Lighthouse

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.

Looks more like a Hurricane with the stubby wingtips. 3/10.

Never heard of him but clearly he must have something about him that we like the look of, so I’ll reserve judgement. When they first signed, everyone thought Larin was crap and Orsic was quality. If we’ve replaced THB with Slotty, that doesn’t look a massive downgrade on first viewing, so if Abbott is a better suit than JQ then overall we’ve got a more even selection.

How many leaders do you think we need? We have JWP, Stephens, Slotty and Peretz in the squad already.

The Death of Stalin was brilliant too.

There’s absolutely no way a human had time to react to this into order to deliberately handle the ball. His arms were up in front of him because it looked like he was about to collide with another player. I’m not saying I agree with the rule as such but I’m not disallowing this for a deliberate handball.

Good luck to him. I always assumed he was one of those we'd be selling in this window, along with Charles, so I can't get particularly upset about it, although it is a shame to lose a player of his ability.

If he scores on his debut, the stadium will be in raptors.

It’s not rigged, that’s the correct interpretation of the rules as they are written. It was given as an o.g. Because the initial shot was off target, not because it ‘got a nick’.

We did it a couple of times in League 1 by the same scoreline but I can remember any 6-1s. I thought maybe the Tranmere cup game in 2002 but having checked we did score first.

Well, it’s going to be interesting to see who turns up as three into one position doesn’t really work. One of them is going to be a bit cheesed off with a lack of game time.

Is ‘surprise meat’ another way of describing indecent exposure?

Mubama is the competition for Larin, he hasn’t come here to be left out of the match day 20 and never play. I’d be very surprised to see us sign another central striker.

Games coming thick and fast now. I would assume FD misses out, as per head injury protocol? The transfer window closes an hour after this game finishes, so hopefully it’ll be the last time wondering about which players are here next week.

It’s easier if you scroll down a bit. Or up. Depends on your persuasion.

If my GCSEs taught me anything it’s that Germans live opposite the cinema, listen to music and play football with their brother, so there could be some truth to this.

Well, after a dreadful first 10 minutes of each half we were superb thereafter. I voted for Azaz as MotM but it could easily have been Larin, Matsuki or even Slotty on his debut. Delighted for Fellows, from the Northam it looked like Mubama had bundled it over, so hopefully that doesn’t get taken off him on review. I don’t think there were any bad performances. Bragg wasn’t great with Downes, as we’d expect, but he looked a lot better alongside JWP. Larin’s second goal… pure Bergkamp, loved it. Who had us above Burnley and West Ham after three games, with minus four?

He’ll do for Lighthouse.

Armstrong is 19, not 24.

AI has officially jumped the shark.

No, not Stephens, he’s longest serving. No, without checking I’d say he’s been here around 9 hours.

Together they're our joint second longest serving players, the next longest being Manning.

Since we signed Bazunu he’s won more league games against Chelsea than McCarthy has won at St Mary’s.