Galway saint

West Brom away 23/24 he made a good save and we won that game. ultimately if the club want a keeper that is good with his feet, doesn’t make many absolute howlers but rarely makes any saves then they’ve got their man. Personally I like my keeper to make saves and will forgive them the odd error as they will all make howlers even the best

I suspect Baz will continue until around Xmas and by that time Still will have had enough and McCarthy will play for the rest of the season. The clubs isn’t prepared to give up on this ‘project’ so we have to endure another season of this.

Need to wait until the window closes and you see how the team shapes up in the coming months We have been here before and it’s pointless speculating Id say a team that still has Baz, Stephen’s as captain and no stand out CF still requires work

Typical SR signing Might be good but probabaly will be worse than what we have as the squad quality continues to deteriorate season by season.

I could see him on strictly - think he would do well

he’s an articulate guy but a terrible football coach

Guess they will just need to trust the process

Although it’s supposedly been ‘rebooted’ we still have Baz in goal, Stephen’s at CB and captain ( with a new contract), AA upfront on his own, 5 at the back, acquisitions who are no better than what we have and in some cases worse ( Quarshie and Downs) and have failed (to date) to bring in a decent no 9. Seems like the same old shit to me. It’s not the managers fault the players are on the whole crap but it did worry me when he apologised to the players for substituting them. Seemed to betray a lack of confidence but he’s a young guy. Seems to me that as things stand we have a far worse squad than the one that was playing in the championship in 23/24. Big week ahead and I have no real confidence it will be a good week given the past few years.

I saw that and it was abysmal but that was more a product of the wrong system, rather than shit players ( Holgate excepted). The current team is a product of another two seasons of poor recruitment. We knew we were down by Christmas yet in the intervening period we have signed Downs and Quarshie, both of whom look really poor footballers. Spoors has come in but still it looks like we cannot pick a good player. I don’t think things will improve until SR move on and we are palpably a worse team than now than the one that came down in 23/24. I’d love to see Che back up front as he’s light years better than the current pile of shite.

An articulate guy but a poor football coach

I can’t watch ‘Super Sunday’ with Drury commentating. He ruins the whole thing with his overblown ‘game of the ages’ guff. He’s incapable of letting the game do the talking and seems to view himself as some sort of literary figure

he certainly has height and some pace but he looked a liability to me

I agree - thought that was at times what we needed I wonder why our scouts thought quarshie was a good player, particularly if you want to be a team that plays out from the back - thought he looked awful

you would only give him a lengthy contract to ward off interest from others (of which there has been none as far as I know) or to preserve his value and where again there is none at this level. we are a dispiriting club at present. We continue to play poor players in an attempt to generate interest and sell them and if they actually manage to improve we sell them, meaning we never derive any benefit in footballing terms. difficult to get behind that as a fan

Great news if he is - will ward off the transfer interest from Derry City. Jesus wept - can’t believe we would contemplate offering new contracts to both Stephens and Bazanu. If the latter also happens then god help us and the club is clearly still in a mess

Ipswich away was pretty poor by way of example. You and others keep talking about people not ‘liking him’ or ‘ hating him’ but you are missing the point. Objectively he is in my view a poor keeper. The main issue I have is his positional sense which often leads to him conceding goals which should be comfortable saves. That coupled with the fact his shot stopping is mediocre at best means his performances rarely ( if at all?) have resulted in the team winning points. If we hadn’t have spent £12million or so on him he wouldn’t even be near the first team and as far as I am aware the total lack of any interest in buying him tells its own story about what the wider football world thinks of him. If I was Ipswich, Leicester, Sheffield Utd etc I’d be delighted to see Saints had chosen Bazanu as their number one - absolutely over the moon

Starting the season with him in goal and stephens at CB would illustrate in my view the club hasn’t moved forward despite assertions to the contrary. Not sure I can be bothered with another season of having to debate whether a better defence would mean Bazanu would save more low shots, or whether his positioning would be better if we had a better RB…

I understood after the shambles of last year there was a recognition within the club we had to try and build a side in the championship that had a structure and pedigree capable of surviving in the premier league. At the moment I don’t see any evidence of that happening and the award of a new 3 year contract to Stephens is an indication to me that the club is still a basket case

he hasn’t improved if you look at his games in Belgium last season

He wasn’t ‘wank’ in the championship. He was a very good link man at that level. He missed some sitters along the way but as a player he has never really been an out and out goal scorer, but he was a solid performer for us.

there was the away game at Preston where he made a good save ( not sure he knew much about it though) and WBA away - apart from that I can’t think of anything. I watched him play in Belgium last season to see how he did and he looked to me much the same player he has always been. Not a natural keeper, lacking the necessary physicality to command his box and his positional sense is poor. With the club extending Stephen’s contract I expect we will start with Baz in goal which is pretty depressing stuff

We should tie down Bazanu - there are rumours here that Cobh Ramblers are likely to make an offer

Different DOF but shit decisions continue to be made His track record as captain last season should have been the final straw but no we give him an extension

Why ? He’s a very mediocre player. Likely national league when push comes to shove. We over paid for him and I think it’s best he none on.

Having more output than Sulemana is not difficult but I personally think Edozie has to date been another poor signing to add to the list. He’s doesn’t have any end product. Others might know how his loan went last season, but I hope he’s not pencilled in for the starting 11