Dr Gloom

don't think jonas or smith will ever score for us

the bbc and sky boys are all getting a bit old and crusty these days if you ask me. sky is like an old boy's club with richie keyes and andy grey not getting any younger. time to start blooding the next generation

Wish we could have rid the wage bill in the summer of this wasted. What a shit signing

our first eleven is a very good championship side. that doesn't mean they're premership class all of a sudden. more a case of showing how big a gulf there is between the two divisions. that same group of players weren't good enough in the top flight last year and if we do bounce straight bacl, we would need many new additions.

taylor off with a calf injury now. show's how thin the squad is. a few kids will have to play before long if we don't get more emergency loans in

This game just gets better. you sure about that? if it's a bad injury, we'll have the prospect of r taylor at right back

this new defender looks alright tbf

"the team needs to get the crowd stimulated", says mark bright. oooh er

of course. we are his team

mark bright - a championship level co-commentator at best. piss poor

i can't pick them up. what are they?

oooh. unlucky ranger

lost one nill to palace

"we are top of the league"

great strike from taylor. wright was flapping all over the place at it mind

keane not looking happy

it's the nolan show. piss poor defending from ipswich mind

good ball in by taylor too tbf

get in there nolan. great head

this was so predictable. is lovenkrands not worth a shot so we don't have two defensive midfielders in. butt seems to have been given some kind of playmaker role. bizarre given he can't pass forwards

our midfield can only pass backwards and sideways it seems. butt looks awful playing in a more advanced role.

as stupid as playing butt and smith together in the centre of the park? might sound crazy but putting our centre mids in the centre of midfield rather than upfront seems to make sense to me so you agree with me then? smith up front and nolan in centre mid alongside butt. smith has done well as a holding midfielder but i think if you asked him what sort of player he is, he'd say a striker that's being used in midfield rather than the other way around. smith and butt together in cm seems way too defensive to me against the second bottom team in the league, even away from home. and nolan isn't a striker either is he? smith has played more up front than nolan in his career surely no I don't how did you arrive at that conclusion? I've not advocated playing nolan up front either, I think it should be nolan and smith in cm today with the strikers used as they are being ah, fair enough. my originally post was in reply to the suggested team sheet posted earlier in the thread which had butt and smith in the centre of the park and nolan playing as a second striker. looks like we we do agree after all. smith to start in the middle as long as butt isn't playing alongside him.

as stupid as playing butt and smith together in the centre of the park? might sound crazy but putting our centre mids in the centre of midfield rather than upfront seems to make sense to me so you agree with me then? smith up front and nolan in centre mid alongside butt. smith has done well as a holding midfielder but i think if you asked him what sort of player he is, he'd say a striker that's being used in midfield rather than the other way around. smith and butt together in cm seems way too defensive to me against the second bottom team in the league, even away from home. and nolan isn't a striker either is he? smith has played more up front than nolan in his career surely

as stupid as playing butt and smith together in the centre of the park?

doubt villa will will want him back. he's probably ours for the season if he works out