Whitesince63

Yay, welcome back pal it finally worked and many thanks to Casino and his never give up attitude. Let’s hope you don’t get targeted for past demeanours like a certain other Nuts member who shall remain nameless! 🤪 Didn’t realise you’d been poorly so hope you’re now on the mend.

Becks free kick in the WC qualifying against Greece.

Obviously Frankie’s goal against Ipswich stands out above every other. SJM’s final goal at Burnden Mixu’s brilliant strike against Swindon in the League Cup semi final Not interested in goals for others.

Can’t see Barnsley holding on to Reyes Cleary either and possibly Luca could also be on the move. They’ve certainly depleted their firepower over the last two windows with DKD going in January and now McGoldrick and Philips leaving. Tykes fans are not happy bunnies.

I’d give up trying if I were you 51 because sluffy’s never wrong, won’t even meet you half way and he’ll drive you mad if you let him. My thoughts too on Mason, good L1 player but I just think we need to look for quality rather than quantity. I’d much rather have four or five top quality players than eight or ten average ones. Proven Championship or older PL players for the key positions who can adapt immediately plus a couple of quality young loan players. We’d spend the same amount of money but for me get more bang for our buck. Whatever we do it’s going to cost money but as we saw last season just the likes of ACD, CBT, Ruben and Kenny made all the difference to the squad with that bit of extra quality.

To be fair a lot of players surprise you and adapt. Playing with and against better players brings out the best in you so I’d expect more of the players to surprise on the upside. Out of that I’d expect Forino, Conway, Sheehan, Erhahon, Rodrigues and Dalby to be potential starters and I know this is going to be controversial but I’d also include Jack Bonham who I think has been somewhat unfairly criticised. for a keeper a lot depends on what you have in front of you and frankly with Tutu, Toal, Johnston and Conway mostly there he probably wasn’t defended as well as he could have been from aerial balls. With a bigger, stronger defence in front of him I think he’ll be a good fit. I agree there’s going to be another 6-8 to come in, possibly more as others move on but I still believe that a nucleus of the current squad can adapt to the higher level.

I suppose that depends on who else we sign and how they do in pre season. As it stands I’d say nobody is a nailed on starter at the moment other than perhaps Dalby and Forino.

I see that and I think you’re probably right but what responsibility then does Fergal take if the players he champions don’t perform? We know what happens to the manager/coach.

Well let’s hope if it is true that Luca doesn’t find out because that would be a real confidence shaker if your manager isn’t 100% on you? I understood that no player would come in if either Fergal or Schuey had any doubts so hopefully that is the case and only players both agree on are signed.

Shouldn’t we just be signing players for specific positions instead of Jacks of all trades? We need two proper full backs what’s so difficult about that? I’m sure players themselves would prefer to play a settled position rather than being swopped and changed all the time. Let’s just keep it simple.

Well according to local news there has been interest from a Championship club for Sam so it may or may not be us plus from some top sides in L1. He most certainly won’t still be at Rotherham come August but wherever he goes he’s still a good player if he can keep fit and at 27 a good buy for someone.

No question he was in a shit team last season but to be fair he was injured for a good part of it. I don’t have a bias towards South Yorks teams but living here and watching them more frequently than most it could I suppose be seen that way. I think you’re wrong about Nombe and the Championship because that’s where I believe he’ll be next season either with us or elsewhere because he certainly won’t be at the New York.

Maybe not but I don’t think Hardie featured much for Huddersfield after his move, injury accepted and certainly didn’t perform as Kenny did once he was fit and playing regularly. They’re both debatable points I accept but as of where we are now I’d certainly take Kenny over Hardie for next season. We may have neither of course in which case the subjects defunct. 🤷‍♂️

That’s just boring Lusty. Scanning the news and trying to work out who might be coming is half the fun and anyway you had the last laugh with Kenny when the majority dismissed him and wanted Hardie. We dodged a bullet there didn’t we but Nombe may still be on the table?

Me too and even better if we can go on to get promoted again the expectation of the likes of Bournemouth, Fulham and Brentford. 😁