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The games I have seen pre-season we've generally looked slow getting the ball forward and attacking with real purpose so I wouldn't be entirely surprised with a 0-0

Get yourself down the bookies and double it with Stephens Red card , possibly for an altercation with James McClean, let's show them we mean business early on

Would a Dibling sale count as 100% profit for PSR as a *homegrown* player or does his spell at Chelsea change that?

I noticed Watford away sold out to season ticket holders with 6 away games I think, Quite decent to have sell outs already for Wrexham Northampton Ipswich Watford Plenty left still for Stoke at home

Ok let's look at it this way Our 'talented' squad was so far out of its depth last season we broke all sorts of records and celebrated getting to twelve points. We were a laughing stock. That squad is now losing what little actual talent it had in departures, some of the better players in Ramsdale, KWP have already left. I applaud your confidence , it's nice to see, but I can't share it at the moment. I especially think we'll struggle to match the intensity of some lesser championship sides with our current side.

Right back clearly is a position we are weaker now than last championship season, difference is it is a position that can be carried a bit as mistakes won't necessarily be as detrimental as a goalkeeper error. Bree is steady I think , Suga has been a disappointment in his Premier league performances, if they've taught him how to defend let's see if he can improve now and lay off the basketball for a bit

I hate these arrogant statements that imply we're so much better than others , were you all watching last season where the club embarrassed themselves in front of the nation being so utterly devoid of top flight quality and lack of cohesive team unit? And yes we have players who got us promotion previously, but some of those arguably have got worse like Armstrong and Fraser so not equivalent to 23/24 season

Agree, Leicester seem to be alright for a 'crisis' club in financial difficulty? Good convincing win for them vs Fiorentina I saw an interview with Birminghams manager when questioned on promotion chances he says will be hard to compete with the likes of Ipswich and Leicester, didn't mention us!

Fans forum coming up for someone to ask again

Remember the fans forum where someone rightly said Baz is shite and Martin went into a passionate defence of him saying best in division? Comedy gold. Point we made many times on Baz is his positioning is so poor he ends up getting beaten often by shots other keepers would save due to better starting position

I don't think anyone hates Baz? In fact it would be much better for all of us if he did become a brilliant keeper, but remember most of us have sat through two seasons of his keeping and can't face a third of the same, especially having been temporarily spared from it for a season

His positioning often means he is too easy to beat from that angle

Agree, when you think our "first choice" defence probably included KWP, Bednarek and THB having all three sold would have been a bit much I think

Have you seen the Brighton goals? Rolled into the bottom corner without much power, poor defending to allow but also looked a bit too easy for the forward to beat the keeper from there

Fucking hell that has triggered me much more than it should have , need to take a deep breath and go for a walk to calm myself down now

Interesting, I think THB will need to play a couple of couple of u21 type games to get back to match fitness, it was a bad injury and he's been out 3 months

Nah we all know the club have no intention of even trying to win this fixed competition which ensures teams qualified for Europe not only get a bye to 3rd round they also now ensure they don't draw each other due to European fixture schedules, it's a farce and should be treated as such

Bound to be a bit of that, Still also gets a 'free hit' game away at Northampton where no one will really care if we lose so can use that to give more minutes to young players and try out some others. I remember Martin using players who wanted out at Gillingham in an awful performance two years ago

But Fernandes has a longer contract whereas Dibling situation not signing new deal I think we'll sell

With international football fixtures such as this it would be nice if our fans showed some openess and understanding of other countries culture and traditions rather than mock them

My hope is it is going to take time for their new signings to settle and we could be playing them at a good time, but to be fair we also don't exactly have a settled starting XI well drilled in managers tactics either. I'll go for 1-1, these early kick offs often start slowly , I think Wrexham will approach it like a cup tie and sit deep, see if we can break them down, they'll try to hit us on the break. Home end sold out, looks like they've also managed to sell out just over 3k as was on general sale but showing no availability now. Loads of our hospitality packages still available, not at all surprising given the price for a Saturday lunchtime game in a month where corporate sales are always difficult anyway as everyone is off work.

Settled manager , very good championship squad, I think they will win it comfortably, Will Leicester ever get a points deduction?

Can't disagree with any of this

We do not have a stronger squad than last time as things stand and as stubborn as Martin was with his system we've got no idea how Will Still is going to adapt to the English game

The Sports Republic managed decline of the side has really started to hit home