Lighthouse

Calling him a crab is such a lazy insult. Truth is he’s played a variety of different roles in midfield since making his debut and he covers a lot of ground during a game. If the manager tells him to sit deep and pass it around, he’ll do it. If the manager tells him to get forward into the box, he’ll do that too. One thing that has been consistent is that every manager we’ve had from Adkins to Martin has played him regularly and not wanted to offload him. I doubt Tonda would be any different, as he has a fairly decent haircut.

I’ve been told we’re re-signing Chris Perry to play along side him.

For a man who thought 34 year old, six months retired Romeu should go straight into our team and would be our fittest player, you’re sure going all in against JWP. I don’t think we’re going to be signing anyone with a better CV than 400 PL apps. 11 England caps and still only 31 years old.

Funnily enough I’m sat watching The Expendables right now. Let’s just say you get what it says on the tin, nothing more, nothing less. Also - Super Troopers and Dude, Where’s my Car?

I wouldn’t say that’s essential for a CM pairing. Neither Morgan nor Wanyama were particularly fast but they were the best pair we’ve had playing there in my lifetime. JWP covers a lot of ground and is generally very reliable when it comes to fitness. I’d certainly have him back on loan, especially if it ,want we’d have a bit more money free to replace THB.

Stephens, for all his faults, isn’t a player I associate with getting bullied. If anything he is more prone to losing his discipline, like he did with Cucurella, and just generally having terrible brain farts

Yes, I did read it. You said we wouldn’t be relying on Stephens and Wood, which means somebody will be replacing THB as most people would have assumed. The fact that we’re after this German fella implies that one of the other three is also likely to be off, most likely JQ who doesn’t seem to be in Tonda’s plans, even for cup games.

I think most of us had figured out that we weren’t just going to sell THB and rely on the three that were left but tell your mate thanks anyway.

I don’t think you can accuse Solak of that, when we announced we were sticking with Tonda it raised more eyebrows than a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. It was certainly a brave decision, which caught me by surprise. I thought he had to go and TBH I’m still not entirely convinced keeping him was the right decision. Maybe with two or three signings in key areas we will be rejuvenated and start looking like we did last year but right now it’s all a bit Will Still.

Incidentally this fixture was the last league game in which Wood started and we kept a clean sheet, back in January, so there’s that.

We've just signed three strikers, we're not getting two more. Maybe one if DD, BBD and Archer all leave but even then it wouldn't be a given. I'd reasonably expect a CM, CB (two if JQ leaves), a backup goalkeeper and not much more else.

I think I'll just file this under 'glad I was working this evening' and leave it at that.

The Inbetweeners 2 was utterly abysmal, couldn’t get through it.

THB stuff moved to the THB thread

I don’t think Edozie is crap by any stretch of the imagination but I wouldn’t lose sleep over this.