months. It’s pretty clear that he called an election to strengthen his position against the trade unions (as union militancy was getting way out of control). Just as May sought to strengthen...

Ted Heath’s famous ‘who governs Britain?’ ring any bells for you?