Exiled_Rover

So any more on that Harry Pickering link, or was it bogus?

Unless he's regressed massively he's far quicker than Brittain and a much better one-on-one defender. Nowhere near the attacker though.

It'll go through, the £3m will be banked and we'll bring in a cheap, untested, PL loan RB.

JDT and Eustace often turned to the bench and thought "who the fuck do I bring on?" It's why Eustace ran Travis and Tronstad into the ground last season. It's been our achilles heel for years - absolutely no quality depth. Games we're very much in used to change when the subs were made - the opposition got stronger (or at least posed different questions) and we either didn't make any (with our tired players going up against their fresh ones) or got significantly weaker.

I don't like slotting CBs in at FB - especially in the modern game when the FB is asked to provide attacking options. Nor do I like slotting tall FBs in at CB as a Plan A. That's a Plan D when everyone is injured and the transfer window is closed.

Is it impossible to say? I genuinely can't think of anything they've done right in 15 years.

I was under the impression you didn't have to register players under 21 for the squad?

He's played like 2 games and got sent off in the game he started. I think you're overstating how much of an impact he can make...

That's an incredible call if true - it's not on Twitter or the Plymouth fans board.

I think it's more that he's the ACD replacement - he's a winger. I know he's played LB, but we have Ribeiro and Pickering for LB.

I thought bar two mistakes by the atrocious Carter (albeit Williamson went walkabouts on the 2nd goal too - clearly a CM playing CB) Sweden didn't do much. England completely ran out of puff when they equalised though.

Carter has turned into a right crock, unfortunately.

You of course assume they want to re-sign...

A question to ask with these (possibly) 4 transfers - are any of them set piece takers? Cos bloody hell a good one would be worth his weight in gold.

Is he quicker than Batth? I suspect Batth was going to struggle in Ismael's system. He was fantastic under Eustace, but was very protected.

Don't tell Gestede and Suhail or they'll really take their foot off the gas if they think we're basically safe already.

No.

As someone said earlier, we're tyre kickers. Eventually someone will say yes to our offer, but we're also pissing off loads of clubs in the process.

"Hi Macron, we play in reversed blue and white halves" "Best we can offer you is a blue and white halved kit from the stock - otherwise there's an additional charge for such a bespoke design." "Thank you for your time, we'll be taking our business elsewhere"

We wouldn't get near Dolan.

This is surely at odds with the requirement to field x,000 minutes of Academy graduates, right? Transfermarkt tells me he's a RB. We've just bought a RB and have a promising Academy graduate RB who's 20 (i.e. sink or swim time) in Duru. Are we really trying to buy another RB?

As opposed to the 'hard working, but delaying / putting the wrong weight / picking the wrong pass, turning back into trouble with a pointless pirouette and being run down by every fullback' types? The legend of Dolan has grown exponentially since he decided he wasn't staying. He's an average Championship player, with his workrate carrying a significant portion of that value.

I've stopped worrying about it. Eustace walking out to leave a relegation threatened Derby was the final straw for me. We're not a serious football club.

Pears wouldn't get a game in my weekday 7 a side kick-a-bout. He's awful.

Pears isn't a professional GK - moving him on isn't a downgrade.