Jake Bidwell

Does Villa mean the same, do you think, to the youth?

You're calling me young, but I'm older than Jake Bidwell.

No, Aston Villa, in my head, is the big rivalry.

I remember, yeah, I'm born in 92.

Oh, yeah,

amazing.

Can we talk about another sort of black comedy moment from last night that's just occurred to me when you mentioned Jake Bidwell, is there was a sequence of substitutes.

I still thought, maybe foolishly, but I thought even at 3-1... we at least had the opportunity to try and get it back to three all.

That's what I'm going to go with, Fooney and Goho.

Interesting to see Jake Bidwell left on the bench.

Obviously, unregistered for the Premier League, but can obviously play tonight and did come off the bench.

And then...

Bill Bev, Sky Blue.

Does anyone know what's happening with Jake Bidwell? Well, he's kind of...

Deregistered.

Deregistered, unless it's a cup game.

Oh, dear.

Makes you love the music.

I've developed a slightly romantic theory that Frank will name Jake Bidwell as our captain for cup games.

Yes.

But here he is, a new winger.

More depth, more cover and obviously the surprise exemption of Jake Bidwell which we'll come on to a little bit later.

So first question Vicky, is this the sort of signing that we were expecting? Well we weren't expecting anything but assuming this was done on deadline day, was this a position we were expecting cover for?

I think so.

going backwards and backwards I'd be slightly concerned if I was a Hull fan because I feel like they've slightly over gambled almost similar to Sheffield United a couple of seasons ago and you see these clubs now that have got themselves into a bit of a mess and we've had enough of that I don't I just want a stable football club now I don't have to be worrying about whether I'm still going to have a football club to support in five years I just want to be able to enjoy going and watching my team play so yeah I feel like Doug's doing this the right way so yeah

Yeah, absolutely.

Just before we come to some comments then, the news came out this morning before the signing that we'd only named a 24-man squad and that Jake Bidwell was exempted from this squad.

Obviously, the new signing has taken that 25th spot, which means that Bidwell is only available to play in cup competition matches.

I think there's some players there who...

Jake Bidwell.

I mean, we all knew, everyone knew from minute one that he was not going to be, you know, he was a fringe player last season.

Do you know what I mean? That he was, you know, if he'd been out of contract, he'd have been released, you know, is my view.

I don't know how bad his injury is.

Same with Kesla Hayden, really, but...

Yeah, Bidwell was probably the obvious one.

And obviously, Miguel Brown went out as well.