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Didn't realise he played for your team You mentioned which team it was in a recent post, now which one was it again.... Sunderland or Leicester, i forget?

How does a player that has already left affect a new recruits level of performance, seeing as they hadn't played with the player because they had already departed. (hence why it seems silly to suggest it and as logical as blaming Peter Wards departure) Had that player stayed, the new recruit...

Decent players elsewhere come here and fail to recapture previous form and it's the fault of players we had who had already left the club before the new players arrived? I suppose Kemy's failure was due to Bobby Zamora leaving? or maybe Peter Ward?

So that wasn't the official club line... i am disappointed :jester:

Fingers crossed we can build again and go even further next time. Some players click straight away and others may take a season or 2 (like Murray) to produce so lets hope our last lot of signings come good and are re-enforced during the summer and it's a far better season next season in terms...

It can be competitive, but there are those who think that what we are spending should make us promotion certs and even then, we still arn't spending enough and it needs to be even higher

So you wouldn't find out about a new area first if you were about to move house to a different part of the country?

Which i thought we have been, holding out for the right price for Ulloa and refusing to pay over the odds and meet Bristol Citys fee demand for Baldock for example. On paper most of the signings we made were an improvement for at least equal to what we were losing McCourt at Celtic (as seen on...

Negativity breeds negativity, the gloom never lifted from the play-off defeat and the fans hardly made the new players feel wanted or welcome (telling some of them to f off before they had even kicked a ball because they 'weren't good enough for the club') I think that was one of the worst...

A chairman that hopes to have a team that is good enough to reach the play-offs is very different to a team that expects the team to make the play-offs How does our budget spend compare to the rest of the division, we were about half way in the table under Gus, i doubt we have had one of the...

I'm sure i saw something where CMS was quoted as saying that the atmosphere our fans created during our match at Peterborough that previous season was a factor in joining us (not the only reason, but it helped) Garcia and Hyypia are football managers, they know that players they have will be...

Thats not how accounts work. If you sign a player, their transfer fee and wages are spread out over the course of their contract and not 'paid off' by a transfer fee recieved just before you sign them You could otherwise end up tying all your capital into a few players and, should you be...

Lets wait until the accounts for the last season before we can see if you are right, but we were spending c£20m on players and with our summer spending and reportedly higher wages being paid to our squad then in previous season, it doesn't sound like you are right, (or if you are right, it may...

Add the disappointment of losing in the play-offs to our arch rivals, only to see them promoted and then survive in the Premier League. Add the second defeat in the play-offs to Derby and the fashion of the defeat (after losing our 2 1st choice centre backs for the 2nd leg) And so the...

Don't forget that fans were in full bed wetting mode in the summer. Complaining about the Manager leaving (then the incoming manager) the new kit provider, the advertising for the club (one league, one ambition) about the players we had lost and the players we had left. They were complaining...

CMS is a good case in point, he had offers from bigger and better placed clubs that us but still decided to come here (think he said it was the atmosphere our fans generated when we played against Peterborough that helped him decide to come here) If it was just down to facilities, league...

And if they rent rather than buy?

With Clayton, it could have been something as simple as a delaying tactic to see what other offers (if any) may come in before deciding (only to find out a bigger club were interested and he signed up too early) The players in demand hold the power, and they don't feel they have to be rushed...

But is the fact that your money doesn't go as far in terms of property in the area a contributing factor that puts off potential signings? You can have a 3 bedroom house in Yorkshire for the price of a 1 bedroom flat in Sussex. If the wage offers are the saem, which would you chose, surely the...

Would a player at say, Derby, turn down a Premier League move where they were offered something like 2 or 3 times their current wage (or more) and top flight football next season just because there is a chance the Derby may go up next season? Our wage structure is low? - were you not around in...