GrahamC

Me & my mate who supports the Baggies, both think so, too. Think that Tanner has just struggled a little bit of late so it was a good opportunity to give TGH a start ahead of the international break & of course because he then isn’t available at all for the next one. If we do intend persevering with Naismith as a CB he’s also probably first in line to cover all 3 of the midfielders who started yesterday.

If you fancy a laugh have a look at his comments after Stoke’s 2-0 defeat at home to Preston. Preston’s first goal was a penalty (I know, I know) and Neil is quoted as saying his players are adamant that it was a clear dive. Preston winning a penalty, with a blatant dive, I know Alex, who could possibly have started them off being like that? Despite the reaction on here afterwards we’re still the only team to get a point off them, by the way..

Yes. As an aside you also see a few (& how appropriate) car registrations around with yew tee gee (for some reason this keeps defaulting to FTG) all a bit pathetic, isn’t it?

This is how he switches off & relaxes, not that he isn’t interested. Reckon he’s always known there’s more to life than football & unlike many managers makes time to do them to keep him in a better frame of mind for his actual job.

That’s fair & the nerves are totally understandable. Seems a good lad & also genuinely pleased to be here, for someone initially here on loan that’s a good sign. Tall too, which should help us as we’re not the biggest side.

Honest answer is “don’t know”. My hunch? He’d sign on for another year or two if offered. He’s definitely frustrated about the money available to spend post Scott but thinks he’s building something. Those who reckon his interests outside the game mean he’s slowing down or losing focus, have completely got the wrong end of the stick for me.

Not involved yesterday, guess he’s not quite up to speed yet after no club all summer, he does feature prominently in videos of their training this week. They drew 1-1, letting in a equaliser in the 95th minute.

Thought we were being told on here we should have traded him on last week? I said he was our best player against Norwich, but he’s set the standard now, so let’s hope he can stay fit & keep this up.

Was talking to @Davefevs the other day about confirmation bias, where you don’t shake a fixed idea despite the evidence & because we won yesterday I think the comments on his performance were positive, but I thought it was a bit of a mixed bag. Firstly he was clearly pretty nervous on his full debut, one of his very first touches was a really poor cross field ball that caused panic. The positives for me were one excellent defence splitting pass to Wells, his set piece delivery was good & he was committed throughout, I also really liked the way he encouraged his team mates as he was subbed. There were a fair few misplaced passes however, several of which got us in real trouble at the back & perhaps understandably he was definitely starting to flag when he came off. 6/10 for me, looks a squad addition & bet he will be glad when his stop start beginning (cup tied, then he misses the next game because it’s West Brom) is over.

Obvious but if supporters see a side busting a gut, like they did today, they’ll respond. The ovation when Cornick won that free kick late on after hassling 2 or 3 opposition players single handed was amazing. Everyone on the pitch gave their all, midfield 3 & front 3 especially. Brilliant to see.

True, he’s certainly no Kasey Palmer (£3.5m) or Hakeeb Adelakun (£800k), is he?

Cornick was excellent. Chased everything, pestered their centre backs & won a smart foul. Ideal bloke to bring on when Nakhi is flagging.

Guess what? Nige knows what he’s doing. Imagine if he was given the resources others in his role have had. Great way to go into the international break.

Thank **** the window has closed, otherwise £25m & he’d be off too. Love him, 2 assists in 2 games, brilliant goal & relentless running. Talking of which Jason Knight, what a ******* player.

Even if all 3 goals were correctly disallowed (& I think the Bell one was very tight) the non sending off summed him up. Other end of the pitch he wouldn’t get the red card out quick enough. Utter ***.

He’s a ******* joke. Either biased beyond belief or incompetent or both.

Particularly if every effort gets disallowed whether it should have stood or not.

100%. My very comprehensive report from my WBA supporting mate made it clear he saw him as a midfielder who can play RB, but his position appearance stats show he’s played plenty of games in both. Tanner has struggled of late, it’s good we have another option, though with TGH missing the next one he appears highly likely to get another go then. With small numbers the fact we can change 6 from midweek & have the options we do on the bench is positive. Really can’t understand the mindset that moans about things that haven’t happened yet & might well not.

2 of Everton’s 7 subs are goalkeepers (one of whom is 40 next month) too..

As you can only use 5 that’s irrelevant really. Every area of the pitch covered by those 8 & the starters.

Don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing but thought that’s exactly what we’d do. Naismith gives us a left footed CB, Tanner probably deserves to drop out, Williams played well v Norwich. Up front Hobson’s choice after midweek. Only comment is if we change our midfield almost certainly won’t be King coming on, but TGH or Naismith moving forward & Tanner or Dickie coming on. Decent squad.

How many of those were starts? 90 odd. No one is arguing here about the fee, but he’s a better striker than Clarke-Harris (which was the exam question) & his record at QPR, Huddersfield at our level shows that he’s proven. If TC was fit would he be starting? Completely different question.

Could be the Bristol Post for being “unnecessarily negative” about them? Bet his wife double locked the door when she found out, too.

Definitely. Our main striker is Nakhi Wells, who scored & had one disallowed in his last game. Proven consistent goal scorer at this level, 160 career goals in total, excellent availability record. Next question.

Would have thought the following were also factors; We now know that there is compensation coming from Burnley for Massengo. That Owura Edwards’ wages this season are going to be being paid by someone else. Budgets might have fixed expenditure amounts, but how that sum is spent will change & these are 2 examples of how that has happened this week.