Plenty of positives

[BoroMart]

‘Soft underbelly players’.

This is what needs sorting out.

We play some good football but it’s far too easy to score against us at key stages of a match.

I said last year for all the good from McNair, he is a bit soft for a CB. Same for Howson as a CDM.

Those are now key roles to address. Of course we can address the McNair positin by putting a fit lenihan there and Fry central but we do need a nasty b'stard for CMD

 

[BoroMart]

EVERYWHERE,

 

[r00fie1]

Keep hearing that our performance levels have dropped since wilder had "talks" with Burnley. Can anyone shed any light on the matter? Is it just a case of he didn't distance himself from the rumours quick enough for some people's liking? I thought it was a pretty part and parcel of the game for good managers to be linked with bottom of pl/ top of championship sides every time someone is sacked

For all the links in shock-jock media, Chris Wilder is going to be managing at least 10 league teams at once.
He`l be terribly tired come next may

 

[UgoAfro]

There's too many that have ridiculous expectations of the club. Why do people think we should be automatic promotion contenders when we were so far away last season?

We've had a big turnaround in playing staff and I know that these days compared to yesteryear the players play to stricter coaching rules, but they still take time to get used to each other and we haven't got a settled side yet. If we get into the play offs it will be a job well done. Promotion an absolute bonus.

At least the football is more enjoyable to watch than much of the dross of the last decade.

Completely agree with this. Is all well and good lambasting the club for not getting in players early but the only way to do that is paying over the odds to force a quick deal or compromising on the quality of the player. Unfortunately, with no parachute payments and running at a massive loss we have to stretch every penny which usually means waiting until late in the window when the selling club accept they aren't going to get a better offer than ours.