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So what's Charley? Is he a new style 8, a false 9, a 10?

Poor or a poor attitude? I'm talking about his commitment. For me it was decent for a bloke who's been told he'd going in the summer.

Yep. I'm guessing these are the numbers used in football manager or FIFA or some other games played by kids etc. I'll try to find the Danny Murphy article. Says a lot when ex pro pundits refuse to use these numbers. Anyways, I've decided Downes is a 4, THB is a 6, and AA a 10. Old school. Evolution my arse.

Bollox. Some hipster has made it up, and put it out there as apparent fact.

I'm not sure who's dreamt up these new numbers for positions. I recall an article on the BBC last year, I think from Danny Murphy, giving different numbers to positions, ie not this 6, 8 and 10 nonsense. From my era, a 6 was a CB, a 4 was the more defence minded midfielder, an 8 your box to box midfielder, and a 10 the smaller man up front who dropped back a bit. Feck knows who decided this 6, 8, 10 nonsense.

Yep, we'd pay that, I'm pretty confident of that.

JWP was told fairly early that season that he was being sold n the summer. I thought his attitude was superb considering that.

Indeed. Snapshots are bullshit.

The referendum was 2016, and GM is referring to some data and predictions from 2016. He seems to think it's been milk and honey since then.

Rufus

How about across the 8 years? You can't base an argument on a snapshot.

Standing

Fancy posting the facts about our gdp performance post Brexit rather than a recent snapshot?

4-3 to you mate. No personal comments from me Hypo.

More posts from you than him...bait properly taken. It'd be calm and civil if you lot ignored him.

Lieutenant

Thriller

Punishment

Mr Smith is a good lad. Not many people put their principles before their careers.

My guess is that Mara is as good as gone, hence the fair play money/money for Archer. I don't think we'll get another striker either. The Portuguese kid, an attack attacking midfielder and possibly Fraser is all I think we'll get.

He's out of our price bracket but I'm not sure who'll buy him and play him regularly. Feels a bit West Ham to me.

I don't disagree with any of that. However, we dominated midfield yesterday (before the sending off as well) but didn't penetrate enough. This lads scout report suggests that he's a midfield ball recycler, offers little creativity, and little in an attacking sense. That's a million miles from what we need. We need PL ready players - BD, Lesley, Downes, THB, Taylor, and arguably Archer, are there or thereabouts. We need a creative midfielder to make the chances and a proper striker to score them. Plus a keeper. A promising ball recycler is not what we need with limited funds imo.

Seems a complete waste of money. Big Lesley is surely here for that role, with Charles either giving cover or moving on. What we needed was obvious yesterday. He isn't it.

I'd have liked to have seen TP off the bench today, just to give us an extra option - stretch them out wide and hit the big man with crosses, as well as having Cameron stretching them down the channels, and feeding off knock downs.

I thought we put in a very good performance. That said, if BD puts that chance away, and AM doesn't do such a bad job of following daft instructions, we win away at Newcastle. I'm a hell of a lot more optimistic after that than I was at 3.00 today.