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St Andrews under the lights vs a very tough and ugly Birmingham side. I think thats a solid point all in all. Especially given we're missing Jander, have had THB just taken out of the side with a new CB starting, and have JWP settling in. Onwards and upwards.

Didn't get to see the Millwall game, but i think Prowsey looks good for the level. Would like to see him start on the weekend.

I thought manning had good free kicks. But that was on another level even if the keeper saved it. You could see the fear and panic.

Ref has been weak on a number occasions with blatant fouls on our players just being waved away.

He's not been great today. Started very poorly but raised him game a bit as its gone on. Overall hasn't added anything special though. Suspect he needs a bit of care and rotating in and out of the side. Its his first season starting regularly and need to be careful with him.

Peretz has put us under real pressure with sloppy passing a number of times this game. Its a concern.

Gone to sleep there. Manning and scienza not doing enough defensively this season.

This is a horrible game.

West ham 4-1!!

Wanna bet that the better we do, the bigger Eckert's ban?

Yeah, i remember. Always feels like a grotty touch ground for us to go to. Don't think i've got any fond memories of us at St Andrews.

Taylor Harwood-Who?

Looks like terrible weather? Never seems to be a nice place to go for us.

Whats the betting Spors will be watching the game with a list of replacements to hand, just in case.

Hypo mate, honestly i mean this in the best way possible - I hope you can relax and enjoy this season in the coming weeks! I get it - its been a shite end of season / summer, but i don't think we could have done much better on transfers from where we were... Scienza, peretz, larin, azaz, jander are all still here. Thats fantastic. I think pretty much any thread going into the summer transfers was basically predicting we're lose 2 of "the core" as a minimum - and frankly Charles and THB are the most expendable of them. We've banked £60M for a squad player and a CB... a £30M CB is a ludicrous luxury for the championship - its not a necessity for promotion. Then we've added JWP for 800k - personally i think that is great business for any championship side, let alone saints. He isn't charles... okay... but charles was a squad player for us. JWP will bring a great engine, consistency, stamina, experience/quality/control, and arguably the best set piece delivery in the division / country. Schlotterbeck is a very tidy addition for the money... Stats wise he's a very similar player to THB (a player that, as above, i considered a luxury rather than a necessity). And Abbot is a very promising youngster. Mubama is a good addition up front as depth for Larin, although i share the concerns that we are a larin injury away from basically gambling on him doing the business. But then i guess, we have money to spend now in january if needed. Also worth considering - we have Larin in early doors and with a preseason (and therefore good fitness levels) behind him. Not like january when he came in unfit and having to be very carefully managed. Equally, Eckert showed us last year that he is very good at rotating players and managing minutes to maintain fitness through one of the most congested fixture run in's i've ever seen (post final international break). I really don't think we could reasonably have expected the club to have done much more. No one in this league is going to want to play us. And injuries and tonda ban aside, this is a team that (on paper) has what it needs to continue 2026's incredible form (which was the best of any division in england - and we haven't been promoted like Lincoln) and a run that was at 2.46ppg and 113points in a season. People should be looking at us in the championship like they do at Arsenal in the prem. We are a fluke with respect to quality - we shouldn't be in this league this year. We need to not be unlucky with injuries or Tonda, but outside of that this should be a great season... (touch wood!!! ';.;')