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AMN an utter liability.

Commentators discussing Mara not getting a red card. In my eyes he didn’t even deserve a yellow - he attacked the air in front of the keeper which he’s perfectly entitled to do and the keeper followed through to kick him. Nothing he could do about that and if that’s a foul then you could start dishing out cards for 50% of all challenges!

Perraud having a corker of a game … a goal and 90% pass completion.

Looking ok, but I would like to see Edozie and/or Orsic closer to Mara - they’re too far apart to really work together to fashion something. It’s like watching three different strikers operating separately and independently of each other.

Mara is too isolated at the moment, otherwise we’d be strolling this.

I know we know it already, but what a player we’ve got in Lavia…so calm on the ball.

What a great goal from Perraud! Just need three more now to be safe.

Should’ve put a winkie thing 😜😉

Why? Mara went in away from the keeper and it ended with the keeper kicking Mara!!!

We’re all over the place at the moment - AMN doing a bad job of trying to imitate a footballer.

Spoke too soon?

Minute I saw the line up I thought, good move Jones - you’re testing out the first team for the Championship.

I guess that goes to show that everything is relative as we were flying a lot higher back then.

Yeah well that’s my point. Outside of signing a striker that it seems we can’t afford, it makes you wonder why SR didn’t save some money by appointing a much better Manager in the same league as Koeman and Poch. Surely that would have represented less risk and less cost than the route taken? I’ve believed for a while that with the present squad a decent Manager would get us playing better - I.e. specifically passing formations, pressing, shooting, scoring.

Out of interest, does anyone here think Koeman or Poch would make a better stab at getting this squad to play better football and win games of football? I do - I don’t think it’s all about the money all the time. If that were the case we would never beat City 2-0 for example…it just wouldn’t be possible.

Well we now know that was an ‘exaggeration’ because apparently Jones was responsible entirely for the Bree signing.

Welcome James and good luck…you’re going to need it. Next.

Tick tock…FFS.

Jones personally led this one eh? Well now we know who NJ’s favourite boy was in the dressing room at Luton, with all respect. He’ll become a regular starter when KWP goes in the summer after our relegation. Happy days.

Yep, this guy would be great. What do you think…£50m?

Simple answer is we can’t, but then nor can about 10 other teams in the league. That’s why we’re a development and sell ‘em on high club, but it’s a delicate balance which can end with relegation as in our case.

I’ve got this picture in my mind of 4 or 5 Uni sport grads sat in a darkened room making bids on players a bit like E-Bay. See something of interest and knowing there’s a Buy It Now price, they still go in with a fucking ludicrous offer just in case the seller is desperate. Then when they get rejected they get a cob on and just move on to another player. 🤣

Thanks - I was not so sure of what games he’d miss.

Agreed, so I was surprised (once again) to see Jones not starting Alcarez with Lavia - to my mind a much more dynamic pairing especially at home. But Jones seems to like playing on the back foot and chasing a game.

What does realistic mean? £10m, £20m, 30m? At £10m-£20m, I’d say save your money, you’re not getting anyone in this window of any worth costing less than this. In fact I would hazard a guess that £30m is the lowest, but is that realistic for SR to stump up? Probably not, so I’m afraid fantasising over a player we’ll never get is pointless. Sorry.