This is champagne football on white cider budget, essentially.

First time I’ve really felt the apathy this season. Don’t back us to find another goal here, bracing for a goal against, but even still, it’s apathy in the main.

Just coasting about. Seems to have lost interest in recent weeks.

Good save Pears.

Looks a bad one

Excellent move on the edge of the box, just doesn’t come off. Huddersfield are parking the bus and offering little, but they have the assurance that we will provide a gaffe or two and be weak on set pieces. Fair enough, it’s a game plan and on our current form, it may work. Something needs tweaking, we look considerably weaker since Carter went off.

Not even sure what we’re asking Garrett to do here. Seems very Harry-Redknapp-saying-“Just fucking run about a bit.”

Some bollocks on a player having that shit of a barnet when he misses open goals like that.

VAR gives that.

Chrisene looks athletic and occupies good space, but his touch/decisions are a bit off. Obviously he’s young and probably a touch nervous starting his first game, but can see him contributing.

Never once saw him deliver a ball as well as he did that corner.

There’re four headers on the pitch, so what’s the set piece excuse this week?

Pleasing. Press is much more effective, as evidenced there. Not getting too excited, despite the evidence a few weeks ago, we should be beating sides like Huddersfield handsomely. Let’s do that now.

Always sceptical of TeamTalk gossip. Don’t see how he fits into the way we play, but if we do take a Plan B approach when chasing a game/defending a lead, maybe there’s something in a player like him. As I did in September, I’ve taken Transfer Deadline Day off work. Fully anticipate us to be actively trying to make something work in the loan market right up to the wire, based on nothing other than what is publicly known already and I’d rather be anxiously refreshing the forum in the comfort of my own home.

Honestly never been able to understand it from a supply/demand perspective. Supply is massively up for tickets, so drop the price. When demand increases, raise the prices in line with the demand. I get that there are lots of contextual arguments either way, but I’m confident a good atmosphere and matchday experience will trump a lot of the things they might suggest as threats to the demand

For those asking - Italy is fine for iFollow/RoversTV on the app.

I wouldn’t have given it much credence, save for Garrett being a lefty and us only having 8 subs, as both Szmodics and Pickering fell ill overnight.

Don’t shoot the messenger, but RoversTV had this up a minute ago…

Would be interested to see it!

Looks a 4-3-3, so we may be digging in and hoping for something on the break. Hard-fought points are out there, but any today will be especially hard-fought.

I always wonder if clubs make multiple bids without encouragement and wait to see if the player fancies it or not. There must be some motive for Ipswich to come back with a second offer and it must be the player saying “I’m open to it.” Fairly solid chance for Gallagher to be part of a promotion to the premier league and a squad player up there for at least a season. I think we’re holding out for a higher offer. Maybe £2m or slightly over. Not saying he’s worth anything more than a bag of chips and his train fare, but we might have targets to replace and need a bit to keep the fire burning and a bit to replace. It’s early in the window, why accept an offer that does less than that?

Batty’s got two assists for the 2nd XI tonight.

Well, gazza1981 has certainly raised a chuckle on my side. Oblique line of questioning and an over-investment in the player’s rep strikes me as a cack-handed attempt to position as some kind of ITK/club-adjacent figure. I’m not sold. I’ve heard Brighton’s recruitment department is pretty forward-thinking but I would think that hanging out in the transfer thread of a Championship club’s unofficial forum isn’t the best use of your time, in that role. Christ, we support the club and it’s not the best use of any of our time!

Thing is, you’d at least understand it in an under-12s

With the benefit of hindsight, the first half was an indictment of our recent league form: a lot of players looking shaky and uncertain, especially defensively, but being carried by Sammie Szmodics. Second half was how it should be in this tie, which is a generally dominant performance with a couple of chances for the opposition. We benefited from tiredness creeping in for Cambridge. Could’ve been 8-2 with the chances, but 5-2 is still a dominant scoreline and we were - eventually - value for that. It’s going to take a lot more to convince me that we’re over the slump and I fear that it won’t start until we’re closer to a full complement, but a good result… eventually.