My sympathies. As a lay person I still maintain that if he didn't have any underlying problem when he came, everyone was screened for potential issues before the start of pre season and they're warming up properly, no-one should be breaking down as early as day 2 or 3. I assume they're not being flogged to death at that point or shouldn't be.

I think that this fact tends to get lost on a lot of people. We lose that amount of money because of the model/running of the club. A semi-competent ownership and/or UK SLT and it's a different story altogether.

Nah. He's in the right place where he is -as he's proving.

In fairness injuries can just be bad luck. I lift a lot of weight, 5 or 6 times a week, heavy weights. I pulled a muscle wiping my arse last year 🤣

When we sign a player it's always a 'undisclosed fee', yet for a failed bid it's mentioned as 1.7m 🤣 Even if we had put a bid in it would be for 200k with 1.5m in add ons for promotion etc. The worst thing is, some people actually fall for it, just seen a twitter post saying we're and I quote "throwing money about this summer". Blows my mind that after all these years there's still people that lap it up....

Hindsight mate, easy to say now

Odds on Leicester being a deal breaker for either avoiding the drop or scraping a top 6 finish?

WE HAVE A WINNER

BRADFORD CITY Did anyone have Bradford?

I think there is a formula to be followed in targeting either European or lower league players with great physical attributes and hoping that they can make the step up or thrive at a higher level. It's not dissimilar to what Wenger did at Arsenal for years. There are few known quanitities in the Championship who would excite me at 5 million or above.

In what world Is Josh Coburn worth 5million? That must include some ridiculous clause if they get in the premier league. I might be in the minority here but I'd rather gamble on cheaper European players than spunk that amount on one average championship player.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/25266464.parkers-arms-lancashire-named-best-county-awards/ Parkers Arms again..

Millwall breaking their transfer record (£5m) for Joshua Coburn from Boro. I doubt we’ll spend that much on a striker again.

It all feels a bit 'meh' with no Dingles, Bolton, even Wigan and Blackpool. PNE away in the middle of the most depressing month of the year. Two midlands clubs at Easter, Yorkshire and Humber over Christmas. They could be worse trips, but it's still just a bit shit.

I've found the bit where we're on the edge of the playoffs and then implode in February / March across a load of winnable fixtures after not spending anything in January.

Rinsed and repeated during the season too.

Yep, bit like us she made a bit of a spurt for the line, (won a number of games on the bounce) when it was far too late!

BIg Club's first away game - will have large following. Wait for club announcement we're giving them the Riverside as well 😉

Though I hate to say it the two most-disliked teams in the Div were largely responsible for that reduction in the league as a whole. They conceded a total of 46 goals between them!

I don't think it's the number of gaols in absolute terms that mattered. Eustace had the team playing in a way that would have inevitably (in my view) meant fewer goals but was ultimately getting better results (on the whole) What I think we missed though was Szmodics's ability to nick a goal out of nothing - and then we quite probably would have got something in those failures against the bottom teams.

Wrexham would seem a more likely opportunity for Beck. Loan him this season, buy him next season if he is a success

Ok, I'll join in just before the draw. I'll go Huddersfield away.

The Snakes will be coming out again. Pathetic.

'Blackburn try to sign centre half' what a headline 😂 This lads not so recently scored against Chelsea and Real Betis, in what world do we offer him better terms than others?

We are experts in making offers that are definitely not enough. We are so shoe-strung we spend that long messing about on fees that we always miss out on the better "targets" that come with competition, even when they're heavily discounted. De Lange last summer being the prime example of this. Val wanted 90% of his business done before pre-season. Which contradicts what some fans say on here about patience - that hasn't got us anywhere. It's about getting the targets in as quickly as possible so that they can bed in and increase your chances of a successful campaign. We have billionaire owners but are constantly scraping the barrel and missing out. As it stands today we have 1 new signing training with the first team, no one has heard of him and are short on the following players from last year: Dolan Weimann Batth Woodrow Dennis Cozier-Dubbery Beck Sanderson That's a lot of minutes missing.... from a team that wasn't good enough to get the playoffs. We haven't picked up any astute free transfers, some of these have resale value which would have been key to our model if not spending, in the mould of Viktor Johansson from last year; these are the fine lines that means we haven't and never will make the playoffs under Venky's due to a non-competitive approach in the market: As it stands this isn't a rebuild, it's simply a lot of time wasting and a seemingly major inability to tie down any valuable senior players to attractive long term contracts. There's not a chance we paid millions for Taveres. Career wise he isn't even a player that would be worth £2m, it's nonsense... but they will advertise it during the next crisis video. We have all of the signs of a team operating without any influential senior executives... and still, distant owners. As a result current players are holding off from committing, or know they can get a better offer elsewhere.