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I'm not fussed with having a different shade of blue as the away kit. I think the shirt is OK as well. It just isn't enough of a tribute to the original navy and jade kit, i.e. there's too much navy and not enough green. And it looks too much like a training top. But it's a nice-looking bit of gear.

In fairness, there aren't many industries where you have to be bought out of your contract to get a move. Yeah, most people have to work notice or have a period of gardening leave but you're not bound by contract to remain at your employer for potentially years at a time. And, yeah, they get paid an obscene amount of money, but it's our demand that has created it, through subscription TV channels, tickets and merchandise. A player's career is short. Very short, potentially. If he wants to move, fine. I'm not going to hold it against him. A Belgian-Moroccan is hardly going to dream of sitting outside Brucciani's on his days off, loving life in a 400k population city in the Midlands. He wants to play as high a level of football as he can and he'll use whatever methods possible to do it. We only want him because he's good. If he was Rachid Ghezzal, we'd be standing at East Mids Airport making sure he's boarded the plane. He's a good player. We'll have better who play for us again, probably very soon.

It's not Seagrave, it's the culture. Sort out the culture and Seagrave will work. It already is working for the academy. No reason why it can't for the first team as well. We just need a coherent club ethos. As with all things, it's the board and those running the club that are the problem.

Luke Thomas really isn't good enough is he. Great save Stolarczyk!

Feel really sorry for him to be honest. A desperation signing who was no better than what we had at the time. I'm sure the money and 5-year contract is good from a financial security point of view but it can't be good for your mental health training with a group who all know they're not wanted knowing that all the work you put in during the week will have absolutely no impact on the team.

Happy 80th birthday, Birch. A true club legend. A huge personality but also a very extremely humble man. I'm sure the staff will rustle up something decent for his 'ron today.

Under the rules at the time, apparently the year we were fighting Chelsea for Champions League qualification, we would have only been guaranteed a fraction from Uefa for qualifying in comparison to Chelsea. It's a closed shop. Sporting merit means next to nothing, except for the fact that sporting achievement from 25-50 years ago protects you from someone who is achieving more than you today.

Don't want him to go but £32m is very good money for us and I'd rather he went to Palace than newly promoted Sunderland. I can see him progressing well and maybe earning a bigger move in a couple of seasons.

I don't know if it's Leicester that has a lot to answer for thanks to 2015/16. I think it's the Premier League and football collectively. All clubs have sleep-walked into their own pigeon-holing at a certain level. Even the likes of Newcastle and Villa have had to reluctantly sell some of their better home-grown players who got/would get into their sides in the Champions League in order to satisfy PSR. Villa - with their wage expenditure currently at 96% of their turnover - are firmly on the Leicester highway towards the bottom reaches of the Premier League and possibly beyond. They'll have to cut their cloth and sign cheaper players and offer less wages and, when Emery decides he's had enough, they could easily plummet. 'We don't want another Leicester' isn't our fault, I think. Football could have encouraged a more egalitarian league where more teams could win the division and it be more exciting as teams rise and fall and rise again. But it didn't in the belief that the league only does well if its elite does well. It's football's governance that has ****ed it.

Surely it can't be long before Okonkwo is back as their first choice.

Judging from the comments in here I presume this is either ironic or Preston fans have been having a giggle.

I expect either we price them out of a move or we don't get as much as we'd like for him. I can't see him going for as much as we value him at. Hopefully we make a profit on him. At the very least a profit on his remaining book value. If we lose him we need someone. We can't hang our hats on Alves, Page or Onanaye, however promising they may be. If they break through, brilliant, and I really hope they do, but we'll need someone to keep the momentum going and be the main guy that those young players are trying to challenge.

I like it but yeah it does look more like a training top or pre-match shirt to me. Could've been more of an homage to the original with more jade involved as well. I do like the incorporation of the original pattern though.

We had 28 shots against Sheffield Wednesday as well as 75% possession and an xG of 2.42. I know the squad could look quite different at the end of the transfer window, not least we are probably going to lose the guy who changed that game after half-time. And I know that's only one game to be used as a sample. But if those stats are indicative of Cifuentes's methods, I'm confident we'll be strong enough to avoid the drop.

Looked decent

Love that Monga and Alves are starting. Big opportunities for them to have a good amount of game time. I'd like to see Aluko, Page and Silko Thomas come on at some point too.

I'll try and walk away again next time but even after doing so previously and leaving it for hours, it's on when I look at it later.

When you update and shut down it ALWAYS updates and restarts!

Quite an entertaining game in the end and some very encouraging performances from a load of players stepping up. Poor Chris Popov can't buy a goal though. It's that old cliché of him needing one to go in off his backside. Some of his hold-up play and pressing was very good though, and he took up some good positions. Fisken had a brilliant first half, but does look very raw. Neale looks quite cultured but Onanaye looks like he could be a Rolls Royce. Briggs looked fantastic at times and Lawrence and Hutchinson both had good moments when they came on. Motsi looked really positive and tried to do things when he came off the bench, and Gray looked very composed at the back for most of the game. A defeat but one for the players to take a lot of positives from.

Disappointing one, that. Still been some really positive performances from us tonight. I really like the look of Onanaye when he's got on the ball.

Great finish from them. Neale and Fisken standing out for us so far, I think.

Having Monga as an actual capable alternative may actually help Mavididi. Keeps him fresher and also means we remain a proper threat on that side when Mav isn't playing. Like all wingers he blows hot and cold. He's clearly not as talented as Fatawu on the other flank but when he gets going he's a real danger in this league. He'll be fine.

There's a lot in football that requires fans of different clubs coming together to save clubs, the culture of football in this country, and the game in general. The Super League protests was one. This is another. There are days when tribalism should take a back seat. So often we don't allow that to happen but today we did. More power to Wednesday fans. I hope an actual fit and proper owner can come forward and buy the club, or it can go into fan ownership for a while. No club deserves the treatment they're getting but Wednesday especially are too proud and historic a club to be going through something like this.

- Good player in the Championship, not good enough in the Prem - Has wanted out for a while so I'm really not fussed about keeping him even for a season in which he should more or less boss the league - I'm glad he's professional enough to still give it his all even though he wants out and a large proportion of the fans want him gone - I'm also glad he's given us a bit back, shows a bit of fight. If he suddenly became good enough for the Prem (a big if) I'd be happy for him to stay. Relationships can be repaired - Thanks for scoring an unmarked header in the Championship that won us the game. Not the most difficult thing for a professional footballer to do but it's given us two extra points - I've enjoyed watching his Championship performances but if he was to get a good offer and he's keen on going then I'm happy with the other options we have. A lot of these things sound contradictory but I genuinely don't dislike him as a person, I just think he's a massive weak link in a Premier League team. If he stays this season, I'm happy for him to be involved. He's proven himself at this level.

Slow to get into gear but absolutely bossed it in the end. Some better decisions in the final third and a bit more speed of thought and we could've battered them.