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Apparently, both Portsmouth and Sunderland were after JCH and willing to pay a fee according to Robins earlier on. Willis was aware of the interest in him but didn't want to go -- that's a good sign!

At least 5 of the listed signings were signed or identified as targets before Badlan assumes the role of Head of Recruitment. Westbrook, Bosma and JCH were signed before Badlan cane in. Bakayoko and Chaplin were ‘identified as potential targets’ last year according to Robins when we signed them...

Frankly, JCH was that physical option in my view. Personally, I liked what he bought to the table, but he was pretty inconsistent. Equally capable of dominating games and being anonymous in the next. This transfer blindsided me. With Bakayoko back in the fold, I hope he has a good positive run...

I'm glad he's doing well for Everton U23s, I saw he was on the bench against us in pre-season and another game for them and made an assumption off that. Probably jumped the gun a bit. But, he's yet to make a single senior appearance since the FA Cup for us and he's 21 now. Frankly, he shouldn't...

What would that be?

He didn’t have to call an election, the Conservatives had a majority and an election wasn’t due for 18 months. It’s pretty clear that he called an election to strengthen his position against the trade unions (as union militancy was getting way out of control). Just as May sought to strengthen...

Ted Heath’s famous ‘who governs Britain?’ ring any bells for you?

Theresa May made the 2017 election about Brexit, look what happened. Labour’s Brexit policy was totally flawed and lacked coherence: access to single market, but ending freedom of movement wasn’t going to happen. It didn’t matter because they weren’t going to win, and needed to appease their...

After those indicative votes in Parliament last night, the EU is still refusing to reopen negotiations. Have said reopening negotiations could ‘backfire’ with Gibraltar, fisheries and the Divorce Bill would be opener too. An MEP said that a no deal Brexit was a ‘lesser of two evils’ when it came...

Fair enough, if he felt stifled by the lack of chances of first team football. But, players like that should be looking to join somewhere to get first team experience. Same as Thomas, a waste. Look at Stevenson, 1 year he’s had his pay day for, and that money wouldn’t go very far for someone...

I don’t think any of them would have, including Sambou — who was on the bench for Everton U23s against us in preseason. The same guy who left because he didn’t get first team football... Players like those three need to screw their heads on properly and be a bit realistic. It wouldn’t...

Bad career moves for Stevenson and Thomas. Thomas especially shouldn’t have tried to move to a premiership club so early, but, I understand why Stevenson wanted to move. Even the monetary benefits of their moves won’t be worth it it if they end up leaving before their contract is up. Young...

I said he should have the opportunity to have a go at promotion for 2-3 seasons. If we fighting a relegation battle, I’d consider sacking him. Hope that clears things up.

What are your expectations for this season?

I agree that we need more balance in the team, but we’re in a decent place given the circumstance. In less than 2 years, we’ve gone from a the worst team in L1 to promotion and now we’re a good top half team. We had to gut the team when we got relegated, we had to add a lot of quality coming...

From my view, I thought it took a deflection.

This thread, like the others probably won’t age well. He’s a good manager, we have a good, young team and it will come together next season when we add to what we’ve got.

Exactly, but the UK laws that adopted EU law became the law by Act of Parliament. One of the most controversial examples is the Human Rights Act 1998, which is a UK law that pretty much adopts EU law pretty much word for word. Even before Brexit, Cameron had pledged to repeal the HRA and replace...

Ok, name the specific EU law that is on the statute book. Can’t be that hard of what I’m saying is wrong like you say.

If EU regulations became UK law, name one such EU law that is on the UK statute book. Just one.