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Hopefully this is your new (?) source’s Billy Gilmour moment! Or it’s a ‘Saddlebrains Investigates’ situation. Either way, I hope it’s not true. I missed Everton and I was really looking forward to us playing attacking football today!

Hosting a decent Bundesliga side at home; such an occasion surely warrants half and half scarves? Here’s hoping.

Excellent business on so many levels; good player with potential to push on, weakened a championship rival, piped another rival to the signing and he can cover CF and wing. WBA fans I know (and I think the general consensus) is that he’ll become a fan’s favourite with his work rate and...

Few days post incident and this one has really stuck with me. I have two girls aged 3 and 4, and they regularly attend dance classes. I honestly cannot comprehend what the parents are going through. Losing a child is surely the worst experience you can have in life. As for the aftermath it’s an...

Think I’ve been sucked into the hype. Very very tempted to go and get one today (and likely for the kids too). Anyone know how stocks are looking at the Arena?

Jeepers that’s pretty bad. How does that work punishment wise? Because it’s a friendly he’ll get away with it? Surely not right for an incident like that - swinging punches, especially after a very innocuous foul, deserves some consequences.

Generally I fully agree, but there will always be the odd exception. The one obvious one to me is Gyokeres; gave his all when he was here, almost dragged us to the Premier League and was honest re his intentions when we didn’t make it. He moved onto bigger things and could go on to the one of...

He seems absolutely buzzing to be there. Full of enthusiasm and passion. Definitely always his ambition to end up at a fellow Championship club, under a manager with a middling to poor reputation amongst players.

Some pretty grim memories. However reading back helps provide perspective and an appreciation for just how far we’ve come. Sitting in a near empty stadium, watching horrendous football with a terrible atmosphere to the feeling around the club now, the connection between players/fans/club and...

This thread is embarrassing.

Torp is a very very good technical player and is probably the strongest progressive passer we have. I actually think he’s almost a surprise package for us this year. He’s been here since Jan and the new player shine has worn off, so he’s faded into the background. After a few good games which...

Sheaf being injured would be a massive blow (well for 99% of the fan base). Fingers crossed it isn’t too serious. Worst case though; Rudoni Eccles *new signing* is far from a weak midfield three.

I used to know the daughter of the chap (and therefore the family) who ran that chippy and I can confirm it was a goldmine! Didn’t think I’d be nostalgic over a Coventry chippy when I woke up this morning!

I understand your point, I’m just in a different place with it. We bring in experience at the expense of the development of one/two of our existing CBs, all of whom have pretty high ceilings in my view. Experience also doesn’t equate to leadership. Kitching is a former captain and Lati has...

Don’t get the CB requirement, we have four and we play with two. We also have a perfect balance of two left and two right footers. The experience req is bit a red herring in my view. They all have another year in the Championship behind them, experience doesn’t equal better and bringing another...

The formation/tactical change will suit Allen’s attributes better than playing as a 10 or a holding CM. He is well worth keeping around for an energy, box to box option off the bench.

It’ll be great to have some stability in goal. We’ve had a different number one for the last few years and even pre then it never felt like we had a long term No1. Dovin is young, highly thought of and sounds as though he has bags of potential too. Let’s just not jump on the first mistake he...

McCallum has the potential to be better than Bidwell, but is coming off the back of two mixed seasons. Bidwell has consistently performed (and I’m someone who wasn’t convinced at first). COH has played well in a dozen or so games in 2 seasons and is still returning from a major injury...

Small thing, but I don’t think he’d have done that a year, or even six months, ago. Hopefully an indication of his increased confidence and feeling more at home at the club now.

I get the scepticism over this following the Stamenic nonsense, but as others have said the sources are different on this. Plus I’m pretty sure @Tea & Busquets works in the industry, so if he’s confirming it we’re all good.