James

Long signing is just the trigger. A lot of the anger you are seeing on here is the culmination of everything you’ve said and more.

I don’t think the issue is necessarily George Long it’s that, as fans; we’ve endured numerous transfer windows under SR where we’ve been left short or seriously bad decisions have been made. Couple that with the worse playing season in the club’s history and an indifferent start to this season and the fans are (understandably) boiling over. Letting it pan out is fine but we have owners with a track record of almost never getting incoming transfers correct.

it’s 100% coming save that I predict we will panic buy Azaz at the 11th hour and claim he’s the one we wanted all along. I actually think Alfie is pretty much aligned with what a lot of fans think in terms of transfers. You can tell he isn’t impressed on TSP, he just can’t say it out loud.

Whatever the position I think we can all agree a signing that the fans of the existing club think is laughably shit is never a great sign. Hugely underwhelmed by Spors so far. Looks like wasted the whole summer chasing Sperty. I predict we will overpay for Azaz and sign that winger from Still’s old club that’s currently at St Pauli. Will be a massively disappointing window if I’m right. Was hoping for much better but so far it’s been objectively crap again.

The window so far has been garbage, no argument about that. Left it all too late as usual.

Spors has been a huge disappointment. Talks a good game but zero so far in terms of improvement.

On the basis that Downs and Quarshie were our “must have” signings I am not going to hold my breath for anything decent this next week. We needed much more active transfer window than we’ve had. If we’ve wasted the whole window trying to get the Armenian dude in a carbon copy of Gakpo then it’s proof that Sports Republic aren’t learning. The current team is not going to make the playoffs at this rate, depressing all round.

Slightly off topic but it’s maddening to see the difference in quality of player Leeds and Sunderland are attracting versus our window this time last year. We truly did not stand a chance before a ball was even kicked did we?

Perfect summary of Martin ball by the BBC although “throwing caution to the wind” is generous in an attacking sense as the build up is usually walking pace.

Happy enough with that. Squad obviously won’t look like this by September so to avoid a defeat away against a promotion rival is a good result. Like what I’ve seen of Still so far.

Wellington was an absolute liability there but all 3 CBs should take a look at themselves.

Eugh that was god awful.

Fraser right wing back? Otherwise like that team bar Armstrong through the middle but away from home I mind it less.

Agree about positioning. I thought that contributed to him not saving the penalty. Did the hard part and guessed right and seemed to be a full stretch but didn’t really cover that side of the goal. Struck me that his starting position was too far over.

Fuck me Arma. Useless.

Would add Quarshie to that. He’s decent. Stephens and Edwards by contrast have been very bad.

Too busy selling our best players, nowhere near enough in terms of incoming. Just recycling the same old guff and expecting a different result. Definition of madness.

Ref is letting them away with an awful lot.

100% agree. We are so naive. These guys are just not good enough, new manager isn’t going to change that.

Shocking pass from Armstrong that.

We are all over the place here. This is as bad as last season so far.

Edwards is very naive defending Moore here.

Agreed. Way too much complacency this summer. This attack can’t even lay a glove on fucking Wrexham.

Weird dive. Went full length the right way but still didn’t really cover more than the middle of the goal. Did he start too far over?

Was a mile offside but utterly idiotic defending from Edwards.