Vlad the Fox

Didn’t realise Abdul is English

Yes, I think that was always the plan but circumstances meant it had to be gradual. It’s obvious to all us, it would be to him.

I personally think he’s been doing a superb job and see a clear line in progression of the squad. He came in late in pre-season and had to oversea a demoralised squad through a turbulent pre season, keeping players (who we’d need) who wanted out on the periphery so he could bring them back in once the window shut. Plus regarding the picking of Skip and Soumare, I think it’s clear from early on that he didn’t see them as the midfield pairing he wants due to the signings he made in JJ and Ramsey. Game by game the performances have been getting better, we’re seeing more fight and desire than we’ve seen in a while and the squad seem to be behind him. He came in to steer a rocking boat and is gradually guiding it into calmer waters. I’m confident that when he leaves we will be in a far better position as a club then when he arrived

Loved his celebration Abdul’s goal.

Just finished it. It seems clear by some of the questions that they know where the problems lie in the game yet I doubt they’ll have any power to change them.

Queued to get in l1, my lads ticket worked although it hadn’t updated to cov.

Sorry if this has been asked a already but my sons ticket is still showing birmingham, not updated for today. Will it still work?

Fvcking autocorrect

Tony Cottee on “sacked in the morning” currently on bbc two. Love listening to old footballers talking of their time playing, especially from his era and before (so many more characters than now). Talks about his time with us on about 25 minutes. He was great for us.

Reckon we dodged a bullet with potter.

He needs to grow up and stop sulking as he can only be reacting to social media criticism because he has faced no animosity in the ground, and as such he should respect those fans that want to support him because if he continues to behave how he is that will soon change.

Wasn’t he our record signing at the time? £350k.

I can remember Harry Redknapp saying on footy focus when I was a kid that Filbert Street was the most intimidating ground for him to go to. The dug out was in the stand (pre carling stand) you could stick your head in and hurl abuse at the players and manager, and I lost count the amount of times I saw the corrugated plastic on top of the dug out get smashed when someone would be smashing their fist on top of it.

Parker was also great for us.

Is everyone forgetting Neil Lennon?

It’s either Glover, or Glover working with rudkin or Top previously wanted a say in everything and they’ve told him he has to back off and let them get on with it. Whatever, something has definitely changed this summer.

Hulian Hulian Hulian

Really like this signing.

Just a thought, but next season we’ll lose a number of players who are out of contract so we will need to spend to rebuild the squad. In 3 years time this summers dealing will drop off the psr cycle. Does dropping the £25m into next years books protect us from next years spending causing us psr issues further down the line?

Exactly, he isn’t getting a ticket unless he signs up for a membership and I can’t see him doing that.

9 goals in his last 24 shots, not a bad conversion rate. Some howling misses though

I just wonder if whoever is doing our negotiating this summer is finally playing the games that rudkin never did. Palace messing us around trying to get him cheaper hence we announce actually we don’t need to sell him now, balls back in their court.

Wouldn't be surprised if the club leaked it to the sun. Absolves them from blame for the lack of signings knowing that people will now blame the efl instead.

Desire and work rate so much better today.