I honestly feel that next year we will be pushing for promotion. A couple of strikers, central midfielders and we are there. The basis of a very good side is there.

How much possession have we had so far? 90%? Wharton looks class.

Pitch is awful!!

So so proud of the team and the first half performance. Bodes well for the remaining games and shows me today what JDTs style of play is and how good we look when we turn it on!

I think we have some excellent stuff tonight. Very impressed with Trav. Loved the grit shown by everyone. Let’s see the game out now!

Is that not a valid point though? Ex premier league pays more than it can afford and we lose out? We are seemingly playing a different game at the moment… looking at the City situation.

I have to say after Greggs interview I am satisfied that he deserves a chance. everyone makes mistakes and this was collasal. He said processes would be looked at and changed, positive news. We can’t do anything now but just see where we are after 18 games but a massive lost opportunity:(

I can’t even. a dark, dark day and we have had a few. im generally positive but this has put a dampner on everything. our midfield gets bullied every game and we have, through sheer incompetence lost the best midfielder in this league last year. a statement needed by the club, today.

Wow O Brien was the best CM in the division last year. If we get him, what a marque signing… it isn’t going to happen is it 😞

A classic target man, Krasso is superb in the air, but without sacrificing much in the way of movement or energy. While Sainté have struggled this season, it’s not for anything Krasso has done wrong. Displaying a talent which belies his physical gifts, his dynamism is elemental to the team’s pressing while his passing can be almost audacious at times. Clever with the ball at his feet and possessed of a fine first touch, Krasso’s catalogue of feints, touches, and layoffs is impressive indeed

Watch the goal vs PSG! That’s a decent finish 🙂

5 in 14 games in Ligue 1 last year. 16 goals in 32 games in Belgium top league. Never seen him play but hopefully a loan with a option may be decent. https://www.ligue1.com/Articles/ONE-TO-WATCH/2022/05/10/ike-ugbo-troyes-psg-slaying-striker

You are funny Mercer. we are not Man City where we can afford to have our best asset sat in the ressies. Your mentality may work in a corporate world but not when you are working with people and creating an environment where people want to play for us. Broughton has literally signed up a lot of our best up and coming players to long term deals. Created an entire scouting network including a European one. This is all in months. However you are right this is evidence that he has been a failure.

Ultimately that’s for the manager to find. I like what he says but we regardless of us missing those chances we conceded bloody 4!!

The plan is there, I see it. however if the manager does not succeed, plan needs to adapt and you get another manager who fits into your model, aka leeds (Marshe isn’t working but they will get someone else who does). Today was a joke, we need a couple of proper ‘men’- central midfield being one and centre half being the other, this team has no backbone. Plenty of talent but you can slice through us. Not JDT out yet- but a firm waiting for a drastic improvement by Easter and then I make a decision.

Delap who has scored 3 goals in 22 games in the league and has never hit double figures- Mercer reckons he double figures. Rates Lowe as a manager who before Preston was a league 1 manager- but reckons JDT is rubbish and we ahead in the league and he has won league titles. I think we should wait and see who we actually sign because we seem to get our business done without people knowing and that’s a great thing.

https://www.balls.ie/amp/football/gavin-kilkenny-ireland-star-489347 interested article, he is definitely not a tackler but more of a Morten type.

I just meant that clearly Leicester feel he is a player and at least championship level, considering he has proven himself at league 1 already. Some of the comments on here have suggested he is not even a professional footballer (!)

Yet Leicester, a premier league club, gave him a long term deal before sending him off on loan… so im guessing they see some ability in him?

That line about Broughton, on what do you base this on? One loan transfer made with a few weeks to go of the transfer window? Of the three permanent transfers one is probably player of the year contender so far, one is a massive upgrade at RB (his injuries have been unfortunate) and Sammie who has made some contribution in goals and assists. This summer is where I’ll judge his transfer record but his role is across the football club and not just transfers.

Why would you advertise that you have money??? I’ll wait and see who we actually sign by the end of the month.

Hanley!!!! Lol

Only top two have won more- we can all use selective stats 😝

English is what his third language? He has said on numerous occasions he wants top 6, think he was dismissing automatic promotion. Half way and third speaks loud enough to me. New squad and having lost a lot of players over the summer.

The big positive for me is that players are being signed on long term contracts, especially the young players that we have developed, that is a marked difference from the last decade. we need to give Gregg especially a year, the backroom staff is more important than the manager in my opinion.