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No, Kid is referring to my meeting with Dave Rennie preseason. Tins won’t be conversing with me, he’s decided to block me on Twitter this week, despite having had no twitter activity with him recently. Hey-ho!

If your dentist suggests he can, I wouldn’t let him use gas!

Someone, probably @phantom said the ticket system has the capability to do this…but needs demand for tickets to justify it. (I think)

But SL won’t have to put in as much!

Aye, that’s fine. I can only go on what I know…and in this case it’s nothing. Not that I doubt you, I just can’t jump on a bandwagon. Tea

No, he hasn’t signed a contract, that’s all I know.

Depends doesnt it?

They tried, Rotherham wouldn’t sell. Rotherham wanted to stay in the champ, which they did, and were happy to forgo a fee in the summer for that opportunity.

Just imagine though, if you’d used those limited funds in August rather than January! That’s always been a big thing for me. I will never be able to square that off in my head, coupled with “you want a CB, here’s Daniel Ayala”. Hey ho!

No, because I think he’ll go this summer

Yes, and…..your point??? I would tend to trust the Head of Medical, wouldn’t you? And they’d done similar for the previous 5-6 international breaks according to Fleming. And had been successful in reducing muscle injuries with a small squad over the time the medical team had been in place. Not sure why the “laugh”? Yep.

Kinda with you there Jeez

I was trying to understand FJM’s insinuation, but I think you’ve worked it out. Sounds like Jon just “made it up” to give him an excuse for Nige and Rennie. And as for suggesting caused on purpose, I’ve read it all now. My word!

.see London’s post

Most “bosses” would support their “staff” through illness, wouldn’t they?

And this is why I’ve always remained neutral on Tins re the sacking…mainly because I’d heard nothing about his involvement. So I had no beef with Tins. And I still don’t, although once sacked, Tins would’ve played a big role in choosing LM. Again no issues with that per se…only the bits about whether it fitted the “front foot, high press…..” remit. But I will argue (debate) with anyone who says Tins had nothing to do with LM’s appointment. That’s kinda his role, innit?

Just to be clear, when I used that term earlier, I didn’t mean one not to challenge straightaway, but one who’d be a bit more willing to not start every game. As per my other thread, I think someone like Max Dean could come in play off the bat, but he’s probably not gonna start 30-40, that will be the premise of the main no9 signing. So yes a viable starter (nice term), but younger…and cheaper. Will be interesting to see where Bell fits in when he is back from injury, especially if we persist with 3421.

Ta. Is that because they’ve reached the age that they don’t get a shirt anymore? If so, I imagine they’re at an age where the SS is mire where they’d wanna be anyway?

Firstly, agree with your earlier post, as I said not black and white, more a generic thought process on ins and outs. If Tommy goes, and we bring in Dean, then that also gives scope to improve elsewhere, so not necessarily just one out / one in. There’s too many moving parts really to be categoric. Re @ExiledAjax, we can’t afford for our no9 or no10 to fail. They are the key signings. If we get them wrong, then I think opportunity to kick on becomes so much harder. Back to you Silv. I’m just gonna ignore Mebude’s loan, opportunistic and poorly sold. So we signed 4: - Bird - Stokes - Murphy - Twine plus TGH made perm. 4 out of those 5 were on the radar before LM signed. So I think we have to wait to see who the no9 is before deciding whether the profiling has changed under LM or not. I also think that Stokes and Murphy have more of BT’s influence than LM’s due to their age. So we are really left with Bird, TGH and Twine as players to go through what I’d call the “first team recruitment process”. Add to that the number 9, and any others we sign as others depart. LM does make a strong play about physicality, runners, etc, so interested to see who comes in. Good to hear Knight describe Bird yesterday too.

this is Wide and Attacking midfielders (inc no10s) in the Championship. 6th out of 184 who’ve played 500+ minutes. As for Smyth at QPR, I think his average is increased to the 100 times Pring fouled him at Loftus Road!

Silv - I think the 9 and 10 come in regardless of whether Tommy leaves. If Tommy leaves we may bring in another forward, but might be one more for the future (see my Max Dean thread). So Twine goes back - we are one down. The new no10 (might be Twine) comes in, numbers back up. New no9 - an extra squad member I think King goes - one down, but replaced by Bird, numbers back up And I think we keep one of James or Williams, so one down, but with Knight moving deeper that accommodates the duo of Stokes and Murphy as squad options. Of course if both go, then I think we will add a player, but I think that will take budget from elsewhere if it requires a fee, hence why I think we will try to retain one, likely Williams. So, in LM’s eyes: - the 9 improves us - the 10 improves us (Twine or whoever) - Bird improves us Everything else is a reaction to who leaves if anyone. I know it’s not as black and white as I paint it, but if those 3 players improve this squad / 2 players if you count Twine as already here, then I do think that can be enough of a difference-maker. The margins ARE fine. I don’t think LM thinks he’s getting 5-6 players on top of the scenario I set out above, nor is he getting oodles spent, but he he does exoect his squad for next season to have 2 to 3 (see above) players that improve the base he has now. Hope that makes sense. Where this changes is with the possibility that certain players leave, e.g. Conway, Naismith, Pring, etc, who might all have suitors for different reasons.

We are gonna have to see aren’t we? Would be good to know how many ST sold in SS for 23/24 season, versus for next season (24/25), and how many POTD that leaves. Not that I’m in conversations with many fans, let alone SS ST holders with kids, but I haven’t seen much “traffic” on OTIB saying - I’ve relocated to the Lansdown family area. That’s not to say they haven’t, but I do wonder whether the thought of never getting a ST back in the SS might’ve persuaded some to suck up the price increases. Out of interest, does anyone know the capacity of SS and how many ST holders there were last season?

Please don’t. remember: #feelingsupersonicgivemesammieszmodics that went well didn’t it!

Club tweeted yesterday. So 4k renewed between the timing of GM’s numbers given to FBC and yesterday.