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Football is a funny old game, Bolton have been absolutely woeful and have Baz to thank for not being 3/4 down and now they have gone and scored in the 90th minute and look like beating Cardiff

I will actually feel gutted for him if Cardiff score a winner, he doesn't deserve to be on the losing side today. He has been excellent in a poor Bolton team

Baz is having a blinder for Bolton. Cardiff should be 3/4 up by now

Unless anyone has picked up a knock i would not be changing the team that played Tuesday night.

absolutely delighted for him

Resigning JWP for the fee it cost them is the most astute bit of business SFC have done for a very long time. At this level he is head and shoulders above virtually any other midfielder in this division and we are extremely lucky to have him back. His experience to this side is invaluable and already his partnership with FD is looking like it should be the starting midfield every game. Was gutted when he left but he deserved the move and Saints did well with the fee and now they have ripped Wet Spam a new one again!

JWP is not responsible for us dropping 2 points today but dont let that get in the way of the haters having any reason to knock his game. He was easily one of our better players today, constant movement, quick passing keeping everything going. Yes plenty of sideways passing but also plenty of forward passes and driving forward with the ball.

just very angry right now how we were so in control of that game and then on 75 minutes we decided to sit back and invite them onto us. It was utterly suicidal and inevitable that they would score. We cannot compete with physical sides.

such a humble guy.

Absolute madness to bench Leo, he is the one player apart from Azaz that offers us true creativity and is very direct, which defenders hate. Yes he had one of his quieter games Tuesday night but so did a lot of players.

it does seem a very strange situation if we turned down £4 million for him unless it wasn't £4 mill up front and based on stupid targets

Waking up this morning i am hugely relieved we have not lost Leo, Jander, Downs or Azaz and very grateful for signing Peretz, Larin, JWP and Schlotter. However i cant help feeling really nervous about our striker options. Larin was knackered last night and cannot play every game. The jury is still out on the City lad and the two lads whose names are unpronounceable (on the bench last night) are not ready for Championship football from what i have seen of them. I can't help but feel we screwed up yesterday by letting Archer go with no replacement. This is a shit or bust season and we really should have brought in another striker.

tonight was a prime example that we need a couple more quality players. We looked far to vulnerable in large patches today

Overall i'm happy with the transfer window considering all factors after the way our last season ended. I honestly thought we would lose 6/7 players but we have actually kept our best players and got rid of dead wood. We have lost THB and a midfielder who wasn't even a starter and replaced both. JWP is a huge plus in my view and the new defender had an impressive debut at the weekend. If i was being fussy i would like another striker and CB, but overall happy with our squad

not wanting to sound like someone flapping but our striker alternatives leave me worrying. We are relying on Larin keeping injury free way too much. The City lad might turn out to be really good but after that ???

How do you know? Are you a scout? Have you ever seen this lad play?

lets judge when the window closes and when we have seen our new recruits in action! The players brought in so far have all been fairly decent. Dobin is the only one that there might be question mark over but it is still way to early to judge.

I was told prior to the season starting by someone i trust who has a very good contact at the club that Stephens was not considered to be a starting 11 player this season. I could only assume that when he appeared in the first 2 games that this statement was refering to after the close of the transfer window!

Depends on how much she is drinking!

said no woman ever! 🤣

This is something i raised before Sundays game and for the first 45 minutes i believe i was vindicated. I have felt for a while that the last few seasons we have not be prepared for the first game of the season. Last year against Wrexham at home we should of lost and got lucky. Sunday the first 45 minutes we were awful and Watford were in our faces from the start. We were not prepared for that because our preseason opponents were awful and none played the sort of football we will come up against in the Championship every week. Second half we were fitter and had we been sharper we would have won the game but our final ball was shocking. I really hope Tonda gets them working this week in training with crisp passing and bloody practising crossing a ball.

Both their goals were totally avoidable and Stephens had a hand in both of them. The first his complete blind pass that went straight to their forward and with the second goal what the hell was he doing waiting so long before trying to close down the winger who must have thought he had won the lottery being allowed a free run on our goal. If we are serious about getting promoted then Stephens is a back up defender at best, certainly not a starting 11 player!

I said this last week and got laughed at. We are nowhere near ready and the arrogance by some that we would steamroll Watford is laughable. Stepens awful, Bragg absent, Dobin poor, Matsuki knocked off the ball too easily, we are just not ready for the start of the season and its criminal preparation!

Our league season kicks off in a few hours and i'm suddenly nervous as hell. Being on -4 points to start is probably what is already making me feel nervous and the fact that we always seem to start the season slowly, which now more than ever is something we cannot afford to do. 100%agree with Hypo, a win today and we won't worry too much on other things.

if we are selling THB for anywhere close to what Benfica are quoting they are interested in paying then we have lost the plot. Personally i'm still to be convinced there is any truth in these rumours and that it's nothing more than journalists, if you can call them that causing mischief