Missing out on him at top end wages is a bullet dodged imo.

Oh god no !

So was the other fella we lost out to them on but i don't think hes done much since he signed there. Thing is clubs in that position can play around with signings like this, if they've given him 15k pwk like he was probably on it's still cheap to them. It doesn't automatically stamp him as a good player. He's just filling out the squad to them. I'm more concerned yet again that we we've only been linked with him given the money he was on. Indicates yet again that TMs crew will pay big wages if it's a guy he knows and likes personally. Yet there isn't money for what we really really need.

Reach suddenly turns into a top player, BRFCS stylee 😉

If we were chucking 10k pwk to each of Douglas, Trybull etc it's still hard to argue it's good business.

Can tell you're a DJ mate it took me 5 mins to think of one ref to Wham. You've dropped 3 in at once 🤣

My thoughts on it are there's a contract on the table for reach. He's ex Boro so it'll be a good one and they'll be waiting as usual for him to decide. It'll be set to suck up the majority of wages that have been allowed to be spent from those released. Then it's a case of if he accepts then the few peanuts left will go to something very cheap. If he declines there's a few more shirt buttons to put towards a few better loans. A revolutionary way to do business but as we know a good wage always seems available to anybody whose dots join the right way.

Our Young Guns will be having some fun this season though.

I'll cut him some slack where the Dack situation is concerned as that sale would've covered his big fees spent. However i doubt the team would be in any different position and we'd still be playing crab football. Any room that might have created with FFP would probably just have meant him retaining Evans, Bell, Bennett etc. That's how he works, he's no youth revolutionary we just have no other options now really.

It's simple really and iv'e banged on about it all along, he won't get anything because hes already spent it. There's a 12 million quid shaped hole on the books in the last cycle of FFP. Only way that could ever be plugged was promotion or sales or owner input. Because of what we spend on wages the last bit can't cover it. So here we are largely courtesy of this mangers slow build policy. Which included spending big on two forwards and gambling on higher wage short term contracts on for Downing, Holtby, Johnson etc. Alongside costly loans and keep the likes of Evans, Smallwood, Mulgrew, Bennett etc on deals they didn't warrant. Some journey.

If Pickering turns out to be steady Eddie, who can actually defend, instead of flying wing back who can neither defend nor create i'll take that all day long. Just hope the manager lets him play to his strengths instead of trying to make him into something he isn't.

Moving the posts yet again. He's signed a player who is no longer up to the cut and thrust week in week out and now he's covering his arse again. I wouldn't care if Ayala looked head and shoulders above anyone else when hes played since signing. He never has but now we'll see him thrust in and out to preserve fitness and justify his contract. This is bang on typical Mowbray and it boils my blood, i hope they both prove me wrong.

Pickering is stepping up a level anyway but last night it was two. I wouldn't expect anything spectacular from him in league games either to start with. They've tried various things at LB and the only one who looked any good was Cunningham. Even then we didn't see enough of him to cast a proper opinion, iv'e come to the conclusion it's a red herring position in this league. As for Bell he was a league 1'er as well but he came in league 1 and had chance to grow with the team. He never remotely looked any different from start to finish but i hope he does ok at Luton. Chances are though like most who leave here he'll be back at his natural level before long.

I agree on the stooges but you need to move on from the snowball. I'll stand corrected but i'm pretty certain they've been a few times when GB was manager. We had the pleasure of their company for 65 mins a few times before they upped and left. When it comes to the relationship with fans they've rarely if ever done anything to help that. Maybe they should make the first move.

So would i but like you say not lead by the inmates who've blown the backing they've had thats pushed us into having no other option. A vibrant hard headed manager will lead to a team in a similar vein given a fair wind. Blend that with a handy bit of backing when it's available and then build over 2 or 3 years. A dullard trying to look after his mates and just putting his finger in the dyke to sustain midtable football will blow up in the faces again at some point. Then there'll be another mess to clean up.

No i think he'll be looking to get another contract here claiming a new phase of 'the journey' has just begun. Sitting in the mid/lower mid of the championship rotating young players, using big club loans and getting a pat on the back. And bringing in more mates on the staff and squad will suit him just fine. The pressure free expectationless enviroment he craves, along with being talked of as a revolutionary youth based manager with a footballing philosophy.

He was trying to build but hes cocked it up as last season showed. His barbed comments about needing 100 million covering the fact he's blown a fortune in the last 3 seasons but spun it onto that. Now due to the continuing gullibility of these owners he's managed to rip up the posts and move them yet again. He'll be hiding behind cost cutting this season without the least hint of irony he's a massive contributor to landing us in that position. Teflon Tony.

If you don't know you're as clueless as i expected. To think after all these years it's still down to a snowball is deluded. Stop sipping from that stream on Jenny Lane.

We often do it at the beginning of the season for a few games before he reels them in again. Then he can sit down on the bench and count the sideways passes.

Plenty of positives to take from that in regards to the youth. Wait till the rough and tumble of the championship starts though, totally different kettle of fish. Good effort tonight though.

I see Leeds 7.5k plus opening the Riverside didn't materialize then ! Poor swaggo.

4000

Penny might drop at some point that Leeds are only famous in their own back yard these days.

As far as his replacement goes the name Sheron keeps sticking in my mind.

My god where did you dream that up from ? It's pure fantasy apart from the last bit although for all we know the 3 stooges are just exactly that. Whilst someone plays real life football manager from India with never any intention of being over here. The same guy who in the last decade has been a regular fixture in London but rarely found his way to his own football club.