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Don’t get the negativity for Kitching. He and Thomas looked solid for a good chunk of last year (Kichings first at this level). He’ll turn out to be a fantastic investment.

What a weird activity deciding who will play on the left, right etc is. Someone will start. Someone won’t. If they don’t start - tough shit - work your way in.

Pre-season so I still don’t think anything matters until Stoke. But EMC looks extremely solid business. Also, it’s human nature to get excited about new signings but Allen has such value to this squad. Dovin was assured.

I have my doubts as to whether he’s good enough to be a real top class prem striker. He’s done well in the champ and in a middling league. Still, I’ll not care as long as we get a load of cash.

I’d say Kitching and Thomas are good enough as first up options. Binks and Lati are useful but slightly behind the first two. It’s about priorities. We haven’t got endless cash. I wouldn’t be looking to spend a lot on another CH. We are weaker elsewhere.

Stamenic rumour leaked saw him signing elsewhere. No rumours is a very good thing.

And thats exactly what your squad is. If they weren’t considered able to start they wouldn’t be there. It’s why we’ve offloaded the likes of Moore, Kelly and Godden. But you’ll not find a club in the world where the strength in every position is equal no matter who starts. That’s just not...

I think that’s the whole point that’s being made. We won’t have starters and “back ups”. We’ll have a squad.

Yes. Squad is the relevant metric.

And caliber

Good statement. For me reads like more transfer business to be done.

End of July. Prem teams juggling their squads before releasing loans. Those squads are not yet complete as push normally comes to shove in August. We sit at the end of both those processes, either waiting for loans or waiting to see if any of our sell on clauses are triggered. It’s quite...

Take the two best midfielders out of any side and it weakens them. We were obviously trying to strengthen with Stamenic so I imagine we’re now pursuing plans B, C and D. We’ll get someone in. But if we don’t you still have Allen, Torp and even Rudoni. No panic

Incredible the conclusions being drawn from a friendly. None of it matters till Stoke.

Has the season started?!?!……. Oh no, it’s just a friendly.

Haha. Yes Tavares

But surely that’s over his entire time with us. There’s no way he started 25 games as CF for us last year. For me, towards the end of last year he was showing real progress. Comparing his time from yesteryear is misleading. For example Gyokeres at Swansea developed and improved.

Out of position

But the point being made is we need to replace him. We don’t. For me Tavares, given the games, is an upgrade on last seasons Godden.

I think we’re under selling the options we have. One that interests me is Tavares. His position is CF. He’s been played on the wing. But actually when he gets central he looks like a very natural goal scorer. And let’s not forget we have Simms and then Wright. Godden played no part at all last...