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Championship teams aren’t signing Serie A, Bundesliga or Argentina Primera first team players. So you’re taking chances on fringe players at best. The quoted figures you give are for two players, Kitching and EMC. Firstly, in relation to Kitching, it’s unlikely the deal is structured without...

I don’t buy this narrative of anyone actively undermining MR, it doesn’t make sense. If the powers that be no longer believe he’s fit to do the job, just sack him. It is unfathomable that the mood would have changed so drastically so soon.

Agreed on the ball carrying point. We've really missed this from Sheaf and whilst he's good at this, he's not one of the best. After Sheff Wednesday, I ranted and raved about how Sheaf and Eccles are too similar and the stats support this and with all due respect to Eccles, Sheaf is better in...

A question for the OBR as they would have crunch the numbers using ‘x, y and z’ variables. The jist of it would be tax/NI income paid (0% tax on £12.75k) versus what people take out of the NHS and the benefits system (in and out of work). Then there’s the cost of schooling any dependents and...

Well, that’s a problem when these professions are government employees… … half of this so-called £22bn ‘black hole’ in the budget is public sector pay rises. With respect, of the 500-800k net migration, they’re not all going into the NHS, education and other public sector professions. For...

Imagine the travesty had we let Hamer go for free? I’m sorry, but £15m for that deal was 100% worth it. We just having gone about replacing Hamer in the same we had done replacing Vik, we’d be alright. In reality, the only thing we’ve done to mitigate Hamer leaving is to bring in Torp for £2m...

Sorry @MalcSB, that was sarcasm… you are right though on this. The OBR released statistics on the financial impact of low skilled immigration, which is defined as earning 50% (edit) less than median salary. It’s a net cost of £150,000 per person who entered the country at 25 and stayed until...

Imagine calling a player who has 32 goal contributions in the league below a ‘hidden gem’. Even if EMC achieves half his output from last season, the numbers are significant and improves our team. He’s come close a few times already and that’s without playing particularly well.

It’s one way to cut the deficit… 🙄

There’s just no reasoning here…

Really? Barnsley got to the playoff finals with Thomas and Kitching as their captain - I was at their game and they were unlucky to have lost. I’m pretty sure Luton signed one of their CBs too that offseason - so it was a top end L1 unit. They looked a fantastic duo when we switched to 4-2-3-1...

Is anyone going to the game tonight?

Is this a joke? Tavares ahead of Simms, Sakamoto, Wright and Bassette?! 😂

Labour have shot themselves in the foot significantly already over ‘attacking’ pensioners. Reeves has spoken about this fiscal ‘black hole’, which has that’s dented confidence and spooked savers and wealth creators into fearing tax rises. Hence, only China has more millionaires leaving the...

The biggest challenge to Labour is in fact Labour themselves… 😂 Their majority is built on fragile foundations and pretty mild swings could see them lose a lot of seats. Sir John Curtice has broke down the data and it doesn’t paint a good picture.

We tried to sign at least 2 players on loan this summer. Our squad is relatively light so getting the numbers up with our own assets puts the club on a better long term footing. In previous years, we had a tiny squad that was patch up with 5-6 loans a year. Add 1-2 permanent signings to our...

They were also involved in Barnsley’s playoff season but, what does the recruitment team know, eh?

Signing players from a league below is the norm for 95% of football teams. Sakamoto was signed from a team relegated from the Belgian first division, likewise with Hamer in the Netherlands. Signing players from the league above isn’t easy either, Birmingham spent up to £15m on a striker who...

Robins isn’t going to have his coaching team picked for him. In any case, Delaney was brought in as a youth coach before King became owner. He also wouldn’t praise people in public who he didn’t rate and were forced on him. Take the tin foil hat off. Any rational person will know that is it...

They’re all and have always been Robins appointments and he is on record saying he was impressed with the candidates he interviewed. There’s no conspiracy here. If he’s about to appoint an AM, it’s because he feels he needs it to succeed. It could be because the new structure ‘isn’t working’ in...