Steve Watts

He was left with a bloody awful squad and couldn't get the best out of what he took on. He did say in interviews that he was tasked with reshaping the setup I believe (I think this was the birth of the 5 pillars), and conceded that he likely wouldn't still be here to see those changes happen. Yes, some much of the football under him was dire, and he was a really dour manager to listen to, but he was a very intelligent guy whose interviews were well worth reading rather than listening to as what he had to say was always really interesting.

I think this is also a key factor for potential rising stars. They see that we take a player who was rejected by the likes of Bournemouth and Southampton and harness that talent to produce the £25m player we've seen. I think the clubs aim should be, and probably is, to not be "ok within FFP boundaries", but rather looking at getting to the stage where we're not even having to think about whether or not we may need to look at ways to ensure we meet the criteria. A succession of Academy graduates that get their big move to the Prem is a phenomenal advertisement for what this club can offer a young lad. It will give us spending power and pull. It's just a shame AshtonYate wasn't around to see the much maligned Academy evolve to what it is today. He'd probably still find a way to bash it mind!

Nige's father in law! We all know if Wolves play dirty, Nige will just fight them off with his bare hands! I think the best move for Alex from the teams linked so far would be Brighton. Exposure to European Football and would likely get the game time he wants. Wolves and Bournemouth again will offer him the game time he wants, but would he want that in a team in transition that (certainly in Bournemouths case) are a good bet to struggle at the wrong end. He loves Spurs, but I don't know if he gets games there. I'd love Newcastle to be interested as I think Howe is the perfect manager for someone like Scott to progress under, but I've not seen any link there since March.

Which is a good enough nudge to raise just once again how remarkable a manager Terry Cooper was. We got him for 18k and Coops went up to Darlo with a van and helped him move down here. Legends...both of them,

Not always that way....we did have the joyous moment where the Sportman Pub won it and they were essentially a pub team at that time! Either or is fine. There are several different sources that tend to concur.... However....the bottom question asked below was a strange one....Having been married for 17 years I tend to find most rhetorical questions begin with them! ?

They paid their £8 for a blue tick, so they must be legit. I too follow pages purely for the lols it gives There's both recent and aged precedents of this with the club. I think I read that Ross McCrorie did this at Aberdeen to ensure that the club got fair value, something we will have been aware of. And further back, Darren Barnard did the same for us when Danny Wilson was coming in for him at Barnsley after their promotion to the prem.

Imagine they have to tear it down and they're left with a full view of the pitch! They think now there's nothing visually attractive....! Oh I don't mind Keith posting reminders of that lot recently playing league matches against Eastleigh! Silly little monkey Monkeh.... All the Rovers fans are locked out of the city so of course there's more City fans.....

If not going for longevity then Scott & Bellingham, given the career they're going to have should be there. Like others have said - there's no indication as to the metrics used, in which case it's all a load of bollocks!

Shame he couldn't introduce you to Eric and Ernie enough for you to be on the same terms.....! OOOOOOoooooohhhh....look at me and how I can google how long spelling mistakes have been commonplace! Just cuz ur down wi da kidz dunt mean nuttin.

I'm not sure what your points are to be honest, but I've responded where I can.... I do disagree though with with early rounds being midweek. This involves much smaller clubs that rely on the funding that gate receipts bring. Exeter vs Gateshead for (an admittedly extreme) example would see far few away fans travelling on a Tuesday night than a Saturday. This seems an unnecessary move that would impact clubs financially in my view.

Weeeellllllllll.......maybe we could do with losing one of them.......

He does like to be pioneering, with the vegan food, new stadium plans etc, so if there's an opportunity to become the first pro club to appoint a female manager who has all of the necessary qualifications then they would absolutely be the team to do it. Would open the door for other extremely qualified female coaches as well. I don't view it with the same cynicism as you and think it'd be great if she started the season in charge and started really well. It was always bound to happen sometime because there's no real reason for it not to. There will come a time that women who follow in future would be rightly thought of and referred to simply as manager, not female manager. Just like Phil Neville was "manager" of the England Ladies rather than the "male manager" of them.

Please tell me there's at least one reply that simply says "Row M"!

We don't know if he did pull out of coming back. He was honest with his reservations about returning is all that's been said. It could be that he was hoping the club could give him some reassurances about those reservations but instead decided to back out ourselves as we knew we couldn't give him the assurances he wanted.

Apparently it's broccoli inspired! And available to buy for the bargain price of £79.99 right here!

At least no kit we release could ever match this beauty from La Hoya Lorca FC..... They went bankrupt and were dissolved last year....presumably the shirt sales weren't enough to keep them solvent!

It's where we went wrong with the redevelopment. There just isn't the floorspace for a wide enough range of merch. Hopefully if the rumours are true about the arena housing a bigger and better shop then we can finally get this sort of thing sorted.

Since when was planning permission required to construct something from IKEA?

For a mere mortal like you and I maybe, but the wages Joe will have picked up over the last few seasons will probably just be enough to stop him from having to sleep in the doorway of the local Lidl..... Unless he or Nige comes out and says what those reservations were we'll never know. It's the age old adage that gets rolled out time and again in football - Never go back. He left having had his best season for us and on a real high. Perhaps his reservations were purely and simply that he could become another statistic to that adage and would rather leave his time here as a fond memory. Who knows? Well....besides Joe & Nige?

What badge is it supposedly nodding to?!? Because it's not even remotely close to a robin on a football in front of the suspension bridge!

I see where you're getting confused. You've assumed 3/4 means 3 or 4. In actual fact they're bringing Ex PSG & Bradford player Bruno Rodriguez out of retirement. Having had his right leg amputated he is now three quarters of a footballer...... (Yes I realise that humour is dark....!)

£4.60 is a bit steep....especially when you only get the odd pages......

If it's as cruel as it was last season we'll probably have a Sat-Weds-Sat run of Boro, Southampton and Sunderland all away in that order...

As that nice man Wally Al Qaida keeps saying - these things take time//// To be fair he's right. At the end of the transfer window the free agents are getting desperate and stop asking for a signing on fee. It was obviously those gert 'teds getting in the home end again. tsk.

Or, as she would say, Arry Coorrrneck.