Tyrone Shoelaces

I’m not so sure about that.

Well we definitely needed a goalkeeper. No argument there.

I like Whiteman but I think the reason why we didn’t go for him is we had Buckley coming through. I don’t think you could play them both in the same team.

I agree, it’ll come down to managerial quality in the end.

I’d say it’s 50/50 wether we stay in the play off zone. If we do miss out I wouldn’t be surprised.

You can have the same bet if you like.

David Speedie was half his size and twice the player.

It wouldn’t be too bad but we had him for a season previously. That was enough for me. The fact that he didn’t pull any trees up at big club and when he was back at Southampton told me we needed to stay away. I used to think he might have made a striker playing through the middle but I’ve more or less given up on him now.

I wouldn’t have signed Maja because of his previous history of back trouble but he’s out because of Covid at the moment.

One thing in our favour is I think this lot will go for it. I don’t think they’ll sit back and defend deep like most of our recent opponents have, not when they’re the home team.

Yeah, exactly what we are short of, some physicality up front. I bet Van Hecke won’t be looking forward to playing against him again.

Two lads who have just gone out on loan from Villa seem to be doing ok - Davies and Archer.

The only reason he wasn’t making the squad was because we had Ayala on the bench.

We’re not making enough chances to win games. One or two shots on goal won’t do it.

I’ll have a tenner with you that we don’t make the top two. Charity of your choice.

Other teams have worked us out. They just defend deep and don’t give us room to play in. They let our centre halves have the ball and just mark up all over the pitch. We just play in front of teams now.

Who plays at right back if we move Nyambe ? JRC isn’t up to it, Brown has only just got through the door and I have my doubts about Zefuik, apart from the fact he’s injured. I like Nyambe at centre back but smart teams will exploit his lack of heading abilities.

I thought that was Mowbray.

It’s pretty obvious given our signings that Mowbray thought we could get away with playing the withdrawn No 9 and wide strikers playing on the break for the whole season. No thought seems to have been given to other ways of playing.

Let’s see what quality of players we have next August.

You could say Ray Harford’s lack of trust in David Batty.

We didn’t really need another centre half, we just needed to keep Carter.

Regarding Forss you could say the same about Brererton before this season. How many goals had he scored ?

Me too. I’m not biting.

Tell that to Lenihan, he likes first go at the bath water.