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Nike’s kits have gone massively downhill in recent years. Bespoke Adidas kits are generally the best imo. Any sponsor that isn’t castors and does bespoke designs for us is a win. Umbro could do a decent job given they’re a heritage sponsor.

If you throw a young player into the mix too soon it can destroy their confidence and hinder their development. If he’s good enough, he’ll have made the mark at Motherwell and probably get another loan to prove himself. When it comes to our academy, we’re probably years off producing another...

Something to do with the club World Cup… it’s a waste of time but I suppose it evens the playing field because there those teams participating had a ‘mini’ transfer window to register players for the tournament. In practice, almost definitely makes no difference.

I cottoned on to that as soon as the post was sent! 😂 There was a lot of people calling for him for to start/play more. Bearing in mind Sheaf had spent a lot of time on the sidelines, we had 3 operational CMs; Eccles, Torp and Allen. Here are a few takes extracted from the forum on this...

Respectfully, no idea why you think that… we’re not owned by SISU anymore. Hamer = £15m with a sell on % Vik = £20m + add ons Rudoni has longer on his contract and younger than both players.

Considering Rudoni put in Hamer numbers last season… we could reasonably insist on a fee of £20-25m for him. He’s younger than Hamer was 2023 with 3 years left on his contract. We’d be stupid to not demand an unreasonably high fee.

Agreed, it can seem punitive. I suppose that’s a legacy issue when people (including myself) took the Michael and got concession/kids STs for relatives. In fairness to the club, the FZ is also one or two blocks larger back from when I had one in block 33 as a teenager. The club has made an...

Exactly, assuming his physical recovery goes to plan… will he recover mentally? In all likelihood, he recovers and all is fine. That said, it’s clear that Lampard doesn’t fully trust the 2 back up goalkeepers so a short term option doesn’t do anything for us.

A 6 month loan would expire in Jan so it’s not a recall. Anyway, a short term deal assumes three things: 1. Dovin’s form picks up from where he left off 2. His rehab continues to go well 3. He doesn’t get injured again Set aside the question of whether or not Wilson and Collins are sufficient...

The guidelines for an ACL is 9-12 months so it could be as long as March. Equally, a 6 month loan means the parent club can opt to take him back at the end of the loan which would be mostly likely a 1st Jan expiry. Even end of Jan is within the recommended rehab period for an ACL injury so...

This season proved that you need 2 competent GKs. People like to forget that Dovin was regularly putting in MOTM calibre performances in our run Jan-Feb. With an ACL, particularly the way Dovin did the injury, there’s the risk he could do it again. It has to be a 12 month loan minimum, a 6...

There’s also no guarantee Dovin comes back in fine form. The risk is too high to get this wrong. It has to be a full season loan or a permanent transfer for a GK we’d be happy to be number 1.

For context, it was cheaper to get a FZ adult + child ST than a ST at Solihull Moors (£299 early bird, £340 full price). They allowed 2 U12s free admission with a full paying adult. If people want to bring the whole family out to every game, spend money on food and alcohol… it’s obviously...

£250 for an adults ticket is genuinely ridiculous value. It was cheaper for me to buy my ST and my brother’s in 23/24 than to buy a full priced adult ticket. My brother’s attendance % was not great so it was underutilised or often used by an adult. The optics aren’t great increasing prices in...

It’s because people want a premium product paying bargain prices. Peak cakeism. I sit next to a Leicester STH at work and their ST in the ‘cheaper zone’ is £500.

Probably shows that it’s not the strikers that are the problem…

This thread is rather redundant now… this is why you don’t make judgements until you have a clear picture of what’s going on.

Well, it’s not right that a child + adult ticket is cheaper than a standard adults ticket. The ticket prices for the young supporters remain cheap and that’s the main thing.

How many chances did we create for BTA like that?!

You’ve got some good midfielders in the group; Sheaf, Grimes, Eccles and Torp before getting to Allen. One of those could be sold but to get a better player, we’d need to be spending a lot of money and there’s areas where we need to spend more money. How many players would be happy to join to...