Midfield_General

What in god's name are you on about

We need three things: a proper goalkeeper, a central defender who understands how toi organise a back line, and a defensive coach who kicks things off with how to defend corners. Get those in January and we're sorted.

Very festive

Got it - cheers 👍

I’m on Sky/ Now TV too and can’t find it - what channel number is it please?

Anyway, never been to the Bernabeu so I’ve got fingers crossed for Real Madrid away. Imagine seeing Ronaldo CR7 in the flesh! Need to get through the group stages first though 🤞

Do feel free just to post links in future lads rather than cutting and pasting entire web sites

"Pffft, you'll never get anywhere with a philosophy like that"

Quite a few Birmingham fans saying we're the best team they've played this season and that we're a better side than Coventry. Also full of praise for the 'absolute quality' we brought off the bench. Quick, let's sell them Aribo.

We'll have too much for these boing boing ballbags 4-1 and Adrian Chiles can do one

Yeah - it's how Poch had us playing too when he first came in. It seems to suit us as a style and is really entertaining.

Just throw the actual bench on. It would probably provide more defensive cover.

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Fair point. I think we maybe thought he’d be easier to replace than he was though. Adams had his uses but was never anywhere near as consistently effective, and watching others like Mara, Armstrong, Brereton Diaz, Onuachu etc toil away against prem defences always made me realise how good Ings had been. Two great feet, half decent in the air, quick, always seemed to be able to create space for himself and a great finisher. He was one player who left a massive quality gap when he left, although you’re right that he didn't do much after that and almost £30m or whatever it was was good business. Just a shame we could never find a way to properly replace him.

Danny Ings won a lot of points for us, creating a chance out of nothing and then finishing it so that we edged something in games we otherwise would have drawn or lost. He’s the last properly PL-quality centre forward we’ve had, and not having a player like him last season was one of the (admittedly many) reasons we were so uncompetitive. A very good player who was written off by a lot of people when he arrived because of his past injury problems but was a very astute signing.

'September', by Earth Wind and Fire. Because that's how long he'll last.

Well that solicitor must have been absolute quality, bearing in mind good old lovable Brucie got caught on film in a hidden camera sting accepting a big wedge of cash from an undercover journalist and still got off after pleading he was “just gathering evidence so he could hand it over to the police” 🤣

Whatever could you mean?

Yep, I can’t stand it when people are abusive on social media. Ah

Vestergaard and Faes as the twin fulcrums of a Martin side playing out from the back would be a sight to behold and absolutely solid comedy gold.

Oh sweet Jesus, not this again. Surely you must see the tiny flaws in that otherwise brilliant strategy? Really? His first managerial appointment an unmitigated disaster and sacked after 14 games? £7m wasted on an Isthmian quality centre forward? I'm not sure an absolute shitshow for 14 games followed by two scraped wins, two good performances and one sound beating, while sitting in 14th not far off half way through the season qualify as 'coming good' and everyone should be lining up to suck Spors off just yet. No comment

I’d punt Edwards as well. Looks to have slipped to fifth in the pecking order and we’d probably get a decent Championship level fee for him from QPR or someone desperate as he still seems to have a pretty good rep but that hasn’t been borne out whenever I’ve seen him play for us. Promote one of the u21s to be fifth choice and free up probably £5-6m or whatever plus wages to add to the fund for a big, strong, powerful, hunky target man.

Ian Andrews? Eric Nixon? Big Willy Caballero?

Kathy Lloyd. Kick it old-skool.

Tom's hips sink Skipp