NickG

Why??? We this team was good enough last year. We are improving. So Huddersfield are signing player who are older and not as good as ours/

Papa started 11 games, Antonio 14. They would only be looked at as subs, a loss but not huge one. Pardew has said he was in talks to keep Antonio so guess he will either see that through or have plan B. (Ox-C, or another player).

not just AP, good players as well.

and would probably be happy at his stage of career to be sub/cover here.

agree

would say we are stronger, attacking left back/midfielder added, Butterfield who is clearly better than any RB we had last year and can play CM/CB, Richardson. We have lost two subs.

Carsley will be 37 for later part of season

Steve Howard is 34 - we were told that Butterfield is past it at 30! Think he would be 4th choice in our squad. Don't know much about McCombe but see he played 13 times last season and was released from his contract. Big lads tho.

nope..still not worried.

http://yfrog.com/mrnh9j and tour over.

heard GB saying someone had offered more - don't know if it was another team, or whether he had other offers

am I the only one who thinks he's got better pedigree than Richardson? Wouldn't be sure who was seen as No1

we didn't usually use them in 1st 11 and have now added CCC level RB - I would say first 11 is bit stronger

we could get a loan in if Butterfield gets injured rather than before. Don't think we need another RB, and Butterfield may have been starting anyway!

think Puncheon was one of their best players, playing CM, in team finishing in top half - not bad a back up!

Puncheon played CM before he came to us

or that we would be relaxed in knowing AP &NC had a top level RB for us for the start of the season?! perhaps if we signed him later he would not have been injured!!!

Otsemebor?! RB was our only real weakness and we binned him and signed two much better (albeit on only has one arm!). Don't know enough about your other players to comment but think Lallana will be looking forward to playing you if he is your RB!

wonder if he would have been first choice over Butterfield anyway? After all Butterfield was playing all season, pretty well in a CCC play off contending team *****il their financial problems)

still trying out players and people out of position, Reading will be more of an insight

hopefully not as bad as Walcotts! His account of the shoulder injury he sustained during an England training session in Berlin in November is not one for the squeamish. ‘The problem with my shoulders was something I inherited from my dad,’ he says. ‘The left one would pop out and then pop back in — absolute agony — during almost every game last season, so I had surgery to put it right last summer. ‘But in Berlin Scott Parker gave me a bit of a nudge, I slipped on the wet ground and the right one went. It popped out and popped back in like the left one always did. So I kept going. We were playing Germany the next day and I wanted to be involved. ‘Then, though, I went up for this ball and when I was spinning in the air the shoulder dislocated again. And this time it stayed out. The pain was unbelievable.’ The doctors told him he had suffered what they call a fractured dislocation. ‘On the left I’d just had to have keyhole surgery,’ he says. ‘But this one needed open surgery. They needed to stitch back the bone.

would fit in with almost certainly miss start of season.

think he tried both Martin and Harding as RB in first game.

so because Frazer is out for the first few weeks of the season we need to sign another RB? If we did that we would be left with (when he is fit again a few weeks into the season): your suggested new signing the league 1 RB of the season a RB who played 40 games in CCC last season That would be ridiculous amount of depth to keep happy for the rest of the season. I would rather, if we are that unlucky to lose both our new RBs to injury, use Harding or a young player. Probably would not be able to get a better RB than Harding anyway as they would be being signed as a 3rd choice for league 1!

agree.