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A midfield 3 of Carsley,Powell and Van Der Laan could play but was also brutal.  Saw an interview with Powell and Carsley in Four Four Two in about 97 where their pre game ritual was to watch Scarface together.  Amused me enough to remember it.

He's hit some great form under yhe new boss. Got a good midfield partnership with Wharton developing. They support and feed the creative atrackers Olise and Eze really well 

Just seen Ipswich are on track via a Wes Burns goal, he's a great example of one of those players who looked very very average at Bristol for years, but in his late 20s its all clicked for him at Ipswich and he's had a phenomenal 3 seasons!
One reason I try not to write off players we sign before they've played a bit. You know never know who will settle and find their best form where

Just seen Ipswich are on track via a Wes Burns goal, he's a great example of one of those players who looked very very average at Bristol for years, but in his late 20s its all clicked for him at Ipswich and he's had a phenomenal 3 seasons!
One reason I try not to write off players we sign before they've played a bit. You know never know who will settle and find their best form where

Well I'm currently sat in a pub with my Brother-in-law, a Birmingham fan slowly picking away at his chips as he's just pushed his food away.
Dunno whats up with him, I'm having a great time.

Just seen Ipswich are on track via a Wes Burns goal, he's a great example of one of those players who looked very very average at Bristol for years, but in his late 20s its all clicked for him at Ipswich and he's had a phenomenal 3 seasons!
One reason I try not to write off players we sign before they've played a bit. You know never know who will settle and find their best form where

What little I've seen this year he looks a tidy player with good set pieces but very lightweight. My Reading supporting mate suggested he wouldn't be sad to see him go, that was back when we were linked. I know he doesn't want to see their striker Kelvin (very long surname and I can't look it up right now) leave because he thinks he has big potential.
They're still hopeful of a sale to get a consortium in and that lunatic Yong out, but we know first-hand how long that stuff can take!

Central midfield is the big area to address this off-season obvisouly. I'd love us to sign Adams and hopefully that can be done for a modest fee, but probably 2 more (one defensive minded and one attack minded) needed in my mind.
There's some good young talents that will be staying in League 1, depending on what happens in the playoffs. I'd be interested to see if any of the following could fall into our budget: 
Erhahon from Lincoln, Kyprianou from Peterborough, Brown from Orient, Kane from Barnsley, Asgard from Wigan
if we were going down the experienced old head route to replace Smith and Hourihane for next year, then I always quite liked Norwood from Sheff U. Good passing range and seemed a good pro

Agree on Taylor . He really gave our defence the run around at Lincolns ground and could have easily had a hat-trick.  All depends on Luton beating Everton tonight to send Florists into the drop zone . If Luton come down - expect them to mop up players with their parachute money and go for a quick return .

If….big IF…we could get him on some sort of low wage, pay as you play type deal once he leaves Arsenal, with no or low compensation, and we’ve got other options up top I’d be happy to see the club take a chance on him. There’s talent there, if we can get his body to function we’d have a good young player in the squad…. But it’s a risk

My god I am hungover. I've not felt this rough for years.

Really honest interview again after the game, especially the bit about having no chance if we dropped into the play-offs which is true.
I think you can get a sense of how big a rebuild is ahead next season too.
 

If we can compete with other interested sides for their signatures I’d be looking at the following;
Herbie Kane - CM (25) at Barnsley, goals and assists at league one, one of their better players and could do a job for us as a younger option to the (likely) departing Hourihane.
Josh Knight - CB (26) at Posh. A younger cb option than Bradley and Forsyth, thought he’s been decent when we’ve played them.
OR
Jordan Williams - CB (24) at Barnsley. As above, also captain at Barnsley so potentially a good leader at a good age.
Harrison Burrows - LB (22) at Posh. One of their best players, would be a great first choice at Lb/lwb ahead of Elder. 6 Goals and 14 assists this season. Probably get signed by a club with better resource than us but you never know. 
 
There’ll be others too, maybe from the relegated champ sides (Oliver Rathbone from Rotherham is one I’m almost expecting to sign as a former Warne player).
Hopefully the business we do is shrewd in building squad depth via free agents then what money we do have to spend can be used on the key players (Ebou Adams anyone?) 

My grandson is doing it, so proud.

They do indeed - I have to admit they look great and think something similar would look good around our way, although Leeds would paint more obviously. If memory serves he used to be in a band with Notts Forest referee Jonathan Moss. Not only was their band s*** but they were arrogant unlikeable p***** in my opinion. Don’t know about the Yorkshire Banksy but my opinion of Moss certainly hasn’t changed. 

Just got back home.
Two pints before the game at DW sport place good atmosphere good beer choice for the location no real ale.
Record fair and Bustler market after the game good atmosphere poor craft beer choice given the location no real ale.
Neptune good atmosphere real ale mediocre.
Standing order good atmosphere good beer real ale.
Dolphin good atmosphere good beer real ale.
Shakespear good atmosphere good beer craft beer but no real ale.
Bess good atmosphere nearly run out of beer, so never had a drink.

Home bad atmosphere wife already gone to bed expect no conversation for several hours in the morning then a lecture about stopping out for so long. 
No beer for several days will have to treat her for a meal before I am allowed any beer again. 😂

Aye, well said. Listening to the rams daily podcast on bbc sounds at the mo, it’s 70 mins long, first 20-30 mins includes Ed’s words at full time, comments from Eric Steele and Malcolm Christie then Dom right in amongst the chaos catching brief interviews with loads of the players and staff. Worth a listen if you have the time folks;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0htlpw6

Heard Cardiff have a lad in their reserves -
plays midfield - been on loan at a league one club since January - gets booed by his own fans - must be cr@p!!!
sign him up!!!

Hysterical comment from a Leeds fan on the BBC Sport website under the match report. 
As a Leeds fan, I have to say how annoying it is that so many teams turn into Barcelona when they play us after being mediocre against other teams. It's a form of cheating really; if they can play like that against Leeds, why can't they play like that all the time?

Impressive that they picked him up from Loughborough Uni. Given the location you would hope our scouts are keeping an eye out for similar future pickups. It would be nice to see us gamble on some non-leauge talents rather than having to spend big after they've already made it. It won't always work out but an option worth pursuing 

I saw on facebook Smithfield is open from 10am. Off the bus in town, Birds sausage cob on my way to the Smithfield, then on to the ground for a date with destiny

He's hit some great form under yhe new boss. Got a good midfield partnership with Wharton developing. They support and feed the creative atrackers Olise and Eze really well 

He's hit some great form under yhe new boss. Got a good midfield partnership with Wharton developing. They support and feed the creative atrackers Olise and Eze really well 

I saw on facebook Smithfield is open from 10am. Off the bus in town, Birds sausage cob on my way to the Smithfield, then on to the ground for a date with destiny