DraytonBoy

Doyle is going to be too expensive so that leaves Duffy, Cordoba, Hills, Tomkinson and Warner for next season. Nowhere near good enough so I expect at least one experienced CB in the summer.

I know it may be a risk but Sargent has to start if you want to win the game, it's no good bringing him on with 20 minutes to go if you're 3-0 down.

The Leeds squad is probably the strongest in the Championship, in the PL they'd lose most weeks. How on earth do you bridge the gap without spending £100 million+?

I'm not going to judge him until he's had a full season or so, there are more players possibly leaving in the next few months (Gunn, Nunez, McLean, Sainz, Hernandez and Sorenson plus the loanees) so I expect a continual re-build until the start of the 26/27 season along with the bedding in of the younger players. This is part of the planned long term strategy from the new owner and I totally agree with what he's doing, others of course may not.

Watched several films over the last month - Heretic - brilliant performance by Hugh Grant Conclave - good with a silly ending Gladiator 2 - not a patch on the first one Mufasa - just like watching a repeat of The Lion King The Substance - weird but a great example of art mimicking life

When he's on form McLean is a very intelligent player at this level, on Saturday he had a bad game and constantly lost the ball putting the defence under pressure. All of the youngers players struggled against PL opposition which is understandable.

Regardless of the fact that the FA Cup is now a devalued competition I was disappointed with the lack of fight yesterday, you just had to look at Plymouth's result against Brentford to see what can be achieved with a bit of effort. The quality gap was obvious but that's not an excuse to put in a performance like that.

Lots of foreigners around us yesterday, the row in front had three guys in their 30's/40's who were pi**ed before they sat down, they never came back for the second half. I guess many season ticket holders decided not to pay the £15 which I thought was a decent price to see a PL team.

Poor effort and some daft substitutions, quite why Nunez wasn't taken off at half time following a couple of early knocks was baffling as was Sargent coming on for the last ten minutes on a freezing cold day with City 4-0 down.

20K attendance to watch a reserve game on a cold afternoon in January, what could be better. I'll go with a lucky 1-0 to Brighton after extra time.

The small fee and the freeing up of a loan space makes it attractive but he is only a short term solution, I'd give Marcondes another year as he's a tidy player and near enough a fixture in the current first XI.

Not too sure what to make of today, players gone, another starter injured, still no Sargent and a likely long ban for Sainz possibly from next week. Coventry are hit and miss so I'll go for a home win - 2-0.

Unless they receive a silly bid I just can't see him leaving now, the summer window is different.

He's not been himself for several games, perhaps he knew this was coming?

Good move all round, a decent wage off the books and he gets to sign for a club with a decent shot at promotion.