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But he was for an excellent Coventry side the season before. Given the type of centre half he is and what’s missing from our back line, I’d say he’s an excellent shout. He’s 2 years deep in to a championship career and would bring invaluable know how and much needed athleticism. I would’ve...

Essential?

Let’s not go there 😂 I’ve given Long his due but I’m not about to lie to you and say I suddenly see him in a totally different light. He’s still the same player.

It was cruel to pick him out, it’s just me being picky but you can see how it might be exploited with the wrong choice at right back or even goalkeeper if they’re nervous off their line. Is his partnership with Brown one that gives us confidence to go up a level and stand firm? I’m not sure...

Worth keeping in mind that Des has had to establish a way of playing with the hand he’s been dealt. A lot of the squad is not his so there may be some surprise changes that don’t strike us as obvious but he will see this as a chance to put his team on the pitch. For example, sorry to pick out...

Do you really think thorniley is part of a happy marriage here? It’s not happened for him, I think he returns north somewhere, perhaps on loan. But equally do you really think as a championship club we can’t do better than Thorniley as our 3rd choice centre back? I give us no hope if that’s the...

There’s stabilising, and then there’s taking a group that needed shovelling out of the tunnel to survive relegation to then believing they could go anywhere and win within months. We also saw with Robinson that a good recruitment team only gets you so far - the manger still has to listen to that...

It would be bizarre for him to move for anything less than a huge financial jump and a shot at the premier league, playing regularly, quicker than we can give it to him. 29 is not that old anymore, he’s got 2 contracts in him yet and could still go to the MLS if he wanted to for a final cash...

Difficult call for the club. I like McGuane a lot and there’s a strong argument that his kind of qualities will look far more at home at the next level rather than in amongst the end to end choppy aerial chaos of league one where midfields are largely bypassed or kicked. The question would be...

Since I’ve been on his back for 2 seasons, I’ll add that I’m impressed by his last couple of months and he can hold his head high. He had a bit of a difficult time against Mason-Clark at Posh, which I think should be kept in mind as we go up and face Mason-Clark’s every week, but he regrouped...

I’m not making it a competition, I just don’t see why Manning can’t be given any credit for his contribution. It’s always confused me. Des did a fantastic job, Murphy came from the abyss to be a hero. But without those early points, to which neither contributed anything, we wouldn’t have graced...

Since when was this Josh Murphy FC? As a club we were absolutely fine without him playing. Manning might’ve made that decision and it age badly, but without him he managed some of our season-best results and got us second in the league with a buffer and I don’t remember anybody crying out for...

I’m over his departure having got the end result we all prayed for after the start we had. But I don’t care how unpopular it is, if we’re thanking Josh Murphy for his 4 months of form, we should be appreciative of Manning’s 6 month stint that kept us in L1, brought us some ever present players...

There was some sort of weird bro code throughout, as though Des hadn’t earned his seat at the table and he should kiss Evatt’s feet. Was pathetic to watch and so satisfying to put them to task like we did.

All depends, but that’s an incredibly difficult one to turn away should we get the opportunity.