David Kelly

I've no doubt whatsoever that if he can get and stay fit he'll do well. But that's a massive if with him, he's only managed over 20 league games in 3 or 4 seasons in his career. But if Joelinton get's injured there's now at least a possibility we have another striker who's of premier league standard to cover.

Say what you want about his fitness record or the fact both his exit and return are down to the horrendous problems caused by our current owner, but personally I love that and would love it if he can get back on the pitch and contribute.

Same as always, keep the wages down as much as possible until the season is just about to start. It makes no difference to them that bringing in players at the last minute who aren't yet match fit means it takes much longer for the team to get going. Things like this are the real reasons Rafa has left rather not being given enough money to spend. He was just sick of them fucking him about so he's took the opportunity to earn a shit load more.

He could but it wouldn't surprise me if Talksport have some sort of contract which allows them access to premier league players as part of their package with the league. Anyone Sky/Talksport/Papers are all going to ask our players similar questions and none of them are going to say what we'd like them to say about the fat cunt who owns the club. If he was a bit more intelligent he might have been able to come up with something that didn't piss our fans off as well as not pissing off his bosses. But he's a footballer and no one has every accused them of being intelligent.

I think anyone who expects a current player to say anything particularly different is kidding themselves.

I'm already sick of hearing about the Athletic. Not so sure their predictions are wrong though.

I'd have Foakes in for Denly and move Stokes to four and have Bairstow five, Butler six and Foakes 7 seven. And then bring Archer and Leach in for Anderson and Ali. I'd love to have Curran in but it's difficult to see where to really have him unless you stuck with Bairstow or Butler as keeper and played Stokes as just a batsman and used Broad, Woakes, Archer and Curran as the seamers.

It's some young French defender for the reserves. Just what we need!

As much as I've slagged him off in the past, the standard that Dummett is at now is good enough for us. If he's as good as Dummet (providing he's better at attacking) I'd be happy with that.

I agree with the point you're making but we haven't spent that much really have we. You have to consider that we got £30m in for Perez. If it wasn't for Ashley and it was Rafa making these signings I'm sure everyone would be licking their lips. Lets face it, there wasn't a massive excitement around bringing Rondon in last season and before the last two or three months of the season there was a healthy portion of the support who's had more than enough of Perez. As things stand though, I know pretty much nothing about Joelinton or ASM. The former seems to be highly rated but the later looks a lot like Adama Traore to me. Hopefully not though.

Great start from Broad.

Yeah judging by twitter there seems to be a swing of reactions from the way it's been received on here, to excitement that isn't warranted on the players form so far and that I certainly can't get to because of what has happened in the last few months. Seems to be a lack of balance from both sides. I suppose I can understand both reaction because of what's happened during Ashley's reign.

Not sure why anyone would bother posting that.