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Having worked in the security industry in the past, you’d be surprised how much info you’re given. Some of those points are pretty common sense. The issues with stadium sponsorship have been reported for a while now. The rest is common sense - local businesses are not going to be happy with the...

Marosi, 7 - good save at the end and looked rather assured to me Dabo, 6 - did alright, needs to be forward a bit more McFadzean, 9 - really good debut, headed everything away, organised the team and really led from the back Rose, 7 - dodgy start but made up for that with some good defending...

We’re playing 4-3-3, there’s no real need for a CAM at the moment.

It’s definitely 4-3-3 We’ve created a few half chances, Hiwula should’ve scored. But, was denied by a combination of a weak finish and decent last ditch defending.

Irrelevant. Considering you alluded to transfer fees in judging players... we spent £1m on McKenzie, that didn’t not make him a good player. I share your concerns about the players we’ve let go, but you’ve judged most of our signings before they’ve played a game. You could be right...

Compare Allen and Bayliss from last season: Allen scored 8 goals, Bayliss scored 3. Bayliss had 1 more assist.

By your logic: A striker in L1 with 8 goals is worth £1million? Is Hiwula or Ched Evans worth more than Chaplin? No. A winger with 5 goals, 5 assists in L1 is worth £1.2m? Again, is Hiwula or Sean McConville worth more than Thomas? No. A midfielder with 3 goals, 3 assists in L1 worth £2m...

Why's that a problem? Allen scored 8 goals last season, more than double Bayliss and has played in the Championship. Thomas scored 5, which I think Kastaneer and/or Jobello will equal, Kastaneer has had two 1 in 4 seasons in the Netherlands. Both the foreign wingers were capped internationally...

Foreign imports tend to be a lot cheaper than domestic players. So there's the possibility that we could get a bargain. With Thomas (Chaplin and Bayliss too), as with all young players, lot of his transfer fee would be based on potential ability than actual ability right now. We've gone for...

You’d have to assume we’ve got a nice sell-on fee to have sold for 1.9 or 2m. Down the line, this deal may work out to be better than had we let him go for his rumoured release clause of £3m. Hoping Bayliss smashes it for PNE, as we’ll see the benefits down the line. Still bitterly...

Bayliss’ release clause was £3m...

Has Wakefield even made an appearance in pre-season? Let alone a first team starter. Bright boosted us undoubtedly, but he was only here for half a season last year. With or without him, we’re a top half team. Had Bright been with us from Game 1 last season, we would’ve finished in the...

It’s been a long week at work haha

I’m reserving my judgement until after the transfer winder has closed.

We lacked goals from midfield last year. Kelly and Bayliss managed 4 between them? Thomas got 5. We need a at least 2 players who can score over 10 goals. Allen and Hiwula? We need more from Shipley, and hopefully one of the new wingers does well.

We haven’t seen our new wingers in competitive action, but they’ve impressed so perhaps they can add real value to our team. Hiwula has scored in and around 10 goals pretty much every season he’s played in L1. Scored 13 last year, I’m sure he’ll improve.

In the bigger picture, JCH wasn’t a great loss at the time... Only since he’s gone on to do really well at Bristol Rovers people are bothered. As for Chaplin, I’m not 100% sure he’d be started tomorrow. Until we’ve seen Jobello and Kastaneer in action, it’s too early to say they’re an...

Our preseason has gone from very optimistic to a bit of a downer in the space of a week or two...

What are you talking about? Walker hasn’t gone anywhere yet.

It depends. In my view, we missed wingers who could get assists. So Jobello and Kastaneer are key this season. The former looks like a player who puts the ball in dangerous areas and that could be key. We missed that last season, imo. As for Kastaneer, he’s someone who needs to get goals and...