Wouldn't be surprised to see Jason Taylor follow Cresswell out now assuming Matt Taylors been brought in to play in the middle of the park

8 goals conceded away at Brackley & Eastleigh, away games could be fun this season

Low supply of seats + expected high demand = increase in prices

Don't worry, as Boothroyd said in the summer of 2013, the longer things go on, the more buying power clubs have. That's worked out pretty well didn't it

I don't really get Kelvin's point about the Holmes sale money only being '1 year money' and therefore a loan is better option. If Holmes was on say £1,500 a week and we got £300,000 for him we could split that £300,000 over 2 years to give us an extra £2800 per week in the wage budget , on top of the £1500 Holmes was on. That would be enough for 2 quality wingers on 2 year deals. Its only 1 year money if you go and splash it all at once

[Cornell]

First half:
Cornell, nothing to do.
Hanley and Hall, not convinced.
McCourt did ok.
Revell impressed, very vocal, wanted the ball all of the time, should have had a second goal.

Second half;
Goff pulled off a super reaction save, otherwise nothing to do.
Zakuani another vocal player, untroubled.
Iaciofano lively, want to see him again for sure.


How was Phillips?
Decent run out.  Next up, Nuneaton.

I'm not sure who people are expecting us to sign but Lavery would be a decent signing in my opinion

Caolan Lavery possible new striker

Would be a good signing IMO

We have five central midfielders for two starting places. I'd be surprised if we signed another one. Wide men and a nippy striker are the order of the day.

2 of them are kids, 1 of them's a bit of a thug, with the loan rules changing next year we need another 1st teamer in there

I cant remember any other seasons where we've played any team twice by the middle of October. Very strange

Zakuini sounds a good signing but surely not a 3 year contract like the Chron is saying?! 2 years max for someone his age

 
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@ThomasEverson @ian_townsend looks like you'll have to keep watching me then unfortunately.

#Awks

D'Ath to Portsmouth is on Twitter

KT is a shrewd business man and I'm confident him and RP are on the case. Give them another 3 weeks and then we can then start panicking if no one else has come in

I think we need 1 centre back, 1 centre mid, 2 wingers and 1 striker minimum before the season starts

Away day at a big club for me please

I always thought having 2 quality keepers was a luxury and that the money could be spent elsewhere in the team. It was always going to be hard to keep both of them happy anyway. I think this makes sense as long as we invest the money elsewhere in the team (and Smith doesn't get injured!)

I'd say this was quite a good point.

On the other hand we still have Cresswell so it can work both ways

I like D'ath; he was very good  until RH appeared in
December 

Was he? You must have been watching different games to me

People need to remember with these signings that we're not a big club. We can't just go out there and beat the lives of Coventry, Charlton etc to a promising up and coming talent. We're a small club with small crowds and with no infrastructure (which KT is working on) we have a pretty small budget too.