S-Clarke

By the subject I guess you connect via wireless? are you using their ''Superhub'' device? One thing you can do is try connecting your Laptop/PC directly to the router via ethernet, and then do a speedtest via this method. I've had connection issues with virgin before (both wireless and wired) and they could never detect anything from their side. It got so bad that I had to ditch them in the end, from 50mb....to 5mb ADSL.

Would be a decent replacement for Savage at Derby, but we wouldn't need him here now.

Same. We're in a position to hold out for what we want now, and clubs don't want to pay it! No longer a case of them dictating the deal!

Players of that level will be tracked by top clubs all over Europe, we do not stand a chance of competing for this level of player until we are established in the premiership.

We probably do, but from what I've heard we've put a stupid price on his head (upwards of £1.5m, which Cortese probably feels he's worth) and no clubs are willing to match it. So it may come down to a loan deal just to get him away from the first team.

MerceSaint28 - I am not deluded, the reality is that we had a championship squad in L1. P'Boro came up with a L1 squad, they have already sold their best player and are replacing them with L1 and L2 players. They have reason to be nervous. We have added a top class Championship player in Jack Cork, so that suggests we won't be resting on our lurrels. We've also got another couple of additions lined up. Are you ITK about Puncheon? I am pretty sure that we've priced him out of a perm move and we'll probably see him move out on a loan deal again. I'm not happy with mediocrity at all, I'm just looking at all the other clubs in the league this year that have a real reason to panic and worry. I'm looking at the teams that have lost their key players, their main men. Then I look at us and see that we have one of the most saught after youngsters in England, a brilliant talent in Lallana and a quality player like Fonte who is back in the league he was very good in previously....oh and we've signed quality like Jack Cork. We need 1 or 2 more players. Any more and it is just adding to the squad for no real reason. Adkins has it right from what he says, add 2 or 3 quality players to the spine and we'll be very competitive. I'm not expecting promotion, it would be mental to expect that in a league which has the quality this has. We can still build and be very competitive though, next season could be a different kettle of fish.

If he was signing from Fulham reserves I doubt people would be so excited! He's pretty average tbh.

But clubs like Blackpool and West ham, and also to a certain extent Brighton - are replacing key players that they have lost. Vaughan, Adam, DJ Campbell (move imminent). Brighton are having to replace Bennett and Murray for e.g. We haven't lost anyone, but we have added one of the most sought after players this summer. Lallana, Chambo, Lambo, Fonte, Cork, would walk into 90% of teams at this level. What a fantastic spine that is by the way, add the likes of Morgan, Guly, Barnard, Harding, Richardson in and around it and we'll be fine. People moaning about our lack of signings is really starting to bug me. Trust the quality we already have, because we have some fantastic players in our team, keyword being ''team''. Teams like the Skates, Forest, Watford have reasons to moan because they can't fill a full subs bench. We really don't know how lucky we have it this summer.

We wouldn't announce a press conference for a non-league player, which is why the poster is talking a load of crap. (I've never actually heard of the player, and he doesn't appear on any Google searches as someone who actually exists)

He's actually a decent shout, didn't think about him. He's a quick/direct striker that plays for Watford, can play on the right wing too. 19/20 i think, 12 league goals last year...not too shabby at all.

Pretty standard I'd have thought. If you haven't got them by the big KO then you can moan, moaning before then is just a bit pointless.

Agree with every word of that.

Why on earth would we struggle with Morgan and Lambert? What the hell is that based on? Our fans are truly bizarre.

Sounds like we had more than enough chances to score at last 1, going by the commentary.

You keep bleeting on about the need to sign players, without actually saying who, and what positions we need to strengthen. So...?

They're already gelled as a team though, most of us know what our best 11 is and I'm pretty sure he does. They've been together for 2 years! Pre-season is all about getting the entire squad up to fitness, not just the starting 11. So i hope he plays 2 different teams otherwise it's a bit of a waste of time.

But it doesn't happen here much, in the last few years we've struggled to get the funds for a bloody loan signing, so to see us able to go in with these size of bids is reassuring for our future.

I've seen some people in other threads talking about 90mins + on hold.

He isn't even in contention at Reading anymore, saw a rumour a few weeks back linking him with Crawley on a loan deal. He's totally fallen away for some reason, he was good for us that season but I wouldn't really want him back now.

Brilliant!

I was hoping it was to do with Keith Trecey personally...

Mills playing for PNE tonight in their friendly against Fleetwood town.

Almost certain I would have thought. Pretty strong rumours he's training with other clubs (PNE i think)

**** or bust indeed....and how on earth Konchesky warrants 40k a week is beyond me. Total waste of a good wage.

*cough* tapping up *cough*