HarvSFC

Matsuki, we haven't got time to waste. You were barely touched.

I don't know why we didn't have a Charles replacement ready to come in, especially with Jander unavailable.

At least the Community Shield is on in half an hour.

Two half time subs like Leicester please. Fellows and Azaz for me with Scienza moving out wide left. Need more ball carrying threat up the pitch and while Matsuki keeps it simple, he isn't a difference maker, have hopes that Fellows will come good this season. Azaz for the bit of class and seeing balls that others don't see. Defence clearly a problem. Stephens the architect of it all still and as I said earlier I was starting to get back on his side as he did have a good end to last season, but today he has been horrific. Midfield, Downes and Bragg are too similar. Nothing will go through them. Bragg the backup for Downes when he inevitably gets a suspension/falls ill. Not both. Was surprised we were going into the season without a Charles replacement. Didn't think his sale would be a surprise to the board and thought they'd have a plan to replace him. Larin's had nothing to feed off with the players behind him creating nothing. We're giving Watford a lot of space and they're giving us none.

That's on Manning. Pass across the field gets picked up, he's nowhere in position and then Stephens doesn't even attempt to close down. The usual suspects are letting us down.

Jack Stephens again. Man, I was starting to like you again after the back end of last season.

Can't stop Scienza so they have to resort to hacking him down, like what happened last season. Give the Watford player a retrospective ban, FA.

Kevin Phillips, a completely different man from his playing days.

Joel Piroe is some comedown from Troy Parrott.

What would Norwich have preferred, West Brom watch one of their training sessions after the 72 hour window, or West Brom get a goal with an illegal body part with the game decided by one goal?

Why would one of the first names on the team sheet be valued lower than a player who was in and out of our side? After selling one key player, it should be harder for buying teams to sign another from us, not easier. £25m? Would rather try and get the Premier League money.

Rubbish. Think Lincoln have the 24th spot cemented, been largely attack vs defence.

Hopefully they've got some tissues in Middlesbrough tonight if the score remains as is. Hellberg won't have a dry eye not being able to beat Lincoln after all the money spent.

Not only is he a good defender, but he's also one of the top leaders at the club. See Jordan Henderson this summer for how valued that is these days. Also is our main threat from attacking set pieces and last season became a big part of how we played under Eckert with his diagonal balls from the defence into the midfield. Would be a massive, disappointing loss. At this moment in time, we've got one of the best goalkeepers with Peretz in the league, one of the best centre-backs with THB, one of the best midfielders with Jander, one of the best 10s with Azaz and one of the best strikers with Larin. That's the spine of the team currently supported by some top wide players and we need it if we are going for the league title, which has been suggested by those at the club all summer.

Awful handball to give away at the death. Can we go back to the days of the attacker not being able to stop his run on a penalty. The goalkeeper was on the floor when Jimenez struck it the opposite side.

Could do with someone signing Fer Lopez before the window's end. Playing like you'd expect a £19m player to play in the Championship. Armstrong putting in his usual non-performance in the central role.

He was schmidt at his job, no loss.

It's almost as if our manager potentially facing a long ban (worst case scenario) could put off transfer targets.

He's playing catch up and looking to build match fitness in competitive fixtures. Another reason this situation may be a positive as we can't carry any passengers at the beginning of this season especially.

They always come crawling back.

To be fair, we don't really want a local journalist categorically saying a player isn't for sale, only for them to be sold weeks later...

Smallbone can't play on the turn, ball went back to where he was facing, more often than not looked for the easy pass than the killer, which could be a symptom of the tactics and didn't have the physicality to influence games defensively. He turned up in the play-offs, but then reverted back to type and got ruthlessly exposed at Premier League level. Our midfield in the second half of the last season was much better to watch than it was in 23/24 and there's probably a reason why Smallbone is still without a club when the season starts in two days and why his agent is now releasing stories to the press about interest.

Benfica's record signings: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/benfica-lissabon/transferrekorde/verein/294 You'd like to think that they can't afford THB.

Was worried until I saw it's Sacha 0% success rate reporting it. It's going to take a Charles like fee, and more now that we've banked the Charles fee to get THB.

But, was able to play in the last pre-season friendly a few days after. He was in the morning team: https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/report-pre-season-concludes-with-muenster-win