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?? that would make a superb window. A forward who clicks and I think we will have a real shot this season.

Yeah, I think Bonne did well at Orient previously too. I thought Marcus Forss might have been a goer, largely due to him being with HSH. Did well at Wimbledon last year, but looks like he’s in and around the Brentford team now with their front line being picked apart. A premier league loan wouldn’t surprise me... can’t really name any names as I’m well out of the loop with the Prem. I wouldn’t be averse to a move for Joe Garner, but doesn’t fit the model at all.

I know Mowbray has said he is prioritising another keeper, a left back and a central midfielder, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a late move for another forward. We are in need of one, and this is an area Venky’s historically don’t mind funding. Just a hunch, but I could see Mowbray making a case to them, but only once all his other business is done, and them coughing up. Their is often talk of this, but if he were to do it before addressing the other positions I think he’d be told you’ve had your lot. Could be some clever manoeuvring by him, but it’s to be hoped any signing is a big improvement on the previous wastes of money.

What an option to have to bring on for the last 10 minutes! If you’re holding a lead, give it him in the corner. If you’re chasing you pray for a set piece... I don’t know whether it’s due to the size of him but the ball seems to go towards him like he has his own gravitational pull!!

I wouldn’t play Ayala yet, although I’d have him in the bench in case they bring Akinfenwa on. He would bully any of our back 4. Travis missing is a worry. I’d use Dolan off the bench for now, same with Rothwell. If Gallagher is fit, start him. We need a focal point to the attack. Kaminski Nyambe Lenihan Williams Bell Buckley Evans Holtby JRC Gallagher Armstrong

Well happy with this!

I think the fee protects him. If he’d come through the ranks he’d likely be at Barrow. He was dire first half today. Second half he appeared more interested and improved dramatically. He showed attributes that suggest he may be able to play as a wide forward, but aside from the fact we have better players in those positions, he did as many woefully poor, bordering on comical things as he did good things.

Brereton actually did quite well in the build up here to get the ball out to Bell. Instead of busting a gut to get into the box he is actually running BACKWARDS here. Away from goal. A joke of a first half, looked more interested in the second with some surging runs, but never a centre forward in a million years. Absolutely horrific in the air too.

Agree 100%. For all the grief Bell gets, he's far more competent than Brereton.

If Warwick Davis played centre half for Newcastle he'd beat Brereton in the air

Think I saw October 2nd as a deadline

I don’t like all these hypothetical Wigan, Bolton and Bury comparisons on the subject of buying/not buying tickets. There’s an inference that they find themselves in their current plights due to their supporters. The reason they are in a mess is down to rank bad ownership, whether it be incompetent, self serving, corrupt or a combination of all the above. If we end up in administration, or worse, it will be for these exact same reasons, not through the fault of the fans.

Absolutely spot on. He’s taken every opportunity to tell us how hard Venky’s have been hit by Covid, how they “aren’t immune” and how wonderful they are for using the government furlough scheme and not just outright binning off staff. This is a man who claims one of his key skills and traits is being empathetic. A price hike for a club in an already economically deprived area, that has been hit harder by Covid than anywhere else in the country shows he is deluded. This offering is so poor, he may as well have just launched a go fund me page. His thinly veiled emotional blackmail and divisive tactics would be more suited to this.

I can see very little incentive for any households with more than one season ticket holder to buy.

I’ll be amazed if Bennett doesn’t start.

At no stage during Venky’s ownership has our defence been solid. Runs deeper than the manager.

Time to roll this out again... just a reminder the defence has been neglected for a long time.

We’re going to ship loads of goals as long as that is our defence. It’s not just Bell either. Lenihan needs someone better than him alongside him, ideally someone who can communicate and organise. I’d be worried about a bid coming in for Nyambe. He’s looking better all the time, we’ve let his contract run down, and I just have the feeling we would accept peanuts for him. Midfield lacked a bit of mobility, didn’t offer enough protection to the fragile back 4. I’d loan out Brereton and bring in a physical centre forward. No confidence in him bettering his one a season record. Despite all that we deserved a point out of that game. Rothwell and Dolan both had a big impact. Maybe coming off the bench is the best way to use them for now. Like the look of Kaminski, assured is the word. Frustrating as it’s fine margins... couple or three shrewd signings and we could do something.

He went to school at St Wilfreds. Definitely lived (May still do) in Blackburn. Played in United Youth teams from a very young age.

It must be really gutting for you that Raya may be off to Arsenal. Despite the fact it would net us a bit of much needed cash that might be spent on desperately needed transfers, you seem to be really unhappy. Obviously this is because it would prove to be a massive dropped bollock by Mowbray and the club, and rather than acknowledge that you would rather dig out Raya. It’s as transparent as it is weird

I predict about as much success as his half baked £10,000 giveaway brainwave

Our corporate uptake has been pathetic for years, and it’s obviously only going to get worse with the Covid situation. I can’t see that anyone other than committed, frequent, hardcore supporters are going to want to set foot in the ground for the foreseeable... and this approach threatens to piss a large section of them off for absolutely no reason.

“We have told the owners that we have to be engaging with other players as well to get them on longer-term contracts if we can, and if they will sign, so we can retain the assets so that if any clubs come in for our assets, and there’s been talk about some about some of our players which is good, but we have to protect them so if they do have to go, we get the right terms for them.” This worries me. I can see another “He will be signing any day now” scenario.

I found a big box full of old 90 minutes magazines a few years back when my parents were moving. Gave me a reminder of how good a magazine that was. I suppose us being a top team and heavily featured helped!

We will likely still get a left back and a centre back before the window closes. One or both will be on loan. It was somewhat inevitable we wouldn’t get them in for the kick off. The pattern of the last decade is enough to tell us that.