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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

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  1. Scunthorpe away for me, only up the road from my Mum and Dad's and it's a ground I have not been to yet. My prediction is Blackburn at home or Citeh away
  2. 3-2 win, another late Cahill winner, Klasnic and Elmander with the others.
  3. Be interesting to see the figures for now rather than from over 12 months ago, I would have expected the wage bill to be down, as well as the cuts on the playing side I would think we have a smaller backroom staff than BSA built up. According to the stats, out attendances were up last season, maybe due to giving larger away allocations, but still the figures were higher. The lack of cup games last season may have had an impact but then how much do we really make from a Cup tie which only attracts 8000 people. A debt of around ?50 million is probably a lot less than most, but there are a few saleable assets on the playing staff, and obviously the hotel has a market value, so our finances aren't as bad as some. But if we did go down, I think it may be a while before we returned. This I guess is why finishing outside the bottom 3 is our aim at the beginning of each season. Playing attractive football comes a distant second. On this basis the positions that Megson has recruited for does make sense. This aim is rapidly becoming the aim for more than half the clubs in the Premier League. We copuld have stuck with Sammy Lee and tried to play more open entertaining football, but we would now be watching an attempt at entertaining football against the likes of Scunthorpe, Doncaster and Blackpool.
  4. I thought McCann had a good game, but don't think we need him and Muamba I think the defence is starting to get a greater understanding which will hopefully make it look a bit more solid. The only change I would make to last nights starting 11 would be Cohen for McCann. I don't think Gardner or Lee are ready to play 90 minutes yet. Lee would be effective to bring on as their defence tires.
  5. I think Heitinga's wages may have been an issue. I think with regard to generating money by selling, Megson was in a catch 22 situation, he wouldn't offload anyone without signing a replacement but the board wouldn't sanction any more players on the wage bill, so he had to sell first and then hope to be able to bring someone in to replace them, if we didn't then he would be working on a smaller squad than what he sees as the minimum size. Otherwise I think Sh!ttu and McCann would have gone to Portsmouth. *which is the only one that counts
  6. I don't think any of the new signings have been helped by the fact that 3 of the back 4 are new. Normally if you bring one player in, then the rest of the defence are used to playing alongside each other and they just have to work on integrating one player into the new system. I just think that it will take time for them all to get used to each other, personally I would only have brought Knight in, though if Steinsson was injured then I suppose it would have to have been two of them. If Knight is as good as an in form AOB then he is by definition an improvement as I don't think we have seen the best of Knight yet, I do feel that he will form a good partnership with Cahill. I wasn't too disappointed with the signing of Robinson as cover for Jlloyd but not as a replacement, hopefully Jlloyd will keep his place for the next few games. Still not decided on Ricketts, I feel that he is a similar player to Steinsson and with a few more games as part of the new unit we will probably see this.
  7. I felt that we played reasonably well for an hour on Saturday, bit worried how the heads drop once we go one down, however, we do need someone to start putting the chances away, no reason why Taylor and Davies can't repeat last years record, so if we can get someone in to also hit double figures I think we will be just above the drop zone. I don't completely agree that the summer signings haven't improved the team, as I feel that Knight is a clear improvement, Davis is a decent addition and Lee looks promising, it will take time to settle in and get used to the Premier League but aside from the first few minutes against Sunderland he hasn't looked too out of place. Hopefully he gets at least half an hour tonight.
  8. Last nights team was pretty much our third choice team, though I can't understand why some of the players that are on the bench tonight didn't get a run out last night, even more so the like of Hunt, Basham, Shittu who aren't even on the bench. They say that when a player has been out for a while they need a few games to get back the match fitness back, but then the players not appearing in the first team week in week out aren't getting any match practice. That said there are a couple of promising players who played last night, one of whom was on the bench for the full Australia squad last week. He is more likely to play for Australia before he plays for us.
  9. We need to go and attack early on after their result tonight, doubt we will though, wouldn't be suprised to see Samuel replacing McCann, whoever comes in will be more defence minded than attack.
  10. Lee - Will take time, but we will have to learn to give him the ball and then get enough players forward to support him. Knight - I just hope it is just a case of taking a couple of games to get used to playing with Cahill Robinson - Did Ok but think Samuel is a better option Ricketts - Confidence seemed to drop as the the game wore on. Davis - Could have been the hero, but other than that didn't really impress that much, but then no outfield player did Completely agree about not learning about throwing in so many new players, at the end 6 of the outfield 10 were making their debut, Knight should have been the only one of the new ones that started. It's only one game, so wouldn't change too much next week, probably just the one, replace McCann as he is not a wide midfield player.
  11. It's Stuart Pearce's influence, I expect he wants as many of his U21 squad to be challenging as possible. Pearce did rave about him during the U21 championship and I assume Capello has at least seen the videos. If Capello wants a more specialist defensive midfielder then if Muamba has a good season then he could well make the squad next summer.
  12. Megson doesn't consider Hunt as part of his squad so if we offload him I don't think it makes much difference to the size of the squad.
  13. Was expected to retire from football, but seems to have changed his mind. I think we are only being linked due to an error in one of the main papers saying Allardyce was trying to bring him to Bolton.
  14. Wasn't he one of the players that went to Gartside and asked for Lee to be sacked? The other two (Speed and Nolan) have now gone as well. Apparently he didn't mix with the rest of the Birmingham squad when he was on loan, maybe he felt championship football was beneath him
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