We've had a bit of a rough time with promising youngsters being ruined by injuries. Whitehall, Gilsenan, I'd say JRC despite him being in the first team squad (had bad injuries at youth level and senior level, I think we've never seen the player he would have been without them), Butterworth had some bad ones whilst developing I recall. Can anyone think of any more?

Seems strange to me to release the third kit before the second...does that usually happen?

It's a hell of an if.

As long as you were bouncing between League One and the Championship. It causes a reset of the time period, presumably because of the gulf in finances involved.

Big statement of stupidity paying 12 mill for a 30 year old at this level.

I feel like the word is pointless.

The accounts (if they weren't doctored, which would be a bit surprising given how long has passed and how many fans on here have scrutinised them, but not entirely surprising given how dodgy these cunts are) demonstrate that for a long time we didn't have a lot of leeway on the spend most seasons, within the rules. If those accounts are true, then you were wrong (aside from ways we could have been creative whilst that was allowed, of course) at the time. Now, we have definitely pulled the purse strings shut relative to what has been coming in and what they could do with funding. We had a season where we showed a profit, and there has been minimal spend, so they're definitely holding the money back now. That's not the same as you being proven right on your previous posts about what was happening then, just saying.

I think a more honest couple of interviews would have had quotes like 'Blackburn was a shitshow behind the scenes, Eustace was the only competent person in the management team and he has moved here and wanted us...plus Blackburn offered shitter wages so we were off.' Chaddy won't be able to claim we only lost Batth because he's been offered a longer deal now, both players signed one year deals at Derby.

The losses have never been more than 20 mill in a season before, so that only makes sense if the owners haven't sent us any money at all in the past 2 seasons, which is demonstrably false. In fact there was also at least one recent season where we made a profit in the accounts. In which case, what losses?

Yeh it's much more likely the roles are just reprised.

Especially if you're pushing yourself to impress your new boss and teammates.

No it isn't. You're thinking of the last week of the window.

It's enough to turn 7 draws into 7 wins.

Yep, the main improvement that took us to 7th last season was we became more solid defensively. A lot of which was down to Batth.

I already said the eye test is more important. I was simply commenting on the data itself in isolation, since none of us have watched him live.