Lighthouse

If we're trying to offload both, my respect for SR just went up a notch.

I'd guess so, the other possibility being Fraser and Wely at WB and a 5-2-3, although Still hasn't hinted at anything like that in pre-season. In either case, the starting line up looks a bit top heavy with strikers and I'm guessing it's being done to accommodate eleven changes at half time.

Think it's good for pretty much everyone TBH. Labour can focus on trying to be (re)electable, with fewer distractions in the background and the idealists who feel they've been stabbed in the back by Starmer and co. can vote for their cult hero. If it hurts anyone it'll be the Greens IMO.

Peter Shilton* Aaron Martin - Chris Perry - Wayne Thomas - Charlie Taylor - Mark Dennis Lloyd James - Olivier Bernard** Charlie George - George Lawrence Lee Barnard Manager: Russel Martin * Got a bit stuck on keepers but 'Shilton' would be a decent West Indian cricketer IMO ** F**k it, he was always out of position so I'll stick him here

Weatherley picked to open the batting. Are Stoneman and Orr both injured or just not fancied? Organ as expected replaces Daws.

I think our team last season had a lot of medicinal properties. The defence, for chronic constipation and the attack, for chronic insomnia.

They’d all be top six in the nineties.

I thought 220 was a good score but Essex are having an absolute yard sale at the moment - everything must go.

She's fit but she's no Catherine of Braganza.

Not really. Kevin Phillips did exactly the same with us and Sunderland, I don’t remember anyone laughing at Villa for signing him, and they paid money. There’re probably a fair few other players like that.

When have we done that?

Missed a trick not getting Stan Collymore to model it.

I quite like that training shirt, not seen it in the online store yet.

Two thing: My criticism of him isn't that he was bombing forward, whipping in crosses and leaving space behind which exposed the CBs. My criticism is that when he was in position, he made the kind of errors you'd get yelled at for making on a Sunday league pitch. Arsenal away was perhaps the best example but if you go back through this thread there are many others. You say, "even KWP came under criticism," like he was somehow infallible. He wasn't, he was just one of our more competent players. It looks like he's off to Turkey but if he wasn't, he'd be an Everton/West Ham level player, not a Champions League one. We only got him because he was fourth choice at Spurs.

It'll be a black day for the club if we sign him.

Gut feeling is he'll get a loan to L1/2 and released next summer. I know he's had his injuries but he just hasn't done anything, even at League 1 level. It's probably best for his career to sign a contract for a League 2 club and work his way up from there.

The rest of our squad also being substandard doesn’t make Yuki any better. Neither is any manager responsible for Sugawara’s regular, calamitous brain farts. I’ll judge him as what he is, a player with a decent enough delivery but an absolute liability defensively.

He might ‘prove himself’ to be this season’s Danny Fox but he looked nothing like a PL player.

For a second there I thought you were saying someone had declared on 4 runs for 8 wickets.

They went from 26-6 to 27ao in 9 balls too. Just ridiculous cricket.

He was never signing for another Championship club, despite some people on here insisting we should, "just get it done FFS!" Norwich have been stung by his contract expiring next summer, he would easily be a £20-25m player otherwise.

We don't know who's planning to leave. Bednarek and ABK look like reasonable bets, but we may also choose to cash in on Edwards or allow Wood to leave for first team football.

Something that would be really useful but too inane and uninspiring to make a movie about. I'd quite like to be able to tap stuff and instantly sell it for its original retail value. An old ski jacket in the loft, or a knackered circular saw in the garage, that kind of stuff.

Perhaps we're getting Romeo Larvia back on loan?!?!