LancyTony

Yeah, but...apart from them...???

They might also take into account how he has played, previously, in the Prem and Champions' Leagues? Certainly be a squad player if he rediscovers his form?

I almost said "finally, a loan that everyone will get behind"! - I should have known better, really?

That Ben Garrity's not much good, either...apparently?

I think Forest got promotion with a lot of loans in their squad; and either Bolton or Derby did similar? It's generally less of a drain on resources, too.

Other clubs have used the loan market more so than we do - in theory, if we can't turn some of these loans into permanent signings, then the loanees we had just need to be replaced. We seem to be doing ok so far?

As might the scale of the scouting network required?

Of course we can use injuries as an excuse for some of our performances - we seem to have had an above-average amount over the last couple of seasons! And, again - it doesn't matter to us how other clubs fare? If we win against a weakened side, that's football...but it's the same if we lose for that reason, too.

Attendance simply means someone has attended a game, not whether they have paid for a ticket.

It doesn't matter a toss what other clubs do, or what happens to them! We may not be unique - that doesn't make the problem any less real. Also, I'd guess there may be a difference between Pompey's budget (their attendance is roughly 3 x ours!)?

We let 11 players go, in Summer and brought in 13 (4 on loan). We've since then sustained about 12 injuries - how the Hell are we supposed to legislate for that? Would you have broken any budget by bringing in another 12 players, just in case? Is that how you'd approach any transfer window? Bring in double the number of players we need, in case we get some injuries?

I never mentioned getting there this season, or even next. I would say Ojo is good enough too, and we would probably get loanees of at least the same quality as Devine and the Blaster. But, the assumption appeared to be that carol would never make a profit on the vale as we have reached our level - which i don't believe to be true?

So you're assuming L1 is our level, now? Because if we got back to the Championship, the value of the Vale would increase, especially if we did a Rudgie and stayed there for a while!

Totally agree with this - Mitch Clarke and Gibbo are pretty much interchangeable. To lose one to injury, and not get the other one in, for whatever reason is just bad luck!

Head of Recruitment for a Scottish club

Hoping to play a faster system, bringing in a couple of extra midfielders to change things around made sense. As for the LWB position, Mitch Clarke could have played there, with talk of bringing Gibbo back...but, of course, Mitch is another first-choicer injured!

But, some will be out of contract in the Summer and clubs may take a smaller sum than risk him leaving for nothing?

And i trust we will find adequate replacements, if necessary?

Let's see how the more-than-half-a-season-left goes, shall we?

Ahhh...so Loft getting injured wasn't actually an injury?

We should also be looking at available and talented players for development...regardless of their position? Get a season, or more, out of them then sell on for a profit is the model we are looking to establish!

I think it's more like people being offended on behalf of someone else who hasn't said they would feel offended in the first place?* It's also about pre-empting someone being offended over something inoffensive...like the word "Christmas", which doesn't seem to be offensive to anyone who isn't a Christian, yet there are people who have tiptoed around this for several years. My (Asian) newspaper shop always respond to me saying "Whatever you celebrate, have a lovely Christmas holiday period" by thanking me, shaking hands with me and wishing me a Merry Christmas. * There are plenty of genuine examples - look at the people who have fallen foul of the "cancel culture" - they're not all raving Right-wingers!!!

Already done that!

Agree...and I hope how Alfie and Ollie have done will make it easier to loan top Prem club's players for the future? Didn't Forest use around 6 loanees in their promotion season?

But - by your own statement (almost) - impossible to be certain!