Dman

Personally, I'd keep hold of Edozie - if he wants to be here, which granted it seems he doesn't. He's probably the most like for like we have with Tom Fellows and if we are to flog him, it'll be for peanuts.

Because McCarthy or Bazunu should be 3rd choice.

They'll be paying an agency, probably peanuts, to essentially do just that. Its just a copy and paste template with a few bespoke integrations. Fairly certain the ticketing app is the exact same one used by UEFA for the last couple of euros.

If being worked out results in us arguably "should have been 3 up" at half time then I'll take that. Result and second half wasn't great yesterday, but its easy to forget Downes missed essentially an open goal, we missed a pen and should have had another in the first half. Fancy us to beat Cov tbh.

What's he like with his feet? In all seriousness, Bazunu is a key part of our build up and replacing him with someone who can't pass (i.e a McCarthy type) would be as detrimental as keeping crisp packet hands Baz. We need someone who is competant at playing out and can actually make saves. I don't know who that would be 😃

I suspect its more Tonda not wanting to give much away a day before the game. Bit poor of Alfie to break the news so early tbh.

Even further back, I walked away from the first pre-season game at eastleigh thinking "Fuck me, we struggled to break those down. That wasn't great". I gave benefit of doubt given it was the first game and clearly the squad was going to change. Things didn't really get any better though.

Special shout out to Vegard Forren who is somehow still playing, aged 37, in the norwegain 3rd division.

Now we have what seems to be a half competant manager, I'm relatively comfortable with the squad we have. I think I'd only really be looking at a number 10 as competition / back-up to Azaz - i.e a replacement for Aribo. Ideally I'd like a keeper to come in - probably a loan as the Ramsdale situation has caused us issues. I think we have a relatively decent balance up top, now we seem to have found a way to make A.A a complete striker. I'm keen to see what Downs could do under Tonda. Main focus has to be on out's Aribo & Edozie will hopefully find a club wanting to take them. Bree to Charlton permantly. Matsuki probably needs to go.

Linked with 2 jobs in the space of a few months. No smoke without fire. Does he want out or is he trying to push for more responsibility (i.e I want Tonda, appoint Tonda and trust my judgement). Despite what some might say, it would be a disaster if he leave this season - I think he's about as good as we could expect to get for where we are as a club (at this level or the next).

I think if we don't come out of these 2 games with a minimum of 3 maybe 4 points would suggest that we've not played very well.

That's it for me as well. QPR was a pretty poor performance (only had 1 day with the team so let him off), Sheff Weds was a bit better, but still pretty poor (again, next to no time with them). Charlton was obviously brilliant. He still has a bit to do for me, Leicester is his first real challenge.

Tomorrow is make or break for me, I think. Its a bit reactional, but if we don't come away with something (or put in a performance that deserves something) then questions need to be asked. On the flip side, if we put in a really decent performance then I think you probably need to give him the gig - even if its until the end of the season.

A good thing imo. Gives space to players like Azaz and Fellows and arguably armstrong.

The last time we were in the championship, we won 3 games on the bounce on 4 different occasions. Lets not let the fact Will Still was the wost manager we've had in probably 30 years (maybe more) deflect from the fact a team of our quality, budget and size should be beating QPR, Sheff Weds and Charlton on the bounce.