Has this takeover 'collapsed'? Not seen anything officially, but the preview on this site suggests it has

Forecast only suggested rain in the early afternoon and maybe a little bit of snow about 4pm. Game should be fine, just hope any that falls and the relatively strong winds doesnt become a leveller

hopefully not - forecasts I've seen are more for rain than snow. Not been particularly wet recently so pitch should be cope

with the amount of money in the Prem, I don't think there is ever a time when you would turn it down for another season in the champ. I think the ideal is you get promoted and then hope for a bit of luck and try to hang on in for a year or two to get established. I don't think we will make it up thi...

Yep that was the point of that team - realistically currently McCleary is the first name on the team sheet - plus don't think Yann, Gunter, McShane and arguably Williams are ready to move on quite yet

Gunts has at least 2 assists - can think of Kelly (Bristol A) and Beerens (Bristol H) off the top of my head

Grabban on loan would be worth a go I think, reckon Bournemouth would let him go

because they didn't pay him any wages or signing on fee during his time there of course.

And as we now know the fee is closer to 2mill, so bad luck scousers

happening for 2.2 mill apparently

A good signing for that sort of money. Agree on Blackett - has looked great to me as a left sided CB, and pretty dreadful as a LB in a back 4.

Those teams above certainly look exciting

Realistically you would like a bit more experience and if you sprinkle the likes of McCleary in there you have a potentially very good side

Do like that back 5 and midfield 3 though

Gunter was poor today. I like him but him and Blackett were dreadful first up and it cost us the game Personally just think we look much better 3-5-2 and use both Gunter and Obita's attacking talents rather than highlight the fact they aren't the best defensively I'd sacrifice Beerens from the first...

Agree, best player by a distance for us

Evans, Kelly and Swift is potentially a top midfield

Not a great game that, but after awful first 20, was always going to be a non event I suppose plus side is Kelly, Evans and Swift all looked tidy and ok at that level. McCleary looked dangerous at times Downside is Yann looked way out of his depth, defence were all pretty poor, Beerens and Williams ...

be no harm him coming along for a trial see if he still has it. No doubt his agent is on the case

in terms of where the money is from - should surely still have some money from the Blackman/Tish/Norwood sales as well. Long term, he potentially sees Moore/Tiago/Blackett as a back 3, which could be formidable. McShane still has big role to play in the mid term though. Agree probably the end of the...

yep true.

notice he is still tweeting RFC news as well - can't let go...

im not sure if this is true but the impression I have of J Low is that he isn't a football writer, where CW was. He seems to do a solid enough job but I don't think he has quite the depth or the ability at the moment to write the opinion pieces CW did I suspect a large number of the hits on GR are d...

Good news and well deserved for AAH

Im surprised there hasn't been more noise about him leaving tbh. Would make a good signing for a top champ team or lower prem

Would hope to get him to sign on a similar deal to Gunter at least - or relatively low buyout clause, big promotion bonus type of thing. Same for Williams

Would rather him go there than to Derby/Villa/Sheff Wed or any of the other usual suspects if we do decide to cash in

Surprised we would pay as much, but potentially a very good player

GetReading suggests the fee is a lower than reported though.