AlexLaw76

Yeah, that is exactly what has happened. Well done

Watching the games so far this season, we are seeing (hopefully) the phasing out of every manager trying to be the new 'Pep'.... More quick attacking play on view, more crosses and higher tempo.

He will alright at best, after a 'period' of settling in, with fans saying 'what do you expect, this is a new environment for him'. Whilst we wait, we are stuck playing like Tony Pulis' Stoke, with at least 5 defenders on the pitch.

Just watched the press conference of all the leaders around the table, and 5% defence spending was mentioned by Trump. It is so obvious that, as you say, Europe will need to pay for US hardware/support because of years of disgraceful underfunding of our own forces have left us all completely hollowed out of machinery and capability

tis the way of the world.

Exactly. People’s suggesting otherwise are just giving the club a metaphorical pass

I never backed anyone, just called it from a realistic view. As said, let’s see Ukraine were never ever going to come out of this without losing ground, and they were pretty much never going to get NATO membership. Crimea is never ever going back to them. Ukraine cannot win, could never win, regardless of all the claims Russia was always about to run out of ammunition and sanctions will take them back to the Stone Age etc.

I get that, but when the owner was pretty specific about it, in public, you have to take him at face value

Yet Dragan stated week ago he sanctioned the purchase of 3 players (identified) not linked to any sales

And continued US support will likely be linked to meeting the 5% spend on defence from European nations.

If this is the level we are signing, what a terrible window this is, and what crap job from Spors

The key is if Ukraine accept it.

Looks like meeting Putin was not a total waste of time after all. let’s see how far this goes.

Next Ryan Smith or Ryan Giggs?

SFCs 'West Quay' wonderland. https://www.bundesliga.com/en/2bundesliga/table?view=full

Stringing along SFC, it seems.

if it was imminent, you would assume he would be on the plane tomorrow, with picture of him signing the fake contract tues/weds and staying down for training and the game on Sat....

sizeable then.

how much did Downs cost? Surely not 'big bucks' for this league If so, he is our new striker and that will be that

Will Still post match comments; Was a great game, Premier League energy about it If you can't win, you have to not lose, and we did that the goal we conceded is frustrating as well as their big chances, all came form our mistakes But that is a positive also, we can rub that out of the game it was important to get back into it first half performance was positive and encouraging we ran out of steam a bit in the 2nd half This is a tough place to come, they will be right up there Being hypercritical, we need to rub those mistakes from our game, be more clean and tidy in both boxes especially 3 games this week, we have come a long way A game like that last season, we lose 3 or 4 nil after going a goal down early Good character and grit, with lots of encouraging things to work on Jay has been great, he is a good player, I am not bothered how old he is He is brave, great energy and scored a good goal He can trust himself more, he is that good He is at the beginning of his learning process Josh Quarshie stuck at it, he still young and has not played many games at this level We need to help him on the way, we all know there is competition and if you don't play well... we need to be more demanding Stephens was great, he has had criticism before but he has moved on and really enjoying it We want that, we want players to feel free, and it takes time I dunno about Tyler and Matty, it is a million dollar question They are training and professional. Matty lasted 60 mins but ran out of steam as expected It can change, it is not ideal but they are good players and it is normal others are interested

we'll end up with a couple more of German 2nd division players 😞

when you have a cornetto - the last inch at the bottom of the cone, the bit where the chocolate is.

revert to 4 at the back for me. We do not look particularly good/fluid in, what I think to be an awful formation, of 3/5 defenders. We need to start better than any of the games so far.

a couple of comment here suggesting we are not very good https://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/313819/todays-games?page=307

Who are the 2 or 3 wingers, good enough to start, that we are linked with/signing?