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I really hope he goes for big money. But that said the Portuguese top division is fairly crud. Bottom 5-6 prem and top 7-8 championship standard. If he goes to a top 6 Prem club he’ll be a squad “filler”.

I don’t see that personally.

What about the flip side. Do we think we’ll lose anyone. Well anyone we don’t want to lose?

L1 and L2 days saw some poor players. Ramage, Henderson etc. We also had some hard luck stories like Andreu and Hreidarrsson. But our scouting has had blips going back a very long way. I started going late 70’s / early 80’s. Scouting flops have to include Drinkell, Robertson, Evtushok, Lamptey...

1) Godden / O’Hare / Sakamoto 2) Simms / O’Hare / Sakamoto 3) Wright / Simms / O’Hare

He’d be worth a bit!

You can see exactly why we were so determined to get Kitching. Thomas is a good buy but in all aspects he’s a bit less polished than Kitching. They are also helped by the flat back four meaning they get the benefit of Van Ewijk’s pace defensively more often and of course Bidwell being a better...

Another big plus in this squad is that in every position we have two players who could feasibly start. That wasn’t the case last year.

Sakamoto has looked great in the last few games and his link play with Van Ewijk is really improving. But the cross was a standard ball in to be honest. Thomas’ header added just enough pace for it to go in. I’ll take it, of course, but the cross was just one you see 50 times a game.

Wright & Simms first choice. Godden plus a young loan as back up.

January I’d go all in for a quality midfielder. The only other addition I’d make is a young prem striker on loan - using the Ayari cash.

Completely agree with this. The Gyokeres and Hamer cash has been invested to give us a more rounded squad. And one that we “own”. We have the big pebbles at the bottom of the jug in place and we’ve just got to add the infillers. The cycle moves on. You can imagine us inevitably getting big cash...

Thomas & Kitching is starting to deliver big time - and they are both “ours”. Thought Simms turned up really well for his thankless task. And I thought Eccles had a really good game as well.

What a great day. Fantastic point away at a Premiership team. Great support and some big displays.

Surely most would take Allen and Dasilva in with them. On the actual topic I’m not sure we need yellows or that they are an indication of not being nice. Let’s be honest it’s a non contact sport in essence - you can get a yellow for intending to breathe on someone in three games time.

Agreed. Quality, pace, set piece threat.

Wright is a very good player.

Steady all round I’d say with a bunch in the middle with Simms just below them and Kitching and Wright just above.

A good point against a good side - one of the best in the league. The Eccles/Palmer switch should have happened 10-15 earlier. Kitching looks better every game. We need more from Simms in that formation but overall we’re improving nicely.

I really don’t think they’ll be a clamour for O’Hare. He’s 3 games back after an ACL. That’s probably the reason we’ve not offered yet. Whatever our offer is could easily be the best he gets.