Lighthouse

We signed Billy Sharp from Doncaster, who finished bottom of the league. If he’s the right player for us, I couldn’t give a hoot.

He was bowling rockets in the 2023 Blast, I thought with him replacing Brad Wheal we had a great bowling lined up. Baker, Turner and Lumsden with a half decent spinner would have been one heck of a bright looking future.

Turner has officially retired from cricket. Such a shame.

What is it they say, the longest two letter word in the English language?

Can’t argue with that, either from Ross’ POV or ours, it makes sense why he’s gone. Three years is a big risk for Swansea though, given his fitness record.

The difference being that this season we’ve basically kept together the entire team and manager which won fourteen and drew five league games since the end of February. We’ve even made the loans permanent so our only real change is Dobbin in for Stewart. There are no excuses not to hit the ground running this year, like we did with a settled team in 2011.

They were at Blackburn together weren’t they? In the right role BBD really is a solid, double digit Championship striker. If Tonda can figure out a way to use him then having him as an option up front really isn’t the worst idea. It’s not like Stewart ever banged in 20 goals for us.

Well if there’s anywhere in the world to learn about pace and acceleration, it’s there.

A decent player for us but bearing in mind we're going to need at least one big sale this summer, I'd prefer it was him. With Downes, Jander and Bragg we have three other decent options so this wont leave us with a gaping hole in the team. We can still fight for the autos with a fairly cheap/loan replacement.

If we did that then a very large number of people on here would be sarcastically talking about how we can't wait to sell our best players as cheaply and as soon as possible. If we can stop squabbling over £1m and just get it done, then so can any team wanting to buy. The only difference is he's our player, any we don't want to sell him at all, unless we get an agreeable deal.

I've not really been following the 16.4 but I've just seen SR Leeds posted 241 today, which is just a ludicrous score for 100 balls.

They seem to get released at two week intervals on a Thursday, so expect the away kit in a couple of days. A dark blue away kit isn’t going to be used for a trip to Colchester anyway.

They were all decent but for me the only definite in the XI from those four is Bednarek. KWP, probably just edges it but Bree was phenomenal when he came back from Charlton and arguably stronger defensively. Larin probably edges Adams, again only just. Brooks came here to regain match fitness and for me he doesn't get in ahead of Azaz. I'd probably go with something like: Peretz KWP THB Bednarek Manning Downes Jander/Charles A. Armstrong Azaz Scienza Larin Subs: Bazunu, Bree, Stephens, Charles/Jander, S. Armstrong, Brooks, Adams, Fellows, Stewart

I wouldn't say Martin had much worse players really. Tonda had a better GK and strikers to choose from, plus Scienza obviously but the rest of the squad was fairly evenly matched. Both periods were thoroughly enjoyable IMO, I've no idea why anybody would want to undermine what Tonda did.

I got a fair bit of kit for about 30-50% off in the second half of last season, including two matchday shirts and a couple of pairs of jogging bottoms from the travel section. Also picked up three pairs of shorts for £5 each after the playoffs, just for general gym use.