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Thank you. It really wasn't a difficult one to understand unless you were doing it wilfully...

A good signing that is about the sort of signing I would expect us to sign. So I never used the adjective uninspiring then. So no you weren't right. There's obviously levels of signings and he's about the level I would expect for a good championship team. I described Fellows as the sort of signing that I would consider to be more impressive in a different position as I consider him to be slightly above our level and probably a good lower prem player.

Why has he been playing in the first team then? No one has currently come in for Sargent yet. Are there reports that we have bid 17 for him to test their resolve? Maybe we should have not bothered with Downs to try to give that a go instead. Who is calling for better signings than Azaz or Rudoni? I think this argument is in your own head. I'd also take Brooks.

No I didn't don't make things up. I said he was what I would class as a good signing. And who said it was easy? It's certainly not easy for one fan on a forum to come up with a list of realistic striker signings better than Downs or centre half signings better than Quarshie but it should be a heck of a lot easier for a professional football club. We managed THB last time out and he was certainly better than Quarshie. You're the one demanding people name players and then dismissing them all when they do.

And an entirely pointless exercise. At least smirking Saint has now stuck his neck on the line and admitted that he thinks the likes of Downs and Quarshie are the best players we could conceivably sign in our position.

Absolute bullshit. Someone just named Hamer. I quite liked the like of Furehashi from Birmingham. Absolutely no one has slammed an Azaz signing, the only thing I said was that he was about the level of player I would expect us to sign in our position and that I'd also like to see someone like Fellows signed who I judged to be exciting and quite ambitious. I never described an Azaz signing as boring you've just made that up. Rudoni Fellows Furehashi Hamer Brownhill That's 5 signings I'd liked to have seen us sign but like I said I'm not a big football club with a scouting network and it's for them to find the best players possible. Now watch as you dismiss all those players because I've dared to give you some actual names.

Who has slammed the Azaz signing?

Exactly. We get this same bullshit every window. It's for the club to find the best players possible. We aren't signing Rudoni are we. We possibly aren't signing fellows. We aren't signing a better striker than Downs. Quarshie looks like one for the future rather than an improvement on Bednarek. We've lost our keeper and are content to use Bazunu with his ability to recover form after messing up at best a question mark. Or Bazunu getting injured and then being forced to use McCarthy long term.

I was expecting us to go all out to try to win the league.

I'd put money on him being a success in the prem any day of the week so yes he's a bit above what we should be attracting. Doesn't mean we can't try for him though and I think we need a star signing like that personally. I agree with the person earlier that says the club's PR can be quite brain dead. They should be aware of the mood music at present surrounding this window and it's only going to inflame things to sign a backup third keeper when the club knows the doubts surrounding Bazunu amongst the wider fan base, the fact we lost on Saturday and particularly on the same day that we lose one of our most promising players with no replacement currently in the building.

Personally I'd have much preferred dumping McCarthy after promotion and getting him in then alongside Ramsdale.

That is what I would call an impressive signing and in truth a little above our station. I think the club really need something like that to get the fans excited and distract from losing our stars.

Azaz is indeed what I would call a good signing but he's about what I'd expect us to sign so nothing extraordinarily impressive about it.

If Aribo and Smallbone go we are surely replacing them with someone. Presumably someone cheap to give Downes or Charles a rest.

Maybe we will get a winger in from a foreign league permanently. Still don't think that's enough personally to avoid condemning us to another season in this league.

Azaz will sign in the next few days. We will get a winger or two on loan from the prem and maybe a Smallbone replacement and that will be it. I'd be pretty disappointed with that, especially when Fernandes goes by the end of the week.

I love that line. Signing players is just as hard as it is for every other championship club. In actual fact it's a darn sight easier for us given how many resources we have compared to the majority of the rest of the league

Sports republic doing a great job. We are making so much cash

I can't believe we are going to start another season with Bazunu and McCarthy as our goalkeeping options - a situation that would have been unacceptable at the start of this window until Bazunu showed a few games of good form. Seriously disappointing.

Stu Armstrong and Tella??? Adams?

Right so which of our strikers should be starting and how should we play so they can score loads of goals?

What's the best option then?

Is it still your contention that we don't need to sign another striker and are sorted in that position?

I don't necessarily agree with still but he's said he's been doing that because he doesn't believe he has the players to play his preferred formation. He won't have that problem if we get those players in so no reason to play five at the back.

Johansson Mads THB Stephens Manning Downes Charles Fellows Azaz Robinson Sargent Would win the league. Probably too much to spend all at once so maybe replace fellows with a prem loan but we could do that if we really wanted to.