KegCity

It is, and in fairness to the club they've been quite consistent until this season. I wonder what's changed this season as they've moved away from the specific brand colours and logos which is quite a bold rebrand, especially in the context of a football club. There's been very little fan consultation over any of the changes made in recent times (I don't remember the wider fanbase being consulted on the new badge for example, although I might be misremembering) which makes things worse.

For a club that has been so conscious of brand image in the last 10 or so years it's very odd seeing the hodgepodge of logos and poor quality trainingwear/kit.

He should be given a hard time as we give any opposition player. Give him the respect he deserves before/after but hope he'll be hounded for 90 minutes. It's football, it's pantomime, cheer on City while being hostile to the opposition.

It would be nice, but I could live without Vyner being here. He's one that we need to extend in order to get a transfer fee for when he moves.

I'm a strong believer that at some point we do have to take a risk and retain big players when we're on the cusp of promotion. Brentford did it with Toney, Villa did it with Grealish. It is possible and no amount of calling ourselves a small club will change my mind. BUT a deep lying centre mid who's going to leave for £25 million and fund our next promotion push (which may or may not be successful) is not the hill to die on. This transfer will, if invested correctly, fund a squad capable of being a genuine promotion candidate in the near future. Keeping Scott won't help us achieve that. We need to be proactive with players such as Tommy Conway and Cam Pring and tie them down to long term deals so that we aren't forced to sell in a year or two's time, otherwise we'll be stuck in this loop of selling players to tread water in mid table.

That team genuinely struggles to make the play-offs. No balance, no tactics, just vibes.

Surely it will be for sale though? Don't think it's obsession and more just pointing out that it's something that would very easily be confused with other clubs, which is a shame.

Can't complain about that, if Bryan isn't hungry enough then it's best for both parties to both move on.

Seems strange to allegedly agree terms with the club if that was the case though? Hardly a secret we play that way. We'll never really know, but it does seem strange to spend a considerable amount of time in discussion with the club just to move to another championship team.

Think that's wishful thinking although we'll never know.

There shouldn’t be an issue. Birmingham released some really nice retro kits this season with the old sponsors on. We’ve done it in recent years, I own a replica Hirerite shirt. Have said this a few times but it makes much more sense to just sell copies of the retro shirts everyone wants and then focus on making nice, original home and away shirts rather than redoing an old shirt every season.

I asked because you seem to believe that aside from good close control he doesn't have much to his game. That is clearly not the case just from watching him, but he wouldn't have consistently been chased by clubs bigger than us if he wasn't already a good player with potential.

Wonder why clubs higher up the food chain than us are looking at him then?

I assume it was Lee Johnson as he mentions being pulled into his office, and it sounds like the sort of thing he would ask from his players.

Goals is so far down the list though it’s borderline irrelevant. Obviously it would be nice if any player that’s not a forward could score consistently but not scoring often doesn’t detract from a centre midfielder. Matty James has scored once since arriving. Nobody is mentioning this (quite rightly) because it’s not his job.

Why are centre mids judged by the amount of goals they score on here? Gives no indication of the quality of the player whatsoever.

Think we need competition for Max and another player in midfield. If/when Scott goes that would be two in midfield.

Really? What's given you that impression?

On a side note Wales are hilariously awful. You really can’t polish a turd.

We should just be releasing our own copies of popular retro shirts and then having new shirts every season rather than rehashing a different past shirt every year.

Bellingham asked for it.

Instead of rehasing retro kits every season, could we not do what other clubs do and just have standard kits from a reliable bigger supplier and then release our own versions of retro kits? I remember we sold versions of 70s and 80s kits in the club shop (I still own a copy of the Hireite shirt) and other clubs such as Birmingham have done the same. Would allow us to cash in on the nostalgia factor of retro kits whilst not needing someone to let JL play with the crayons.

I’d been told in January West Ham considered themselves out of the race due to bigger clubs being interested. Whether that’s still the case I don’t know.

Don’t think you can struggle as much as Kalas does with crosses and be our best defender. He’s been noticeably below the standard he set during his loan spell since arriving permanently. He rightfully gets plaudits and he’s a solid championship defender but if the higher wages in the thread are accurate I wouldn’t keep him when there’s very little certainty he’d be starting most weeks. If we stick with a back 4 then I think it’s Vyner, Dickie and Kalas fighting to start with Atkinson to come into the mix too.