IAmNick

I guess we're all feeling the cost of living crisis huh...

The bit I don't get though is that we don't actually need that money really, do we. We need the FFP headroom, not the money itself. And there's obviously a time factor there, so it's not like you can save the money and use it a few years later instead, that's not how it works. To make the best use of what selling a player really gets us - 3 years or whatever of FFP headroom, you need to use it asap. We've sort of lost 1/3 of the Scott money by doing nothing.

I don't think they're better though - they're totally unnatural looking. No teeth, however well you look after them look like that. It just looks weird imo, although if people want to that's fine by me.

Just saw Everton's first goal, hahaha, truly the beautiful game: https://streamin.me/v/61e3d472

Blimey. If you look at the page source you'll see a JSON object in there full of stuff like this: { "guid": "e79935ff-5695-4725-bedd-6126de0f4d53", "name": "W9", "type": "SelectedSeats", "free": 184, "soldOut": false, "isBlocked": false } Then write a bit of code (or whack it in a spreadsheet if that's easier) and sum the free column. It's currently at 6331 free and will save you a lot of time!

How can you say this and then a couple of posts later bring up teams like Man U and Leeds as examples of things we're missing? Unbelievable. Man U fans hate their club with a burning passion, and Leeds and absolutely militant and unaccepting of anything even slightly substandard. Ridiculous. At least get what you think straight.

Unfortunately though they also know him...

I agree, but he comes across as a very thoughtful bloke and I have no doubt he'll be choosing his words very carefully to remain professional but also provide a few subtle nods along the way as well. He's not going to outright say anything rude or stupid of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if he makes what he wants to known as well. We'll see!

Why does Manning (hopefully) doing well also always seem to mean that Pearson had to be shit? Or if you think Pearson was doing well, then Manning has to be shit? How about Pearson did a good job for us, progressed us, Manning took over, had a wobble as he found his feet, and now will hopefully go on to do a good job next season and progress us again. That's what we all want isn't it?

Just checked, you and @Chairman Mao were right!

This was against Birmingham wasn't it? Unless I'm thinking of another goal / my mind is playing tricks on me. From near the halfway line in front of the old Williams stand?

But they're probably judging him off both those things right - he had a really poor cameo then hasn't even made it in the pitch again even when we're miles ahead or have nothing to play for. It sounds fair enough to me personally.

But Bobby and Semenyo were talked up and continually given chances by our coaching teams/managers. As well as by a reasonable number of fans who'd seen them many times for the youth teams. That's not happening here. In this case they (the coaching staff) clearly don't see him as good enough, and given we've barely seen him I don't think it's unreasonable for people to take a general steer from that is it? There are more ways to learn about things than just seeing them with your own eyes. If you think he is going to make it I'd be interested what you're basing that off? Presumably if so that's in contrast to Manning and co it's actually you who thinks you're an expert. Or you just have no opinion at all I suppose, in which case why are you here?

Are you suggesting they should probably have jackets on as well..? Might be a few chilly breezes inside the Molineux?

I agree. I don't think Manning would have signed Williams himself... But I'm hoping that as he's seen the value he can bring to the side and the edge he has - which is often missing from very technical players I suspect Manning likes, he'll decide to keep him for the balance it gives us.