Lighthouse

Our bench will have Abbott, Bragg, possibly Jander, Fellows, Dobbin, Romeo, Mubama and Welly. You think we have a lack of options? They’d all start for Lincoln.

Mubama IS the second choice. Dobbin would be playing there in an emergency if the other two were injured. You aren’t realistically getting better depth than that for one position in the team. A few weeks ago I mooted BBD as being a backup option worth hanging on to, which was largely scoffed at. We aren’t getting a better player than that to come to a Championship team and basically never play, unless someone is injured.

This league fixture is being played for the first time since March 1961. We won 3-0, so hopefully we can continue our run of good form up there. We haven’t lost on the Witham in any competition since 1932.

Realistically, it’s been a decent window for us. We knew we had to generate some income, which would require a couple of big sales and we’ve had to balance that with what we were able to spend. When we got kicked out of the playoffs if you’d said to me, ”Raymond van Gigadong (Lighthouse was my maiden name) in three months time Jander, Leo, Peretz and Larin will still be at St Mary’s,” I’d have bitten your hand off. In goal we’ve signed Peretz against all expectations, so that’s a clear win. In defence the two we’ve signed seem like decent, affordable replacements for the two we’ve lost. In midfield JWP is different to Charles but I still think overall our options are among the best in the division. Up front Larin is bang in form and Mubama and Dobbin provide alternatives to mix things up a bit. The window is closed, there’re no excuses now. Three years ago we got promoted with Bazunu, Stephens, McCarthy, Smallbone, Aribo, Edozie, Rothwell and Adam Armstrong getting regular minutes, whilst our one big signing spent the whole season injured. Furthermore, many people thought that was an underachievement in spite of certain individuals who are no longer at the club. I don’t demand automatic promotion but not being right up there in the fight for it all season would be a massive failure.

So, was this like a metaphor, or something? Like in the Bible when it says something like, "death to all the first born sons," but apparently it doesn't literally mean 'death to all the first born sons'?

Win your home games, draw your aways and you get promoted. Can’t moan about a point on the road.

I don’t think you can really blame Peretz for a dip in form if he dies. I’d give him the benefit of the doubt on that.

Bang on target.

You dirty schlott!

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/archer-joins-auxerre-on-loan Good luck to him. I didn't think he was PL quality but I'm surprised at how little impact he made at this level.

Would he? We’ve got four players in that position, the complaints now are that none of them are big and physical enough. I’m not sure 5’9" Reed solves that issue, if you believe it is one.

I was saying Booephens.

Has he ever actually made a PL appearance for Brentford, or indeed anyone? He might go on to have a decent career but so far I don’t know what you’re basing your assessment of him on.

I agree, plus if you’re going to argue we’ve replaced THB with ‘a kid with 13 appearances’ then you also have to argue we’ve replaced Quarshie with a guy who has over 200 Bundesliga appearances. People cant argue it both ways just because they want to pretend we’ve had a bad window.

You can’t just hold on to everyone to make other clubs pay more. I’ve no doubt we could have afforded a couple of million more for Falchener if we thought he was worth it. We haven’t paid it, so I can only assume he isn’t.