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Surprised we didn't offer Korey a year personally thought his performances at the end of the season were a big help in us going up.

If PW et al, having seen him perform in pre season training/friendlies don't think he's quite ready, I'm quite happy to accept their opinion. If there's a slight doubt, give him some cameos in August. If the doubts are founded, it's out on loan.

I would think that Warne will want some 'influence' in the dressing room from experienced players, I'd be surprised to see them all go. But who knows.

Maybe. It needs to be correctly targeted 'ruthlessness'.

Eh?
What's it got to do with either Boro or Wycombe what our budget is and why should we be checking it's OK with them?
Unless of course you believe the conspiracy theory that Gibson controls the EFL. 😀

3 reasons to compare a good wife to a little toe...
 
1/  They're cute
2/  They provide much needed balance
3/  You never truly appreciate them being around... until you bang them on the coffee table late at night.
 
 
 

One was pretty good.
But two was awful imho.
It's turned into a soap opera.

Mrs Badger liked it, but I'd have happily stopped watching.

The Responder first series was great and 3 episodes in for the new one I feel that has dropped off a tad. Still pretty good though.

I’m okay with it. There’s enough aspects of serious farming to make it educational. 
I laugh at the silly bits, as he intends us to. All reality TV is anything but, given there will be an entourage following everyone around and interactions will be scripted.
 I think everyone should be educated on how food reaches their table. Other farming programmes are more accurate but don’t have mass appeal.
It needs the daft bits to keep the audience amused in between the more serious messaging.
Clarkson screwing up and being abused by his co-stars makes us feel a bit better about our own shortcomings 😊

 

How many signings have their been in the Championship so far, I've not noticed many? These would all be free agents any way as the window for transfers (rather than free agents) doesn't open until 14th June.

Holding our own, being hard to beat, staying clear of relegation trouble. Anything else would be a bonus.

Stay out of trouble without any real threat of relegation and a suggestion that we might push on the year after. There is so much parachute money floating around that I think the finances are going to dictate a slow and steady approach and we'll have to be patient.

I doubt they will lose too much sleep over it. You always get a load of glory hunters for such games.

Very nearly early but not quite.
Bolton went above us after they drew at Barnsley on Tuesday 5th March (Bolton 70 points, Derby 69 points). We didn't play, they had a game in hand. We retook second place on the Saturday when we won away at Bristol and Bolton only drew at Exeter (Derby 72 points, Bolton 71 points). A week later we beat Bolton and, as they say, the rest is history.

Leeds v Norwich is the most one-sided playoff game since Derby v Brighton.
There is a big gap between these two. Makes Ipswich’s success all the more impressive.
Assuming it will be Leeds vs Southampton, I can’t think of a stronger playoff final.
Some contrast to last year’s final.
 

He always comes over as bright decent family man who pedigree shines out when PW mentions his performances. Doubt there is any truth or evidence for these claims. 

It’s a term that is banded around a lot by people who don’t really know.

Now I do think we need to improve on Korey for this season, but an attitude problem?! What a load of s****. 

Purely seeking clarification on some inconsistencies of course, the doubt has already been cast by Simmo him or herself 🤣
We’re offering Burrows a contract despite him being under contract at Posh….
Smith had a bad attitude after being dropped, I wouldn’t interpret a 62nd minute knee injury in a game in November that kept him out until February as “being dropped”, and before then he’d played an active part in the side as well as coming back into the team after his injury… BUT maybe I’m mistaken in my interpretation 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

I'd give it to the 3rd choice keeper, just for the reactions on here.

Think he should nail his colours to the mast this year and select his captain. I’d strongly suspect Bradley will get it and to be honest I think he’d thrive off it!

Eh?
What's it got to do with either Boro or Wycombe what our budget is and why should we be checking it's OK with them?
Unless of course you believe the conspiracy theory that Gibson controls the EFL. 😀

I like your optimism but I can't imagine for one moment the day when players or managers will simply accept the officials decisions. 

It wasn't so long ago that the referees' decisions - most of them, generally (ie not all), however bad - were accepted by the players who largely got on with the game.  If you watch the footage from the 60's, 70's and 80's then you can clearly see the differences in the game between then and now and that's one of the most obvious ones, at a time when officials were amateur, mostly pretty unfit (compared to the players) and certainly unprepared in comparison to today.  Some of the refs we got in Europe were properly incompetent lardy arses
There's no logical reason why we can't go back to nearer those days if we (football) really wanted to - it's an attitude that needs to change nothing more.  It'll be interesting to see how the 'captains only' rule goes down in the Euros or whether it becomes yet another initiative that lasts 5 games before it's too tricky to enforce

I agree. The lad might well have great potential (and I sincerely hope he does for his own sake as well as the clubs) but he hasn’t really been tested yet or had the chance to prove himself. Of course the same could possibly have been said about the likes of Cashin before we were forced into bringing them into the first team squad so, perhaps he deserves the chance to break into the first team (but in addition to other “quality” strikers). As I say, he’s not yet had the opportunity to prove himself and he might turn out to be exactly what we need. I’ll trust in the coaching team to decide whether he needs another loan period or not.