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Constant refurb is just one of the reasons we shouldn’t try to own it.

Yeah, early days. It’s interesting how fans only look at one side of the ledger. Ok, so we’ve spent £45m. But we’ve also sold, what, £40m of talent. So should we automatically assume that differential = improved performances? You’d hope so but it may take time.

Not sure by which metric you could say we’re going backwards?

Well you are probably correct that those expectations exist. It’s why we have the lunacy of people after Robins and booing a song about King. Some are so entitled now that they can’t stomach the non purchase of a free midfielder after we retained all our best players. We should absolutely expect...

I expect the booing was because we didn’t sign a 33 year old freebie. Presumably to replace the midfielder we bought for £4.5m. The £4.5m midfielder had his best game since signing. Unfortunately those that sanction signings have to get it right when you are a loss making entity rather than...

The definition of madness is to have expectations in the Championship. You can expect to win a few and be competitive but there is over half a division that could get into the top 6. It’s a quagmire of a league.

That’s the problem isn’t it. We now assume we’re a cut above these sorts of teams. Unreasonable expectation is leading to frustration. We’re a good Championship team - we have no divine right to be “top 6”. We play in the biggest slugfest of a league there is.

He’s stepped up from L1. Just needs time and a goal

Much better today. Missed a lot of pre season and it showed later on but encouraging nonetheless

7’s all round apart from 8 for Rudoni and Eccles and an 8.5 for MVE.

Back in now and reading this I genuinely wonder if I’ve been watching a different game. First half was simply excellent. A couple of cool heads and we go in 3-0. Second half not so good but we still had excellent chances. Some of the play was sublime. Rudoni has transformed our set piece. I was...

Much, much better. That was a really good half

We beat Oxford

We’ll be fine. We’ve got attacking talent coming out of our ears.

I don’t think you can argue Kings impact has been positive. I still don’t know what drives him in terms of his affinity with us but it’s becoming substance over form. I certainly don’t row in with the “disappointment at the start to the season” feeling. Maybe I’m still too relieved we aren’t in...

OK. But let’s not forget the claim was whether they were “good championship players”. Surely Simms qualifies.

Have Hummel just misunderstood King when he said we need to be in the black.

Simms amount of goals from last year is conclusive proof he has the quality. Sakamoto clearly has. I could go on. Current form does not suddenly mean they’re not Championship quality.

To be fair we can probably justify it this year as we don’t have a big change in the coaching personnel.

It does amuse me that amongst the possession based guff that is spouted two of the most frequent comments especially towards the end of games are “they’ve started to go a bit longer now as they need a goal” and “they’re now bringing another centre forward on as they need a goal”. Surely you...