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Is that the softest Pen for a while ? Almost went down before he got near the box . Some ok finishing , but either of these two should get battered if Leeds are anywhere near on it.

MKD must be the popular loser in a PO ever

I don't know how they stand with their finances , but I imagine they will do their best to keep that side together . Seemed to get better as the season went on . They will probably see next year as an opportunity , if they don't win the PO's.

Great goal, but you know it's your night when those go in. Then the shoulder charge in the back , looked a Pen to me . Shame

Burnley were so good in Promotion I think they could sort themselves out to make a push. They came down last time with financial question marks and Kompany did a great job , they have about £40M worth of players OOC/returning to clubs this summer so will probably need a rebuild . Luton I think will be better for the experience and should push top 6 . Transfermarkt has them spending £25M this year, should leave a healthy chunk of Prem money to build again. Sheff U, funny one this. I heard some serious rumours about finances . They have some of their better players leaving and if their owner sticks to his word about not putting any more money in, they could be in for a tough year. I don't see another Promoted team doing an Ipswich ( but you never know) , the teams that miss out on the Playoff's will potentially be the favs for the League, specially Leeds or Southampton. Norwich will be better again too. Maybe a good time to get our shit together ?

I don't think that's the issue. If he's on even double the rumours I've seen, he'll be within budget . The issue is what Burnley want for him . Failing a miracle Burnley are down , they are unlikely to be doing a firesale , but we can hope.

One thing I will say, and it's the natural order of things. With bringing through so many over a fairly short period of time, who have gone on not only to play for us, but to have Premier League careers , naturally means we will have or are due a fallow period. I'll quote Dave Plus as he says the lesser ones and all those who make it else where after release , is a decent return. So I get that currently we have no one that is demanding a first team place ..... yet. That's one reason I will give him time, there isn't a player who we all agree should be playing. At the moment it's a couple who we think deserve some minutes . Hopefully the U18s coming through will restart the process , while the likes of Meerholz , JKL and Morrison have a serious push next season.

I agree But that begs another question . A player coming in to train with the first team might do well, Stokes has been mentioned and Morrison was prominent in the videos towards the end of the season , what do they have to do to make the step onto the pitch. I do think that Pearson (although forced at times) was good at giving players a run . I know a lot of store is put in what players do in training , but IMO you won't know just how a player reacts to real first team games. I always imagine someone coming into training and hesitant to smash into the likes of Williams, James or whoever, they have to work with these players every day. But on a pitch with real opposition, maybe different. And not everybody is the same , would Morrison have faired worse than Mebude ? Would Knight-Lebel have made us look worse than we did with Sykes at LWB if he had started CB ? Ultimately not my call obviously , but I do believe you have to give them a chance in a team with few changes and in their proper position, rather than a massively changed side for a minor Cup game.

Apparently took 6,500 to the final , whatever you think of them it's great support. I just wonder what might have been. Those early injuries should have killed us , but they stuck at it and were unlucky at times.

I'm fighting the urge to just give a "like" and agree with you . But as I've said the Jury is out for Manning as a Coach I really have to give him time to see if he will give the young guns time further down the line. I have said it annoyed me juggling the team and having Sykes at LWB so we didn't have to do one obvious change. It annoyed me that he didn't give more minutes to JKL or Morrision in what were dead rubbers. But TBH I think he still felt a little pressured to get results. That poor run seemed to really focus him and even though it was a decent run of results there were plenty of "sliding door" moments . I won't count playing Stokes (or Murphy) as using the academy next year , I think we need to see the likes of Knight - Lebel and Morrison or Yeboah getting runs , obviously they have to warrant it. But if recruitment goes smoothly we will end up with a slightly larger squad, should be able to fill the bench with first team players and that in turn will highlight LM's feelings towards the Academy. We sign quality youngsters partly through our reputation, Stokes and Murphy the obvious ones. If that 'Pathway' is obviously not there any more I worry we will miss the next batch of Scotts', Semenyos and Conways.

I'm a newbie , 17 years in August.

Previously it was easy one click for scorers, you could find a team directly from the table and the layout was clear, clear and easy to read. Now it is clunky and rubbish to navigate. Would be one thing if it looked good, but it looks worse and it's shit to navigate. Whoever signed off on this is an idiot.

Don't remind me, felt like I spent more time in Aldershot than Bristol over those games.

I think is good at certain things and at Ipswich they sussed him early and kept him on a leash . Confine him to his strong points, unlike here when he was given the freedom to do what he wanted . As for Wes , I doubt he had anything to do with it. Burns was more experienced when he went there and had found a position that suits him .