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The only people not thinking it work in Saints' recruitment.

Not sure what we've got with Dobbin, but he's not a number 10. That's a role for technical players, and his touch is poor and his passing not much better. I thought he was meant to be fast as well? Not much supporting evidence of that so far. Also too easily knocked off the ball. Yeah... not great.

Need 1xGK (if/when both Ramsdale and Bazunu go), 2xCB (once Harwood-Bellis goes), 1xCM (x2 if Jander's off), and probably another wide attacker - Fellows has been disappointing, and Scienza may or may not be phoning it in. A lot to do in a little time.

Is that one shot on target in the first half across our first three games? Out of my seat.

Could also have been in the PL right now if we hadn't needed to wait until January to rectify the squad's glaring shortcomings.

Aside from signing two right backs that were worse than the right back already on our books (and loaning him out), a centre back who never plays, a striker who isn't fit for purpose, giving Stephens a three year contract extension, and not bothering signing a keeper until January after masterfully judging Bazunu as "fine for this level". Hope you're right. We can't afford any more missteps.

The people responsible for utterly torpedoing last season, with the knock on effects drastically undermining this one as a consequence, got the club's full backing - to the cheers of that fan base, wibbling on about sticking two fingers up to Henry Winter or something.

Down to the Zs already. When they tell us to fuck off too, do we start again with Aarhus?

But we still did a poor job of it that needed rectifying in January.

We needed an upgrade on Stephens to partner Harwood-Bellis, but the likelihood is we'll end up with a downgrade on Harwood-Bellis to partner Stephens. All very Sainsty.

Got what we deserved. Looked piss poor against a team that'll finish in the bottom half. At least people can stop banging on about last season's unbeaten run as though that entitles us to promotion this time around. We haven't just stood still, we've weakened the squad - with more weakening to come. No positives.

Shite going forward, shambles in defence, midfield nonexistent. Stephens has been awful, culpable for both goals. Bragg will not be "fine" as a Charles replacement. Spaffing our limited funds on Dobbin looks terrible business - he's been poor. No physical presence in the middle of the park allows cloggers to push us around. And a chronic lack of pace in defence leaves us desperately vulnerable to the counter attack. And we're bracing ourselves for selling our better players. Exciting times. Enough to get you off your seats.

Wonder what happened to Baylee Dipepa. Seemed to get overshadowed by Oyekunle in the u21s but he was considered quite the coup when we picked him up. Princewill Ehibhatiomhan is probably still knocking about too.

Not particularly enamoured with our wing options either, Scienza aside. I was hoping Dragan's bullish talk of absolutely going for it this season would have looked a bit more ambitious, but I guess he said all the right things before season tickets went on sale, and here we are. The squad's good, and we should certainly make the top 8. But the league is stronger this year, so standing still is not going to cut it.

Akachukwu-wu, push pineapple, shake the tree.

Big dog, by a nose.

HMS Piss the League Two.

Maybe he thinks he's from Chilly.

Didn't take long from Dragan Solak promising we were going to build a team that will "take you out of your seats" and win promotion, to trying to convince ourselves that Brereton Diaz will be fine.

And brings his own tree to terribly hide behind/beside.

Chelsea turned themselves in - the new owners took a look at the books and the dodgy practices the previous ownership employed, and immediately self reported to the FA. Up until then, the FA had no idea what the club had been up to. Chelsea's transparency and relative honesty earned them some brownie points and a soft landing. Perhaps if our own club had shown a similar level of integrity, we wouldn't be in this mess.

10 minute interview uploaded by the club an hour ago. Read into it what you want.

They conceded more goals per game with him in the defence, when he joined them on a January loan two seasons ago. When he joined them permanently this January, they again conceded more goals per game with him in the defence. Their fans might well rate him, but it's a curious coincidence that their defence plays better when he's not part of it. I don't think weak in the air and slow across the ground is a great combination for a centre back. But hey, good luck to him.

But then they'd have to post their own thoughts - and that's a sinister, garbled can of worms you don't want to open.

Don't do the lottery this week.