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2 hours ago, Sheltons Army said:

Excellent , that will allow players to waste even more time standing in front the ball preventing a quick restart

5 second limit being discussed apparently

6 minutes ago, Dastardly and Muttley said:

In Naismith and Kane we’ve made two sensible signings. As someone else said, round pegs in round holes.

Sykes, I’m not 100% sold on, but he adds versatility and was a free transfer, so not much risk.

It’s a great start. Could do with another central midfielder if HNM goes, and wouldn’t be too surprised to see a striker to help us prepare for the inevitable departures of Wells and Semenyo either this summer or January.

Sykes is the Scott Wagstaff of 2014/2015 right? Versatile, always gives hundred percent, good squad player, who will mostly come off the bench....

Surely everyone needs to take a step back a minute....

We're 7 points clear of relegation and just 7 off the playoffs.....

Pretty much everyone on this forum at the start of the season agreed we were in for a tough season and general concensus was a mid to lower-mid table finish would be a good season setting us up to push on from there and we're what a win away from that sort of league position?

Biggest issue for me, as it has been for years, is the lack of a director of football/ sporting director setting the footballing 'vision' for the club and bringing us into the 21st century in terms of recruitment! Pretty much every successful teams at our level and the prem has one and we can't just lump part the role on Pearson, part on our data analyst and the other on our CEO and expect everything to be fine.

8 hours ago, JoeAman08 said:

I don’t think NP is awful. He did/does have a hell of a job on his hands. That said all he has done is get players fitter. Fair enough it needed to be done. Though it isn’t translating to much more success on the pitch. City seem intent on getting mediocre coaches from England though and NP is upper tier of mediocre. So no point in talking about getting rid. No better would come in. 

I'd argue 'solid mid table' is quite a bit more success on the pitch than the relegation form we saw throughout most of last season....

Interesting poll this Nacho thanks. Great to see the overwhelming support NP has from the fanbase (so far from limited responses), that we are all pretty much agreed on what our transfer priorities should be and that by the sounds of it they chime with what NP is trying to do too.

Could be a really interesting summer this.

8 minutes ago, Rossi the Robin said:

If Baker never got injured he’s be easily in our hall of fame 

Agree completely. I'd love to see our win percentage in games Baker has started for us throughout the years, would guess it's pretty decent. I know you can't discount his injury record but when fit he's one of the best defensive centre backs in the league imo.