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Guehi to Liverpool for £35m seems very cheap (if it goes ahead) and makes our deals for Dibling and Fernandes look like very good business.

Should we be more worried about their new signings than they are of ours? It's a rhetorical question by the way.

I raise your chaplin for a bishop.

Will Still had a chat with Archer and told him what he does and does not expect from him in quite frank terms. I think he is sometimes guilty of remaining in Russball mode and Still told him to cut all that out and just concentrate on making intelligent runs, taking up good positions and scoring goals. He more or less told him he's a good player but needs to be selfish, do the job he's in the team for and forget the other aspects. Since then he's looked sharper, more dangerous and bagged two goals.

Has Downs gone to Brizzle City yet 🙂

You're probably right on that.

We'll see. It's not always the team with the better players that wins promotion. A good manager can get more out of inferior players in some cases.

Surely if we are to believe he is flying to England an agreement has already been reached?

I read that Everton steered clear because he'd had some injury issues but don't know the details.

The only way this rings true is if Will Still has decided Downs is nowhere near ready for the first team and feels he needs a loan spell somewhere to help him get up to speed. If so Will may have requested a striker on loan who can go straight into the side. All purely theoretical but I can't come up with another explanation if this rumour has any substance.

Ah, wasn't aware Will Still had stated THB must stay but, if correct, we'll probably keep him I guess.

That's only 66 goals and considering how poor we are defensively would mean a low points tally.

Why do you say it is too late for THB to leave?

And a big strong centre forward.

Baz Mads THB Quarshie Jelert Charles Jander Fellows Azaz Scienza Archer

Rogers says no 🙂

Who says?

Agree, he's have been perfect for us.

Their fans were raving about Fernandes - not so much JWP 🙂

Now 3-0 to West Ham. Brighton with a late goal to lead Citeh 2-1.

Fernandes off now after playing about 80 minutes - West Ham fans raving about him and they now lead Forest 2-0.

Well something has worked so far because Forest have had just the one shot and that was off target.

Yeah, he clearly realised he had to change his style and also drop Aarons and Rothwell to compete against Celtic. Rangers were better for it by being less easy to create chances against but had little threat themselves with zero shots on target. It will be interesting to see if he now reverts back to Russball which is often the case because he'll still expect his way to roll over most teams in the SPL other than Celtic so this might be a one off.

Mainly because our go to centre half is Jack Stephens - if he's considered the best it highlights how bad the rest are.

No goalkeeper can leave a free kick to the wall. It's his job to set the wall up correctly and then position himself to give him the optimum chance to save the kick whether it goes his side or the side he's set his wall to help defend. Free kick defensive set up is all down to the goalkeeper, it's his job.