Happy to see BB behind a front two for sure. You're right about Holtby and Rothwell. Holtby playing as a false 9 did not make for good viewing - Mowbrays fault more than his own but I am yet to see Holtby make a position his own which is frustrating because I think he could/should have.

Maybe he plans on using BB or SG in their 'natural' position? They have to do better playing up top, they're not going to score any goals playing out of position, we have proof of that. If he puts them up top and they don't get us the goals then hopefully it's Mowbray who is in the firing line. He has to put his neck on the line here! On the other hand, Armstrong up top will provide us with the goals. Graham didn't particularly offer us goals last season but his presence and hold up play will be missed. SG HAS to step in to that role.

I’d personally rather have BB over SG in the side.

Just logged on. Are we signing David Batty?

I see where tomphil is coming from to some extent. He looks like a solid addition on paper but I know that our goalkeeping coaching isn’t very good. I hope that doesn’t hinder him like it has done so with others in recent times!

Does this mean I’m famous now?

Be interested to see who this is! I hope the rumour of Kipre from Wigan is true is true as well but I can’t see it.

This is what’s frustrating me at the moment. I really want to see JRC play in the front 3 for a few games but he’s being shoehorned into the LB position because we don’t have anyone else of any quality to play there! Hope we get someone in so he can play further up.

I think this may have something to do with him not being our first choice signing at CB. I presume we have other options so aren’t going all in on Lindsay? I hope that’s what it is anyway

I think it's ridiculous to think that Totally Wicked increasing their sponsorship has impacted our transfer budget. I think if you didn't write that earlier on in the thread you wouldn't have to stick to your guns and you'd see it as a load of tosh as well. In terms of Platt. We received £25k for him, that'll pay for a few weeks wages then.

Difficult first couple of months. We could be in serious trouble early doors here if we don't get some quality signings in.

Funny you say that. Looks like Mowbray is ignoring him too.

Don't get our hopes up! I'm still not 100% sure anybody outside the club knows exactly what's going on. Some people speculating that we do have a budget and some people speculating that we don't. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Goode off to Brentford. Probably use that money to come in for Wharton I would imagine.

I'd tell Downing to do one at this point though. He's missing out on valuable pre-season work at the moment. Well, this is it. I would hope we would get someone decent on a long contract but as we all know, that is unlikely to happen. I was just saying I would rather this than an ageing Marshall. I don't know that but I can make an assumption that Venkys won't pay out for an ageing goalkeeper. That's just my opinion based on the lack of money invested in that position in recent times

Don't get me wrong, I am not suggesting he isn't a good goalkeeper because he is. But, unlike derby we don't have 12k a week to be spending on an ageing keeper when I think we could get someone like Phillips for the same if not less. I am also not naive enough to believe we will spend 800K on Phillips either. But if we can get someone in who does have experience but isn't 35, then i'd be happier with that. Who that is, I am not sure but I am not too upset it's not Marshall. There HAS to be better out there

Maybe it's not that we couldn't afford 12k wages but instead we just weren't interested? We don't have to want every goalkeeper that's available. No matter how good Marshall may be, he's not the solution to an ongoing issue at GK that we have had for a while now. We need someone younger than him that we can keep for longer than a season in my opinion

Do they all need TWO keepers?

Yeah, it's really worrying. People will say give it time/nobody is making signings etc BUT we don't have that, we should be acting quicker than everyone else. We're in a bigger mess than everyone else.

Potentially not but he does have a couple of international caps and he's young enough that we could potentially sell him on for profit. So, fit's the Venky's model in every way except he doesn't play in midfield or attack. However, it does say on Wikipedia that he has 4 goals in 2 apps for Australia so maybe Tony is going to play him out wide?

Which one? John or Harry?

Right, assuming there is a little bit of money to spend and with the wages freed up from the players we have let go. What would people's realistic starting line up look like next year? Obviously this is hypothetical as we have zero money and we will leave any transfers (if any) until the last moment..

Have we signed anyone yet? I'd imagine we're just looking at free transfers at this point so Ryan Shotton or James Chester anyone?

Loan or permanently?

I’m just flabbergasted. Don’t know what to do with myself