[GlassEyedBomber]

At the moment I'd be happy with;

Marton Eppel  ST - Budapest Honved  
Sam Clucas CM - Hull  
Andrea Ranocchia CB - Inter
A left back....  Any left back!

Surely not a stretch financially            
         
                 

Any left back apart from Galloway!

Phew he's already out on loan at Sunderland  

[drewks]

Today's the day....I can feel it in my bones

[Sir Megson]

Today's the day....I can feel it in my bones  

Twice in one weekend? Mrs Drewks won't know what's hit her   

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At the moment I'd be happy with;

Marton Eppel  ST - Budapest Honved  
Sam Clucas CM - Hull  
Andrea Ranocchia CB - Inter
A left back....  Any left back!

Surely not a stretch financially            
         
                 

Any left back apart from Galloway!

Phew he's already out on loan at Sunderland  

Sigh of relief from me there as well. The Sunlun v Derby game had a few familiar faces from us full back wise, Andre Wisdom was playing for Derby and Galloway on loan at Sunlun like you've mentioned. Bit gutted we didn't keep Billy Jones though. Not the best player defensively but always worked his knackers off supporting the forwards.

[Salopbaggie]

I understand the points people are making about. not signing players unless they improve the squad, but I think we need to wake up and smell the coffee.

The point is we do not have a squad, so by its very definition any player would improve the squad, by how much is the question. We have 16 established first team players, (make that 14 during the Africa Cup of Nations), which means we could not put out a squad including subs without including academy players.

This begs the question, to improve the squad does a player we bring in, just need to be better than our academy players to justify the tag of improving the squad. Another question is where has all the money gone?

We have been told for years we can not afford this and we can not afford that, we have had "JP is froogle and the club will not spend above their means", fair enough, I agreed with that.

Since then we have had two increases in T.V money , income from sales and transfers, sponsorship deals, we will not mention our new billionaire owner, WHERE HAS THE MONEY GONE? (other than £9-£12 million on a £600,000 player who its doubtful will ever play at the Hawthorns)

I am not saying we should be matching Man City and their £210 mil, so far!!! (What happened to the F.F.P.R., while we are asking where things have gone) or even United with their £146 mil spend, but surely we should be up there with the Huddersfield's (no offence A.C. x) £41.2 Mil. I know we still have 4 weeks to go followed by the 16 weeks of the club making excuses saying "well they missed pre-season, so they will be fit after xmas". It is almost as if pre-season catches the club by surprise every year and they do not know it is coming up.

I see only two solutions to our dilemma, we bite the bullet and start paying the asking price (which some clubs will pay) for players or we close down the UK scouting scene and do all of our scouting overseas, though of course Brexit will dramatically reduce the possibilities in that area.

Rant over

[BridgwaterBaggie]

Could the reluctance to spend be traced back to a certain David Mills ?
(younger fans may need to google)

Hard to believe we once paid the then highest transfer fee for an English player.

[Worldclassalbion]

David Mills from Middlesbrough. Was it £500,000? He was utter rubbish

[4evaabaggie]

I'm beginning to think this is all a ploy, we have secretly signed six players four weeks ago, they are hidden high in the Austrian mountains doing a pre-season, they have been team building and are fully match fit, we will announce their signing officially on Thursday and in the team to play Saturday. We will surprise the media, the FA elite club of six and the premier league, we will pick up all the silverware and go on to be European champions.

Or we're in the poop!

Which is more likely?

Vote now please.

[Worldclassalbion]

I'm beginning to think this is all a ploy, we have secretly signed six players four weeks ago, they are hidden high in the Austrian mountains doing a pre-season, they have been team building and are fully match fit, we will announce their signing officially on Thursday and in the team to play Saturday. We will surprise the media, the FA elite club of six and the premier league, we will pick up all the silverware and go on to be European champions.

Or we're in the poop!

Which is more likely?

Vote now please.

I fear the brown smelly stuff

[Salopbaggie]

I'm beginning to think this is all a ploy, we have secretly signed six players four weeks ago, they are hidden high in the Austrian mountains doing a pre-season, they have been team building and are fully match fit, we will announce their signing officially on Thursday and in the team to play Saturday. We will surprise the media, the FA elite club of six and the premier league, we will pick up all the silverware and go on to be European champions.

Or we're in the poop!

Which is more likely?

Vote now please.

I am voting for option 2 and just to add to the poop side of the question, the Vile and the Dingles finish the Championship in a tie for the top spot and automatic promotion with Stoke surprisingly finishing in the top 3 with a sensational season from Berawhingealot scoring 30 in the season, 23 of them set up by Fletcher.

[drewks]

So the club say we have 'the full squad available ' for Saturday's opener v Bournemouth.
Phew. We may even be able to name a sub or 2 then