My left one's James Westfall, and my right one's Dr. Kenneth Noisewater.

I remember them well, but none of them were Premier League quality performances, he just played well for a midtable Championship side. You say yourself he was 'okay' which I agree with, but hardly a ringing endorsement of PL quality in a Championship side. 'Better than Smallwood and Evans' also doesn't make him PL quality. Personally feel he COULD be PL quality but doesn't seem to have the hunger to regularly be Championship quality anymore.

Rodwell was by no means PL standard at any point last season! He was reasonable at best. Johnson helped Derby to the play-off final last year and is theoretically better than most other midfielders we have. Conway played a few games for us, replaced by someone who played over 30 games for a top half team. Reed, I'll give you that, but I'd argue Rodwell's lack of game time makes Johnson Reed's replacement. GK, I'll give you unless we replace with someone of the Darlow, Ruddy, Carson ilk. Downing... at least is 'replaced' by a youth centre back imo, but needs an upgrade.

...dammit!

I struggle to see how a striker who scored 11 goals can be seen as inadequate, given our current best striker scored only 12 in that same season. Given a run up front, under a decent manager, I'd expect him to score 15-20, rather like Graham.

Did someone run over your dog this morning or something?

Agreed there!

Sheltered life syndrome.

It'd certainly be an opportunity to get a bunch of our u23s some Championship game time...

With that attitude I'm amazed you have any. We northerners are meant to be a friendly bunch.

You're looking at 2 years in the PL. In the Championship for Newcastle he played 30-odd games (promotion form, no less), previous to that at Forest he was their starting keeper for 3 years, and a very solid one too. His lowest rate of clean sheets in the Championship is 25% in his first half-season as a mainstay for Forest in 12/13, followed by 28% in 13/14, and 29% in 14/15. Then for Newcastle in the Championship in 16/17 it was 38%. If he can help us keep an average of 1 clean sheet every 3 games, I'm happy.

Let me get this right: A striker who scored 11 goals for us (with half a season under Owen Coyle) is 'shit'? Best not tell Danny Graham as he only scored one more that year.

If it's like the 03/04 kit, let's hope we have a better season!

IF we got Darlow in place of Raya, that would turn this window into a net (pun not intended) positive for me. Still needs a hardman centre back, and probably a striker too. Let's not forget we'll need to let a few go too: Samuel out and Nuttall on loan at the least. Possibly Smallwood out too.

Raya, I'd be disappointed to see us lose. However, if Mowbray can pull off a great replacement signing, Raya could prove to be our 'Filan' to the Friedel. Personally I'm sorry to see him go, BUT there's no doubt he's lost confidence since his face was kicked in. You can tell he's even more reluctant to get stuck in than he was before. It could be that the Spanish guy at Brentford might be the perfect candidate to push him to the next level, while I'm not convinced we would.

Only Downing and Graham there are 'old' going by average age that players end their careers, but reckon both have one more season in them, personally. Leutwiler is 'prime' age. Bennett, Evans, Smallwood and Mulgrew are perhaps a year away from the end of their primes age wise (although I think Mulgrew is actually nearly finished). As for Johnson, reckon he has another couple of seasons in him. Age isn't the key, it's how they fit into the team/squad. With that being said, I'd be reluctant to see any more coming in at 31 or older.

Rodwell isn't our player.

I'll say the same thing as last season. Isn't it refreshing to not know about signings until a day or two beforehand instead of weeks of sagas?

Great signing! We've missed having an utter bastard in midfield!

Think Johnson is a very good midfield signing. We've missed having utter bastard in midfield!

Sorted! What changed?

Same issue for me on a Samsung Galaxy A70. It doesn't need resizing for me, but if I swipe a smidge to the left, the page flies left. As for the new colour scheme: Fantastic!

Agree with your assessment there. Chairshots need to be protected with hands up. Also looks even better as you get the slap of the chair on the hands, while the wrestler can snap their head back to sell the impact. With a straight chair shot the receiver can't do that, so it can actually look and sound much weaker while doing God knows what kind of damage.

Looks more like she's pretending to smoke a joint tbf ?

I'll look forward to when I can get it direct from Umbro without a sponsor on. Unless I can fit in a kid's one.