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A lot of it depends on maintaining the interest that drives the commercial deals. A couple of years spent swimming in the mid table Championship mire will turn a lot of people off. So far they've basically had a story to tell each season. Finishing twelfth after a campaign of kick and rush won't...

Spot on. We're also not helping them by taking so long to get the ball into areas where they can do damage. Defences have time to get set. If we can get the ball flowing through defence and the midfield a lot quicker they'll have more space to operate and hopefully be more effective.

A lot of people put a lot of effort into criticising him last season and old habits are dying hard. His all round game is decent, as in fact it was last season too. He's scoring more goals, but he's also clearly a lot more confident. That's a massive thing for a forward. Most of his goals have...

If he hadn't had that perfectly legitimate goal against Brum ruled out, he'd currently be the joint second highest goal scorer in the division so far this season. With no penalties. For a club not exactly pulling up trees and creating a shedload of chances.

In fairness, many players have probably spent most of their recent careers being coached not to take risks in possession by the various Poundshop Pep's out there. Going to be a hard habit to break for a lot of them.

If I win the Euromillions I'm having one of those.

After some shocking early displays he is coming along nicely. I just wish he was a bit quicker in possession. Pass or run. Takes that split second too long too often.

He's mostly been used on the flanks for us so far so he's getting used to playing in the middle at what is probably a far higher intensity than he's used to. I like what I've seen so far. I particularly like that when he drives forward he does it with his head up looking for the pass.

Gomis was good though. Maybe replacing Laudrup with Monk would be a better comparison.

Which is the point I was making. Every time we sell a player we get people theorising that it would cost just as much to replace them and it never does.

How much did we pay for him in the first place? £3m is obviously way too low though. Bidding starts at £10m.

His minutes per goal compares quite favourably to most of the other names on the Championship top scorers list. It's not as if we get all that many penalties for him to pad his stats with either.

Managers since he's been here have tended to use him a lot. Not sure why. He looked absolutely mustard when he first arrived, but has flattered to deceive since. Whilst I can't fault his workrate, he doesn't create enough and goes down far, far too easily. Eom is a much better option out wide...

Odd to quote a post yet fail to read the first sentence of it.

There isn't a striker in World football that takes every chance or controls every ball. Vipotnik is into double figures by the first half of December for a team that has struggled for much of the season. He's comfortably capable of a 20+ goal return if given the service.

He's been in and out of the side, occasional starts but mostly sub appearances. Hard to build up a head of steam in those circumstances. Widell has had largely the same issue.

Infantino is doing a cracking job of making people nostalgic for Blatter. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c80x38e04yro

He is lightweight. No two ways about it. I think his dead ball delivery is quite a bit better than his live ball delivery. Technically though when he's on his game he's one of the top players at the club for me. Seems to very much be a confidence player. Did well at the tail end of last season...

Can vaguely remember Mexico '86 with that shadow in the centre circle of the Azteca, but Italia '90 was my first WC and I was captivated by it, although I will echo ANH's comments about that probably being mostly nostalgia. They've been kinda hit and miss since. USA '94 was pretty dull, I...

I liked the way he and Inoussa appeared to have set up a "shortarsed substitute" pairing and teamed up on a number of players to hassle them off the ball. Both players have earned themselves more game time. Inoussa especially should be getting some of the game time that Ronald is.