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How's your Dutch? http://www.voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=142988

Not to be confused with Wigan failure Daniel de Ridder http://www.voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=142988

Steve De Ridder, Belgian striker from De Graafschap in Holland

Saw Pulis playing as a trialist for Aldershot on Saturday. Funnily enough, Aldershot are playing Stoke in a friendly soon. Love how his old man has to do a club a favour in order to get his son a game!

By not lost anyone, I was classing Puncheon as "gone" a long time ago!

We've not lost anyone and added some much needed pace to the team. I'm more than satisfied with that. We were never going to get Austin and wouldn't pay silly money for Mackail-Smith, so wasn't pinning my hopes on us getting either of them.

Bah, I was sure I put the m after £3! Still, with those injuries £3 may have been more apt. I hope his pay is appearance related!

Good player but £3 is bloody steep for someone the wrong side of 30 and who possesses a knackered knee and dodgy shoulder

If we end up flogging Puncheon, then I think we could do with bringing in a right-sided midfielder, possibly on loan, to take a bit of the weight off of AOC's shoulders. Can't really see any other areas of the team where we could go out and get anyone substantially better than we already have.

Hope he does well there. Never struck me as management material though, especially as he probably still looks about 12.

Don't forget he's a wife beater and gambling addict too. Christ, he really must've fitted in down the other end of the M27

Didn't score but at least he likes a tackle......

I have a panic attack when Kelvin gets a backpass, I think he does too

Indeed. If the opposition build up the play slowly and then lump it long, Jaidi is fine. If they counter-attack quickly and shift the ball quickly (the first 10 mins vs Huddersfield is a good example), then he is completely useless. He'll be fine for most games in this league, but I agree, we need a regular quality partner for Fonte. Central defence is a place where you need to build a consistent partnership, not a rotation policy because someone can't do 2 games a week.

No He doesn't want to play for us and we're a completely different side to Millwall, so if anyone thinks he'd just come back here and continue playing the same as he is there then they are looking at it from far too simplistic a viewpoint. Use his form to sell him to the highest bidder, then let Adkins buy someone who fits into his way of playing and thinking. Everyone's a winner