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Better that neither of these sides ever get promoted to the Premier League. Imagine the huge awakening their fans would get playing at places like Anfield and seeing how many decisions go against them. That would really give them something to whine about.

Agree, if you want these type of game changing players you have to pay big. Alternatively SR can continue doing what they always do and we'll never progress. This deal is sounding like it'll be this season's Cody Gakpo.

Sunday is a normal day off - Russboy used to chuck in Mondays as well for a nice long weekend before the light jogging and fun kick about training sessions. How much fitter did we look yesterday!

It seems we may be looking at loan deals.

Their fans in the main seem to disagree with you. On the whole they are saying all the things we were during his tenure here after two draws against poor opposition in the SPL.

He's still finding plenty of customers to buy the snake oil. However, if he fails at Rangers doing the same stubborn things you do have to wonder if that's his lot in football. Rangers have some decent players but they need to play at a high tempo not Russell's pass for passes sake which just negates their pacey wingers.

None of these comments expresses hate for Stephens. They are all opinions showing that the fans who expressed them do not rate the guy. You can't confuse that with hate which is quite a strong word.

We desperately need a creative midfielder and probably as the number one priority.

Sous-chef maybe 🙂

Don't know where you get your info from but below is a direct quote from Kevin Friend of the PGMOL 'We're basically looking for examples where it clearly hits the arm unjustifiably, hands above the head, away from the body, to deliberately block the ball from going into the box or into the goal.'

Give me strength 🙂 I'm pretty sure the rule about handball is that players must not use them to make themselves bigger and more likely to block a shot. I get it's not natural to have your arms tucked in but explain to me why most players do it on a regular basis - they do it because they know they run a big risk of conceding a penalty if their arms are not tucked in. I'm pretty sure if that had been in the Premier League VAR would have supported our penalty claims.

His arm was clearly away from his body in an attempt to make himself bigger. These days players generally tuck their arms in to show they are not seeking to gain an advantage. Their defender held his arms away from his body so stonewall penalty for me particularly as it was a shot on goal from Charles.

There are enough at the club and particularly Adam Lallana who could have had a word in Will Still's ear the minute he declared he intended playing AA through the middle. Adam is a coach now and should have made his feelings known - maybe he did and was ignored but hopefully lessons have been learned because this mistake has been replicated too many times. It hasn't worked, didn't work yesterday, has never worked and never will work.

Yeah, imagine if we'd lost 🙂

If you've seen the clip of his moment of unbridled joy on the pitch after the game that should tell you more than seeing him answering the usual mundane questions from a journalist.

It was the first game of the season so I expected a certain amount of ring rust. A look at other results and performances tells me we are not alone although I watched Bristol City and they were superb. We will get stronger, we will get better and we will bring in new players including creative ones. Any sort of win on the opening day is a big bonus especially for us because we are notoriously slow starters. My biggest take was the increase in our fitness levels and that helped get us over the line against a tiring Wrexham.

Not so sure I agree. Wrexham rode their luck at times - Robinson could have had a couple of goals, he hit the post and their keeper also made an instinctive save that he knew little about. After Robinson hit the post AA had two bites at the cherry and was unfortunate that both were blocked. Fraser had a shot that literally hit their keeper with him knowing little about it. We had two massive shouts for penalties and I feel both should have been given - one a blatant handball and the other a shirt pull when their player held on to Quarshie's shirt for quite a few seconds. Robinson and AA both had stabbed shots that they didn't make the most of and there was a header from maybe Charles that went straight at their keeper. Add in the two goals we scored and also a look at the game stats will show that Wrexham struggled to keep us at bay. We weren't as bad as a lot have made out. Lots to improve on and I'm confident Will Still will study the game and learn a great deal from it.

Well my half time prediction was way off and I hadn't realised how good this Bristol City side is. They passed and moved intelligently, played between the lines and defended well when they had to. They could be the dark horses this season. Excellent performance from them.

Stats say it all and that's what I saw.

Blimey, looks like we're certs for relegation judging by these marks and comments.

4-1 now - I'll give up tipping results 🙂

Yeah, that was crazy. Will Still mentioned the one that led to the penalty so hopefully he will address that in no uncertain terms because it was just bonkers.

Sheff Utd v Bristol City was a very good first half. Both sides looking more assured than we did today. They both move the ball much quicker and sharper than we did today. BC winning 2-1 but think SU might well turn it around second half. We'll need a marked improvement but should be better having a victory under our belt.

Think he held up the captain's armband as some sort of gesture of defiance though he should realise he owes the fans plenty and this game doesn't automatically wipe out all the mistakes he's made in the past. Couldn't fault him today so that's the standard he needs to maintain allowing for the odd blemish.

Stewart starts up front for me. Would probably swap Edwards for Wood because the former looked well off the pace today.