I didn’t realise how far out of the loop with the PL I was until the World Cup, loads of players involved who I didn’t even know played in England until the commentators mentioned it…

He’s about to turn 27 and would be asking for a, *shock horror*, 3 year contract, the cheek of it! So that’s all GB’s red flags in one!

You are being very salty this morning, Sweaty. 😁 And I was responding to his view on this season in that it would be a bloody unbelievable achievement with these players. You are quite right, a couple more windows and we may be in a better place to challenge, happy to wait and see what’s behind GB’s management consultant spiel…

He says it will be an achievement this season, no?

I would class Peter Thorne as pre academy as he was around the squad from the early 90s, but generally we are scraping the barrel here. We have had nothing at all for 20 years. Very noticeable dearth of talent in that position compared to everywhere else.

It would be a fantastic achievement with this squad of players, which is why it won’t happen as over 46 games they ain’t good enough…

Of course, but to not even produce one that has been a fixture in our first team in 25 years? Bit of a poor do for a Cat 1 academy…

Not at all, just the general vibe of the transfer thread on Friday night as plenty of folk were enthralled by a load of managerial speak. Whereas he comes across as extremely naive to the realities of Championship football to me…

Is amusing how one result can sway opinions. He was deemed most wise and an example of a club on the right path on Friday night merely on the back of a load of corporate speak on a podcast , yet ‘clueless’ and an example of why the club was going nowhere by Saturday afternoon…

Since it’s been a proper academy from the mid to late 90s (James Beattie springs to mind as just before) have we ever produced a decent striker out of it?

Why because GB says so in interviews? Come on Callum, its just the same stuff any club in this league’s hierarchy comes out with. Means nothing.

It has to be a blend, you can’t get of out of this league with a team full of ‘development players’, it’s as simple as that. But as GB is in on record saying he won’t bring in experience in midfield, this ‘established PL club’ mantra is just platitudes and not something the club is actually pursuing.

An established Premier League club. You honestly believe that?

How is a midfield of 18/19/20 year olds going to get you out of the Championship and established in the Premier League?

‘Explode with anger’? Ewood? 😁 Think that ship sailed with Ke*n. But yes, the ‘JDT, sort it out!’ will be a fair bit louder than anything aimed at Teflon Tony.

The fact so many raw academy lads are starting games very much is a big problem.

So that’s about half a billion quid this new owner has spent in about 8 months… thought you said the Abramovich-esque spending was over?

So it was the owners all along then, Rev?

PL ambitions? How will a club that doesn’t want to sign experienced midfielders ever going to get out of a league as relentless as this? They either know they won’t so all this ‘established PL club’ stuff is just a sop to fans and/or the owners or they really are naive enough to think a load of teenagers could possibly lead to promotion…

It’s the foundation of any successful team at this level, but as GB himself has said experienced players ‘block pathways’ of teenagers. This is not a football club that is serious about promotion.

Two meetings with that plonker and not even a staff list on the website to show for it!

Won’t somebody think of the pathways!

Didn’t mention he was retiring any time soon, did he?

Sack him tomorrow and the next fella will still be playing a team full of ‘development’ players ( so it’s wildly inconsistent week to week as a matter of course) - as that’s what the club will insist on. Once you realise that this club is unlike pretty much every other professional football club, I.e they exist to win as many games as they can with the resources they have, then it all makes much more sense.

If he’s a moron then so is the majority of the fanbase as that’s the line you hear time and time again away from brfcs…