Galway saint

Only the first four are out and out strikers and that’s stretching the definition in the case of the first three. If we continue with those four then we won’t be scoring many goals. It’s no different however to the failure so far to address the deficiencies in the GK, centre back and centre mid positions.

If you’ve got bazanu in goal you are going to concede goals. The stats bear that out. The fact he’s still number one is a good indicator to me that SR haven’t learnt from last season

I get we need to shift some players to buy but it looks certain we will be selling 120million plus of players so why no striker ? We need one or two regardless of who stays and have done for 2 years now so the fact we haven't signed one is a concern.

What about a centre back ?

He’s ok not great. I was more questioning any decision to sell our entire senior centre midfield players with a few weeks to go in the transfer window and the ability of SR to recruit decent replacements. We still feel like a club that doesn’t really have a plan

Who will be the centre mid for this ? Smallbone and Charles - feels lightweight to say the least and more of a U23 offering The issues last season were a shit keeper, lack of commanding centre back, combative midfielder and a forward who can score. none of that has been addressed

Hopefully we can sell our entire centre midfield first squad save for the youngsters and leave it to SR to recruit - what could possibly go wrong….

Still no one sniffing around bazanu - as long as we keep him I’m happy

At least bazanu isn’t playing

It’s embarrassing

What was Martin thinking with the line up ?

Not much to say about this really - we aren’t very good at the simple things and the line up was incoherent

Agreed he’s been terrible over the past two years

Simplistic analysis will inevitably be simple.

Yes they are - a shot is a shot regardless of the division. It’s just that the keepers who keep our more shots typically play in a higher division.

What does that even mean ? Are you saying shots are harder to save in the premier league than the championship ? You get good shots and bad shots whatever the division. The point is he’s shown himself poor at saving shots and had poor positional sense and a lack of physicality. The only redeeming feature at present is apparently good distribution but in that case let’s stick Stephen’s in goal

Just watched it again and I quote,‘Hugely disappointing from his perspective’ said Adam Blackmore on commentary when talking about bazanu’s effort. He also said he let it go under his arm. How on earth you can say that was not a mistake is beyond me

We obviously have different views of what a decent keeper should be capable of and a decent keeper saves that shot. He concedes far too many goals of that ilk

What is it then ? he should have saved it.

He’s unlikely to have a great season he's already made two gaffs in preseason

It seems inevitable we will need to replace bazanu, as he’s not a top level keeper. Just a question of when not if.. Hopefully the owners will do it sooner rather than later but they don’t appear to have grasped the point

But I do. your comment might be many things but satirical isn’t one of them. your criticism is that my comment was absurd. you need to appreciate nuance.

It was an example to make a point. you shouldn’t take everything so literally.