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I wish he'd decided to get under the financial wire by buying Morley as we have two midfielders who won't be here next season.

In terms of the central defender, probably because Taylor will go back to West Brom, Bradley will go back to Derby (in any case he is 34 next year) and Low is leaving at the end of his contract.

Here, here.

I certainly think you’re a great poster and I’m disappointed that your post hasn’t attracted more than 14 thumbs up. I suspect the main reason is that very few people will have visited this thread as they will already have voted on Saturday.

I have come here because I’ve been looking for the post in which someone commented that Adam Reach seemed very one footed. Maybe I’m wrong in thinking that his normal position is on the left (as per Wikipedia) and that is his dominant foot but, if I’m correct, the following showreel demonstrates that he also has an extremely useful right foot and can score worldies from 30 yards with it. Would be wonderful if he could come up with something similar with us because we are not blessed currently with players who are prepared to shoot from distance.

I obviously wasn’t expecting to hear that @drcongo was still talking about closing the Gasroom down. That is very sad indeed and I personally would be very distraught and would not welcome an alternative.

Here’s the Adam Reach footage:

https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=adam%20reach&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#ebo=0

I will repeat my previous comment, if you think just because he cost a bit of money the Danish Centre half should come straight in, who would you drop out of Low and Taylor and presumably bin Bradley all together?

The good thing about the transfers pre being data led was that all of them, every single time hit the ground running and were as good as whatever manager thought they would be at the time of signing.

wait, what? You mean there were some players signed that weren’t as good as people thought they would be before we were data led and some players won’t be as good as people think they will be, after we’re data led?

what witch craft is this? I thought data led was going to be the silver bullet that got it right 100% of the time (said no one ever. Not even DR)

All signings have always been “data led” btw.

Previously it was human gathered data - that’s what scouting teams did. Now it’s statistical data (which would have been put onto a computer largely from said human gathered data and, arguable could come from a much MUCH larger group of independent and in house scouting teams not just from your area, but across the country/europe/theworld.).

It's probably lucky for Dodds he's got a 3.5 year contract - if I was Dan Rice I wouldn't be best pleased about the public criticism of players I'd signed for the team at significant expense in January.