Danny

What a dull end to the series. Was watching it in a bar, 50/50 Kiwis and Lions fans and once everyone realised it was a draw the place just deflated. What's the point in a 3 test series if you can still draw it

But it's the difference between losing 1 player or losing 3-4 in the same window. We had no room to manoeuvre, the players made it clear they wanted to leave and the clubs they went to got them for a cut price due to their contract length. Us having our players on 4-5 year contracts is undoubtedly a positive and will allow us to keep players for longer and sell them for a higher fee. I'm saying he's the best in the league, he was when he was us before and then he was when he scored 12 goals in half a season. I never said he'd be as good, just that we will go out and buy someone who can make a similar impact. Jota would bring in a fair amount of money and our board know how to spend that.

Good boy?

Genuine statement. Hardly like he's done a Rooney and publicly slated the clubs ambition for a payrise.

The hatred for Barkley is mental, you'd think he refused to play for the club and publicly stated he wants to play for Liverpool the way some go on on here

Half of Luton airport is bright orange

I got a boat out which took about an hour or so I think...not sure but I don't think you could just paddle out. You'd also want to do it under guidance as the boats look out for shark too

You know what we didn't go to an island when I was there, just swam at random points on the reef

Haha, well Tanksie was Danny on the old one but I half inches that sharpish

Marseille shouldn't profit when they're clearly tapping him up

Ha I thought the display picture would be enough of a giveaway

Yes mate

Fraser Island isn't at Cairns it's about a 10-12 coach journey south. But I done Fraser and it's probably the best place I've been to in Australia. Gilligans is mental, you will love it.

My stereotypical view of you @Large would be that you're out in Essex somewhere, how'd you end up working for the Bees?

Remember Gray leaving and Odubajo congratulating him as if leaving us for someone "bigger" was the goal, don't think he'd of been so open about that if he were staying.

Odubajo was made because we had a release clause in his contract but you're right, even after selling Gray we still hadn't cleared FFP hence having to sell more. I don't think people realise how overbudget we were in our first season.

Yeah youll always lose your best player if a bigger clubs wants him, but it wasn't just that one player we lost. Alongside Andre Gray we then lost Douglas, Diagouraga, Dallas, Pritchard (loan), Odubajo and Tarkowski. That's 7 players who were all fairly key players for us, we didn't lose them because big money was thrown around in transfers, we lost them because they weren't signing new contracts and we could only previously afford to keep them on 3 year deals, often only extending by 1 or 2 years. Tarks and Pritchard were different as Tarkowski refused to play for us once Burnley got involved and Pritchard was just on loan, but the point is we now have most of our players on 4-5 year deals with extensions thrown in there as opposed to just a 2-3 year deal. So if we are going to lose Sergi Canos or Ryan Woods we'll either be in a position to say no or demand top dollar as opposed to just taking something rather than nothing. Currently we have the best winger in the league, if we keep him he'll score a shitload and if we sell him we'll make a shitload and bring in someone who can make a similar impact on a long term contract. We're still waiting on Alan Judge to come back and that's not mentioning the likes of Canos, Jozefzoon and Vibe too.

Dembele has proven he's ready for the PL with his goals in the Championship and at Celtic. He does look a good talent and did before he joined Celtic, but asking him to replicate Lukakus goals maybe something else completely.

Cairns is lovely. You in a hostel?

Nice tan.

I did, had to fly back over a month ago as my girlfriends dad died. Flying out early July.

Right now I'm England but will be staying near the CBD. Last job out there was as a claims handler for an insurance company.

You can easily save $200-400 a week in Sydney..

Yes mate, Sydney is a great city and if you like city life and beaches it's the place to go in Australia. I'll pull his hair

As some of you may or may not be aware over a month ago I flew back from Australia with my girlfriend as her dad passed away, after being back a month and a half we have finally booked our tickets back out to Australia, leaving again on the 6th July, just over two weeks. I cannot wait.