Baird of the land

Massive let off

Awful defening by Bednarek. Thankfully Bazanu bailed him out.

Looks like one of those ones where he needs to go through the man to get a touch on the ball.

Shame Perraud is out. Not really sure about repeating the Djenepo experiment. Guess valery is the FB cover, yeah no sure about that. Seemed clear from fan forum that silly 5 at the back was here to stay so that tempered my disappointment at that. Equally my annoyance at seeing Bednarek playing is tempered by knowledge that Lyanco is just back fit from injury. Good to see 'fish up a tree' romeu out of the attacking mid slot. Really wanted us to play 2 strikers up top. So not happy with the elyounessi/armstrong both being in.

Wonder if Ballard could play some part in the Cambridge game.

Maybe someone could point it out to the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/pf331s01hu/Thirty-years-of-the-premier-league-in-pictures

No Ramsay. Does that mean he’s off somewhere, injured or with first team?

Stay true + pray icon maybe equals not suffer relapse of injury.

See Rushdie has been stabbed in New York. Hopefully he doesn't die.

The team i'd like to see Bazanu KWP ABK Salisu Perraud Lavia JWP Aribo S.Armstrong A.Armstrong Adams I expect we'll get the 5 at the back nonsense, with the useless Bednarek present as ever, Romeu out of position as an attacking mid & maybe if we're really lucky 1 out & out striker.

Yeah what we need is leadership at the back, not necessarily experience. Someone like Lascelles would seem to fit the bill.

Just hope we don't renew any of those ones that are expiring. Still shocked how long Stephens has to run, he obviously has a good agent. We seem to shift back on forth on it (too big/not enough quality), (too small, not enough depth) Personally i'm more on board with a smaller squad but better first 11 than a bigger bloated squad, especially as we're supposed to be a club that offers a pathway from our u23 team. I think reality is we are never going to get down to 20/21 this season (so it is pretty moot point) as we aren't going to find takers for all those players.

Every premier league club has a few players they can't get rid that they don't really want. Do think it reflects pretty badly imo on Ralph & the club that we've got another batch of 6/7..

That would be a relief. I’ve been fearing it to be more of the s.armstrong & aribo midfielder nonsense.

I don’t see how he survives if we lose to Leeds.

Am I the only one fearing Ralph won’t start a recognized striker?

If there’s any truth that’s not good. Agree completely about the cowering defensive mindset and the increasing positional bizarreness.

I thought he showed flashes early last season. Enough to persevere with given his age and what we invested (especially since he's now at best 4th choice) CM. Would we really get a fee back for him too or would it be another constant loan till his contract expires.

Didn’t We spend all summer trying to get rid of shitnarek. Now we’ve got to get rid of 2. Not sure I see that happening. Diallo one seems slightly odd. Didn’t have a great season but you’d think he’s young enough to persist with as cover to our first choice mids.

Lost lots of games playing 5 at the back too. I’d hardly consider arsenal display a ringing endorsement of the formation.

It’s clear Ralph is not happy with his adams contribution. If I had faith in the manager i’d Be more supportive of notion of moving on a player manager doesn’t fancy.

I believe they clearly want to control the narrative of how people read about it.

He never gave the slightest indication we'd switch back to it being first choice. All he said is might ocassionally use it but was pretty clear 5-3-2 is the default.

Harrison Reed

I find ralph's summer pronouncements insane. A 30yr old Stu Armstrong who has always been a midfielder is now a striker, a Dm is no longer an ideal DM but is now a roving AM.