Recent content by Dr. Winston

A lack of ability was never Grimes' problem here. The fact that you could count the number of games in most seasons where he was truly influential on the fingers of one hand was. Nowhere near as important as his cheerleaders (and based on the player turnout for his departure, he himself)...

A deal from outside the ownership group is more likely to be OK. As mentioned elsewhere, these rules were brought in to stop the likes of Etihad taking the mickey out of FFP rules and inflating Man Citys transfer funds by claiming a £200m a year sponsorship deal. We could be sponsored by Death...

Because the sponsors aren't the owners. If Ryan Reynolds had paid £20m to advertise the latest Deadpool movie on their shirt front then that would be a conflict and probably investigated by the league. United Airlines jumping on the bandwagon to make use of the exposure is not. They've played...

Not sure if it's worth sending Wilson out on another loan. He's 22 in December and not exactly ripping it up in the SPL, nor did he at Yeovil previously. Maybe a sale with a sell on. Congreve and Cotterill are also at the "use or sell" point for me, alongside Josh Thomas. Sam Parker is still a...

I think there might be governance issues surrounding ownership sponsorships and the potential for inflated values as a means of bypassing PSR rules anyway.

Be interesting to see if Lissah or Wilson get a look in. Lissah you would think would be a cert to feature heavily in pre-season at least. Wilson maybe less so. Lissah may be able to do two of those jobs you mention. For me the biggest gap is a ball playing CB. If we're going to play a higher...

In fairness, there seems to be a vibe from the crowd lately that suggests people want him to do well rather than pile onto him. I think I first noticed it in the game he got that cut on his foot. I wanna say West Brom? He got a good reception today and the reaction to his goal line clearance...

Overall he's doing a very decent job. There are certain things that I like about his style very much, and a couple of things that annoy me. Pretty par for the course really. I like the fact that his post match interviews are generally pretty honest and accurate about where we've gone wrong, but...

I don't know what demons or confidence issues he's been dealing with lately, but a lot of people seemed to forget just how good he can be when things are going his way. A lack of ability has never been the problem. Hope he's all the way back. A confident Josh Key is an asset at RB in his own...

I don't think we've really got the AM role right for much of the season. Widell looks the most comfortable in there at the moment and results when he plays tend to bear that out, but too often we've not really had the right fit. That position is critical to the way we want to play IMO, whether...

Or it's just being willing to acknowledge that Fulton unfairly carried a hell of a lot of the blame, perhaps even all of it, for what happened when he and Grimes were paired up, which was an all too frequent occurrence. For whatever reason JF has been the red headed stepchild of the fanbase. A...

Yep. We'd probably have lost that even if we'd had twelve men, never mind ten. Cooper was on his way out the door and simply didn't give a shit.

Don't be silly.

After Russy spent several months trying to push him out, and was halfway out the door himself at the time. Let's not pretend that that Neil Quornock (Thanks Rangers fans!) rated him from the off.

He and Matos have certainly clicked, but he's the type of player that managers like anyway. Competent managers at least.