Allegedly Jack was fairly annoyed that such a ramshackle thing was erected after he donated the steel for free.

That was entirely down to King imo. He stunk the place out in general then put a bit of effort in towards the end of his contract when he wanted to put himself in the shop window.

Bit like Hedges then?

It was more due to the fact that pre Eustace we were conceding around 3 goals per game with a player in the side who I kept reading was exceptionally good at sniffing out danger. I know it wasn't all his fault and also that a substantial proportion of those goals were due to Wahlstedt throwing the ball in the net. Nevertheless I didn't think anyone emerged with any credit last season apart from AW and SS. Let's see how we go on for the period Travis is missing.

Wasn't aware of that. Guess you have to go with the manager's call on that given how well he's done up to press. Allegedly QPR and a Greek Club were interested in Sigurdsson in the summer.

Our lot don't like doing any work.

Errr.......yes because he scored 27 goals and singlehandedly kept us up. I wouldn't say anyone else apart from Wharton came out of last season with any credit whatsoever personally.

Again a very well argued post but I really can't go with you on that last bit, I'd argue Hedges has never done anything of note in his entire career and it was fairly predictable he'd come here and carry on in exactly the same vein.

You surely wouldn't want to drop Travis? Player of the season by a mile so far for me. Striker who knows where the net is has to be my priority. Followed by another wide man. Then a CB if the budget allows. Agree on Sigurdsson/Buckley/Hedges. Shame about Buckley. His career has fallen off a cliff.

OK. Goal(s) plural pushing it a bit then. Eustace wouldn't appear to rate him.

Like what?

Do you think he was good last season when we nearly went down?

Well argued post. I'm not sure what everyone's obsession with my opinion on Tronstad is tbh. I've always acknowledged that whilst I don't really rate him everyone else does. Who could we replace Dolan with out of the existing squad and "not feel the hit"?

OK I'll grant you he was slightly better than Ennis, Telalovic, Brown, Reg Varney, Watt and Jackson. He's no where near as good as Leon Best prior to his injury. Hirst was terrible here but has done more since he left the Club than Gallagher ever has. Watt, Goodwillie and Samuel I couldn't really differentiate him from. It's not really fair to compare him to Vale who's a youngster who never got a run in the first team. Add Paul Mckinnon to the first list and you've just about covered it. I'd also put Grabbi in there - we were really scammed on that one. Which still makes Gallagher "one of" the worst strikers ever to pull the shirt on imo though. I know we'll never agree on it.

Let's hope he's better than O Riordan.

I was a massive fan of Nyambe but I didn't think he was that quick. Wasn't George Donis meant to be exceptionally quick when we signed him? Then when he got here I didn't notice that at all.

Good riposte. Don't really understand what enjoyment you derive out of a two way bun fight at best which in recent years has been exceptionally one sided though. Guess you'd have to be a fan of either Club to get it.

Always been "The Riverside" to me and always will be, no disrespect whatsoever intended to Jack or irrespective of whether a new stand is ever built.

Yes. Shearer before his first injury as well. Bellamy? Overall though Id say the exception rather than the rule and that's going back over 50 years. We've never had much pace throughout the side that I can recall.

I wouldn't hold your breath chaddy.

Neither are absolutely top drawer obviously or they wouldn't be playing here at the moment. The Tronstad we saw against Sunderland reflects my general view of him - him and Travis have looked a very good pairing this season but it's no coincidence we struggled last season and against Sunderland without Travis imo. Dolan blows a bit hot and cold but overall he works incredibly hard and I think he's quite decent. More goals and goal involvements than Cantwell who everyone seems to think is great. Why is there never any outside interest in Tronstad if he's as good as everyone thinks?

So does that mean you think he'll still be here next season then chaddy?

I can't remember a time when we've ever had much pace in the side. Lack of genuine pace seems to be a Club trademark.

What's your initial view on Gallagher Potterlog? My friend roversfan99 will always defend him to the hilt and he had a moderately successful initial loan period here in a season which saw us relegated but since returning on a permanent basis for a vastly inflated £5m fee I genuinely think he's been one of the worst strikers I've ever seen pull on the blue and white halves in 53 years of watching the Club. I'm old fashioned and judge a striker primarily on goals scored. For me a top striker should be willing to kill his gran to get on the score sheet. Gallagher in his 2nd spell looked like he never considered scoring goals as part of his job description and could never be bothered getting into positions from which he was likely to score. Neither for such a huge physical unit did he impose himself on the opposition and for someone 6ft 5in jumped 5 ft 7. Second touch was a tackle. Apart from that he was OK as George Best famously said about Beckham. (You're probably going to tell me you love him now!) Lol.

Thanks for the reply. I must admit after I posted I checked Walters' career stats and didn't realise he'd played so many games for you. What I meant was, he's not a former playing superstar in the Rooney/Lampard type bracket which makes it sort of understandable why they keep getting gigs irrespective of managerial ability. Ironically we're probably in the same sort of boat as we've drafted in a former player ourselves (Rudy Gestede) as DOF who as far as I'm aware doesn't seem to have any formal qualifications apart from shadowing our very unpopular CEO Steve Waggott around for a period. The decision was met with derision by most of our fan base but I actually thought our recruitment in the summer on an extremely frayed shoestring was infinitely better than under the previous recruitment regime. However that might have been down to the previous old school Chief Scout/Head of Recruitment John Park who has since left due to an apparent disagreement over the reliance on data led Recruitment going forward. I guess we'll find out (probably to our cost) in January.