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Or it may have the opposite effect.

Damned odd we've loaned him a league below where he was doing fine. You might start to think the owner's just trying to get his money's worth out of us (selling whomever we can spare for as much as possible / no replacements incoming )

Long had an unusual off day yesterday in terms of his usual 110% energy level. He's never going to be a goal scorer or top class. But he does offer something no-one else has, genuine pace. But he was poor yesterday and seemed to be just trying to win free kicks and complaining.

Couple of times he nipped in with important interceptions yesterday and grew into the game. Hopefully he can keep growing, we need him to!

2 games against rivals both draws. We needed to win at least one of them. .

Gotta hang on for a point now.

We look terrified of crouch currently

Slattery really grown into the game.

Could be anything but he was hobbling a bit when walking away.

Nevermind plenty of goals on the bench (!)

Agreed.

Burnley passing themselves into trouble a bit

Passing it about nicely. But Burnley waiting to pounce on the inevitable mistakes.

Hopefully ings can find his goal scoring touch.

We are wide open. Not looking great so far.

Gallagher needs chances and game time to get match fit. Not looked great when we have seen him so far. I am not sure if he'll get much chance though with us playing 1 up front. For me Austin is similar, he needs game time regularly to get the best out of him / keep him sharp.

Depends what league we are in.

Let's hope the youngsters turn out to be good.

Thank you

As I said in my initial post; granted most of them are finished here. My primary concern is the lack of replacements / improvements and reliance on youngsters to keep us up!

I take your point. But it is very odd to see so many of the youngsters being pushed through and seniors being loaned or sold off. Of course in Hassenhuttl we trust.... let's hope he doesn't turn out to be a loon.

Trying and failing to stay calm about today.

Looks like Hassenhuttl has been told to play the youngsters and we will try to offload as many senior players as possible. Agreed, most of those seniors are probably finished here. But they need to be replaced and relying on the u23's for the rest of the season just isn't going to cut it. Still a few hours left but I'm getting that Jan Poortvliet .... all we need is Kruger to come out with a statement about us having a "log jam" of strikers and the picture is complete. Please someone tell me it'll be ok .. !

A point is a point. We need to strengthen tomorrow.

St Mary's still an easy place to come for away teams unfortunately.