CONFIRMED - Doyle In

[JohnDenver]

WAsn't it you doing the Reading comparison thread JD? Add continuity to their attributes. I think I recognised more of their players than our own, which probably puts me on a par with tow of our players....

Yeah - the point was that they've taken the parachute payment hit by planning for a cheaper and younger team, whereas we've had three seasons of gambling the last of the cash, and now we're a bunch of absolute strangers and misfits.

They weren't brilliant but they were a proper team.

 

[Balham]

Yeah - the point was that they've taken the parachute payment hit by planning for a cheaper and younger team, whereas we've had three seasons of gambling the last of the cash, and now we're a bunch of absolute strangers and misfits.

They weren't brilliant but they were a proper team.

They've also been bringing players through the ranks on a regular basis which we haven't. Selling Gylfi Sigurdsson for £6.5m at the start of the season has also allowed them to keep hold of the rest of their better players - Federici, Long, Keracen and the rest.