Bad puns aside, the signing of Nicky Shorey on loan until the end of December surely has to be a good thing. Not only does this give us specialised cover at left-back, it also means that we have another player on the books who, like Messrs Earnshaw and Gunter, has decent top-flight experience and even a couple of international caps. Woo-hoo!
Billy Davies also reveals what I had suspected for a while – that he sees Joel Lynch more as a centre-half than a left-back, where to me (apart from a few decent forays upfield at the tail-end of last season) he has always looked laboured and unsure.
