GrahamC

The rumour is that Scott went from being on £4k a week with us to £40k a week at Bournemouth. He’s been on the pitch for at least part of 18 Premiership games so far this season. I’ll be amazed if he has even a moment of reflection as to whether it was a year too soon. As for Conway, like you I’ll be shocked if he signs another contract with us, & think that his next destination will be better than some on here. Wolves have been rumoured of late, plus if either Southampton or Ipswich went up I could see him at either of those.

Agree. In summary if we pick up cover for Max (almost certainly an out of contract keeper with Championship/L1 experience), a number 10 and a striker at circa £3m each, that’s our summer business done unless Conway leaves or the likes of Cornick or even Naismith are moved on. Nothing like the fanciful £15m-£18m mentioned on a podcast but enough to strengthen us in the obvious areas.

Williams possibly, Conway no chance.

You can buy a seat that’s not currently taken at any time. You don’t have to wait for move your seat day, that’s specifically for seats currently held by ST holders that are becoming vacant. I renewed, switched stand (along with 4 others) back on April 10th.

Since breaking in to our first team he’s had a loan at Ipswich, who didn’t want to keep him, a move to Sheffield Wednesday where he fell out of favour very quickly (16 starts) & now he’s out in the cold at Charlton. There’s a pattern, you asked if it’s bad attitude, laziness or Billy big bollocks? It’s all 3, as @Northern Red said he’s heading out of the football league at this rate. Pearson told him he was a waster, he was right.

Explains why she was wearing their abomination of a shirt, election year.

Is that Darren Jones?

Hope so, but not how it came across.

The “plan” clearly involves “young, hungry” players. He says the same thing about six times.. Certainly makes the point that we won’t be signing “31 year olds looking for a last big payday”. This is a very simplistic answer, the likes of Wilbraham & Wade Elliott show that you can get real value from older players. Dismisses the question about the value of King & James very swiftly, too.. Is that real? Christ.

Believe so.

Definitely worth a listen. Tinnion comes across as the right person to be in charge of the Academy structure & his point about how our overall recruitment has improved is spot on, but you have to be blind to think he’s qualified to be a Technical Director, really unprofessional in some of his comments & can’t help himself in revealing fees we’ve paid. Completely innumerate too, as his comment on the 2 Coventry signings shows. Last point, he says on numerous occasions that we’re bringing in “one or two” this summer, so even if TC’s possible departure changes that, it will only be slightly, there clearly won’t be a large number of arrivals.

Perhaps when he takes the mask off it won’t be the janitor, it will be a competent chairman.. Sorry, a bit too far fetched.

None of those 3 named has made it at Championship level, either. Kane had one season at it earlier in his career, Maddox never got near it & is now a sub at a team about to exit the Football League. Scott was let go by Cincinatti after 4 games.

Aberdeen would give him a glowing reference, 2 points out of 24 in the league..

Return of Michael Duff?

No. Vince Harper got back in the league via Eastleigh & is now at Exeter. Conor Lemonheigh-Evans did the same at Torquay & is now at Stockport. Exceptions to the rule & no-one has made it at Championship level yet.

Adomah was a Gary Johnson signing, it had been done months before. I knew someone who told me he was signing well before GJ was sacked. Cisse was ok, but we really only had one good year from him. He was left out at the start of his second season with us because he was after a pay rise on his current deal. Coppell didn’t seem bothered about moving on one of the best right backs in the division in Bradley Orr & replacing him with the (higher wages) of Nicky Hunt, who was litter. As has been said already, his heart was never in it, SL should have recognised this.

True, but signing England’s goalkeeper (his last club game, an FA Cup final) is hardly getting a bloke from down the pub, is it? If Coppell’s first picks were Nicky Hunt & Damion Stewart then perhaps it’s a very good thing that he left so quickly.

Gnonto went on strike at the start of the season at Leeds to try & force a move to Everton through. Dinning absolutely had us over, he promised whilst on loan to move down here if we signed him permanently but when we did, refused to do so. Another of Tinnion’s brilliant signings as manager.

India isn’t exactly the same is it? Pub league standard. He hasn’t gone near a job at a serious level since.

That is massive hindsight. As has already been pointed out, his last game before joining was at a World Cup for England & his career was stellar. Easy to say now he was on a very quick decent in terms of standards (though he did still have some exceptional games for us). Probably the same people moaning will be those saying we never “go for it”.

Very strange man. I understood why we appointed him, but don’t think we thought through the fact he wasn’t interested in taking over straight away. He’s never managed at a decent level since then, perhaps those who think he was the right appointment should reflect on that. Pretty sure it was Leicester because they had Chris Weale in goal.

Could be wrong but I really don’t think we are signing Bird to replace King. I think he’s coming in as either James or Williams replacement. No way did we ever expect King who was 35 in October to be in the squad over 30 times already this season. That’s down to the unavailability of Naismith, Benarous & post January, possibly Murphy. If Williams stays (James then goes), I think our 4 senior midfielders will be Knight, Bird, TGH & Williams. In the absence of any of those then an Academy player, Stokes or Murphy will probably be in the squad. To answer your point about contracts, both are of an age where they could go to the open market whatever we offered them.

Totally pointless, but I presume that either we felt he was a better option than Academy players or there was some contractual obligation to include him, even though it was very obvious he was never coming on. I know I got a few facepalm reactions at the time but I saw enough against QPR to know he was just miles adrift of what we were after & I’d have stopped bothering with him straight after that.

Preston, Stoke, Blackburn & if they stay up, Sheffield Wednesday. I’m aware I’m not Dave..