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So I think we're back to 24 with the double counting. Plus the youngsters, that's a lot of players to train and keep motivated.

Fuck me you're a bundle of giggles. Archer is decent. BBD is decent. I couldn't give a monkeys how they performed in a poor Sheffield United.

Ha!! The B team can't fill the bench so I think he'll run around with them.

Archer, BBD. There was only a hole last week because he didn't fill it with a player.

Cheers...only 4 subs... perhaps someone left the squad to sort a move.

Thanks. Not much doubt about that!

I think BBD becomes the alternative middle man to Archer, with Cornet, Fraser, AA, SAA the wide options. Not ideal, but it could be worse.

Good lass.

What did he say? I know Hypo alluded to it after the game, but I can't see any comments anywhere.

Indeed. In the real world anyone with any sense wants to progress and develop, and mates who've done well somewhere else, will always tell us how good it is. That's life. When I was a kid, my dad and his mate worked at Ford's . His mate moved to the docks and once told him how great it was, better money, more opportunities, and that there were jobs available. I never realised before now what a massive prick that bloke was! Good job my dad didn't take the job, I may never have forgiven him cos I've always been a fan of transit's.

I'm satisfied that I do.

I have zero reason to doubt what I heard, and no reason to take the media spin over it. Regardless, there's no doubting that he stayed bloody loyal to us when relegated and it's a shame many fans can't see that. At the end of the day, people can believe what/who they like, no skin off my nose, but I find it a tad pathetic that people take the media spin at face value, and can still be bitter about it years later. He's back, he's good, move on.

Proof he stitched us up? Or is it just speculation? I heard enough at the time to satisfy me that he did nowt wrong.

Ha!!! Footballer gives the best years of his career to us, sticks with us when relegated, doesn't get the move he's promised, but he's the bad guy cos Les told you he was. Fans have been taken in by the bs on this. Cracking player. Glad he's back. Glad it's annoyed you.

It depends on how you view it. I think some of our league 1 signings were massive statements that we were there to be the best, get promoted, then be the best. Regardless, he's a proper statement signing for where we are now.

I'm genuinely surprised if he doesn't recognise that playing a season at that level will do him the world of good.

Absolutely massive signing. Great work from the club. Another centre forward (a good one), keep hold of KWP, add a decent winger, and this will be a 12 out of 10 window.

I'm not saying whether he's PL ready now or that he will be. I'm simply saying that he's better than Larios now imo, and shows more promise. Larios ain't the answer now or ever imo.

Yep. We could (in theory) announce him when the line ups are announced. The key thing is registering him in time.

Yep. He's got so much more promise than Larios. Wrong kid being moved on imo.

Good post. And couldn't Goztepe give us a massive loan fee to help with FFP?

He covers LWB. If KWP goes, Taylor is your LB/LWB and Manning your reserve. Cornet gives cover at LWB in the same way the wee man did. KWP is replaced at RB/RWB with Bree the reserve.

The media get used when it helps the club or a player. If we're trying to sneak a deal through without another club potentially hijacking it, why on earth would be publicise that we're trying to do that deal?!

Most transfer enquiries happen under the radar. Just because it ain't on X doesn't mean it's not happening, and often when it's on X, it definitely ain't happening!

No idea mate, but Cornet feels like a LWB cover option to me, and we'd only need that it KWP was going. I agree your point though - like JWP last year, KWP can't have many suitors who'd play him as a starter. I think he's better anything Villa have, even when the injured Cash is fit.