James

Unfortunately we still have to play games over the next two weeks. We are now significantly thinner on quality and given our reserves got spanked by Gillingham and we conceded 4 at home with our so called best available XI it strikes me as though we could do with some recruits now rather than in two weeks followed by another few weeks whilst they bed in.

Got to give them the benefit of the doubt and Wilcox does seem like he knows what he is doing. That said, seems we've left ourselves a hell of a lot to do in the last two weeks of the window. We must have known that the deals for Tino, JWP and Lavia would get done eventually and roughly how much would be brought in so its a bit odd to see us moving so slowly and that the players we are linked with are either loans (Downes, Holgate) or swaps (Paintsil). Given how slow we've been it makes even less sense that we spent big money on Shea Charles. Don't get me wrong, he might be very good for us, but if he's the major signing of the window it will definitely have been an underwhelming one.

Something just feels a bit off about this one. Hopefully Wilcox/Martin's confidence isn't misplaced.

Great...

Also says we are prepared to wait until January or next summer to sign him. If that's the case then let's hope he's not the sole target to replace KWP when he leaves.

Agree. The squad, even with our better players left in it, had become a bit stale and we know most of them aren't good enough for PL football. My concern, and Gillingham showed it, is that whilst we haven't been good enough in recent seasons it can get A LOT worse. Better to keep Che and be competitive in the league this year than to lose him for relative peanuts and have SR foul up getting a replacement. Would all be a bit more reassuring if the momentum of inbound replacements matched the pace of good players going out the door. With the caveat that I haven't watched his press conference, sounds like Martin starting to get a bit frustrated and, if so, that's a concern given he will have been expecting the departures. If all we get between now and the end of the window is a few loans, having pocketed this amount of cash, then I think fans right to be concerned.

Even giving Lyanco away at this point would be a bonus. We need to create room for another CB as if he is required for any meaningful length of time our season will be over.

Wilcox said we didn’t need to panic so I’m inclined to believe this will get sorted. Can’t shake the feeling that he doesn’t really want to make this move though.

Got to say - and appreciate there are still two weeks left - I’d have liked to have seen us linked with a few more permanent players given we’re the best part of the way through selling our best players for massive fees. All well and good getting players on loan but just kicks the can down the road for another massive overhaul next summer. Had hoped there’d be a few more “hanging on to join us” as was alluded to earlier in the summer.

Happened a few times in pre-season and he parried a pretty tame free kick straight back into the danger area. Was extremely lucky Barnes was offside. Having seen the goals back I was too harsh on him for the Norwich performance but he hasn't looked solid so far. If we are serious about promotion he isn't really good enough at the moment.

Would like to think we will have too much for them but we look a mile off a clean sheet at the moment. Can see another high scoring draw - 2-2.

Will be interesting to see how we spend the money we've got now as clubs will know we have the cash. Slightly odd that the two players linked as closest to joining are loans (Downes and Holgate). Could be a busy two weeks...

The CBs are just shocking. Fortunately we’ve just made Jack S captain so no chance he’s going anywhere..fucking hell.

He’d have been sent off…

More suicide defending. 3-4. Going to be a seriously long season at this rate. Good god.

Offside but Bazunu again…(!)

Interesting to see a keeper save a shot destined for the corner 😉

Hasn’t done anything wrong? Pretty low bar if that’s your view. You may think he had no chance, I disagree. Point is every time the ball goes into the box he’s rooted to the line. Hardly helps…

Stats this season will hardly have improved. 100% record so far…

Surprising how many on here are happy with a keeper who concedes every shot that hits the target.

This is the point for me. He’s shown absolutely nothing other than being pretty useless. Compare with, for example, Joe Hart when he came through. Made some errors but you could see he was going to be good. With Baz he doesn’t look like making a save at all and still makes all the junior errors. Hard to see why we are persevering other than we massively overpaid for him.

In the corner but was in the air for an age and he was still absolute nowhere.

It was basically from the edge of the box and he was nowhere near it. Doesn’t even look like he’s going to save anything unless it it’s hit straight at him.

Point is he lacks presence, he puts us under so much pressure. Cowers on his line and his hesitation causes absolute chaos.

I’m sorry but this Baz apologising needs to stop. The guy is useless and it impacts the whole defence.