ErwinK1961

Did you honestly, before the championship season started, believe that finishing 2nd and going up straight up to the Prem (straight off the back of league 1 promotion) would be a failure? That winning the league was the expected achievement? That’s complete bollox.

This has got to be some of the biggest load of twaddle posted on here. And there is a lot of competition.

Ballard got to be worth a go in the first team squad, surely?

Well most people seem to have got what they want.. No Diallo, Moi, Arma. Let’s see how it goes.

Good call Jamie.

Hope young Gavin has been taking in some extra curricular training in pursuit of the elusive clean sheet…

35% win rate over 38 games = 13.3wins = 40 points. Add some draws into that and you’re comfortable staying up.

I fear I could be the Aaron Ramsey of forums.

Well this is the first and last time I’m starting a match build up thread.

Da fuq is that??

Sums it up for me.

I know ABK is good, but not sure he’s that good 😉

Going to need a big performance, Brentford looking very very good at the minute. Bazunu, KWP, Salisu, ABK, Perraud, JWP, AMN, Aribo, S Armstrong, Che, Mara. Subs: McCarthy, Djenepo, Larios, DCC, Diallo, Edozie, A Armstrong, Moi, Ballard.

Can’t see anything but a loss here. Bogey team Opposition on lengthy winless run Opposition striker on a drought Bit of a positivity bubble being built, prime for popping Adama Traore has his one game a season where he can actually finish

Good luck to him, hope he gets a fair crack this season. Suspect though he will get a few minutes here and there which won’t do much for his development.

I read that as they don’t sell to another team in the Netherlands.

8 out of 10 window for me. Point off for the lack of striker and another off for some of the deadwood still lingering, but all in all a very good job. Some important back room changes made too, which seem to be bearing fruit already. A shame and quite frustrating on the striker front as it was clearly an area everyone can see is lacking - presumably the reason it all seemed quite late in the day is that the calibre of player we wanted had higher ambitions initially, so we had to wait. Shame it didn’t come off, but good to know there’s some serious money there for the right player. Maybe with a less leaky defence, we might not need to score as many goals to win matches!

He’s taken a leaf out of the saintsweb book and the club has already written him off.

Quickest sweepstake ever.

I think Blackmore is alluding to the 4 we know about.

Great to have him back, but hope the ‘personal reasons’ are nothing serious.

You’d think… but there’s absolutely no links to anyone 🤷‍♂️

He seems to be cutting a very frustrated figure at the moment. Wouldn’t surprise me if he isn’t there before too long.