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He was born in 1999. Hiwula was 22 when he started with us last season? What’s your point? Hiwula was, overall, more productive than Thomas and for me, age is irrelevant because we knew we were going to have Thomas for one season only. Thomas will almost definitely go further than Hiwula...

No it isn’t, the community engagements footballers have are extra-curricular to their normal work day. The comparison with teachers was a poor example whichever way you look at it. If you want to make the case that all criminals should be banned from football, fine. I’d still disagree, but...

If he improves by 10-20% in the final third, he becomes a player worth £5m plus, easily.

Agreed, but he was also v inefficient at converting chances. You criticise our strikers a lot, yet Thomas is without a doubt the biggest offender in missed guilt-edge chances last season. Even Robins was quoted as saying he should’ve had ‘at least’ 30 goals. I say this as a big admirer of...

The key difference is teachers work with minors on a day-to-day basis. Footballers don’t. They have community commitments and engagements, but that’s not an essential characteristic of their job. I’m all for keeping criminals being banned from those engagements, but not from football.

In fairness to all our strikers last season, we didn’t have wingers that put dangerous crosses in the right areas last season. It’s not so much our ‘system’ per se, at times we just didn’t put the ball in dangerous areas enough. That’s not brushing over the fact that our attacking players...

I would rather have not sold Chaplin, but I don’t think he would have started the season in Starting XI. Hiwula is our top goalscorer, Bakayoko was slightly favoured toward the end of the season and we’ve been seemingly pursuing Walker for a little while. Let’s see how things go!

I have mixed feelings on this transfer, and I’m just going to mind dump: — I didn’t want us to sell Chaplin, he’s a good young player who will improve and all it took was one decent half season and his value doubles. BUT, — My first choice ST going into this season would be Hiwula as he got...

You seemingly like to bash our players. Evidently not a bad buy if teams in the division above are willing to pay him for more. He could’ve done better, but at 22, was definitely always going to improve. I’m willing to let him go if it facilitates the right transfers, after all, every single...

How is 8 goals 31 appearances ‘awful’ for a 21 year old?!

Maybe it is, but it’s not clear for sure. As far as I’m aware, I’m yet to see anything about Bright signing a new contract. I’ve seen that Wolves have taken up on their option to extend his current contract. Two v different things. Have you seen a source or publication that has stated Bright...

The money is there in the sport, the players deserve their share. That rule applies across all sports.

If he’s linked with us and Birmingham, then evidently he either hasn’t signed a new contract on new terms or is willing to take a big pay cut. Contract extensions in the club’s favour tend to be automatic, no change in the salary. For what it’s worth, I believe there’s definitely a big offer...

I agree, last season we were a bit limited in mixing things up with different combinations of players. Even having Jodi Jones available off the bench later on in the season will be a boost as it gives us another option. Signing an out and out AM, Bright (fingers crossed) or perhaps a loaner...

I imagine that’s why we’re moving to 4-3-3, we’ve got a lot of pace now where that strategy could work. A front three of Kastaneer, Jobello and Hiwula could potentially be a nightmare for defenders to mark if they’re a free roaming unit. I like Shipley, but we’re not exactly going to play him...

You’d think finding a striker who can score 20+ is easy. We need about 3 players who can score 10+ goals, Hiwula is one, you need Chaplin/Bakayoko to make 2 or 3 and Kastaneer or Jobello to make up the rest. Could do with Bayliss and Allen hitting 5+ goals. We finished above about 9 teams who...

Jordan Clarke was a right back...

Sounds like a chronic injury too. He was talking about an incident in his Chelsea days where he’d just recovered from a hammy injury and had a collapsed lung after training.

There were people saying we should sell for about £1-2m last season, to get £3m at the time would be quite good. In fact, £3m is still a decent fee for him. However, we ought to renegotiate that clause if possible if we’re doing well next season!

That’s certainly not an outrageous view. Personally, I believe Hyam will go on to a better CB given that he’s 1-2 years younger than Willis.