www.statbunker.com/football/btb/ ... chID=24255 There it is, the season before the 1-1 draw you correctly pointed out.

www.statbunker.com/football/btb/ ... chID=24255 There it is, the season before the 1-1 draw you correctly pointed out.

Larry's comments about his spending don't inspire confidence.

Most of the squad will do for the championship....but need a few players in...got a list of targets...might not have very much money to spend.

Hopefully its just a smokescreen to stop clubs thinking there's money to burn and trying to hold Leeds to ransom.

But, I'm sure he said the same in January and last year.

I was thinking that myself mate,it doesn't inspire confidence especially when you consider the sheer number of players going/not good enough.
Hopefully his Kitty is at least good enough to replace the ones we lose/ditch,having said that there are quite a few "freebies" knocking about i think would improve us so fingers crossed.

Why do we as fans not learn. Splashing out money does not guarantee success on the pitch. I don't care how much a player costs, just that they improve the squad

Very good and fair point mate but....If/when Beckford goes we will HAVE to spend ££ imo to replace him and there are players that just aren't good enough at this level and will need replacing whether that amounts to £'s transfers or freebies money will still need to be available.

The worrying thing about Beckford is we will receive no money for his departure, so I hope Bates doesn't use that as an excuse to get a replacement of similar value i.e another free.

ps how do you make a picture appear in your Sig? Its starting to do my nut in , thanks

You contradict yourself there. If beckford is available for people on a free then its possible for other people of necessary quality to be available for free. I agree that the likelyhood is that we will need to spend a bit to get a goalscorer of the right calibre though.

That's not the point i was making in his case other than Beckford which striker is available on a free that would be deemed good enough to replace him?

Who do we think is good enough for the Championship in this current squad?

I think we'll get hammered down the flanks without a couple of new fullbacks, and a new CB with abit of pace may be needed (IMO most championship clubs have a striker with Beckford esque pace.)
A holding midfielder is a must, as is a goal scorer.

I think that most of the players as individuals are strong enough to cope in the championship in an established team, and most have, but I don't think that the team as it is will do well in the championship. Too many average/poor CC standard players, and not enough good CC standard players

I kinda feel this way, think we'll need some CCC players. Don't understand all the fans wanting a promotion charge in our first year. I'm just gonna take each game as it comes, I'll be happy with a decent season, then build on that. Obviously doing something that Leicester have done would be brilliant, but I won't be expecting it to happen.

Aiming high is good, we won't get njear promotion but it would be nice to be safe with around 10 games to go.

if anyone expected grayson to get a decent amount of money to spend they should be in rampton. bates is only bothered about lining his pockets

OT again I know but COME ON FULHAM