It’s just a very odd way to view football though, as Oscar quite easily could have had a hat trick yesterday. Jarvis should’ve scored/squared it for an easy goal and Mehlem should’ve done better with the chance Jarvis carved out for him.
Twine played 10 games. Conway is a loss but they’ve replaced him with Armstrong and Mallyu and clearly they feel much stronger in that position hence the pushing to let Conway go
The football was often ****e last season. At least yesterday you can see what they're trying to do. The problem wasn't just negative play, it was the back line constantly giving it away in stupid positions. That'll click with time, or upgrades.
Noting that Calcium and Potassium are elements and not minerals, and highly reactive ones at that, it seems that while he doesn’t have the minerals for the Premier League he has all the elements needed to set this league alight, as he could go off at anytime, like a Cheap Chinese Electric Scooter.
Not really, when you look at most supporters, there's a massive amount of optimism initially and then it becomes very reactionary. People see what they want to see. Take Jacob last year, he was bigged him up, yet he showed the exact same limitations as he has in pre season and yesterday, he's slow, lacks technical ability and makes errors. But defensively he's pretty good. Yet now he's a NL player. So which is it? My point is supporters are too reactionary and I don't think it's negative to be more realistic. Oh and btw Jarvis will get called not up to it or not good enough within the next 3 months by some on here. I've seen him have a few meh games for Shelbourne, and if he does that here, he'll get called the above.
The apparent delay in appeasing some fans with early signings seems to have had a negative effect on The Big Turks plans. Compound that with the talent who left us and it’s open season on ridicule and sarcasm. In a perfect scenario we’d have wrapped things up before long yesterday’s kick off but if the early targets choose other clubs relegated from the Prem or strongly fancied to go back up that’s hardly the clubs fault. One thing on our side is time though. It’s a long old season and I doubt yesterday’s starting 11 will be seen again this season. The manager will probably need improvement and cover in most positions you’d of thought to make any sort of real challenge so don’t be surprised if we take the full transfer window to sit and wait until the right deals materialise both in and out UTT.
Bloke behind me gave a massive tut and said (loudly) 'here we go, same old same old' when Pandur passed to Jones, who passed to McLoughlin from a goal kick. Time on the clock was 1 minute 58 seconds.
We need quite a few in to be competitive and (other than Tan & Acun) who knows how far our money or FFP will stretch?
We'll be in a decent shape come the end of the window, then it's down to Tim and his Walter ball. If we are in with a shout come January I'm sure Acun and Tan will go out and back Tim again. Any talk about risk of relegation I find laughable at this stage. We'll finish somewhere in the top half.
Seems based on yesterdays results, a good few teams are MILES OFF where they want to be recruitment wise...
Would be happy to come out of August with 4 or 5 points. Ecstatic with more. A few quality incomings to upgrade a couple of positions and a chance to bed into the system. I kinda hope Tim will play as near a first choice side as he can against Wednesday in the cup and treat it like a final friendly for the system. We aren't gonna win the cup and might make it a better spectacle than the Donny game last year.
Minor detail! I don't get this "it'll be easier this year", "no stand outs", etc. Burnley, Luton, Sheff U and Leeds will be last year's Leicester, Southampton and Leeds equivalents. I can't see a 'surprise package' like Ipswich this time round, but a) that's what a surprise package is (a surprise!) so who knows, and b) there's anyway a few Championship sides from last year who continue to build and will be challengers this season (as others have named). Hopefully with several more quality signings and needed depth added we can be among them too, but it isn't going to be that much easier than last season if at all, and we still have a lot of business to do if we're going to be serious challengers.
Jesus Christ. 10 players? Ha ha. Go on then, I will humour you, which 1 player is good enough? *I bet he says Oscar
Hard to say really regarding the strength of the division. I think Sheff United are the weakest of the 4 you mentioned and have no depth but like us are trying to put it together before window closes. All be it with a far stronger XI than ourselves. Think Leeds will run away with it but the ones that have come down all have bigger issues surrounding them then the last 3 Luton aside.
