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We were linked to Watkins back before he signed for Brentford. I'm pretty much from Exeter and I'd love him to sign for us. He looks like he has everything you want in a striker—big, strong, quick. He can play wide or up front. Though I haven't seen him play other than against us to be fair.

LB is low priority. I'd be surprised. W, ST, W, MF, RB are the most pressing.

The thing is with sweeping generalisations about nations and their people is that they're usually complete bollocks.

And the opposite can work the other way.

We don't know who to believe, but this surely suggests it might be better not to make massive presumptions based on scraps.

I liked this then thought about us entering the season with the wingers and strikers we had available and I am stunned we stayed up. That starting situation is presumably on Suso

You can't just ignore their spend in the previous seasons. That's a ludicrous basis for this argument.

No because (looks for a cliche in my cliche book) something something. Big club shouldn't be happy why didn't we win everything, only then happiness should be felt, but only ever stoically, like Hemingway. A strong stare into the woods. Definitely don't smile.

I definitely wouldn't presume anything based on the farce that is football news.

Do you believe everything you read in football news? 90% of it is more bullshit than an actual fantasy novel.

35 would have kept us up for the last four years. That last bit sounds as if you're trying to be emphatic, but you're arguing with nobody. Saying something like that and saying 'end of' isn't an argument against feeling positive that we stayed up now. It's possible to think it's good we stayed up and also that we should do better next year. I bet 100% of posters on Villatalk would think the same thing. They're not writing it down because it's really obvious.

I'm starting to wonder if you're a Screwdriver-esque parody. Or maybe you just really hate people being happy. Why does the phrase 'a parody of yourself' keep coming in my head. Are you going to spend the next two months being negative in every post? Edit: to put this in perspective, you've moaned for the last two years, which have been the exact two years where the club turned around from the brink of administration to securing their place in the top division. You can relax a bit you know. Nothing is going to happen. Nobody wants a relegation battle ever and definitely not next year, but you have to appreciate the context.

I'd bet they actually don't give two shits.

None of us know anything, yet there's a lot of assertions around in this thread.

There's a huge gap between the Premier League and the Championship. We started this season with the bare bones of an incredibly average Championship side. After promotion you have to stay up, consolidate and give yourself a chance to grow. We were adrift and overall, all things considered, pulled off a massive achievement. It's all relative. What an important achievement at that. There's so much to be happy about. It's not like teams get promoted and go on to challenge at the top of the league. What the actual ****. Seriously!

Top speed and acceleration are different things. I'm stunned that he might have reached the fourth fastest speed in the league. I don't believe it, but if it's true, he still has no acceleration and he can't get past a man to save his life. He scored some important goals, and I am grateful, and I think he's become a bit of a legend in his own way, which I like. But if we had players better than Trezeguet in his position we wouldn't have been battling relegation in the first place. I like his work rate, but on the ball he isn't good enough. Respect for the goals though.

In the full version of the quote Roy Keane goes on to say that we had a massive turnover of players and that he can understand it.

Did you look at the last four years though when it was enough?

Do you really stand by this thinking? If the other teams above the relegation fodder are stronger then the points will be more spread out. We're in an era where Sheffield United have a £22 million point midfielder. Everton spend £50million. Palace spend £27million. Also, do you only frame things in the negative all the time?

Yeah I mean I agree. Of course we wouldn't have. We'd have taken 'whatever points are required to not be relegated'. My friend was saying the same thing about the 35 points and I had literally just then looked it up when I saw you mention it. The year we went down Newcastle went down with 37. The year before Hull went down with 35. But in the last four years 35 points has been enough. It's not that I have you down as a glass-entirely-empty person, but I don't agree that's a reflection that the league is getting weaker at all. I wonder whether the new TV money in the league has made a lot of the middle-table teams a lot stronger, so the points needed to avoid relegation might be a little lower now as fewer points will end up with the bottom teams.

In the last 4 seasons it would have been enough. That's no comment on the imaginary scenario you're spending time asserting.

Is this one of those posts where you just quoted something from some guy on twitter who is also doing the same thing? Like modern Chinese whispers. Or do you actually know something? I mean if I knew something I'd probably give a bit more context than this, so I'm going to guess it's based on not a lot.

The Express doesn't do news. It just chats shit. It always has done and always will.

I have to disagree. Context is everything. Chelsea getting in the Champions League is not what we just went through this year (and for the last five years) by a long shot. How dour do you have to be to begrudge celebrating that. I think people can go too far with this macho posturing. The other option is to enjoy something positive. One step at a time and all that. If we're ever going to get where you want us to be, today was a massive step.

It's all relative though isn't it. Celebrating staying up now doesn't mean we can't aim higher next season. Simple rule in business, sport, life.