We brought in a similar number of new players in summer 2023 and early in the season (which started badly) most thought the jury was out as to whether it had been a good window. The same seems to be the case this time. No way of knowing for a few months, but my gut is that there has been a bit of pa...
May just be an impression but it feels like the teams change a lot more season by season in L1 It’s why I don’t really take the ‘new team needs time to bed in’ as much of an excuse. That seems to be every team in this league to me. And whilst I like the idea of building for next year - Elliott will...
In reality we are a bottom 2 team, with a load of new players and a manager apparently clueless on where to play them. We really need a win today to get some confidence and try to get a regular starting 11, style of play and tactics. As I have said before, in 2023 it took Selles 17 league games to ...
He fits the ‘spectacular and exciting’ transfer window. You know, the one where all you can see is Jacobson’s and Couhig’s legs sticking out of other club’s skips while they rummage around. “Look!! Found one!!” I don’t think that’s a narrative that sticks tbh. We’ve made some fairly ambitious signi...
Enough squad depth to handle a few missing players and surely it will be better to avoid fixture pile up later? If we beat Vale on Saturday (which I think we will), we'll also be desperate to keep up the momentum in another winnable game against Northampton, instead of having a 2 week break and a t...
Mark O’Mahony confirmed in the Ireland U21 squad for their qualifiers against Moldova and Andorra: https://www.fai.ie/latest/under-21-squad-named-moldova-and-andorra-qualifiers/ No Charlie Savage in the Wales first team squad (unsurprisingly): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwy5zjpzn...
Cannot help wondering if the arrival of Richie means that Garcia will be off to a much bigger club before the end of the transfer window. We seem very well stocked with wide players now (Ehib, Lane, Kyerwaa, Richie and Camara) and so Garcia will most likely only get limited game time. But he has loa...
What I find hilarious is that if Hunt doesn’t make subs pretty early in the game, some on here rip one out of him. Equally when he makes subs others rip one out of him. This is ridiculous. The subs today made sense. Don’t forget our players had a long trip to Bolton and a day less between the games ...
He's apparently wanting to see if he gets any offers from the Championship before committing to drop down a level, which is fair enough and shows confidence in his ability. My view, if this is going to happen it will be right at the end of August. With Ahmed and Abrefa, Dorsett, Jacob, Ryan and Cla...
Selles wouldn't have been my choice, but to be fair he has done better than I expected so far considering the hand he was dealt (I wasn't expecting much!). He was appointed late, most of the players we brought in haven't been here 5 minutes and so there was no proper pre -season. We have seen one o...
Selles wouldn't have been my choice, but to be fair he has done better than I expected so far considering the hand he was dealt (I wasn't expecting much!). He was appointed late, most of the players we brought in haven't been here 5 minutes and so there was no proper pre -season. We have seen one o...
Agreed, Jimbo. Need a change, or League 2 is on the horizon. Dai needs to act during the international break so we can bring someone else in and sack them during the international break after this one. I assume the above post was somewhat tongue in cheek but many on here wanted Selles sacked after ...
I think the club will build a statue of Selles as a reminder of our worst ever manager. It will be exactly 4.2 metres high and 2.2 metres wide. Bearing in mind the "Hunt out" thread I thought this one re Selles was worth bouncing up. Selles was incredibly unpopular in November 2023. The a...
Currently injured: Yiadom - knee, no return date but on co-comms on Saturday Tuma - unsure, 4 more weeks O'Connor - calf injury, back in September Lane - calf injury, unsure Kelvin E - groin, 2-3 weeks Osho seems to have disappeared since featuring a good deal in pre season. Injured? Osho has retur...
Yiadom - knee, no return date but on co-comms on Saturday Tuma - unsure, 4 more weeks O'Connor - calf injury, back in September Lane - calf injury, unsure Kelvin E - groin, 2-3 weeks
Osho seems to have disappeared since featuring a good deal in pre season. Injured?
I don’t think it’s as bad as the doom-mongers make out. A few adjustments and I think the team will click. 1. Wing needs to be played further forward. I’m not sure why he’s so deep, perhaps its due to the CBs lacking confidence and someone in midfield needing to fill in the space behind, or perhaps...
This speculation over Hunty is getting ridiculous. For the last 2 seasons we lost 5-2 at Bolton and so last night was a big improvement. We were on the back foot throughout but we defended resolutely. If we win against Wycombe (who have started the season as badly as us) and Port Vale, the start for...
The really worrying thing is after 4 games, there is zero idea what our team identity is. That and Hunt's seeming inability to adjust to the actual game, as opposed to what he expects to happen. Criminal that no subs were made before 60 odd minutes, and his justification for not using Elliot is lau...