Junior Mullet

Not surprised Davies wants out. Indicative of the make-money while you can player mentality these days. let him go, he's not good enough for the Prem anyway and he's injury prone. Stoke will be relegated and Davies will not be bought by another prem club next season. I wouldnt mind Surman going. He's lacked any real form since playing for the England U.21's last season. He's not a natural left-back IMO and gives the ball away far too often. £2.5m would be a great deal IMO. Skacel with Mills as cover is much more preferable to me. Not seen Pullis play so can't really comment. Does seem odd though. Not sure we need anyone else who is average at best and remember we have Euell as CM cover.

We are not going to play too many teams with the fire power, especially off the bench, that Birmingham had. They will win the league through their manager and the bench. I can see our lads beating a few teams quite comfortably this year and I look forward to that. We do look suseptable at both full-back positions against pace and trickery but few teams will have a Quincy, Bent or a Jerome. I really enjoyed yesterday and in particular as Le God says, watching the lads give it 100% right to the final whistle. Made such a difference to the narrow, long ball, one-dminesional passionless displays we saw so often last year from the supposed 'senior players'. Frankly I hope the remainder of those 'senior' players feck off asap and leave our coaches and proper players to carry on the good work they have begun.

Wrong name, wrong person, just plain wrong. Now, put the keyboard down and get back on the pis$ for Matt le Tis

I thought it was more like £10k, but the principle is the same. Fact is we are not chasing promotion and the powers that be obviously think the lads we have are able to keep us up. Thereofre why pay for loans that arent really going to benefit us? Expect to see loans made if our lads can't cut it and we find ourselves in a relegation battle. We don't need another Hammill or Guthrie holding back the progress of our own talented youngsters.

ditto

Which corner is staying open?

In the circumstances there is not much Rupert and co could have done except for selling their shares at a realistic price to an investor. I do however feel more comfortable with him and co at the helm as opposed to the gamblers that have been in charge over the last few years. You cannot question Lowe's committment to young players progressing. The depressing thing however is that the best ones will be sold just as they are getting really good. That is the sad fact without investment - investment that Lowe and co have effectively blocked. Yes, we will see some improvements off the field, especially financially, and yes we will see some good young uns progress but the enjoyment gained from that will only be short-term until Rupert and co sell their shares.