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Paterson did well for us overall, and might have done even better if he hadn't been working for Russy. That's even more so the case for Ntcham, who was potentially one of the best central midfielders in the division yet consistently found himself playing wide on the left. It may well be the...

He's far from the first, but this season he has been a salutary lesson in the dangers of writing a player off too soon, and far too many people did. Even last season he had something like a goal every three starts yet faced much of the same type of criticism that Idah is now. There was always a...

As trendy as it is to bash Fulton I thought he was by far the best of those four. That charge back and tackle that he did got a grand reaction. He didn't disgrace himself IMO. The game was shifting in their favour by that point. Maybe we aided the process by making those changes but I wouldn't...

Always struck me as "Diet Russy" to be honest. Quick with the easy PR wins but a different side on display when challenged, and the whole WBA situation reflects very poorly on his character. His last two non-Notts County jobs outside non-league have both ended in the sack. He'll have to show a...

Great, but for me better playing off someone. Or support striker. Bony I'd cheerfully play up top on his own.

Still the best striker I've ever seen for us. Don't care about the second spell. First time around he was almost unplayable.

I don't think there's anything that LOB did for us last season that Ethan Galbraith isn't capable of doing this time around so you'd have to assume that there's more to it than that.

That's not what we did though, as much as the professional hindsight artists are trying to pretend otherwise right now. We appointed a guy who had delivered significantly improved results and performances across two separate spells as caretaker manager. We turned things around from the absolute...

Here's hoping.

There definitely feels like a dearth of entertainment in football generally these days compared to years gone by. Maybe it's just me being a bit "Old man yells at cloud", but the Premier League was enthralling in the days of Henry, Cantona, Hasselbaink et al. Now it all just seems a bit too...

If we wind up paying £20m then every single player would have done remarkably well and we'd be back in the Premier League. In reality the spending is half that, probably even quite a bit less.

Sheehan may have some input into signings but there's no way that he will have the final say. Those days are long gone.

I thought it was a dive by Yalcouye and then a petulant reaction that gave the ref an easy decision to make. Not his finest few minutes.

Over two spells as caretaker too. As you say, he absolutely earned the chance.

Was it though? For all the changes we still had the same flat midfield three. We still moved the ball with all the tempo of continental drift. Lately Stamenic is demonstrating an almost Grimesian talent for killing momentum stone dead. The ball isn't getting forward quickly enough so defences...

Having a similar debate on the other site. It's not how we played last season so what has changed? Is it down to Darren O'Dea's influence? He's spent a lot of time working for Brendan Rodgers, who we all know has been a fan of the three CM approach in the past. Whoever's fault it is, we can't...

We have too many midfielders all trying to do a similar job and getting in each others way. In a short cameo Widell showed us precisely what we have been missing. Movement and workrate in their final third of the pitch, not ours.

He beat Cardiff four times. For far too many of our supporters, that's all that matters. Reducing the Derby to what it actually is, just three points, is what copped Duff so much stick. Small minded people obsessing over stuff that ultimately doesn't mean all that much.

It is isn't it?

We've not been great to watch. That much is obvious. Along with many others, I'd also suggest that the squad is not playing anywhere near as well as it is capable of. However, there is a definite urge from some quarters, maybe from those who were a bit too fond of the bullshit that Russy and...