RevidgeBlue

Is he a lone voice in the wilderness? Or fully in on the scam and part of the problem?

I dont actually believe that. BUTt if true we can clearly wave ta ra to anyone of any quality. And one poster on here has the gall to suggest it's rubbish we dont want to get relegated!

Look on the bright side mate......Good job the window doesn't finish today then! Lol.

Why do you automatically assume he is asking for more than he's worth? Not for the first time I strongly disagree with your post. Not all players are worth the same salary based on their contribution to the team and therefore their actual value to us.

Absolute nonsense. If you really want to keep Brittain you pay him what he wants and trim the wage bill elsewhere. What is Forshaw going to bring to the table for example? The square root of bugger all is the answer. Ditto Hedges. I wouldn't pay Cantwell in washers based on his performances last season yet he is allegedly our top earner by some margin. Terrible value on the face of it. Another example is Toth. Allegedly on an eye watering £10k p.w. considering he was on the bench nearly all last season. I'd rather keep Brittain, flog him and promote a young keeper Plenty of ways round it IF they really wanted to keep any of the 3 obvious suspects. Clearly, they don't - in fact Brittain's replacement has been brought in in advance of his departure. Sensible in one sense, but not if they aren't on the same level.

Goin' up goin' up goin' up............ Lol.

That's it in a nutshell. Never more obvious than with Dolan. And If we couldn't tie down Batth and Weimann on one year extensions then realistically we have no chance of tying down any younger players on longer deals.

Assuming this account is correct then I know technically no-one should ever refuse to play but in these somewhat unprecedented circumstances I can't blame anyone for doing anything they can to extricate themselves from this circus. The players all saw what happened to Eustace in February. He went into bat on their behalf with Waggott and Co and came away completely empty handed. This summer they and their agent have been waiting for a decent deal to be put in front of them, according to most accounts that hasnt been forthcoming - What exactly are they meant to do?

Going to be as hot as I can ever remember it for a game today boys and girls. Factor 50 on! I'm sure the hospitality off the pitch today will be somewhat better than the fare on it. Enjoy.

So you dont have a problem with JRC leaving the Club, who by and large didn't perform for us, but you do have a problem with Dolan leaving, who by and large did?

Marvellous. That's only going to end one way. Whilst it's the Club's fault we-re in this position to start with I think we're right to hold out for the maximum we can from the deal.

Why do have a problem with anyone "defending" Dolan? He hasnt done anything wrong.

Whilst what happened to Jota was desperately sad I do find the decision by Liverpool to retire his number 20 shirt to be a completely unnecessary and typically over the top modern day decision. I'm sure he was a decent enough player for them but he only played 120 odd times - he's hardly Ron Yeats or Kenny or Rush is he? If the Club had retired the number of every great former player who'd graced their shirt they'd have no numbers left to give out. It would have been far more of a tribute to him to retain the number so that those who wore it in future were playing in his memory and for the number to become synonymous with him like the no. 7 shirt is with Keegan and Dalglish.

But has ketchup been taken off the menu?

I don't take offence at what you call Eustace per se, but why would you take any offence in the first place about him coming in for our better players if we're not willing to tie them down?

Have to say when we signed/were linked with a glut of midfielders and a RB I assumed they were just cheaper replacements for Travis/Tronstad and Brittain despite some posters bragging about how much money we'd allegedly spent. I'm seeing nothing so far to change my mind.

You couldn't possibly be further away from aiming your ire at the right targets.

What on earth are you on about? Eustace wanted to tie those players down here!

If we think this is the player for us, it's up to us to get the deal over the line.

Yep. Jackson has seemingly jumped the gun and may have alerted other interested parties in the process. Only one party to blame if it doesn't go through though, the Club for not being willing to pay the going rate.

There's no guarantee anyone wouldn't make a complete horlicks of running the Club, whether they be fans or not.

Absolute rubbish. There were no Governance issues whatsoever attached to Jack's ownership or indeed that of his family whilst they owned us, just that the family didn't want to be lumbered with us so funding dried up which was not idea,l but entirely their prerogative, and they then ended up selling with hindsight to the wrong people. But at the time they sold, given Venky's massive wealth it probably looked a relatively safe bet. To flip it on it's head, if Jack had never owned us, we'd probably have remained in the hands of well meaning but in relative terms skint local businessmen, we'd probably have never had any success to speak of, and there's no guarantee that said local businessmen wouldn't have made a complete horlicks of running us either.

How to spunk it all away in 4-5 years!

It's not silly at all. It's a fact we've lost 14 goals out of the squad. One or two of the players above might theoretically catch fire in the manner you describe above but it's a lot more probable they won't and will perform in a similar manner to what they've done in the past. If I buy a ticket for Euromillions tomorrow night I might win it as well.

If I'm not mistaken that starting X1 you picked scored a grand total of 20 League goals last season and that's being slightly generous by including Kargbo's 3 in Serie B. If that's a balanced X1 I'd hate to see an unbalanced one.