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I've got no hard feelings towards Shola, the guy gives his all and has contributed in important matches. He just doesn't have the ability to cut it week in week out at the toon. Will be interesting to see where he ends up and how he does, but good luck to him when he does move on.

Oliver will be furious that he admitted that!

Important point, I would say transfers are a special case where it is best to keep everything quiet until the deal is done. The new regime seem pretty good at that in particular.

I hope you're right. It'll take a long time before it gets to that stage though IMO. But I think the fans on this site represent a relatively interested and aware minority. For more casual fans it might seem like nothing has changed... if all they look at is the back page of the Chronicle.

I've been wondering about this myself recently. All I can come up with is that it doesn't matter either way - even if the club has an excellent relationship with the media and pass them loads of leaks/info they will still write whatever nonsense they feel like. So in that situation best just say 'fuck them'. The only problem with it is that the media is the only way for fans to find out what is going on at the club. When Sam wouldn't talk to the BBC it left a lot of fans without a channel to find out about what he thought. So ideally we would talk to the media and then they would print what we really said, in the context we said it, without their own agenda thrown in. But since that will never happen, best to keep quiet.

The silver jobby looked better in the flesh than in the photos, the lighter stripe isn't as noticable... still not buying a 3rd kit though.

Would be an excellent signing but I can see Mark Hughes exploding with rage if his best players start being sold out from under him a couple of months into the job. Would love it, but don't think it's likely at the moment. (Unless Thaksin needs to pay his legal bill)

Aye, Glendinning is a nob about the toon, shame as he's a decent bloke really. He was starting to spoil the Guardian podcast at the end of last season though. To be fair they probably don't have a specific axe to grind, it's just easy for the whole media to follow the pack mentality and continue to write this rubbish... I don't know if they even realise what they're doing. Anyway, they had plenty of ammo last season but are now beginning to look more and more ridiculous as their sources of information dry up. Hilarious that Taylor thinks that because KK isn't blurting everything to the press he is 'in the dark'. You've done us no favours guys, time to see what it feels like to be frozen out.

Looked like a really encouraging performance, might we be seeing the return of the Duff? Who was it who had the header for the Milner goal BTW, and was it saved or did it hit the post?

Too quick, was just looking for hilarious photo of a rock or something.

He's class, that's probably why his ego is kicking in and he turned down the contract.

Was gonna say the same - Sure I read that Cox return was just till Keegan 'found his feet again'. Again, much like Mort's departure - the media make it out to be some major falling out, when in reality it is something that was agreed from day one. Just goes to show, it doesn't matter if we actually run the club well, the media will have shit to spout about it. Maybe Freddy wasn't that bad after all?!

Christ on a bike, "another blow"?, "under fire"? - what the feck are they on about? Nobs.

Seems a bit box-to-box leaning towards attacking. The new Frank Lampard... hope we get him but IMO it would be a mistake for him personally to move on so soon after only one good season at City.

I like it better than the away top as well, if it wasn't for the lighter area under the sponsor - that spoils it a bit.

Bring it on

Keegan picks a pair of jeans, Wise suggests a newer pair Jimmenez suggests a nice pair of shorts Ashley complains the shorts are too expensive NE5 complains that under Shepherd we had the 5th best pair of jeans in the history of the premiership Keegan walks out. Ashley sells up, spits on the badge and publicly wipes himself with a toon shirt.

Everytime I speak to a mate from down south I get things like "trouble with the toon again eh?" and shit like that. I'm amazed that anyone thinks this stuff actually happens.

If we sold them Smith then hijacked the Moutinho deal, that would be doing business.

I saw Bald Eagle Jim Smith in Oxford for the second time today, only just found out he's on the board of Oxford Utd. Thanks Wikipedia.

Do you reckon Wise has a massive bet on how many pages this thread will run to, so the club aren't announcing the deal? He wants another 50 pages of this: - "I'm worried" - "Don't be worried" - "I am worried" - "Don't be worried" In a peep show style.

Looks like we have pulled off a couple of quality signings so far, maybe could do with a bit more quantity but I think KK, little Dennis and co have done some good work.

threw sir bobby's faith in him back in his face by being a twat about being asked to play on the wing and chucked the captain's armband on the floor iirc. sir bobby wanted to make him vice captain with a view of taking over from big al. dyer also - - - dodgy video's with lampard, out on the piss in town too much for a pro footballer, crashing his porsche into the swing bridge... To be fair I'd forgotten about the refusing to play on the wing thing, that was bad. But the other stuff really is nobody's business, as far as I could see he always tried more than hard enough on the pitch. Anyway, I was always a fan!

Dunno what people have against Dyer really... let himself down with the Bowyer fight but other than that he's just been unlucky with injuries.

At his age with the talent he had he's definitely not 'finished'. There's every chance he can put together some good form... let's hope it happens.