Lighthouse

Don’t flatter him with allegations of literacy.

You say that like a bunch of decent players are flooding through the exits. Between them they managed six goals in the Championship last time, and they were all from Edozie. Personally I’m more than happy to see more mediocrity leaving, if we get a decent fee. Supposing we got something like £10m, that’d be £38m for the three of them combined this summer. Astonishing business if you ask me.

Replaceable. Wouldn’t lose sleep.

You have to say, that’s a decent game against pretty much the best T20 side in the country right now. We could have won it but their experience and nerve at the death shone through. If anything, I’d say we lost it in the first 6-8 overs, when we were going at a rate of about five. Orr going for a second ball duck didn’t help matters and Vince seemed to take ages to play himself in, about 3 off 16 balls or something at one point. Ultimately, our total felt about 10-15 light and so it proved.

I'm just going to play it safe and wish the guy a happy birthday, as we wouldn't want another Delgado situation on our hands.

I didn't list him as a negative, I said he was unproven. We've got BBD who has scored 36 goals in his last two full seasons in the Championship and Armstrong who has 65 in three. They may have had a couple of inimpressive loans recently but I can't for the life of me understand the desire to get rid of them. Especially if the alternative is keeping Dom Ballard, who has six goals in three season in League 1.

Disagree. Ballard and Downs have proven nothing so far and Stewart's fitness is far from guaranteed. Whilst Archer should be decent, I'm not sure I'd be relying on him to get the lion's share of goals we'll need for promotion. Archer, Stewart, Downs and Armstrong I'd be okay with, Ballard can go and prove himself in League 1 as far as I'm concerned.

That was just what the doctor ordered. Lynn looks a decent find and a good spread of wickets for the bowlers. On a separate note, how the f*ck can a man called Hilton Cartwright not be from the West Indies?

The universe is eventually going to run out of energy and collapse in on itself, so I’m not really sure what the point in anything is. Still, someone posed an opinion so I gave my response.

We sold JWP and Lavia by the end of August so you can hardly call them part of the last promotion team. Lavia didn’t play a single minute for us in the Championship. The question was whether we have a stronger squad now than in our last promotion season. I think we do. Clearly some players will leave but then again we will also make a couple of (hopefully decent) signings, so I have no idea where we’ll fall in comparison come the start of September.

I’d rather have Archer, BBD, Ramsdale, Fernandes and Dibling in the squad than Adams, KWP, Rothwell, Stu and Brooks. As of right now, I’d say the team was stronger than it was two years ago.

I can't for the life of me understand getting a shirt with a players name on the back at the start of July. TBH if I managed the club shop, I'd ban player names from being printed at all, until the window closes. Just have personal printing only.

If you’re going to sign a has been with big club experience, Walker is a hundred times better shout than us signing Lallana last season. They’ll be hoping he can do what Zabaleta did for the Hammers.

Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. Mine was The Smurfs Go Pop, if that’s not too cool for school, I don’t know what is.

Stewards enquiry into the use of the word ‘developing’ please. Surely you do have to actually develop in order to be ‘developing’, rather than just being consistently sh*te, whilst under the age of 25.