The Chief

Because our tallest player gets shorter when he jumps

Not really one up front as we will have Harris and Reach high up the pitch supporting Fletcher

We will boss this in midfield and Bannan playing further forward (hopefully) will create more.

Happy with this line up

Need Luongo in there today

Pelupessy and Luongo will work well alongside each other

Some people don't like Reach because of his style of play. The same people probably would have dropped Chris Brunt because he didn't run around like Lee Peacock

Genuine question... do you understand what mutually exclusive means?

Plus two assists so far this season

Not goal crazy, true. Although I think 21 assists over the next 3 seasons was more than adequate from the centre of midfield (source: who scored dot com). Especially as he was sitting too deep for a lot of that time. Playing good football and Barry Bannan being on the left side of midfield can be two mutually exclusive things

Bannan got two goals and two assists all season. Wasted on the left. Centre mid all day long (as long as that's not 2 yards in front of the back 4)

Bannan on the left side of midfield? No thanks

Surprised no bids reported on Reach yet

Harris will hopefully be the player we've missed since Antonio.

I want to like Van Aken but he's basically a Dutch version of Tommy Spurr, but worse. Tommy Schpur (Steve McClaren accent)