And Its Smith

I disagree here. Out of the last 10 teams to win the championship, only 3 have gone down the following season. 5 of the last 10 runners up have stayed up. Only 2 of the last 6 play off winners have been relegated.

They get £150m golden hello already. Seems enough to me

Probably but he’s not getting emotional about it

Ian Gay’s 8 game comment could easily just be his opinion rather than something Tinnion has told him. The text didn’t say anything about sources and can be read as opinion if wished. Think conclusions might have been jumped too here

The clubs twitter feed celebrating each renewal one by one isn’t the great look they think it is. Small time attitude

Cloud cuckoo land

It’s a forum and the thread will move with debate. No issues if people want to talk about the frees as well

He was a free wasn’t he? Decent player. Same as Roberts, another free. Didn’t include as they cost nothing and the thread was about when we spend money.

Money is too tight to mention round these parts so when we do spend it, we have to spend it wisely. With the blessing of hindsight can we really say we are where we need to be recruitment wise? To spend £10m on the below, is it good enough? Knight - £2m McCrorie - £2m Gardner-Hickman - £1.5m Mehmeti.- £1m Dickie - £800k Cornick - £500k Twine, Mebude, Stokes, Murphy - all signed for short or long term - circa £1-1.5m spent I’d guess. Seems a mixed bag at best to me

Well, either every professional manager is right or they are all wrong. I would assume the reason is a half fit player is going to be better against a more tired opposition. Maybe there are other reasons. If some managers played their half fit players for the first half hour and some for the last half hour it might be worthy of debate

I cannot recall any manager in the game playing their semi fit players for the first half an hour and not the last half an hour. Probably a reason for that

Good pod but a bizarre chunk of it wondering why Twine didn’t start. Everyone saying they couldn’t understand it. Clearly he isn’t fit for more than half an hour

Tell you what @noize I will give you 500/1. DM me for bank details and transfer the £100 today

Looking forward to the proof you’ve done this….

Can someone who knows more about rugby than me tell me why England would kick the ball in the air with four mins left instead of keeping it? Commentators didn’t even acknowledge it

You said who would I play as a 2 so I told you. Anything better than King!

Knight and TGH

Still didn’t need to pick him

Tinman makes the signings which is equally as worrying

Picking Andy King should be a sackable offence

Good point. Only after losses then. I stand corrected

It’s manning out for nearly everyone now I think.

Definitely worth doing this after every single game!

Didn’t apply for the job after Pearson left

Fair enough. Finishing is part of the performance for me. Deserved Jack