Ricky

I think the situation has changed rather than Sharpe backtracking. I read it as yesterday we were in a good position but since then WBA have moved quickly and been able to offer prem football and a higher wage. Move on to the next target.

Surely the time has come to give Wharton the opportunity. You only have to look at what Ben White managed in his first season in the championship after loans in the leagues below. There’s no way Brighton would have been knocking back bids of £25m for him before he’d done a season with Leeds. What’s not to say that Wharton could form a partnership with Lenihan. I feel his loan last season was at a league lower than is should have been but that was our mistake. He’d already won promotion from league 2 so should have been rewarded with a league 1 loan to test him at a better level. However he got promoted again from league 2 so couldn’t really do much more. It’s time to either start him or risk losing him like we did with Jack O’Connell.

Ignore me, never seen him. I’m getting him mixed up with Davenport.

Butterworth has looked good when I have seen him. Hopefully now he will have a full pre season he will push on. Didn’t he Captain the City youth teams at all ages?

Fisher not doing himself any favours at all today. Looks a long way away from being able to play at league level.

Shite pen to be fair. Easy height for the keeper if he picks the right way.

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Is that a new kit?

Barnsley and Wigan when we were pushing the top 6 were decent games. Still managed to bottle it though.

Westwood’s wages could be the stumbling block. Been mentioned on here that he’s on decent money. Mate is a Wednesday ST holder and his comment was ‘great keeper but we need his wages off the wage bill’

Barry Ferguson for me. We don’t do well with £7m purchases do we. It’s definitely the jinx fee for us.

I do wonder if O’Neill will want to bring Evans in though Chaddy. If he does then it could be a sensible deal for both parties. I would imagine Evans is one of our higher earners and if there is interest in Whiteman he will be facing more competition for a starting place. Only issue is that Stoke seem to have quite a lot of midfielders on their books already.

Don’t we need two keepers if Leitweiller has been replaced? Just wondering if he will be bought in to fill that spot whilst we look for a ‘proper’ number one. Here’s hoping anyway.

This makes for interesting reading. Just after he left Rovers I took a call from an ex colleague who was a Director at a local authority. He knows my football allegiance and asked if I knew anything about a guy called Paul Senior who had applied for a job but appeared to have just left rovers. It was a bit of a strange conversation and I brushed it off as a case of someone with the same name but it clearly was the same guy. I don’t think the Council in question employed him at the time.

Southampton seem to be overrun with keepers. I wonder if Forster will go out on loan again?

I would imagine Sheffield United fans may not share your views after their experience of a young loan keeper. They’ve had two pretty useful seasons out of him.

So Raya being linked with a £10m move to the prem by skysports.

Would Sam Hutchinson be worth a look? Still only 30 and seems to have overcome a lot of the injury issues which plagued his career in his earlier years.

Al Habsi is 38 now. No idea if he’s got another season left in him.

I don’t get why you would bring Nyambe off for Bennett unless there is an injury

Great finish but awful positioning from Walton

Wonder if we will be having a look at Luke Garbutt who has just been released from Everton. Highly rated as a youngster and had some decent loan spells. Left sided as well which would be good.

Never a red but a silly one non the less

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Rudy Gestede is available on a free. Wonder if Tony wants another massive fake winger???