My main question in all this.... am I the only one not having dinner with Waggot?

Forrest didn't negotiate a 90% sell on clause or something ridiculous did they? Do we get to keep the full amount? If the ambition for PL is serious you'd hope the vast majority is reinvested in transfers this time. I'm still not convinced he won't turn back into Brereton. I know he had a bit of a stuttering second half to the season with injuries and international duty but he scored 2 goals since he scored his 20th. I'd personally snap the hand of anyone offering over 15m

Thanks @joey_big_nose - put it far better than i did. No disrespect to Carter at all. I think it's time to give him some minutes and see what he can do but we shouldn't be reliant on him. If for example he stulruggled with the step up to the championship then we're in trouble

Surely if we're going into the season with Carter higher than 4th choice we're in for a long old season. Two CBs are essential.

Was clubless most of last season wasn't he? And doesn't he have a pretty dodgy injury record?

And me! I might print a picture of him off and stick it to the back of my wife's head for bed time.

I can't see the bit you're talking about with Dack? I know it cuts to a close up to him but it just looked like he was staring straight ahead - slightly awkwardly probably because there was a camera in his face.

You only get that section if you buy the platinum membership.

It's just a level of creative talent I never had!

Exactly. He's had some sub appearances after 2 years out and he's written off. He could well be crocked but give him a full pre season and a run of games atleast.

That's who that was! I clocked him too but couldn't for the life of me put a name to the face.

Markanday Travis and Gally were the ones that stood out as actually properly interacting with JDT where as most of the rest looked either scared or disinterested. I spend most of my day being very lazy at work but when a new boss turns up it's a tuck your shirt in, give a strong handshake and a smile and pretend I'm good at small talk. That wasn't there with a lot of the squad.

How many new managers / DOFs come in and say "that manager was shit, he should never have bottled it in the second half of the season"? Play the game, come in pay a compliement to the last manager and then change pretty much everything he did. Let's see how much they change at the club and that will show you how much he actually values the foundations mowbray laid. I think it's been clear the ambition is the Premier league?

It feels more and more like he had an issue with Mowbray

Agreed, I thought it was odd he hadn't reached out to Nyambe. That's the sort of thing you need to act fast on because there's a finite amount of time before his contract expires and its one less position off the list. Would have thought there would be more circling for him though but there doesn't seem to be the interest.

Agreed it won't be for the sake of it but we don't have a huge budget and past experience we're not fast to act so maybe we can get a bit of advantage by fishing in a slightly more obscure pond that we have a bit more knowledge of - rather than competing with the rest of the championship for the same players.

I imagine when he said it'll take 1 or 2 transfer windows that translates to "this window we just need bodies in next window we can get rid of some dross"

Even just on paper you can see the squad is light. You don't need to watch them train to know that for example 2 of our starting CBs last season have left

"But boss, I'm a winger"

"Its going to take some time, it might take one or two transfer windows to get to where we want to be" Tony said 4 transfer windows didn't he? So by my reckoning the new regime is already twice as good 🤣

Finally got round to watching his full interview. By the end I noticed I was watching with a smile on my face. He's saying all the right things and has the right attitude. It's probably the first appointment under venkys where there's a genuinely positive feeling around it. Lambert is probably the only other appointment that felt good at the time but that didn't feel anywhere near as positive as this. He's a young largely untested coach so of course it might not work out but if it doesn't I don't think it will be through lack of trying or effort. I'd take a midbtable mediocre season this year if we're genuinely building to something

Make the most of it while you can - have a bath, pop on some aftershave and you might be on to a promise.

He's meeting the squad for the first time today and rather worried his first reaction will be "Where's the rest of you?""

If there was a video of TM walking past the picture of king Kenny he would have scoffed and said "premier league!!! park those dreams lads, it's not the 90s any more"

Hearing him say I like to play possession football but you don't play for the sake of it, you need to play it towards the goal, create chance and score goals - huge sigh of relief, its like he'd looked up previous mowbray interviews and decided to call bullshit on it.