Saint_clark

Stephens looks like he'd be more useful at RM than RB.

Outstanding play down the right then...shocking delivery.

Some great football being played tbf...

Get a decent assistant manager and set him to them, nay problemo then. Have a fiddle about. It's pretty simple when you spend some time looking at it...I generally end up setting a (new) GK schedule as well as Centre-back, Full-back, Winger, Defensive mid, centre mid and striker schedules. Just adjust the sliders to the most important attributes. However, it's a pretty pointless exercise until you can afford decent backroom staff...

I'd like to remind everyone of the Danny Fox transfer, which (from the horses mouth) happened in less than 24 hours.

We have a strong team. What you're asking for is two strong teams in every position.

We have 2, maybe 3 positions, where making a change would weaken us significantly. How many other clubs in this league can make 8/9 changes to a team and still be confident?

But we hadn't made any changes for that game, so how does it make any indication of our strength in depth?

Just because we know little about him doesn't mean he is of unknown quality. I'm sure our scouts and Adkins would have known exactly what they needed to know about both Gorkss and Fontaine. This thread is mental, it really is.

That's hardly conclusive proof of your infallible knowledge of who will and won't do well though, is it.

Have you not heard the prices quoted for those 3?

Fontaine and Waghorn most likely would be in improvement - it's not a bad thing that they couldn't just walk into the team, as it means our current 11 are performing very, very well. (In the case of these two, Seaborne and Connolly would have every right to be upset if they were displaced as soon as new signings came in).

That would just be unlikely

That doesn't sound done at all to me.

It would be near impossible to sign players that improve on the likes of Lambert, Lallana, Fonte, Davis etc.

He had the support. He blew it. He lost the support. Simple.

How do you know Gorkss is better?

...sarcasm?

Obviously the signings. Waghorn would just be a different option for me - I would never consider dropping Connolly the form he's in - but Fontaine would be a big improvement alongside Fonte. Having said that, Seaborne has been very impressive the past 2 games.

In case we don't get promoted straight away - and so we can get a good fee for him if we do get promoted and he is no longer required. However, it could also be that Adkins reckons he could do a job in the Prem. That was a one year extension earlier in the summer - the more recent contract extension was because we wanted to sign him on.

His corners are sh*t in all honesty.

It was speculated, yes - but never anything concrete.

Him and Woodward were paid more than any other member of backroom staff inc. the manager.

Just saw that. Massive revelation to be honest.