Eddie

I’m not surprised with that name

This is the one for me. Players always seem quicker and the pace of play seems much faster

Modric on the way!

Exactly that. Forced to. The bollocks of PSR - they got forest’s 3rd keeper for £15m+ to offset so it worked financially for both sides. He’s a proper player though, regardless.

FFS

Agreed, there would be ways to soften the blow. But then let’s say we go straight back down, you’re locked into another £3.75m of future payments with £12m less revenue. Whichever way you look at it, to make big (enough) you’ve got to be spending big (relatively) in the first place, unless you can rely on an academy system to produce them instead - which is why Conway will be given a good shot at it next season because if he can prove himself to some degree at the Championship level then we’ve potentially developed our own c.£5m asset. Anyway, straying into the finance side but it was just to highlight that the gambles on player signings have (possibly obviously) just stepped up a notch!

I agree with the view that loan, we have a chance, buy we don’t. Just using it as an example though, it’s where the world of second tier football becomes a massive gamble. We won’t break even without profit on players and frankly, £1m here and there won’t do it either. Say Brighton would sell for £5-6m with a nice sell on clause - I don’t think we have the capital backing to stump it up at this point, but if we did and the shareholders saw the opportunity, do you find the £5m on the gamble that he has a wonder season either this year or next in the championship and suddenly you can sell for £10-15m? He’s the kind of player that could have that season, he’s the kind of player that would catch the attention, but then again he could have another season like he did at Rovers and there goes your £5m. Glad it’s not me making those decisions (again, I don’t think we’re in a place at the mo to be making such big ones but maybe at the £2-3m mark we are).

I presumed he’d be about 36, turns out he’s only 33.

Simons smashing that goal in in the 2nd leg. I haven’t celebrated like that for a long long time.

I noticed every bugger in Bradford had one on when we went up there. Boiling hot and the majority of their fans had scarves round them.

You were dying to get that out, weren’t you? 😂 About a 1% relevance to TMGJ’s post and you were on it in a flash.

He got a mention from us over the play off final weekend (because Baines and some of the coaching staff jogged past). Apparently very keen to keep playing - doubt he’ll look to move from the North West and he isn’t moving to another prem club. Pretty well known to be the best of the best in terms of squad presence / behind the scenes stuff. If his legs are still there then I’d have him in, although you wouldn’t be doing it if Christie is genuinely sticking around as our second right back, it’d be like Dad’s army down that side.

I’d need to buy a white coat. It needs to be about 40 degrees outside for me to just wear a t-shirt in the west upper - it’s at least 25 degrees lower than outside up there!

Any transfer news?

If that’s right (no reason to doubt you) then fair enough. Clearly wants to be closer to home and who knows it might have been a better offer. He will have known it right through the play offs and still was up there for 3 motm awards - he ended up playing left back in the final and still looked decent. Well done to him and he’ll get a warm reception from me when we play them this season.