Davefevs

Rob Dickie agrees

Yep, brilliant to watch, but as a defender, WTAF also!

Who was being loud?

Incredible. Wide, wide, open

Please explain what that means to an old’un?

Don’t let Leif Davis cut it back. Dont let Omari Hutchinson cut in on his left foot. Come on! Every bloody game!

£4m signing / half way through a 4 year deal so £2m.

Game on Hull

There were very good reasons why they were keen to move him in January, because there were benefits of them placing Zourahy on loan in this country. So it was nice that we were interested in Twine, as that facilitated Zourahy’s move to Hull. Win:Win for Burnley, and nothing to do with Burnley not wanting Twine.

Ask me when we know the fate of each division. Rudoni if they go down is an obvious shout. I don’t think Miyoshi is anything like Twine / Azaz, but Rudoni is. We aren’t (imho) looking for a winger / dribbler type to play no10 (hence why I wasn’t fawning over Millar in your other thread), we are looking for a clever passing type no10. We have Mehmeti as the dribbler-type, Sykes too, although he’s a bit different. Where do you get that notion from?

That was at Leicester and Hull…where of course his good mate Steve Walsh was his Head of Recruitment and Coach. At Bristol City he set the processes and profiling up, but as Gilhespy said, he then let them get on with finding the players, he empowers people. He did go and watch players though, but he also wasn’t gonna trawl video, like Manning will. Pros and cons to each approach. +++++ 1) Always behind the team / club…but 2) don’t like the way one or two operate. I don’t think 1 or 2 will ever be any different.

Over the past two seasons prior to this, we managed to to turn 4 losses each season into draws. 20/21 base: W15-D6-L25-Pts51 21/22 15-10-21-55 22/23 15-14-17-59 23/24 17-11-17-62 (one game to go) @mozo will know I’d love us to win next week to get that winning season (more wins than loses), but what we’ve done so far is turn 2 of those draws into wins. Lets be bullish and say we end 18-11-17-65 you're only talking about turning two losses into wins to break 70+ points.

I guess some market knowledge will come from knowing Azaz was £2.5m in a winter window, which typically is overpriced. So hope that there are other affordable targets if they can’t acquire Twine. But you can bet they are gonna bloody try!

Ah, that’s where it came from…had a few WhatsApp’s without saying who from. Ta

It can be just bollocky titles, but generally the DoF would manage / control the budgets, the whole football operation, etc. What we’ve got is Tom Rawcliffe doing some of that (Football Operations and Football budgets) with some support from Gavin Marshall, whereas Tins is looking after the Recruitment Team, amongst other things. If that makes sense. Keith Burt was the last DoF, even then I think he didn’t have all the Operations stuff under him.

Not today you don’t. He was really good.

A sign (amongst others) of continued progress.

Technical Director not DoF btw.

Just duplicated injury thread….in case people don’t see. LM said Pring is booked in for a hernia op this week, and came off today as his hamstring tightened. Will be back for preseason.

Well that’s good news. Ta

The big unknown - budget! Delap Ive mentioned recently on here, but I don’t think he’d be cheaper to loan than a European target.

I’ve never been fussed about who we get points against, whether they are gained home or away….unless it’s a genuine 6 pointer that means something. Every point in this division is well earned, even today’s three.

Indeed he does. I’m fine with that btw. Better a manager wants a player than is ambivalent about a signing. In a lot of ways it’s really nice to hear. So often they remain guarded. Will be interesting to see how the budget is carved up. I’ve said before we are likely to be shopping duty-free in Europe for the no9, because there isn’t a) the right player here nor b) for the right price.

Think that’s key. Got to be prepared to move on, be ruthless. We’ve been pretty good at that. Dickie, Roberts, McCrorie all in early. Knight might have been done early too had he not had Ireland commitments last summer. Tinnion said today they are prepared. Bring it on.