GrahamC

He’s been on the subs bench for the last 6 games, so you would think so.

It does seem bizarre to go into the rest of the season with more loan players than you can actually use. Still apparently their fans were celebrating having a goalkeeper today who is their own player. Weird lot.

Rumour doing the rounds yesterday was they are in significant financial trouble & Jon Dahl Tomasson threatened to resign last week. Be interesting to see how that plays out.

Need to sign some more players, only brought in 24 since the summer..

Swansea taken one point in 4 games since Williams took over, swings & roundabouts.

Pretty sure there were a few on here saying he was finished. They know nothing, the bloke is a good a professional as there is. Bet being ex Villa he hated scoring against the Bluenoses too..

Re Naismith I don’t know but he only had just over 50% availability in his first season, this one has been woeful & at 32 in a fortnight it won’t get better. Benarous has had a horrible time, I just don’t think we can work on the basis he’ll be back. Bajic has only played U21 games otherwise so however well he’s done it is difficult to tell. He’s 23 before the year is out, he can’t be seen as anything other than a no2 keeper or he needs to move on. Disagree on Mehmeti, seen enough & would get rid.

Do you think they should know the lottery numbers too? No one gets every signing right. I notice you don’t have a name for the £300k striker, thought it was a piece of piss this recruitment lark?

Baffles me as to why last night with this in mind & only making 3/5 subs Roberts didn’t come on at some point, even if Cam stayed on, either as LB or playing in front of him. Although Cam is suspended on Wednesday I don’t think Roberts will start.

Be interested in the name of a striker that you think we could have got for £300k to replace one sold for £9m. Wasn’t much unhappiness on here when we signed Mehmeti, he just hasn’t made the step up. Not sure anyone (Tinnion or Pearson) could have known that.

As it stands one of those hasn’t played in nearly two years now (he only made 7 starts ever when he did), another in Naismith is rarely available. I would start by seeing anything I got from Benarous now as a bonus & tell Naismith (& Mehmeti) they can leave if anyone is interested. As previously discussed, there’s a decision to be made on Bajic too. Only those seeing him in training know the answer there though, as not his fault he’s second choice & Max is someone with a great availability record.

Would make sense in lots of ways. Tinnion wouldn’t make a great poker player (wouldn’t mind negotiating with him) though & certainly praised Joe in a way he didn’t with Matty James.

Nope, not forgotten. Fact is he’s achieved something (twice) that SL hasn’t & most don’t give a shit about shirts, as can be witnessed by some of the abominations we have worn recently.

Just listened, not as bad as I feared (low bar). Obvious from it that both King (which we knew) & James aren’t getting new contracts. Think we all know Conway won’t sign another one, too.

Realistically you don’t win all of those either. My problem at present (I’m not rehashing the Pearson argument again) is I’m not even sure he’s making the best of what I accept is a thin squad. Knight certainly isn’t best utilised where he’s playing & if he is going to play 2 strikers (I like Nakhi but I’m not sure it suits us) then playing TC on the left sure isn’t the best way. Finally his refusal to give Roberts any game time at all suggests he doesn’t rate him & any time Mehmeti gets on in front of Bell or even Cornick baffles me.

Did he honestly say that? Absolutely nothing to do with the fact it was two Prem sides & Leeds then? Dear oh dear, just when I thought I couldn’t have less respect for him.

This. For the poster who thought he looked “ok” you should ask Cam Pring. He must be absolutely ****** off with doing the work of two once he comes on the pitch. His lack of game awareness is incredible, it’s like he’s only just taken the sport up. That’s before you get to his refusal to track back with any intensity at all. I would persevere with Bell as a squad option, firstly he gives you what he’s got & secondly at the start of the season he went on a scoring burst, at 21 there is no reason to believe he can’t do again. I’d move Mehmeti on this summer if we can find a taker, though.

What a petty, tinpot outfit they are. It’s like describing the late Bobby Charlton as the former Preston manager.

The Leeds point is spot on, but the general direction of travel is the worry. There are some absolute maniacs on here (surprisingly quiet about Max last night though). I can maintain perspective about last night because of the opposition but it can’t be the case against non parachute payment sides.

I wasn’t. I know several elderly ST holders with Sky, no way were they venturing out for it. The Portway was closed from mid afternoon, Bristol has appalling traffic, few decent options to get to the ground without driving, followed by the nightmare of parking & if I didn’t live near enough to walk, I’m not 100% sure I would go.

How many points do you think the bottom four will get? You have completely misunderstood my point, they don’t win. I say we’d definitely stay up, nothing more. We barely need any more points to stay up & aren’t going on a 17 match losing run.

Vincent Tan? Brilliant example, just the two more promotions to the Prem than Lansdown. ”Be careful what you wish for” FFS.

If any of the other teams have been running on 14 outfield players I’ll be amazed. At least 3 (arguably at least 4) of our subs are realistically never coming on, no way do the likes of Preston or Millwall have a subs bench like that, let alone the larger clubs.

Worked very hard (as usual). I’m still not sure where we should be playing him though, don’t think his current position makes the most sense to me.

Yep, but a completely different question. I have zero respect for our chairman or Tinnion.