Branston Pickle

If you’re going to be like that, hadn’t you better wait until May?! We’re going along ok, but are all well aware that it is a long season. A lot can happen, but part of it all is dreaming about what might be if things go well.

Tuanzebe appears to be going for the prize of most random injury - out for a month due to a washing up incident…

Wot, no George Long?

Dale Gordon and Mark Barham weren’t at all shabby

Tbh travel to games for the players isn’t as bad as it used to be, what with flying here and there - but stopping away during Stoke/PNE might make sense. It is us supporters who are most shafted by lengthy trips, particularly midweek.

That’s kind-of the point. He openly said we were going to go for quality and we did the opposite, maybe things would have worked out better if he’d kept to it:

The run of fixtures is correct, if with dodgy dates - 4 out of 5 games are away - but it’s followed by 3 out of 4 at home. At the moment we’ve played 9 (5 home and 4 away), after Sheff Wed it’s 14 (6 home 8 away), then after 18 it’s back with 9 and 9. It does feel a bit odd that we are having quite so many runs of 2 home or 2 away.

He’s probably just behind Sainz. I don’t think even one of their players appealed, nor did they mention it in reports/coverage.

You just carry on moving the goalposts. Transfers were dire that summer, almost to a man. That some of them may have just about come good 3 years later is nothing to remotely write home about when we needed them in the now. I’m neither pro nor anti Webber, but to cherry pick a signing (Sainz) to show how great he was is quite ridiculous.

“Quality not quantity” was Webber’s quote, no one else’s. He failed on it pretty miserably, however you want to paint it - we were worse in our second PL season and the poor transfers were a large part of it..

Great - so three years on some of the players we signed to keep us in the PL are bearing fruit. That is not what we wanted - the mantra had been quality not quantity and we didn’t get it. You can remember it however you want, but that transfer window was a disaster.

Webber got some right and some wrong…nearly all the signings in our second failed PL stint fall in the latter, for example. The problem is many seem to pick on one whilst forgetting the other when there was a fair bit of both good and crap.

Thought he was good but did wave the card around a little unnecessarily. And on the pen decision, it wasn’t that he took his time to give it, I think he missed it/was unsighted - the Lino did see it and was flagging like a madman and the ref took a while to notice…it was a clear pen and they are meant to be a team, so that’s all good.

One year with an option for another - per the official site (don’t seem to be able to paste link); taking the no11 shirt. He has apparently been training with us for a few days and has signed in time to be able to play tomorrow (my guess is we’ll see him off the bench)

He’s clearly rated much higher by those at the club than by many supporters. I don’t think he’d be a first choice but is nowhere near as bad as is made out - many are ready to bash him at any opportunity.