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What's the position regarding Livermore, can we keep him for a maximum of three months or for the season? If he settles well and we put a run together, to lose him for the playoffs would be a real blow!

Hopefully it will be different next week when we'll have a balanced midfield with Livermore on the left, Jarrett and Allott in the centre and at last Taylor on his favoured right. With Davies and Smalley/Allesandra up front I think there's plenty of goals to come. Looking at the fixtures we've played all the big boys now and apart from perhaps Doncaster away all the other fixtures are winnable. Tranmere have shown that three or four wins can get you up into the playoff area, the season's definitely not over yet!!

David Livermore fro Hull

SMS extended until end of the season.r

Good deal for the club as it's also appearance based and has a future sell on clause.

There are too many distractions other than football and I'm sorry but in general at £20 a time people will stop going to matches if they are not entertained. In these days of SKY live armchair football winning at all costs is simply not enough to get bums on seats. Your always going to get the diehards like us, who turn up week in week out but to get success at a club you need to entertain and at home this season we just ain't doing it! We all have opinions but the reason we've averaged 5,800 instead of 7,000 is solely down to boring, predictable, football, producing 2 wins and only 9 goals!!

That tells you all that is wrong with football today. A 19year old and not happy with £50k a bleeding week. That's more than most of us earn in 2 years!!!!!!!

That's okay but you're talking about getting shut of about 10 players for 1 reason or another, we're already a couple short without Bertrand and Kilkenny thats 12. That amounts to wholesale changes yet again in a close season. You would be virtually starting again plus there are 5 your not sure about!!!!! To keep changing the players like that does nothing for the club or the fans. We have the nucleus of a good side so we need to get 2 or 3 out and maybe sign 4 or 5 but please no more!!!!

It's all right saying forget about them but we need the extra support and a good performance today may have encouraged a few to come back on tuesday. We ain't goin to get crowds back at Boundary Park playing like we did today...We were bloody clueless!!!!

This isn't a suprise and the club will almost certainly have been expecting bids in the window. If we have a saleable asset in our squad who would command a sizeable fee then the exit of Eardley is probably the one we could cope with best. I think you have to be looking at upwards of £750,000 for a club captain and full Welsh international. He looked very good against Everton in the cup and think he would be a very good buy for the right club. Mcdonald, Hazell and Lomax can all cover that position. We would need another left back but have Black as cover and Gregan, and Thompson to return from injury. The money received would help us compete in the window to attract the the players Shez has targeted.

Shuwumni would be the best option but no way will Johnson let him go, and I don't really fancy the other two as the lad from Barnsley is a bit of an unknown quantity and McCammon with 27goals in 10 seasons hardly demands respect!! Shez will have his targets but if they're beyond our budget then so be it....No point in panic buys that are no better than we already have so I say leave it till the end of the season and have a real go next time!!! KTF.

According to Rivals/I.S.Z Cole Skuse will sign this week from Bristol City till the end of the season. Picked us in front of Doncaster and Orient.

Why was he booked...I hope it wasn't dissent beacause in his situation that's plain stupidity and Shez should fine him. I may be wrong but does anybody think that a little nastiness is slowly creeping into his game?

We would all like 2 or 3 players coming in to boost a play off bid but they have to be better than we already have and there's no point bringing in players just for the sake of it!! Players have the upper hand in the January window and are most certainly waiting to see what's on offer before commiting. Shez has the backing of TTA and if the right players are available within the budget and more importantly want to come and play for us then I'm sure we'll sign em. We are all sick of this league and and this club needs a promotion to boost interest and attract a bigger fanbase but we have to be patient and when we do go up we have to have a squad capable of staying up! Personally a more realistic aim would be to wait till the end of the season as we've got a good nucleus of players and with a few more signings we could have a great chance of automatic promotion next time.

The only advantage of the kit is that they will be able to easily pick each other out on the field. So as long as they don't pass to a steward we should be OK !!!!!!

We will always be a selling club as the vast majority are....ie. everybody has a price, however we took a chance on Porter and paid out £150,000 so if he moves to another English club and we get nowt then that's just plain wrong. We should get a percentage of any fee as he learned his trade here but was then picked up by Motherwell ( working the system ) for nowt! He could now be sold for upwards of a million....that rule definitely wants looking at!! As for Trotman...I think we should hold on to him as he's a major prospect, there's no guarantees but he's still only young and I think in a year's time his value could triple and looking at the queue of clubs interested now there would be plenty of takers. I say only sell him if it suits us as we always seem to under value our players and it's about time we made some serious money for our talent!!!

He's a full England International and still only 19/20, I think you'll find that bids will start at 20m!!!

A very good post and all points are spot on. There have been and always will be habitual moaners at this club and I think you notice it more now that we have all seater stadiums, as you tend to sit in the same seats around the same people at every home game. As for atmosphere....it's the team who really have to ignite the fans and they haven't exactly set the house on fire with the home performances this season. 2 wins and 9 goals at home all season.....it's just boring at the moment.

I know this is covering old ground but Micah Richards still ain't signed a new contract at City. The NOW says his agent ( Dad ) has advised him to turn down 50K a week and has asked for 75K. Apparently this would break City's pay structure. Three premier clubs are watching with interest. Could be a windfall on the way!!!

The loan deal is so he can play against Northampton...he'll sign permanently within the next few days. Leeds are just working the system.

Loans are exactly what they mean......they are temporary. In the cases of Kilkenny and Bertrand we have had two Championship level players for half a season and if they did well they were almost certainly going to leave us for bigger clubs, especially Kilkenny. We've now had arguably our two best players ripped from our grasp at the most critical part of the season and probably our chance of promotion this season. Why didn't we try to buy Kilkenny earlier when we offloaded Ricketts? We knew what he could do from when he was here before and surely it was worth a gamble. Short term loans are OK to cover for injuries but long term loans if you ask me me are a waste of time...you might as well throw in your younger players like Black and Lomax and gain in the long term from their early development. This is now a big chance for the likes of Thompson, Kalala, Allesandra and Wolfenden to show us that they've got what it takes.

I bet given the chance they would have taken the offer on the table during the 'Sports Park 2000' development, at least they would have been looking at fields instead of flats!!! I could never understand why they opposed that scheme because it would have suited all parties. Hewitt and his cronies were on one big ego trip which I'm glad to say has now backfired!

It will all depend on results over the next 3 weeks....if we have a good Christmas period then I think we could well sell them all...We took over 3000 to Wolves who are in the championship so for a local premiership side like Everton it's a possibility.

I'ts very difficult to name the best 'ever' player, but you've listed most of the contenders....In my era..on appearances it would have to be Ian Wood, goal scoring it would have to be Palmer or Ritchie, on pure skill and entertainment it would have to be Stainrod. For someone to have the title of best ever player he would really need to have played a minimum of 2/300 games. Paul Warhurst in the pinch me seasons under Big Joe was simply awesome, he only played for a season or so but I've never seen a more natural player in a blue shirt, he just seemed to glide across the pitch. Alan Groves is another, probably the most entertaing winger we've ever had, and when on song was a defenders worst nightmare! Without Neil Redfearn's influence we'd never have been promoted to the first division...I don't think I ever saw him miss a penalty! However I'd have to plump for Ritchie over Palmer (just), because of his goal scoring in the season we were promoted to the First / Premiership and because it was also the most succesful period in our history.

Don't forget it's not the third round where we used to start it's the first, plus I think the cup has lost a bit of it's magic over the last few years.