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We went through Browne a fair bit though, in fairness!

Bloody hell, a lot of pretty unfair judgement here based on one side of a story and the spin within a newspaper article. I've sat in newspaper editorial meetings and know how they work, they'll select quotes and spin it whatever way they can to make the story as compelling as possible, which in...

General thoughts; GK, not up to the level, unfortunately. Thought our CBs did okay, dealt with a lot of balls into the area and ultimately were let down by LOB and then a total lack of anything going forward. Brown a bad game but then so did everyone else, and he's not played a huge amount of...

Unfortunately at this level the forward market is nearly impossible to get right (or satisfy fans), unless you have a relatively huge budget. Any decent (or proven) League 1 striker is going to cost £500k plus, and even at that you'd still be taking a gamble, probably based on potential. I...

Ah I didn't realise Robins had come out and been that forthright. I thought it was just an optimistic nuanced 'we can achieve anything'. Anyway the bookies have us as 8th favourites, which is probably about right. That's cause to be optimistic though, I'm just not in the same place as the OP.

The age and inconsistency that came with that absolutely affected our performance, however that side had several players far too good for the division and should've gone up, or at the very least comfortably got a play-off spot. We needed more in January admittedly, and it was that business that...

I'm not as convinced. There's some good squads in this division, and whilst I think we've a chance of a play off push, so will pretty much every other team. We're a great deal better than when we went down, however we had some good sides in the years before that and didn't get that close.

Looks like a player with decent enough pedigree, worth a gamble certainly!

I think Nick is referring more to our current situation. Generally applied to football, absolutely. However when you go to a level (ours for example) where the fees are pretty nominal, and plenty of the best signings and almost all of the business is done with frees, then I think that assumption...

Agreed and that's certainly a marker against him, but had he impressed and proven himself, his value would be 2/3 times what Newcastle are asking for.

People do, however if they're deliberately misleading and show blatant bias, people will always criticise that argument. You could also argue that, or you could argue that he's far too good for L1 level (as he's proven on two occasions, statistically), and as the team performed dreadfully after...

McNulty has never scored prolifically at L1 level though, he's done it in league 2. Additionally he's 4 and half years older. If you said a 1 in 2 championship striker was worth £15 million in the current market? At 21 years old, Armstrong is definitely worth £3 million, purely on risk alone...

I'd also read that wrong, but that's a fairly misleading way of presenting goal scoring stats. You've just picked a period of time, and way of presenting the stats which suits your argument. Why not just look at his record for what it is; He was 18/19 and bagged 20 goals in League 1 with us -...

Is that true, I think he's scored more than that, in league one at least? He had a difficult spell at Bolton, however he was played on the left wing, which is fairly well known. I wouldn't say that only a league one club would be interested. £3 million doesn't even buy you an average...

If our main strength is in the wing back area, it seems like we could have 2 of the best in the division then we’ve got to play to that. I don’t see why 3 at the back is going to require real technicians at the back, I personally think it could work and if it gets Brown and Sterling flying...

He’s definitely worth £3 million, he’s 21 years old and would almost certainly get you between 20-25 goals in league one. We’ve just sold McNulty who’s never scored regularly above the 4th tier and is 4 years older for £1.5 million.

I tend to agree. If we sign another striker who's not particularly outstanding then are we just blocking Ponti's progression? If he played regularly I think he's absolutely got 15-20 goals in him. However it's a big risk, as it is when you give any young player a chance, so you just have to...

Trouble is if you buy a striker who’s a proven goalscorwr at League 1 level, how much does that cost? Arguably we’re not a viable option for that player, as they’re looking for a step up. Chaplin seems like a fairly calculated risk, only 21 and seemingly got lots of potential but is...

JCH was released by Rotherham

The thing is I’ve seen City 100s of times, and I’m used to the highs and lows, and if you have a low then you get another go midweek or the next weekend. As CJ said, the World Cup is once every four years and is the pinnacle of the the sport, so for me England’s success just feels a little more...