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We're better than Plymouth and Exeter 🙂

They've sign an aging goalkeeper on a free in Begovic, Jordan James and Aaron Ramsey on season long loans (not exactly inspiring) plus Julian Carranza on a season long loan with option to buy. He scored goals in America but not many elsewhere. All pretty uninspiring to me but we'll see.

I disagree and think Will Still is likely to want two centre backs on the bench. As to who starts in a back four your picks of Stephens and THB are probably right. Along with others I prefer THB in a centre back partnership of two and think he feels more comfortable with it too as it means his role is clear. Stephens still worries me as he never seems aware of danger lurking around him and is reactive (usually too late) rather than proactive. He's captain so will continue to start but, if he doesn't sharpen up, I hope Will has the nous to drop him.

Agree, not a fan of a centre back taking long throw-ins deep in opposition territory unless it's late in the game and we are losing.

Regards Dibling I think what we lost when he left was potential because let's be honest he did very little apart from the odd spark early season. So we didn't lose a player who was scoring for fun and providing assists. I think Fellows and Scienza will be upgrades although Tyler, of course, may eventually fulfil his potential.

He looks superb in the clips. There is one where he is tight to the right touchline, he flicks the ball over his opponent, cuts past another player then threads a sublime pass though to a team mate near the edge of the box and, from absolutely nothing, a goal is scored.

I'm expecting the goals to be shared around and we won't be reliant on Archer. I think Will Still is going to be asking Fellows, Scienza and Azaz to all look to be regular goal scorers not just providers. All 3 look to have the tools to be able to take on opponents, get in the box or within shooting range and should give us a fair bit of extra fire power.

I think he's considered a valuable squad member and will probably get plenty of games.

Yes and the club shop can finally sell some of those letter Z's that have been clogging up the stockroom.

I think Will Still quickly realised that he needed to be utterly ruthless in removing the linger of Russball from the squad and he's done that in a clinical manner. It had to be done although I never thought we'd see so many out of the door. He now has the chance to put his own stamp on the side with players brought in to fit his systems and I can imagine he's very excited about that. We'll know after about ten games whether this root and branch reset is going to work but I have high hopes that it's going to revolutionise us in a good way.

Don't agree that the Pompey game will be a litmus test or much of an indicator other than maybe how we cope under pressure. It's a one-off huge derby game and the first for some in the squad so trying to play football will almost go out the window. Much rather judge in a handful of games time when Will Still has had more time to work with the squad and the players start to gel.

Think we can safely confirm it'll be Will Still's team whoever he picks. This is an almost total reset and has been too long coming. Not saying it's sure to be a success but it feels like an exorcism.

Yeah if you want an old bloke propping up your defence 🙂

Which tweet?

Assume this is a joke?

Not if you're a peeping tom.

Yeah, until he let that shot go under his body against West Germany - he got called a lot of different names then.

The question is, did the deal sheets go in between 1700 and 1900? If they did we've got another two hours of this fun to enjoy.

Now what do we do?

Wonder why Sky don't call it Premier League Deadline Day?

The club could easily announce that the deal sheet is in.

Hooray, we got a deal done on deadline day.

Didn't know that.

So just been explained that there is a 2 hour grace period when the window closes as long as the deal sheet has been completed between 17.00 and 19.00

Sorry, not up to speed on all that rubbish 🙂