Jourdan

I would imagine that it’s no surprise but I am feeling very positive about this.
There are going to be a lot of tight, tense games over the next 3 months and someone like Gayle with his movement and instinct in the box could be the difference between 1 point and 3 points in many games.
Let’s hope we get him fully fit and firing and he can lead us to promotion one way or another.

I get the thinking, but how often in football do things actually work out like that?
You will see a team breeze through a challenging run in and another team make hard work of an easier run in, and vice versa.
Sometimes teams produce results true to form, sometimes not. If it was so easy to gauge which games were easy and which were difficult, we’d all be raking it in at the bookies.
Look at the last day of last season. Who would have expected Peterborough to go to Barnsley and win at our expense? February to May always throws up strange results.
It’s so easy to fall into the trap of ‘Bolton have to play X, Y, Z. Advantage us!’ but very often there is no advantage at all.

Be interesting to see what our best XI will be with Gayle on board…
I am guessing:
Wildsmith
Nyambe - Nelson - Cashin - Elder
Adams - Bird - Hourihane
NML - Gayle - CBT
If Adams, Bird and NML can continue their form and Gayle and CBT can get into a rhythm, it could be a very fun end to the season!

I would imagine that it’s no surprise but I am feeling very positive about this.
There are going to be a lot of tight, tense games over the next 3 months and someone like Gayle with his movement and instinct in the box could be the difference between 1 point and 3 points in many games.
Let’s hope we get him fully fit and firing and he can lead us to promotion one way or another.

Be interesting to see what our best XI will be with Gayle on board…
I am guessing:
Wildsmith
Nyambe - Nelson - Cashin - Elder
Adams - Bird - Hourihane
NML - Gayle - CBT
If Adams, Bird and NML can continue their form and Gayle and CBT can get into a rhythm, it could be a very fun end to the season!

I would imagine that it’s no surprise but I am feeling very positive about this.
There are going to be a lot of tight, tense games over the next 3 months and someone like Gayle with his movement and instinct in the box could be the difference between 1 point and 3 points in many games.
Let’s hope we get him fully fit and firing and he can lead us to promotion one way or another.

Be interesting to see what our best XI will be with Gayle on board…
I am guessing:
Wildsmith
Nyambe - Nelson - Cashin - Elder
Adams - Bird - Hourihane
NML - Gayle - CBT
If Adams, Bird and NML can continue their form and Gayle and CBT can get into a rhythm, it could be a very fun end to the season!

The best thing we can do is take things one game at a time.
There’s no use concerning ourselves with Bolton and Portsmouth.
Bolton’s ‘tough’ run-in will be meaningless if we don’t do the business ourselves.
Our only focus should be Barnsley away and grinding out another 3 points and taking one step closer to the magic 92 points mark.

It was the same at Exeter away in midweek.
I guess people feel shielded by being in a crowd, but some of the chants and behaviour was just completely unnecessary and I am not sure what people get out of it.
A bit of shock value, a bit of laughter, I guess.
People were more interested in baiting a steward than watching the game. I just don’t get it.

The best thing we can do is take things one game at a time.
There’s no use concerning ourselves with Bolton and Portsmouth.
Bolton’s ‘tough’ run-in will be meaningless if we don’t do the business ourselves.
Our only focus should be Barnsley away and grinding out another 3 points and taking one step closer to the magic 92 points mark.

Anyone wanna buy my Dwight Gayle debut ticket?
£5k, collect from Barnsley station on Saturday.

I am not worried personally. 
I don’t think we have yet seen anywhere close to what CBT can do and can bring to the table. If he is perhaps not fit and perhaps not totally adjusted, he will likely play within himself as many others would.
The biggest thing I saw on Tuesday and v Reading is it being a case of CBT and the rest of the team having to build up an understanding of how they can help one another.
Look at goals two and three on Tuesday. NML was on to Bird’s pass in a flash because they have a good understanding. Similarly Barkhuizen knew exactly where to be to support NML on the breakaway for the third goal. They have been teammates for almost two years, not four weeks.
I think there was one brief moment on Tuesday where CBT and the team looked on the same wavelength. NML as I recall tried to send him clear into space but didn’t get enough purchase on the pass and it was cut out. If we get CBT in those positions more often, we’ll see his threat.
Everyone is raving about Adams and rightly so, but equally he’s only had three games and I feel it is much easier to impact the game as an all-action midfielder in a counter-attacking side that do a lot of defending and spend a lot of time out of possession than a winger who relies on receiving the ball in areas where he can affect the game.
For much of that first half, CBT didn’t receive the ball and when he did, it was in areas where he was crowded out.

