deyres42

Very soft red IMO but don't think there'd be much hope getting it overturned on appeal.

Gregan and Dickov don't get on, so that's a non starter while Dickov is still here. On a positive note, sat next to Baxters family today, said he's happy to stay for the rest of season and deal should be announced soon.

Have to think Dickov will follow shortly, clearing the decks suggests to me we've got someone else lined up and are just waiting for them to become available. If not and Dickov does stay then Corney has got to dig deep and give him the funds to get in the 3-4 players we need to improve the side - a proper organising, commanding centre back, box to box centre midfielder, winger who can actually beat his full back and centre forward.

Did he also notice how most goals we concede come from diagonal crosses, usually on our left hand side?!

Budget cut quite drastically end of the 2010/11 season, thought to be the reason why Robins left. And those average League 1 players finished 3 points outside the playoffs and 8 places above us in the table.

They are Yorkshire folk, their opinions count for nothing! In all seriousness one look at their squad tells you that staying in the Championship is a big achievement, he did that last time and may well have done so again.

Odd that people think he would be anything other than a excellent replacement for Dickov.

We had Hughes and Mellor, both better options.

Put it this way, he wouldn't get into any other League 1 squad and would be really struggling to get into a League 2 side.

Think the keeper situation is way down the list of priorities to be fair.

Think Corney has had at least two opportunities to remove the management this season - after the Coventry and Bournemouth games - but has chosen not to. Part of that down to the cost - heard that to get rid of Dickov, Taggart and Butler now would cost us over 250k - but also the working relationship between himself and Dickov is very strong and he wants to give him every chance to get the club moving forward. Been told that there will be two signings soon after the window opens, Michael Johnson on loan for the rest of the season and a Championship striker, possibly permanent.

Championship clubs knew he was available in the summer and none of them snapped him up - don't think there will be quite the clamour for his services as some have suggested and I'd be pretty disappointed if he left us to go to an MK Dons or a Preston.

O'Driscoll would be a superb appointment but think he'll be holding tight for the Wolves job which may well become vacant soon.

Given that Hartlepool and Portsmouth are already realistically relegated, have to think that the management have allowed complacency to seep in with their 'survival is our only target' motto.

The lad has never started a single league match, people can't seriously be suggesting he suddenly goes straight into the team as a starter?

Showed up well in pre season from what I saw, playing facing the goal and in and around the box. Then the management inexplicably tried to turn him into a bulldozing target man which clearly ain't his game. That said him and Baxter doesn't seem a natural partnership so he's probably in for another load of abuse on here!

Why? Enjoyed his time here by all accounts, strikes me as a bloke who wants to be playing games rather picking up a wage. Sure there will be plenty of interest in him but would like to think we'd be in there pitching.

And I bet we still water the pitch pre match.

Preston are gash, can only think of one player, Nicky Wroe, who I'd take to improve our team.

Best player on the night we played them was the lad on loan from Leeds, Poleon, looks a good prospect. We could do a lot worse than Steven Schumacher too.

Didn't Prozac say that agreement to bring Derbyshire back for the season in January was already done? I rate Clarke, pretty sure we could have had him for 50k or thereabouts in the summer but went for Montano instead.

I'd rather see Grounds at centre half, he's got the size and ability in the air to play there.

You wanna check the league table mate, season is far from over.

Given our current league position the next two games mean far more than a cup tie.

Ah yes! Meant Mellor as the winger, Changy in the centre midfield 3.