Pamplemousse

The ref for this one is someone we had a few times last season, David Webb, it's his first ever Premier League game. Unfortunately, Michael Oliver is on VAR.

The weather will be nice, not too hot, a few beers in the sun, lovely jubbly. Ruined by the football of course.

Er... he did get Norwich in the top 6 last season, they went backwards after he left. He'd be a poor Prem manager but he'd very easily get us promoted. I think there are a better options but he wouldn't be a disaster.

I suspect it's probably a fishing trip i.e. if someone does offer £125M Solak will accept rather than them actively looking to sell the club.

Luton look like staying up which is good news. Hopefully Hull go down, long way to go. And one of Sunderland/Middlesbrough going up would be appreciated for the same reasons. And likewise I hope the League 1 play off winners are not Stockport as the other three are all southern. It does look like there aren't as many northern teams as last time in any case. There were a lot of lengthy journeys last time around!

It's not as black and white as that.

There are positives in that it was competitive but in the second half we had zero attacking threat.

Kingfisher, Guinness, Sapporo and there's an IPA but I can't remember the name

Mason Mount

Hope we win, I'd like us to chase down Leicester if we can.

If we beat Fulham and they lose at the weekend then it does give us a bit of an incentive going into that game, but it's unlikely. Would be very, very funny though.

Drama Queen!! Coming from you, hilarious

They'd be below us if it wasn't for Steve Cooper

He's found his level. Ankerson's decision to hire him was a catastrophe.

The tactics from Potter was baffling. Took off all their attacking players, Kudus, Bowen etc. which just handed the iniative straight to us. We're bottom of the league, you're 1-0 up, you've got to go for a second goal. Fair play to us for seizing the chance.

Having Downes back is a massive plus tbh. We are a far better team with him in it, even Juric realised that eventually, just way too late.

One more game we can cross off before most of these players become someone else's problem.

The strategy of signing Premier League loan players worked well last time. You would assume teams like Everton, West Ham and Wolves will strengthen and there will be a few players available.

I agree, but I do get the impression that things are going to be different. This season has been a bit of an awakening for everyone.

Yeah I will because I have nothing better to do on Saturdays. Quite a lot of our games won't be at 3pm on a Saturday because of the EFL TV deal so people should bear that in mind when renewing - expect a lot of 12.30 kick offs.

I do agree with manji. SR fucked up. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it. And they've already acted to fix it - Solak taking personal control, Spors coming in and overhauling recruitment, now we need a top class manager (for the Championship). I know this is shit but I am optimistic for next season.

He lost the plot towards the end. I won't forget how he blamed the fans for us losing at Aston Villa because we ironically cheered a long ball from the goalkeeper which supposedly encouraged him.

Wasn't a 3-0 game. Ref was terrible. Villa a better team than us. We will beat West Ham, Fulham and Leicester.

One thing that does strike me is that behind the scenes there are a lot of changes, personally changes which we need to make. Sport Republic have been a disaster but if Spors can clean things up and get a consistent structure behind the scenes, it can only be beneficial. I noticed in the finances published for all the teams in the Championship for the previous season that we were way behind our rivals in commerical revenue earned. I thought Parsons was supposed to be sorting this out?

Last weekend you had us, Bournemouth, Brighton and them all away in London, very strange scheduling.