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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...

I think I’m consistent across the board on this. We can all agree the start hasn’t been good enough, but I don’t think we’ve been as bad as our league position suggests. It takes a small win run with a bit of luck on side and all of a sudden the narrative changes. When things go badly there’s...

Probably quite a lot left, only 1 block had sold out Y4 (unrestricted) when I logged on at 12:00 for the 1100+ sale. After this and PNE, I’ll be in the 1200+ club!

Robins is on record saying the coaches are settling into their roles - it’s too early to evaluate them at this point. The early start hasn’t been great, but plenty of time to improve things. Let’s think back to 2017 when AV was starting, there was doubt expressed at the time of MR to coach...

It’s a gold medal performance in the mental gymnastics from @shmmeee today.

Would you have signed Ivan Toney for £10m then? Also 24 and in a team who pump their forwards stats… Vik didn’t have amazing stats - he played in the Swedish second division before BHA picked him up. Your point on Sheaf contradicts your previous points on EMC and (probably Kitching as Barnsley...

It’s funny how people remember things. The reality is, Sheaf and Vik were examples of what a good job the coaching team have done with these players. It happens year in, year out and it’s the same culprits making the same hasty judgements. The recruitment policy has been criticised at stages...

No, he was clearly a ‘cut above’ from Day 1… 🙄

Toney cost £10m… I’m not going to nitpick this examples. All of the L1 players we signed had Championship experience with the exception of EMC. £4.25m for a 24 year old player with 19 goals and 13 assists in the league below is good value. Just how you and others slated Wright and Simms last...

When Vik first joined us, he had been a bust at Swansea and struggled to get in the team ahead of Biamou. He scored 2 goals in his first 12 games and if we were to revisit the original Vik signing thread, there were many sceptical comments on there. There will be similar comments regarding...

Would’ve taken £8 for him and/or Hamer too! 😂

There’s been plenty of players who have come good from L1 over 21, what a silly thing to say. EMC’s numbers last season for Peterborough were similar to Toney’s before Brentford signed him. EMC will come good, to reiterate the same point I’ve made on several threads, it’s not possible that...

Sheaf and Eccles also need to be braver on the ball and put balls in behind defenders. They haven’t done this nearly enough and we’re never going to take advantage of the pace we have in the team if Simms, BTA, EMC, MVE, Wright and Bassette are not running onto balls. Looking at how well Vik was...