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Lewis Barn-door Dobbin. Let's hope he has his contact lenses in today.

Get out there, set up shop and defend for your lives. Try to nick one late on, but take the draw.

Stranger things have happened. For example, Papa Waigo once stayed onside, or so I heard.

By not buying Lankshear This forum... crazy.

Some quick feet, fast interplay and nice touches by our boys. Promising

Wade?

A big game approaches. Can we do to them what we did to Swansea?

Any further news on this after he left the pitch today?

My glass is half full too

Like Mubama?

Again, Dobbin looked decent for a struggling Preston side. Mubama looked good for City pre-season. That they've turned out to be shite wasnt exactly a guaranteed thing and therefore I think the frustration of 'well we should've fucking signed Lankshear' is a bit of hindsighted revisionism that makes it all seem so simple.

It's just an easy fucking stick to beat the club with when I think it to be quite unlikely a club recently kicked out of the playoffs and with a manger that had a cloud hanging over him with the FA investigation would be able to convince a player who would have had the pick of Championship clubs, including those relegated from the PL, to come to us, when we already had Larin, who was clearly one of the first names on the teamsheet and plays in his position, on the books.

From the arbiter of ridiculous takes, that means a lot.

So fucking shite, that.

Any news on big Cyle?

Awful finish to what was a decent cross from Edozie. His shape was all wrong, suggesting he doesn’t have a striker's natural instinct.

Yep, recruitment up top not turning out to be positive. I appreciate though, that we weren't going to be signing someone like Lankshear to play second fiddle to Larin, despite the promise of rotation ala Stewart and Larin last season. We were always going to have to take a bit of a gamble.

I dont think this is fair. I saw plenty of mixing it up. Early balls over the top (lots of offsides), balls down the wing ending with spurned opportunities, lots of attempts by Azaz to thread the eye of a needle. Of course there will be some recycling and spreading the ball across the pitch, but it wasn't the entirety of our attacking play today.

Hindsight has proven him to be an ineffective waste of money at this current time, yep.

Is he out for the game then? That would be worse news than the pissing up the wall of two points today

Spors tried, he got Dobbin - was he not meant to be the replacement? Shame he's been shite, but Spors has got a few decent players in.

Our collective Saints frustration levels are ridiculously high. Blood pressure through the roof. We didn't necessarily play badly, just couldn't fucking finish our dinner. Hope that doesn't dent Dobbin's confidence. He's been pretty shite overall and a waste of money, really.

If Bree scores, as he should have done, we go away happy. As it is, frustrating. We fucking move on.

I though Middlesborough were challenging for promotion? 2-0 down at half time, they were. Just reckon your knees are jerking all over the place, if I'm honest. I also think you'd be one of the crowd that would be moaning, groaning and shouting at the players when a move doesnt come off. An anti-supporter, I like to call them.

Absolutely. Dobbin has the pace for it to work. Does he have the finish? Scienza certainly doesn't seem to at the moment.