Good post, 'bout time we had a new one to discuss. It is early days & we have had good and bad. Recently it has been good.
Now we have made our bed until January & must lie in it. It is up to the coaches now, not those taking people to the game, although they are also useful, but I think that MC hasn't been trusted to go out & buy a player but is trusted enough to know what one can do when he works with him. Hence Luongo. A bit of 'sale or return' policy. I have no argument with that.

Jed has said that there is funding available should further loans be needed in the up coming window. With Troy also making a good impact his rehab since the long term injury is going well. Hopefully the club will soon see a return on the rather large investment made in him.

Excellent article SF, as ever. Five stars for me.

The only obvious exception to the unimpressive form of our ex-players would seem to be Gary Roberts who's doing well at Chesterfield, albeit in a lower league.

The difference between how I felt after seeing our abject performance at Shrewsbury and now is total. I'm feeling very optimistic. I don't expect instant success but i'm confident that we are making, and will continue to make, good progress.

Young players seem to see-saw with confidence and past results, hopefully if we can win and draw games in some sort of run, when a loss does come along it will make them re double their efforts etc and bounce back as opposed to looking down with their chins on their chest. A good back room team, which I believe is now in place will help prevent this.

I'll bet the atmosphere at CG is a lot better than the one at Sunderland, LOL.