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If we roll Wrexham 3-0 and get at least a point at Ipswich, the cigars can maybe make an appearance then. Certainly more prospect of doing so with the players on the pitch at the end today than the start. That gif sums the club up 2017-25 and drive, determination and ambition need to replace it. Earn the cigars and nice things.

Can occasionally be rash - like early on in Espanyol game - but agree that light years ahead of Manning who was poor even under Martin’s set up which had worked for him at Swansea.

Hopefully a few of the starters have played their way out of the club judging by the rest of their ‘efforts’ pre-season and last season. But that will cost some subsidisation on wages to get rid.

Stephens, Smallbone, Aribo and co will soon knock that out of him during training.

Week ahead in pre-season so that may be some of it. Mind you, I thought that when Oxford battered us last season….

Bree and Manning haven’t helped themselves today.

Pre-season to be fair but I suspect he wouldn’t mind moving on. Unless Ipswich come back in, which I doubt, can’t see where his market is.

Difficult to keep up with play when you have 11 toes…

Both - younger potential player, will have ups and downs.

Yep, if it’s going to be a 10th-18th place season of consolidation and freezing out some of the wankers in the squad, let’s at least have some players like Robinson, Sesay, Dipepa to give us some hope with the better older heads to support them.

Without the aid of TNT I can’t see it.

We’ve had a PL-type pre-season and Spanish sunshine to reward apathy and abject failure was typically tin-eared. Should have been Eastleigh, B Rovers, Crawley, Reading, Cardiff and Huddersfield. Tough, physical, competitive warm-ups to get ready for what’s to come.

This is what you get with ‘project signings’. We’ve got to re-set our expectations, top half would be good going.

Has done pretty well, at least showed some energy and moments of quality in the middle which we’ve been starved of as supporters. Basics of football really. Bit different to facing a very experienced operated in O’Brien next week though.

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League One would suit many of them.

It’s a pointless fixture as well, if L1 and L2 hadn’t have been starting a week earlier, playing Cardiff, Luton or Peterborough would’ve been a better idea. Should have been more of those sort of games in pre-season more suited to our worst squad for 15 years.

Apart from Charles, Downes when fit again, possibly Downs, AA and Archer if Still can get them going again, the squad assuming MF and TD off is hugely lacking in top 6 Champ quality. Need a lot of new faces quickly.

Shaky after the disallowed goal but it was a decent first 20. #1 keeper signing a pressing priority as is some pace and width.

Typically both got injured

I was going to say that reminded of a Masterchef dish - Elyounoussi three ways - but probably not the best analogy at the moment….

Friend of mine got overhead by the Solent Sport team in the 1990s calling Roger Johnson a fat cunt.

THB nowhere near fit so assuming JS and Wood (or Gordon-Wood as I think it is now) next week?

There are some positives to add 4-5 automatic starter signings to - Downs has looked tidy when he’s actually had any service. Stephens and Bree very poor, Baz ok first 20 but very shaky since the disallowed goal. Can’t see him coping with the derby game in September.

No different to 2024/25 in entirety tbf. #we flop on