RevidgeBlue

My sympathies. As a lay person I still maintain that if he didn't have any underlying problem when he came, everyone was screened for potential issues before the start of pre season and they're warming up properly, no-one should be breaking down as early as day 2 or 3. I assume they're not being flogged to death at that point or shouldn't be.

Nah. He's in the right place where he is -as he's proving.

Yep, bit like us she made a bit of a spurt for the line, (won a number of games on the bounce) when it was far too late!

Yes but if we know the selling Club are after double what we're offering for players, then we've little or no chance of succeeding we're just tyre kicking.

I couldn't care less about it being Derby. Shame it wasn't against Preston. That would have made it a bit more of an occasion.

Shouldn't all the testing/complex pre season programme prevent the possibility of all that? Never remember it happening when they just sent them off to run up and down sand dunes.

Ooh goody - another race. I think we all know what that means.

How does that happen on day 3 of pre season though? I mean seriously.

Ah OK-thanks. Without checking I would say it's very much the norm to get one home game on the 26th/27th or 29th/30th though.

The first 4 fixtures look pretty rough to me. Don't fancy us against WBA/Birmingham/Norwich. Hull, it depends how well they take to their new manager I suppose. Edit: Dire fixtures over Christmas. Middlesbrough and Sheff Wed away. Have to wait until Jan 1st for a home game. I'm not sure if I can ever remember that happening before.

I'm aware of all that. However notwithstanding the advent of sports science etc I wouldn't say our record in recent years of keeping players fit is particularly good. Not sure what the perception is elsewhere or in general. Better get a few more in if they're going to be dropping like flies before we've played a competitive game..

Yet players seem to get injured far more now than back in " the good old days". Can you imagine the top teams playing 60 or 70 games with a squad of 15 players now like they did in the 70's and 80's? Lol.

All that fancy testing by the army of physios on day 1 did the trick then. We're doing well with the fitness record of new signings, Kargbo, this fella.

If you're going to be so contrary in your desperation to defend everything the Club does it's maybe worth pointing out that Batth and Weimann are wanted by at least 2 Clubs, (Derby and us) We've just signed a player only in demand by one Club, us, in Forshaw. Didn't see you scoffing when Forshaw re-signed. You've been effectively endorsing the signing by reproducing previous comments VI made about him. Edit: See Tomphil and Mercer beat me to it.

I think you'll find that's been earmarked for essential running costs. (Apart from transfers)

Yep. Jilted lover stuff.

To paraphrase Paul on Nyambe however, Mum and daughter are probably the best judges of footballing ability in their house. 🙂

I always thought Waggott ran it as though the intention was to run the Club steadily into the ground until there was virtually nothing left.

Generally, £1m doesnt get you much these days. I'd be surprised if Kargbo who we spent roughly that on turns out to be as good as Dolan.

100%. Ditto Lowe, Bennett, Hedges, Gallagher etc etc.

You've pretty much nailed it there. Yes, they shouldn't have got themselves in the position they have with the Indian Authorities in the first place, but they have the wherewithal to work round it and SHOULD have the willingness to do so as well.

Saw some comments on Redditt from Sunderland fans who were basically saying that they hated Bain with a passion and they felt the documentaries were framed in such a way as to shift blame away from him and on to Ellis Short. Didn't realise he'd been at Rangers during an infamous period as well. Extremely worrying.

Look like we've got more fitness staff than players.

Apologies if it came across as a pop at you, it wasn't you who was being objectionable about it.

So basically you're admitting that ( notwithstanding his faults) he is/was still one of our better players? I have to say that people complaining about Dolan when we've got Hedges on the other side is one of the most bizarre things I've seen in my time watching football.