CBT was apparently a target last summer but we didn’t have room in the budget to complete the deal without selling someone first.
He has played the equivalent of 1.5 games so far, it’s way too soon to judge.

Yes, we had all of January to sign a striker and no doubt we tried for the entire month to secure a deal.
But it is not straightforward. Clearly we want players who will add something to the squad and we want someone who will improve us in some way. It’s not a case of taking absolutely anyone.
Better players are usually more difficult to sign, and clubs and even players will use whatever tactic they can to get the best deal and move possible. Moves you think are close often break down because of this.
If Collins is out for any length of time, it’s just really unfortunate.

Got what they deserved?
You make it sound like Warne and the team didn’t want a striker and were happy with the outcome?
There’s a difference between what we wanted and what we got and clearly Warne had to suck it up and accept the situation for what it was.
 

I think the EFL will consider this carefully and think about whether a similar size club, such as Morecambe, could reasonably afford his wages and base their decision on that. 

Knowing the importance and urgency required by Derby's request, the EFL put their top 'Budget Guy' on the case to draft a response..

On the last line, true - but McGoldrick has nothing to do with how well the players I mentioned are doing this year.
On the rest - thanks to @Rich84 for taking that one on.
For the sake of my mental health, I give up. I don't mind Warne not being everyone's cup of tea (the David Brent comparisons always tickle me), but to not even acknowledge that he's doing something right - and he must be doing something right, we're 2nd for crying out loud - is just silly.

The best thing we can do is take things one game at a time.
There’s no use concerning ourselves with Bolton and Portsmouth.
Bolton’s ‘tough’ run-in will be meaningless if we don’t do the business ourselves.
Our only focus should be Barnsley away and grinding out another 3 points and taking one step closer to the magic 92 points mark.

The best thing we can do is take things one game at a time.
There’s no use concerning ourselves with Bolton and Portsmouth.
Bolton’s ‘tough’ run-in will be meaningless if we don’t do the business ourselves.
Our only focus should be Barnsley away and grinding out another 3 points and taking one step closer to the magic 92 points mark.

The best thing we can do is take things one game at a time.
There’s no use concerning ourselves with Bolton and Portsmouth.
Bolton’s ‘tough’ run-in will be meaningless if we don’t do the business ourselves.
Our only focus should be Barnsley away and grinding out another 3 points and taking one step closer to the magic 92 points mark.

It was the same at Exeter away in midweek.
I guess people feel shielded by being in a crowd, but some of the chants and behaviour was just completely unnecessary and I am not sure what people get out of it.
A bit of shock value, a bit of laughter, I guess.
People were more interested in baiting a steward than watching the game. I just don’t get it.

The best thing we can do is take things one game at a time.
There’s no use concerning ourselves with Bolton and Portsmouth.
Bolton’s ‘tough’ run-in will be meaningless if we don’t do the business ourselves.
Our only focus should be Barnsley away and grinding out another 3 points and taking one step closer to the magic 92 points mark.

It was the same at Exeter away in midweek.
I guess people feel shielded by being in a crowd, but some of the chants and behaviour was just completely unnecessary and I am not sure what people get out of it.
A bit of shock value, a bit of laughter, I guess.
People were more interested in baiting a steward than watching the game. I just don’t get it.

The best thing we can do is take things one game at a time.
There’s no use concerning ourselves with Bolton and Portsmouth.
Bolton’s ‘tough’ run-in will be meaningless if we don’t do the business ourselves.
Our only focus should be Barnsley away and grinding out another 3 points and taking one step closer to the magic 92 points mark.