I wonder what would be the cost of relegation... The Suhail way-Spoil the ship for a hap-orth of tar...

Put into context most regular fans have signed up for or paid for season tickets and there is an expensive first home league match on Saturday. They should throw this in for free the price they are disgracefully asking for an adult BBE ticket on Saturday against a club that was in league 1 last season.

What chances were they matey ? Ohashi had a good attempt at goal as he was falling, later on he should have had a pen. After that - a lot of huff and puff but we won’t blow anybody’s house down with what we have at the present.

Indeed. When every decision is being made with £££ in mind - cutting costs and wages and bringing in cash from sales - it is very easy to see why they've ditched the idea of signing quality up front.

So we've not added any strikers, no RW and no 8 from what I can see, as neither Tavares or Henrikksen are 8's. Outside of the outgoing that needed replacing immediately i.e. McLoughlin and Miller we've added players in non priority positions in another LB/LWB and another CDM and another CAM. Good strategy that completely going against your initial strategy you've worked on over a number of months in relation to issues in the previous season.

Usually the most expensive signing They won't pay for one and would rather try and wing it with Ohashi and Gueye.

Wish it was busier for these earlier games ppl should take advantage of the cheap offering

Lynch him.

I think Tijon's time has come, ready or not. Not much else we can do up-front. He'll either sink or swim.

Oops..My bad...I have now caught up with the appropriate thread ( Ee-aaww)

It definitely was one of the 5 priorities that Gestede mentioned in April. When Ismael had been here a couple of months And he specifically said striker, not forwards Exact quotes below, with (a rather charitable) opinion of which new signing fills what role in red "We need a left-sided centre-back, that's been obvious," Gestede told The Lancashire Telegraph. "Scott Wharton has been missing all season, we don't want to put pressure on him when he's back and expect him to play every week. It will not work. We need someone to cover this position. (McLoughlin) "On the right, we need cover for Callum Brittain. We have Leo Duru but we need some business in this area. (Miller & Alebiosu) "Right-wing, we have Amario, who is going back. Tyrhys is the only other player in this position. (still waiting, although I will concede that De Neve is a player who plays wide, if not specifically on the right) "We want a number eight, a box-to-box type of midfielder and we don't have that at the minute. That's something we need to cover. (Tavares, Henriksson?) "We want some power up front to challenge the two strikers we have, we will do some business." (seemingly forgotten about)

Probably a combination of factors. New manager who may be more concerned by other positions. Growing faith in Tyjon being able to contribute as he is a bit older now. But, since I'm fairly sure a striker was mentioned earlier in the window, I think the biggest one is probably the exodus meaning other positions have changed in priority and that's sucked the budget up.

We did see it as a priority at the start of the summer. Gestede said publically, so something has changed.

I think we're comfortably at the point where I put credence in Wilsden confirming what Jackson says, more than Jackson confirming what Wilsden says. He's also missing the third option of going to the appeals board. One thing that doesn't seem to have been discussed here...I'd expect even if Miyoshi's game in the second tier knocks his points down, it shouldn't be too hard to argue to an appeals board that he would have qualified a week ago and isn't any worse a player now. Japan international, experience in the Bundesliga, Championship, Belgian top flight. Prime years. In his recent season at Brum he played 43 Championship games which would have auto qualified him if it had been applied for but obviously he had a release clause so that didn't happen. Seems a no brainer for a panel to me.

We can write off the Miyoshi deal now, it won't be happening. The last ESC spot will go to Baradji once Trav is sold. Mafoumbi will be released at that point to make room. Bucko will go out on loan and we'll get a loan midfield to replace him, who will then be back up to Tavares and Tronstad whilst Baradji undergoes his operation. That's my strong gut feeling. We are crying out for attacking talent and will flirt with relegation if we don't add a striker and RW. I still don't understand how a striker was a huge priority in Jan and we ended up getting an expensive one on loan. Yet, come the summer we no longer see it as a priority area. Although a great character, Gueye is not good enough, and Ohashi is still relatively inexperienced in this league. Leonard is an injury write off.

in a normal world that's a fair value but as we are told the budget is set so no matter what we sell any replacement comes out of the existing budget so pointless selling.

That’s my thoughts on the team who may come back in for him after there loss considering they were linked to him before

Strongly disagree on that but he’s certainly valuable for us and will be a huge loss

The more I think about it, a poor start to the season may be a good thing in the long run as King rat would love nothing better than to hide behind some good results just as he’s close to the brink.

I was referring to Wrexham as plastics not Derby btw

Derby fan in peace if it’s 30k a week there must be another team in for him as he won’t get that here with our owner. also watched the extended highlights of your match so not the full game and I don’t think you were as bad as some have said on Saturday. Should have had a penalty and considering West Brom should be up there this season thought you limited them most of the game and should probably have put one of your chances away

Missed that, thanks

Let's hope so, he can play when he puts his mind to it.

Let's hope Ismael gets the players on the training ground today, and drills it into players, how to put the ball in the back of the net.