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Which is actually my point. In terms of numbers we still have less players than that season. The quality outside of start XI is obviously a lot higher. So we’re a good 2-3 players short of having a squad able to compete in all cup competitions and the league. 2026/27 if we’re not up we may be...

A lot of us do but we’re also protecting ourselves from inflation because that £500-550 rate we’ve locked in is good value when ST prices are now £400-450 and will rise next season.

Define balance. Ipswich topped off their signings with loanees. They had a pretty solid base with their L1 business - we weren’t ready to compete last year and a few loanees wouldn’t have bridged the gap. In reality, we have a small squad that’s still behind the depth of 22/23 and teams aren’t...

Hull went for broke last season and it didn’t pay off. For all the comparisons our fans made to them last year, we’re far better off being patient and signing our own players. We’ve easily got players worth a total of £50-60+ million in our squad. If we don’t get promoted this year or next, we...

Not many teams successfully bounce straight back up from L1 in their first season. I don’t think Birmingham will get promoted this season, 2025/26 ought to be their year.

Collins is by far a better keeper and it’s not even close. Wilson was one of the leagues worst performers on xG for goals conceded. Collins was one of the leagues better keepers. Despite his costly mistakes.

Boxing Day will always be a Cat A game as it’s generally one of the highest attended games of the season. £37 isn’t unreasonable and given that we have around 22k STHs, it’s impacting an ever smaller % of fans. Frankly, we’re getting less reliant on day trippers and walk ups. At some point, I...

Well, I’m not so fussed about the depth per se. My belief is that there’s a general lack of experience in the team. Given the catalogue of avoidable goals we conceded last season, you’d think an experienced CB would be really beneficial. This season at least, I reckon Lati will be mostly...

Which had no bearing on what was a brilliant finish.

BTA scored 2 less league goals than Simms including one of the best goals we conceded last season (WBA’s 2nd in the home tie). He’d start for most Championship teams and he’s not a guaranteed starter for us. Had we signed Stamenic, I’d be happy to predict us finishing as high as 3rd or 4th this...

Ironically, precisely the kind of signing people were saying they’d have made when Wright and Simms were slow off the mark last season. Thankfully, the last time I recall hearing the phrase ‘I’d have signed a proven Championship striker’ was Sheffield Wednesday at home in the cup replay. We...

Yikes, that is a big dose of copium - which I recently found out is not a drug! 😂

BTA apparently isn’t 2-3m upfront. For consistency, I’ve used all the top end values. Bearing in mind we signed Godden for £750k in the same window Pompey signed Marquis for £2.5m, that should provide some context. BTW scored 11 goals, plays across the front 3 and comparing those league goals...

Well, there are people thinking Sakamoto is starting ahead of EMC (£4.25m), Simms (£8m) or Wright (£9m)… Joking aside, £2-3m for a sub striker who’s 25 with a good record at Championship level is a bargain. You’d easily spend that on a top end L1 player. We’ve also weakened WBA in the process...

He wouldn’t because he’s not being brought in be our number one striker. Scoring 11 goals last season shows he’s good enough to contribute. Compared to Obikwu who scored 3 in 16 at L2 level (and needs a loan to continue his development).

I don’t think we’ll get a CB and a RB, it’ll be one or the other. Assuming BTA signs, I agree that’s attack sorted and a CM is need to boost the ranks.

Wright-Simms-EMC if Wright is close to being fit enough. He probably won’t be unless he get minutes against Roma and Werder Bremen. His base fitness and match will be higher than most of the squad as he was involved in the Copa America.

Yes and Robins will still have his best team that he will fall back on. The big benefit of having a big team is being able to rotate player in game. Last season, the issue was more the amount of minutes rather than the number of games we played yesterday. Sakamoto played nearly every minute in...

Top scorer and assister last with double Sakamoto’s tallies. A lot of fans aren’t ready to accept he’s not going to be one of our best players season.

To put it candidly, it’s an area we’re still lacking in quality. Obviously. People were talking as if EMC just cannot play RW which isn’t true. Going into this season, there isn’t enough goals in midfield (even if Rudoni met his xG from last season) to drop either Wright or Simms and EMC is...