Billy the Kidd

I think either are ok as a second choice, as long as they rarely play, as in they are the backup. How many teams have great no 2s? I think either are fine for that, my concern is if they still play regularly or if they retain no1 status.

I dont agree, I think that is exactly wheat they are doing, getting one to sign an extension (looks like AM) and imagine we will buy a No 1 next season. I just cant imagine Ralph wants either as his first choice, I mean if he does he needs sacking, so my thoughts are we will play what we have, have one as back up next season. I still think we should just wither buy another keeper now, if we have some funds left, which doesn’t look likely, or play who we feel is the better keeper, as right now McCarthy looks terrible.

I imagine we want one of our current keepers to be our No 2 next season. That does make some sense, however not being in the EPL is a dangerous game to play. I would think we will look to buy a No 1 next summer, so I do see the logic in what we are doing. That said, I’d imagine we could find a better No 2 that McCarthy on a free next summer. I still think it is beyond stupid not to play your 1st choice (which most agree is FF), is it we dont want to put our potential No 2 for next season off leaving on a free?

I’d agree with this for one. I’d be going 4-2-3-1, or 5-4-1 (I guess we can manage many variants of this in and out of possession). The 4-2-2-2 clearly isn’t working, and unless we change it I’m not sure how we expect things to get much different. Although, the keeper issue clearly costs us many goals over a season.

Im not saying you are wrong, but we also need to factor wages, agent fee etc. So if we get say £50m in sales, id imagine the fee we have to spend is closer to £40-45m.

BTK- We want him next season when we swap places with Bompey. Oh bless, DT - did you think I was being serious 😂 I was joking, in case you needed it pointing out. Great work going back and finding my post though, I must mean a lot to you 🥰

Maybe we don't have much money. Or maybe we are keeping options open until the end of the window, and don't want to publicise that. Just like some people should go see a doctor about their knees jerking so much.

Well we could do that just so you dont run out of shit to moan about 👍

Aren’t all positions important?

We want him next season when we swap places with Bompey.

I really didn’t. We don’t know we are trying to buy him. We don’t know if he is injured or how long he is injured for. We may be buying someone else. Other than that, great points 👍

Why do you feel we can’t replace Vesty? We are getting on with it as we speak. If we sign his replacement will you feel stupid for being reactionary?

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Have The Athletic just suggested we’ve told Villa it’s £50m which they are not wanting to pay?

Jeez you continue to overlook the fact we are buying a CB, is that as it doesn’t fit your agenda?

Why are we searching for pennies? We have some money, not as much as some, but we’ve spent a chunk this summer and are actively searching for more players. You tend to come across as wanting the club to fail, like you’d be happy if they did as it would justify your morose position. Up to you I guess but I’d hate to feel like I was always looking on the bad side of life. Brian.

Well, we dont have a bottomless pit, you know that as well as I do, and they are plugging more pressing gaps. Not ideal, and maybe youre right, but we may just hang in there. Anyhow, I thought Redmond was the new Henry, or something...

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Not sure I agree, Moussa has had plenty of chances, irrespective of Redmond, and failed to improve in 2 years. The failure is we still have both at the club in my opinion, but imagine that will be addressed next summer. Along with the GK’s.

Does it matter who is right or wrong in the grand scheme of things - people have different view, so what! What matters to me is one way or another, whether that be Ralph staying and fixing this, or he is sacked, that it is fixed and we start playing better and getting results. Although I'd happily take a few shit performances if we win them right now. I agree the rot must stop, it is easy for this to carry on from last season. I recall season before last, Sheffield utd had a dogshit 2nd half of the season, it carried on, and we all know how that panned out. This is my concern, and I'd be giving Ralph maybe 8 games, if not much different, I would pull the trigger. Not time just yet for me, but not long either.

We did have this, and Armstrong whilst being ok in this role, also got caught out a number of times, with at least one of the occasions he ran too much with the ball that lead to a goal, cant recall who it was against though. I think that is ok to try, but their primary job is to shield, something I think we lacked since Morgan and Victor.

Exactly how I saw this, also to add it’s not like the ball was fired in leaving no time for McCarthy to come, it was a slow stopping header back in from outside the box, he had a perfect view and plenty of time to claim that. Salisu maybe could have tracked back, but pretty sure he would have expected the keeper to be rushing out to pluck it out of mid air. For me, this one is on the keeper. Most Sunday league keepers would be claiming that.

Fair point about Moussa, but he has had 2 years here already and should be making far better decisions. Im really not convinced he will make here.

No need to get so angry & personal fella...

I also didnt think Moussa helped out, many times Perraud wanted to overlap and Moussa came inside and ignored him. The best move came when Perraud played Moussa through via a 1-2, with Moussa failing to cut it back to either Che or Perraud, and we got a corner.