GrahamC

Nowhere near good enough.

I assume based on the fact that 4 of our players immediately confronted the (pitiful) ref, that it was a clear handball? Disappointing but thought Preston were well worth a draw, refereeing standards continue to be abysmal though, he gave us absolutely nothing all game.

I actually meant to say to you when we last caught up (of course we got sidetracked by football), have you read any of his stuff? Apart from the obvious, because I started “Immortality” earlier this year, couldn’t get on with it, didn’t finish it.

Good luck to him, needs a better one than last time & should get plenty of opportunities. Don’t expect he’ll be the last U21 player off this month.

Leeson if he’s not gone on loan, don’t think Taylor-Clarke will get one.

No squad number for Leeson suggests Knight-Lebel & Araoye potentially are both on the bench tomorrow & 22 & 25 kept free in case we do add anyone over the next 27 days.

I think they’re separate. Kalas had a period of time to accept our offer, that has now expired & we have moved on. Araoye has had some opportunities pre season & appears to be ahead of Knight-Level & Wood in the pecking order. Had Kalas accepted the terms on offer I think he’d be in the squad tomorrow but there’s a real possibility that this lad & Leeson will both be instead.

Unless there is something going on with Scott meaning the 7 shirt is suddenly free, I think they are widely known. Max O’Leary has moved to 1, McCrorie 2, Cam Pring to 3, Knight 12, Dickie 16, Roberts 24 & Leeson has moved to 22 & Bajic to 23. Araoye didn’t have a squad number last season but is 27.

Assuming Scott isn’t “fit” & as an aside we are probably the only team that still hasn’t released its squad numbers & I don’t think those 2 things are unconnected, then the keeper, back 4 & midfield pretty much all pick themselves. O’Leary Tanner Vyner Dickie Pring James Knight Weimann, this is harsh on Roberts & you can possibly make a case for Williams, but I reckon that’s what we’ll do. Up front is incredibly difficult to guess, Sykes or Cornick, Conway or Wells, Bell or Mehmeti. I’m going for the first named of each of those, but it could quite easily be the other three.

He’s bloody great. We are so lucky that we got him, not the type we usually appoint, sadly.

Which would be an excellent season, 3rd best finish in over 30 years.

What I find strange is it was only a month or so ago I read one of the blue few complaining that us starting at home (because the balloon fiesta is the second week) was so unfair & why couldn’t they start at home? Now transpires they couldn’t do so anyway. Loving the imaginative use of the word “ambitious” for their meccano construction at Alton Rd, by the way. If they are seriously pretending it will be ready by the second home game it isn’t exactly like building the South stand, is it? Tinpot ******* losers.

Massively disrespectful to James & King too for the role they have played in the last two years. Both are good, decent pros who have earned every penny we have paid them. What a contrast with so many others in the recent past, yet this joker wants to slag them off.

Interested to know how you know this. We wouldn’t be the first (or last) team to sell its best player, plenty of them then subsequently do better, for example Brentford & Brighton repeatedly do so. Your description of our existing midfielders is predictably moronic, so which one of those is Jason Knight? I’ll put you on ignore, I think, not going to learn anything reading your nonsense.

This. FWIW if Scott goes I do think we will look at bringing in a project, a midfielder with L1 or maybe even L2 experience who is a bit like George Tanner was when he signed, someone for the medium term who could possibly still do a job now. We would still have James (plays 33-35 games a season on average, a top player), Knight, who is a certainty to start, Williams whose availability has improved & so would probably play a similar amount to James, plus King who is ostensibly cover for those named above. If we bring in a CB before the end of August I would also see Naismith & McCrorie as possibles, the former certainly would give us creativity with his passing. McCrorie has definitely played as a DM & if Tanner starts well he’s going to find it very difficult to take his place. Then we have Weimann who as you say is ideal for the 10 role, especially when we already have 6 others competing for the 3 front places. Finally Benarous who we need to be careful with after 2 ACLs but could come back & be a very valuable midfield squad option.

Absolutely never bottled the big games, either.

Over 236,000 followers on Twitter, so not some random loser. Someone on here put a laughing emoji in response to me saying yesterday that I think it will happen, we’ll see who was right over the next few weeks, eh?

The figment of someone’s imagination, straight from the one man cult of Danny Wilson, a manager who let a lack of professionalism & drinking in BS3 reach a totally embarrassing level. Fortunately a few years later Gary Johnson put us on track.

As the years pass I have more tolerance for his nonsense behaviour off the pitch because if anyone had a tough start in life, he did. On the pitch he was bloody good, strong, quick & a proper goalscorer. Only at City though could we have a 50 goal strike partnership & fail to even make the playoffs or the season before have a clown in charge who didn’t even put him on the subs bench for the most important game of the season.

Are we 100% sure Liam Walsh isn’t one? Visited a football pitch about as often as they come to earth..

He wants to leave & won’t sign a new contract, so it isn’t too much of a stretch to think he has seen Wolves are a complete mess & so Bournemouth probably represent the better bet at present. They are the only 2 clubs showing serious interest, so mention of anyone else or him staying is fantasy stuff.

Think this is true.

I had in my mind they said he could be back earlier than that, he’s been out since February so was certainly expecting him back this year.

Very much like when we sold Bobby Reid or more recently Antoine, a fairly large fee but virtually nothing off the wage bill.

Just listened & the only surprise was NP appeared to say he didn’t expect Rob Atkinson back until potentially the New Year? As for the one further addition that seems likely to either be goalkeeping cover or a CB, based on his answers. Very grateful that they do this but not the first time there have been mobile signal issues with Nige so why it isn’t pre recorded & those glitches ironed out beats me.