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Rangers had 66.5% possession mind so in a very broad sense they were the better side. The players just needed to be braver. Or something.

I think it's probably a case of the kind of coaches we've mostly had over the last six or seven years preferring him to play the "safe" way that is his forte. The only two to try and force him out of that were Potter and Duff, and for my money both of them got performances out of him that...

I can certainly believe in a disagreement on the type of players we're after. Monty might well be one of those deeply in thrall to Pepball and the club are moving away from that. I would find it much harder to go along with the idea that we've dispensed with him because the players he was...

Whatever division we're in, whatever targets we have, we're not going to turn our noses up at a bargain. Cravatt and Co didn't get wealthy by paying more for anything than they had to. I don't buy that idea at all.

Reading between the lines it seems like Monty and Dimi (could have been a kids cartoon) are at cross purposes, whether major or minor, and Dimi, being Brett Cravatt's guy, won out. I'd imagine that most of us old heads view the prospect of Dimi having even more power with some trepidation, but...

Will never forgive him for the way he sent the team out to play at the start of the 17-18 season. Trying to scrape a point against teams like Brighton, Watford and Newcastle, none of whom were up to much at the time. Another three or four points in that period would probably have kept us up.

Cullen doesn't get anywhere near starting upfront, ever, unless Sheehan has gone clinically insane or both Idah and Vipotnik are injured. Vip has possession at the moment so you'd think that he'll start against Hull.

People continually overlook the importance of confidence to a strikers game. Vipotnik upped sticks to another country at a relatively young age after effectively losing his job, then spent the first two thirds of the season playing for a moron who had no idea how to use him. Despite this he...

Primarily why I've tended to lay off the "Our transfer windows have been shite!" narrative. We've signed some decent players, but we've appointed some hopeless managers. The three years wasted between Russy and Luke Williams did us more damage than anyone we brought in during a transfer window.

The madness is that in terms of income it wouldn't actually make a massive difference. Say, for a basic example we sold 18,000 STs at full whack of £459, that works out at around £8.2m. In reality a fair chunk of those would be concessionary prices so the actual amount would probably be closer...

Even in the 70's they couldn't beat New Zealand.

In terms of day to day interest it's not even close to a 50/50 split and hasn't been for about 20 years. People still turn out for a piss up on Six Nations days but have little or no interest in club rugby. If you added the attendances of all the Swansea Rugby clubs (Dunvant, Glais etc) to the...

Unless there are expenses involved that make it non-cost effective, taking season tickets off sale makes no sense. Keep them on sale, but reduce the price by £20 for every game that passes. Plus I'd certainly look at the kids pricing. Considering how much we've spent over and above our entire...

Placing restrictions on supply thus driving prices up plays into the hands of the richer teams anyway. Probably even more so than the alternative. When we've reached a point where you're looking at a club paying £35m for a player (albeit a very good one in Guehi) and thinking "Christ, that's...

Window should be done away with altogether. Back to the way it used to be. One transfer deadline late in the season.

Sounds about right. And we were a club on the up at the time having not spent four or five years playing football tedious enough to drive away supporters.

You're quite right. As this is a discussion over which one of them served the team better as a striker last season Cullen being top scorer doesn't actually matter as most of his goals came when he played in a completely different position. Glad we sorted that out. I haven't decided anything...

Enjoyed this read. Was a better system for me. All transfer windows have done is push up prices and wages as desperate clubs have less time to make deals happen.

No. No he wasn't. Not in goals scored when playing upfront, which are, after all, the raison d'etre of a striker. The figures are pretty clear on that. A 5/6 week purple patch when he wasn't even playing upfront seems to have convinced a lot of people otherwise. Including you it would seem...

He does seem to have woken up a bit since moving to Coventry. I just found it amusing that, as per usual, it was the other midfielders who were being targeted by high profile clubs.