Saint_clark

No streams working for me now. Hate the Prem.

The one above is working for me on google pixel.

Difficult to tell younger people about them these days as those figures don't seem so ridiculous. Comparably I guess it would be like Villa offering £150,000 a week as an opening offer.

Time will tell. Edwards has never been tested above league one, Greaves has excelled at Championship level and just made a strong start in the Prem.

Because we went for cheap options not because Greaves was extortionate. They got him for 15 million.

I can only assume Edwards has picked up a knock or something. I hope this isn't Martin playing favourites again with Wood being one of his Swansea lads.

Notable exception at right back of course.

Won't be many working ones till kickoff.

Better player than Wood or Edwards imo.

One of my favourite stories was from Seth Johnson, he said him and his agent went into negotiations thinking they'd fight tooth and nail to get £30,000 a week and Leeds' opening offer was £45,000 a week.

He's a janner he's not a boyhood Saint.

Don't think anyone dislikes him, he's a lovely lad. We just know he can be a liability at this level.

A injury to THB and we have a back three of; Wood - Bednarek - Stephens Not great.

Resigned to it now. Fair point, but we barely used KWP all pre-season because he was up for sale.

KWP in the shop window or we've settled on keeping him now?

That'll solve it.

Then you turn FIFA off and get ready to watch the game on stream.

A mate who works in the academy told me he really rates one of the youngsters but I can't remember if he said this name or Okonola-Matthews.

We are an unbelievably open defensive side and Newcastle an unbelievably ruthless pacy attacking side. It could get nasty.

It would surprise me if we went from the pragmatic approach of not forcing the ball on him like we saw in the playoffs to suddenly treating him like Ederson.

Well if that's the loan he's referring to then his goals to game ratio wasn't better. Adams got 22 in 46, Archer got 7 in 20.

Arguably worse? He played for Boro who finished 4th, Adams scored his 22 goals for Birmingham who finished 17th. Only time will tell. I don't think he makes us stronger than we were last season however.

True. But it's not an improvement on Adams. Adams record wasn't worse at 22 though?

Depends on the definition really. Just on excitement/anticipation regardless of knowledge, it was Orsic. Turned out well. In terms of knowing for certain we'd made an epic signing who would be incredible for us, it was Lambert.

Didn't phrase it well, I didn't mean the second part at age 22 just that he has scored more than Archer in the Prem on 4 occasions. My overall point being that if the expectation is he will be an improvement on Adams, as you said "shouldn't be that difficult", then people will most likely be disappointed. I would be amazed if he manages to get the 10 goals we need from a striker this season - i'd imagine he will end up more like Armstrong when he first signed for us, getting 3/4 at most.