Barmby for the first time in his managerial career had an absolute stormer of a second half personally, the defensive line pushed up and he moved Evans and Mckenna both a lot further forward cutting off their supply line and the subsitutions just added movement. The thing with Brady centrally is that it just gets him involved, it uses his talent it doesn't waste it he is involved so much more and as his age he will have inconsistency, but the more time he has on the ball the more likely he is to produce some magic.
I thought after the substitution we seemed livelier. (Bear in mind I can only read and hear the match so my opinions may not be as clear as those who actually get to see the match.)
From where I am in the KC, it looked his shot yesterday hit the post, trickled along the line & came off the other post. Then I watched the Football League show and was made out to be a **** for the above, incorrect observation. Why did I feel so confident in telling every bugger I saw that that's what happened when it obviously didn't? And why didnt they correct me when they knew better? I've been stitched up. What a mug.
Ref. The Hammill deal. From my experience of following our attempts to sign players over the years there seems to be an optimum period that it takes to get the player on board. When negotiations go beyond this period it's usually because there's something wrong and more often than not it's because the player isn't keen to come. Good examples of this have been Fraizer Campbell, Neil Danns and Sharps proposed move to Leicester (couldn't resist). The main thing is that we move on quickly to new targets and not spend too much of the window trying to breathe life into a dead deal.
I think the difference here to those other deals is that we're trying to sign someone from a PL team's bench rather than the reserves, a free transfer, or a huge fee from a team in the same division. Wolves need to sign a replacement before they sell him or it could really scupper their own transfer moves. It wouldn't send a good message out to potential signings for them to be selling him to a lower league side and weakening their squad before the replacement came in (nearest comparison I can think of is with us not selling Hunt to Wolves, but he was starting). The fact he's been dropped from their bench is a good sign for us though.
