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If reports are to believed, this is any area we had some high profile targets. I am sure they haven't forgotten

What makes you think we won't bring in any loans? I understand it's been reported that his preference is to own players to improve. But we loaned two last year. Doug is surely smart enough to see the business sense in a loan of a high quality player for the short term, versus the cost overall...

Too half?! Really? We achieved that last season with a worse squad...

Agree this seems like a good option on the face of it. Even with Doug's reporterd aversion to the loan market (which I understand to a point), we have still used it in his tenure. I think there's a fine balance between cheaper permanent player (fee plus wages for the length of the contract) and...

The problem with gambles is they sometimes (often) don't pay off... What we spend now we don't have next season or in Jan. I know you are an enthusiastic fan, just like myself. And if I'm being honest I'd like to add three more players to the squad. However, that is ignoring reality. The fact...

I mentioned it before, but we were only 2 conceded goals outside of a top 6 defence last season. We've brought in a new goalkeeper (many seem to have attributed a few goals to GK errors last season). We have a pretty young back line. Even Lati, one of our more experienced defenders at this...

Whilst this might be true, it's partly because MVE is one of our best players, and one of the best RB in the league. Personally I think Lati is fine there as cover and I honestly think Eccles had done a great job at RB in the past too. CM is where we are lightest IMO and could do with another...

I also assumed it was 433. But if you look at the average positions for players during the Oxford game it doesn't look that way. Rudoni is actually, on average, more advanced than Simms! I do wonder how the methodology works here though. For example, we had 14 corners and Rudoni takes them...

I spotted that too. He gambled in the player cutting back and got it wrong (twice) and basically let the player run past him. Need to be more alert to the offside for their goal too.

I said similar to my wife last night. He was an absolute monster at times against Oxford, but there are still times where if he can't cut across the box to his right (and potentially shoot) or try to beat his man down the line, he just turns and casually passes it back to someone else, which...

They do play slightly different roles. Eccles job is to drop back and receive the ball from the defence as we play out from the back. Rudoni has much more licence to move around the pitch, so won't always be available for the ball as we often play back and switch sides. I like Eccles, I think...

I agree about being a starter. And I also know what you mean about having limited ability to win the ball back against bigger players. But I wouldn't say that this is ineffective. Just like O'Hare did, heal gets close to players and puts them under pressure, hovering them less time to make...

It's a shame to say it, but Palmer would be my first choice honestly. Don't think he fits our system, has bags of potential but we probably only see it 1/5 times he has the ball. I would imagine he's on higher wages and we have a number of other players who could play CAM (even though we don't...

I think Allen seems to be taking a lot of flack a little unfairly. I don't think Robins would see him as a starter when the squad is all fit, but he's a great option off the bench. He has energy, can play in a couple of different positions and has shown he has enough quality for this league on a...

I am keen on the idea of rotating earlier (I think it has a lot of upsides, particularly given the quality of squad depth we have in attack now). But the 5(!) subs all at once last night made me a bit anxious. Palmer is not known for his ability to play a full game and Dasilva was on a yellow...

Torp can do this too. We've seen him do it a couple of times in a city shirt, but he did it a fair bit for Sarpsborg too. Feels like he's just playing a little within himself at the moment. Obviously that could go either way, but I have a real hope that he will really come on this season.

I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement (Thomas had a shocker against Stoke). But our defence was 9/24 last season. That was only 4 conceded goals away from 6th. How many were down to GK and midfield errors? I remember at least a couple of times Allen and Dasilva gifting the opposition...

Sisyphus's punishment was chosen to match his hubris. He was convinced that he could beat the gods at their game (he already did twice before!). I'm betting each time he came so close he sprinted back down the hill convinced that this one would be the one!

I guess that proves my point on subjectivity 😅

https://www.planetfootball.com/lists-and-rankings/championship-home-kit-ranking-2024-25-worst-best-leeds-sunderland Obviously these things are subjective and as much as I personally really like our new kit, I'm not surprised it's not that high. But some of the ones above ours?! Millwall's is...