paulhanley

Of last season's loanees I think ACD and Kenny are the two the club would love back. Less of a clear-cut case with the rest. Clearly trying to judge whether a player will be Championship standard is key but weighing them up against what else is available and within our financial scope is also a very big deal, and none of us have the complete picture. All quiet on further outgoings thus far but I imagine McAtee, Randall and Taylor are those likeliest to depart. With Johnston having gone to Luton and Dempsey seemingly Bradford bound I wonder which of Evatt's ex BWFC contingent will end up at Gloomfield.

Mixed feelings on this one. I was callng for solid Championship experience and this lad has it in bundles. The fact he made little impression in a relegated Oxford side last season is something of a concern. His recent nomadic existence is also a wee bit of a cause for concern . Still, as others have said, if Rangers and Liverpool signed him there was clearly something ticking boxes with the lad. Let's hope it is still there. I do have a feeling Davies is a Richard Taylor rather than a George Johnston replacement. We need a lot of new defenders. We obviously released Johnston and Tutu but also sold and never replaced Forrester and Dacres Cogley in Janury. We went in to that play off final with five fit defenders. To be frank we skimped on the defence in the last half of the season and were lucky not to have a bad run of injuries in that department. Time to end the neglect re the defence. We need quality and depth.

This was the equivalent week last year when we signed three players in just a few days - think it was Dalby, Simons and Taylor. Don't think either of the last two were in the gossip columns. Fingers crossed for more of the same in June 2026

How can Blackburn be in for Stephenson? They have no manager and as far as I am aware have not been paying that kind of dosh for players for a while. Sounds like agents or Liverpool playing games as negotiations continue.

Looks smart

No new signing today? Come on Harkin, you are slacking 🙂

Highs. 1. Wembley 2. The double over the pie-shaggers 3. The late shows v Huddersfield home and away; Wycombe at home and Cardiff at home. Lows 1. Port Vale (a) 2. Only drawing twice with Blackpool when we should have won the pair of them, especially the away fixture. 3. That run of drab winless games after Boxing Day up to the win in pie-land in mid Jan.

I am not that bothered by Stockport but we really have got revenge and more for that dreadful FA Cup saga just after the pandemic and the consecutive league wins they had v us once they reached League One. Their fans had got a bit cocky.

Great number of first team appearances at that age so not hugely inexperienced. Seem we got him much cheaper than would have been the case in January. Fergal H reckoned "four or five before the players return for pre-season". Stephenson may well be the second of those. I see we have gone through 16000 season tickets too now. Uplifting times to be a white.

It looked mightily impressive. Something that will certainly live with me forever.

It has to be a big blow for Lincoln that. It'll rock the boat enough for one or two or more of their players to leave and far from impossible Skubala will be one of those signing them.

I will be the first person of the summer to say it: "Azzit been done yet?"

Nlundulu to Bloomfield Road. Please let it happen.

The Blackpool scrapping around after our cast-offs. The natural order is returning Bolton's Cast Offs? | AVFTT George Johnston | AVFTT

I can remember when we elevated ourselves above Wigan when Bruce won his first promotion in 1993. It was another 12 years before we had to play them after peg-leg got them to the Prem. It was those Prem years that gave them all these high-brow notions. I just wish Evatt had not been such an insufferably numb cunt. Had he shown an ounce of SS's tactical flexibility and nous we may never have suffered that hapless run of results against them. Anyway - its water under the bridge and we went a good way to setting the record straight before wishing them toodle-pip. The legacy of the 2019-2026 era is that as a club and fanbase we will never again under-estimate the depth of their petty obsession with us. If we have the misfortune to draw them in a cup game or in the (hopefully distant) future end up in the same league, we should establish our superiority over them from the word go. Let them fester like a dog turd in the sun.