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By contrast, didn’t we have a ‘good’ preseason the year we got relegated? I remember having this chat with a good friend of mine. Either way, the results in preseason are not important. It’s about match fitness, trying new things and getting new signings integrated into the system and team.

‘Millions’ is plural, so even if he has the full £1.2m from the McNulty sale, he still wouldn’t have ‘millions’ to spend. We know he has at least £400-450k from the sale for Chaplin and if he wants to sign two further players, there’s a possibility he’ll go out and sign someone else on a fee...

McNulty was not guaranteed to have another storming season. There are players who have scored 20+ goals who haven’t been able to make the step up to L1. We wouldn’t be able to get away with relying on him to the extent we did last season in L1. It’s a big loss, but the fee we got for him was...

There are three likely setups with the personnel we have at our disposal right now, 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1 and 5-3-2. At this moment, we're probably going to stick to 5-3-2 or 4-4-2 because Jones is injured and we don't have that many wingers and strikers right now (this could change). As for lineups...

You’d think the season had already started and transfer window closed judging by the apocalyptic reaction of some people. We got a good deal for McNulty, every footballer has a price, they met that price and we had a player who wanted to go. It would be a lot easier for Robins to just go out...

Stockley would be a very good signing and if we were to also sign Chaplin it would make for a dangerous duo.

Shipley, Bayliss and Jones all got 6 goals in half a season, for just one of them to get 10 goals isn’t so far fetched. Will Bayliss stay? The indication is yes. All them are young, improving players. As for Andreu, he’s scored 2 in preseason already so it looks like he’s making a good comeback...

You need a team that has goals all over the park. A weakness of ours last season was our over-reliance on McNulty. It was only until Shipley, Bayliss and (to an extent) Biamou started scoring that we started to score a lot of goals. We also need a lot more goals from set-pieces next season too...

Have we been playing 5-3-2 quite a lot this preseason?

Any hint on a fee?

No idea what our budget is, not even a hint of where it stands in comparison to the league. We do know that we outbid the likes of Charlton for Ogogo and we offered the most to Junior Brown too. A few teams were after Allassani too. However, this isn’t particularly helpful is gauging whereabouts...

Have you considered the possibility that Robins might not want Eisa? Our friends from Portsmouth, who’ve seen both Chaplin and McNulty btw, seem to think they’re similar players with similar attributes so that would make him a natural replacement. Personally, for £1.5m it’s a no from me and he...

Is it? Is it also ‘sexist’ when they pan to random men too? No, because it’s a stupid suggestion to make. Ironically, the implication of this warning would deter broadcasters showing ‘women’, which in itself is sexist you can argue because it reinforces the stereotype that football is a...

We should all be disappointed we didn't win that game. Whilst Croatia was the better side overall, we had the chances to put the game beyond Croatia's reach in the first half. But, everyone should be proud of the team and the manager for restoring the belief in the national team and this...

I play rugby on Saturdays, so the more the games moved to Fridays or Sundays, the better for me! The Friday night game for Stevenage game was a good atmosphere so I’d like us to have a few Fridays pencilled in.

Every signing represents a risk and this is no different. If Robins is willing to pay a lot of money for Chaplin, then he clearly rates him and thinks he’ll get us goals. That’s his job after all and, as you say, his recruitment has been good thus far. Whilst I disagree with JCH being the...

Reread my posts. What does a ‘proven’ striker even mean? People were saying McNulty was ‘unproven’ at L2 yet he’d scored 58 goals before joining us — that turned out to be a half-decent signing. Chaplin is 21, has made 104 appearances with 22 goals, that’s a 1 in 5 striker. That’s a decent...

We’ve torn every side apart with a set-pice this tournament with the exception of Belgium. Scored twice from corners v Tunisia? Panama 4 goals came from setpieces and we forced fouls in the box. We forced Colombia to foul Kane in the box from another setpiece. Maguire won every header that game...

He’s hardly ‘unproven’, he’s made over 100 appearances at the age of 21. Albeit, largely coming off the bench. Yet, still has 25 goals in total, which is a decent haul given he’s been largely used as a sub. Given that Pitman scored 24 goals last season, you can hardly blame them for not starting...

If you’re going to quote me, at least have the integrity to do it properly. You’re jumping to your own, inaccurate conclusions based off what I’m saying. I never said Kane has to improve, but what I did say is that Southgate needs to address the fact that Kane isn’t having many shots. His...