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If you like. Although Hamer went to a premiership club and is very probably on higher wages.

Eccles is a good player. Solid championship stock. Our squad situation however means that he is absolutely pivotal for us now.

There’s a few players I’d want us to be targeting. They’ve been mentioned on here recently as being outstanding talent who would really improve the team. Let’s get after Palmer, Kelly and James.

There’s not a chance we neglected the midfield in the window. We just couldn’t land anyone. There’s a big difference. Under previous regimes we’d have flogged Sheaf for £4m and pinned our hopes on picking up a free transfer or prem loan.

He’s also vastly superior to Palmer

Put yourself in Kings shoes as the owner of a loss making operation. Robins “can I have cash for Torp, Bassette, Mason-Clark, Thomas-Asante, Binks, Dovin and Rodrigues. Can you reject offers for Simms, Wright, Van Ewijk and Sheaf. Doug “done”. Robins “actually forget Torp can I have more money...

Not negativity. I’m encouraged by his attitude. But some of the platitudes so far are bizarre. He’s done the equivalent of nothing so far save put himself about.

My point is that you assign no credit to us playing well against Oxford yet they are clearly no back number, borne out by the wins referenced.

You can’t ignore the fact that we’ve come a long way and why would we want to. I just think expectation has outstripped our reality. We don’t own the stadium. We make losses. It’s actually a massive over achievement that we’re trading blows in the upper echelons of the league. It’s worth...

The formation is fine. They just need a rocket up their arse.

Take the point. I think there is something to show for it in terms of last season and in terms of the players we now have with enhanced sell on values. Summer 24 was heavy on attacking signings which I think are needed in the Champ. They just couldn’t get that crucial midfielder over the line.

And yet they’ve beaten Preston and Norwich?

I don’t think Norwich dominated the game. They certainly didn’t have chance after chance and I thought we looked comfortable at the back. But equally I thought we snatched at things first half and as a result heads went down in the 2nd and our subs were poor and seemed just designed to get some...

It’s obvious Rudoni has a good footballing brain and can be that creative force for us. I also think he’ll start weighing in with goals. He’s part of a system that’s not clicking at the minute and is suffering along with a few others.

It’s a ridiculous point. Firstly, it’s patently obvious we tried to sign a midfielder in the Sheaf mode. We couldn’t get one. I’m not sure why that’s quite so difficult to comprehend. And secondly we’ve had to invest elsewhere and have done. Thirdly, we’re not dependent on Sheaf, we’re just...

King has a quandary. If he wants the tools to get promoted he needs to break the wage structure. You need a miracle to get promoted with a £20k salary per player cap. That’s the tension. Do we go for it and overstretch the finances and all that brings or do we hope for that miracle season where...

His attitude looks spot on. But in reality there’s no way he gets in ahead of Simms at the moment. Hope he becomes a gem but I was amazed at the analysis of him from the Oxford game. He ran about a lot but to start ascribing mini Vic comparisons is crazy.

Interested to hear where people think our recruitment has been poor. A midfielder would have been nice but the only one with a question mark for me is Torp. That’s not a bad hit rate when over the last three windows we’ve added Dovin, Van Ewijk, Thomas, Kitching, Lats, Dasilva, Rudoni, Wright...

Agreed. But time is a factor. £4m today is £2m 2-3 years ago and will be £6m in another 2-3.

O’Hare will tear it up for 9-10 games at Utd and then fade or there will be an issue. The biggest indicator as to his talent is where he’s ended up.