Fair enough - thought you were taking the p**s. Obviously wrong, apologies.

I'll hazard a guess that his English is better than your Spanish though.

Yeah, apart from that he was shit. He has good-will in the pot but too many performances like that and Holtby will rightly deserve a chance.

Maybe not - but he needs to do more than he did against Forest. I thought he was ineffective and kept trying to do too much and losing the ball.

I know - I was being facetious, although I think he describes himself as being half-English.

Really interesting interview...slightly dodgy accent but seems genuinely excited and looking forward to playing for us. Welcome Lewis! https://youtu.be/XaEGXbi1s7A

If your posts today are reflective of you having a good day at the bookies and enjoying a nice white (red does rule though) god help us all if you have a few losses and a dodgy bottle. ?

Underwhelmed is your resting state Mercer - until you've had a win at the bookies and a few glasses of good red of course.....

An ITK'er informs me he took this photo recently of the Recruitment Departments company vehicle out on a scouting mission....

Maybe so but, come on, he's hardly likely to state 'we need to get some defenders in to replace the current motley crew' is he?

Much more manly, I can almost smell the testosterone from here...

When you click on 'quote' at the bottom of someones post to reply it's the 4th option on the top, the S with the line through it Enjoy!.

Off the top of my head there's got to be a shout for 'It's Raining Men' by The Weather Girls for him: It's raining men Lenihan, hallelujah, it's raining men Lenihan, amen I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get Absolutely soaking wet It's raining men Lenihan, hallelujah It's raining men Lenihan... etc. etc. Might need to work on the bit about getting soaking wet - sounds a bit too homo-erotic for me....

Just like last pre-season eh when we gave Everton a proper bloody nose. That was extremely fraudulent...

It's quite refreshing to see people so enthused by the current crop of youngsters. Feels like we might be entering one of those periods when we have a glut of them making the breakthrough which can only be a good thing.

This isn't a normal business though - it's Venky's.....

Welcome back Chaddy.

Walton for Raya - okay I guess. He's certainly not a downgrade. Walton and a.n.other keeper - preferable. If we only get one keeper in then I definitely want to see a minimum of two decent defenders in to off-set this.

I think the whole thing says a lot more about Sparks Rover than the other fella. If I didn't know better I'd suggest it smacks of jealousy and petulance...

...and I think you're making it up about him making it up, there's just no detail at all. You know what they say about opinions and arseholes.

I'd see Walton as a sort of straight swap for Raya which means I'd still like an oldie with a couple more seasons in him so there's a genuine challenge for the No 1 position.

Although his name is a bit underwhelming I'm not sure that you can definitively say that given that two seasons ago they finished above us and conceded less goals?

Oh the irony - so what you're saying is you'd keep quiet for fear of rounding on yourself given that you were one of the worst culprits for winding him up. If Bbrovers2288 comes on here and offers titbits of info he's not going to give names just because you demand it and neither should he. Here's a novel idea - just be thankful and appreciate it gives us something to talk about on here.

Currently listening to these guys..I'm a sucker for Indie with hints of Joy Division...

Don't let a couple of the village idiots drive you away. I find your posts far more interesting than their pathetic attempts at winding you up.