A very forward thinking attitude at Crewe these days





The board are playing up the 'competition' for championship sides to sign Nicky Maynard whilst consoling the fans with the 'how much we would like to keep him BS' yet ordering their new cars as they are delivering press releases



Definitely bad news is that Jake Livermore, the on-loan Spurs youngster, suffered a fractured fibula during the friendly with Wrexham. Bit of a bugger that as he looked quite promising.

Good 4-0 win in our friendly with Hull City today.

I know it's pre-season and results don't matter and all that stuff but it's encouraging to get a good workout.

Hull were shocking in the first half and were 4-0 down at the break. They changed the entire team for the second half and to be fair they were much better. Hull had the majority of the chances in the second half and it took some good defending and excellent goalkeeping to keep them scoreless.

Although Calvin Zola netted himself a hat-trick my man of the match was our new keeper Steve Collis who bossed his area and even saved a penalty.

One of our problems is that we struggle to put in good performances in consecutive weeks. We will see if it runs true to form after the visit of Preston NE next Saturday.

leeds won 2-0 at barnet. a solid display and robinson is showing what a great signing he was. my one worry is the squad is so big macca doesn't know his best side

How can you roll your eyes at a top signing like that, but then not say anything about Lucketti who has passed it and clearly looked it the other day.

Should be a good season for Town next season though. ST is building a squad, which is something Huddersfield have been missing for many years. Always seemed to have a nice 11 lately but nothing more.

What starting team and formation would you go with?

no i was rolling my eyes at Frank Sinclair.Butler is a great signing for us i think.

Huddersfield Town sign midfielder/ winger Gary Roberts from Ipswich.Uncle Ken's piggy bank has taken a bit of a bashing this summer.2 more signings to come apparently.

and are giving a trial to 102 year old David Unsworth who will bring us plenty of experience.

More chance it's Dean Hoyle's money mate.

you're right it will be.Wasnt Dean Hoyle the chairman at harchester United?.Crikey, none of our lads will be wanting to catch the team coach this season.

I think that was definitely a problem at the begining of his tenure and he said the squad was too big.

Since the end of last season Freedman, Da Costa, Constantine, Elding, Ameobi, Thompson have gone and Robinson, Enoch, Snodgrass, Becchio and probably Telfer have signed. Sheehan's move has been made permanent. Net result the squad is only one smaller.

That said I reckon the writing is clearly on the wall for Sorsa, Carole, Westlake, Kandol, Weston and probably (IMO) Hughes and Sweeney.

That would make a squad of only about 17 plus the kids - who he seems happy to use.

The long-running guessing game surrounding Nicky Maynard finally ended today as Nicky completed a £2.25m move to Bristol City.

Good luck to the lad.

Far too over-priced IMO.

i was thinking of the midfield rob. lots of choice in there and we have so many central players