hypochondriac

Exactly. Lose on Saturday with the squad down to the bare bones in places and there's going to be real grumblings at the fans forum next week. I really do feel that this is the very worst time to lose some of the positivity from last week. A win on Saturday is so important.

It's like driving your new tractor through a field with land mines in when you have the farm show next week. I'd rather keep my new tractor safe in the barn for next week and use my horse and cart even if it does a shitty job because I don't really care about the mined field and I'd really like to win a rosette on Saturday.

Probably because if he got injured we woukd be forced to play Lyanco on Saturday. He probably weighed it up and didn't consider it worth the risk.

Any suggestions? Bearing in mind that he didn't want to risk a key player in Jack and Bednarek only returned from injury on Saturday.

Who would you have played? Only suggestion so far is Simeu which is at best a marginal judgement call given that he's never played for the club before.

More likely he said he wanted out.

Last seasons championship teams didn't just make 125 million.

Seriously why are you taking it seriously? Ffs...

We'd be in a much better position if all these players had left weeks ago. Having them all leave at once at the end of the window is the worst position to be in, particularly because other clubs know we are desperate.

I agree with you. I would have tried shifting them weeks ago even if it was for slightly less. Had we got rid of kwp and Tino back then we may have had a chance for Aarons.

Yep. Just like last summer when loads of people said not to panic and we had lots of striker targets lined up. When it came down to it no one was interested in joining and we ended up with no one. I think we will get players in but will they be good enough for promotion? I'm not sure and I'd go so far as to say probably not. Especially as any replacements won't have had any of our preseason which makes it all a bit pointless really.

Sooner rather than later would have been a month ago.

Our fiabnaces are better than every other team in the division. We should be able to blow the majority out of the water, certainly the ones without parachute payments. I'd be looking at Coventry and Middlesborough for certain. Swansea too.

Of course the clubs will resist sling them but we have financialuscle to effectively bully them. The time is now to be ruthless in the market. Fans have done their bit with season ticket sales and support, time for the club to prove their new regime is decent.

For me if he'd stayed and got us up then left he would be a legend. As it is he captained us to relegation.

100% this. If he goes he's old news and nothing like real legends such as Lambert.

I hope he just stays away personally. If you're going to go then feck off and let's some other players hopefully save us. The season has started and this is a distraction we don't need.

We really should be looking to buy the best of all the other teams in this division.

He should be left back. In the changing room.

I won't trust that we know what we're doing until I see evidence.

Indeed. Absolutely nothing wrong with being nervous now seeing as we contrived to fuck up the last two transfer windows.

Nah. We'd have a excellent chance of promotion next year. I agree though, we will do very well to reach promotion this year.

Like Martin said, either you're committed or you're not. If he's going then just leave as quickly as possible, don't hang around in the team like it's a friendly match or a testimonial. We have a promotion to win and we need players who want to be here for the season.

Some suggestion that he wants one more game to say goodbye to the fans. I hope he pisses off if he tries that and I wouldn't be sad to see him booed. Leave if you want but don't try and have your cake and eat it.

I am also disappointed that he felt he had to go and that he couldn't give us one year. Personally I think any message he puts out will be a bit hollow and would be met with replies that he could have given us a year to see what happened. I know he was always likely to leave, I just thought we could have had a special player with a bit of a unique attitude. Sadly not.