Yellowbelly

What’s he supposed to say? The bunch of 16 to 20 year olds we are forced to play are poo and it’s their fault we lost? He’s accentuating the positive and trying to give the young lads a bump in morale. He’s dealing with a crap situation pretty well imo and those criticising should show a bit of understanding

Showing the lads support eh?

In readiness for the Americans …

Maybe that’s the problem with us, rather than thebizzle?

That starting line-up alone should add a little more interest in the game. Whatever the score let’s hope one or two of the lads show a bit of quality tonight.

That about covers it

We can’t even agree what colour the shorts should be, let alone really important decisions. (Black btw with blue/white hooped socks)

Maybe it’s the Zimbabweans that have a good local scout round here?

Maybe halfway through the press conference there’ll be a knock at the door… … and in walks Textor.

Who in the last 25 years has been better than Bannan?!?! Giles Coke? Darren Potter? Joey Pelupessy?

Baz, Liam Palmer & 9 kids.

Or 4. A deal is close to completion and DC sees no need to fund anything at this stage.

If they don’t get paid can the playersvput us in admin?

Didn’t we do a similar “training excercise” last preseason with 3 x 30 minute halves or summat? Or did I imagine it?

Not all these kids will make it at City, that’s surely where we should be coming in and picking up these rough diamonds released from bigger clubs. We’ve been doing it a little more recently admittedly, but could do a lot better.

Just like the Plymouth game last season. Only this time with a team of 19 year olds!!

We’d have got 20 “Chansiri” logos in different fonts and sizes

The consortiums gone awfully quiet after their initial PR push. NDA’s?

He still has bills to pay whilst the sale goes through - 2 or 3 months worth. He’s raising it by cashing in on the clubs saleable assets safe in the knowledge it won’t affect him what team we put out in the coming season. Add in the extortionate shirt price hes after fast cash to get through short term. We’ll have a new owner in a while, Christ knows what the club will look like by then mind you

Sounds a bit of a wheeler dealer, not the stable owner I was hoping for

Have doubts based on what’s been said so far.

It may seem bleak now but to try and put a positive spin on things - if we can get the transfer bans overturned then relegation to league one will allow the new owners to invest in the team as there’s no P&S rules down there and they can spend what’s necessary to get straight back up and also build towards back to back promotions - we’ll see how Brum do this year to see how feasible that is. It’s an opportunity for our young players to make a name for themselves and our new manager to forge a style of play throughout the club, a reset if you will. I believe good times are round the corner, gonna be painful in the meantime but stick with it.

Get us operating like a normal professional football club then probably flip us for a profit first opportunity. Hopefully that would be after we’ve made it to the PL.

Do we need a coaching staff? I can look at an iPad, scratch my beard in a thoughtful manner then point enthusiastically at the iPad. Pretty good at waving my arms around also.