Eric The Red

It is Wednesday our time but Tuesday evening their time . No reason why he can't be on a plane Wednesday tea time and back in the UK Thursday morning. Should be fine for Sunday lunchtime.

If that's not his idea of a joke then he's a p*** poor football journalist as the international breaks for this season were set a long time ago

As long as that's because he does well on loan and someone makes us a good offer then win-win

I may be completely wrong here but don't prices for cup matches have to be agreed by both teams. Do WHU get a share of the gate receipts, if so perhaps £25 was as low as they would go?

Champions: West Ham Contenders for Auto spot: Wolves Saints Norwich Other Playoff Places: Burnley Millwall Birmingham Derby Relegation candidates: Lincoln Bolton P**pey Watford Charlton

This is what i don't understand. Middlesborough's form over the last part of the season was poor and they've lost 2 of their best players. Don't dispute that Lankshire (sp?) will score goals for them but the manager (and team) under performed over the last few months of the season and will surely be under pressure pretty quickly if the team doesn't live up to these exalted expectations

Agreed a 3 year deal is an insanely good deal for Ross. He's probably on a lower wage than we offered but doubt he would would have been guaranteed more than 1 year from Saints.

With only 2 years left on his contract I think £20m is about as much as we could expect. By the way I'm sure if anyone offered £15m for Ramsdale then we would gladly move him on

Yep, that'll be me. Will be renewing 2 tickets in the next 24 hours

One problem is I don't think your stats are correct. After 15 games (Edwards) boro's record was W8 D5 L2 29 points at a shade under 2 points per game Hellberg managed 29 games W14 D8 L7 50 points at just over 1.7 per game

Acceptance, with a bit of anger, consoling myself with the thought that Hull would most likely have beaten us given the 2 games we've already lost to them this season

Well I watched all of those games and we were not 'shocking' though they did follow a similar pattern. Us dominant first half, often several goals up then struggling to see out the games as comfortably as we should, possibly caused by a lack of fitness Only ones that varied significantly were the first (QPR) where we were just desperately anxious and Millwall who were probably just better than the other teams we played.

Exactly, we could have checked them out well before Dec 24th, also they had played at least one game under the (old) new guy so just stupid and pointless all round if we broke the 72 hour rule for that bunch

Lies, damned lies and statistics, lol One thing that struck me was that having a loss in one of the last 3league games was seen as a big negative to your chances of promotion, lucky we didn't know that 2 years ago as our 2 losses in the last 3 would have meant we had no chance

Really don't think Coventry have taken their foot off the gas. More likely anxiety as they got closer to the finish line May well play with more freedom now. They'll want to be champions for a start