Aside from all the doom and gloom, and the inevitable sale of Trav to Derby, have there been any links with new signings? Any ITKs have a scoop? Departures too for that matter, we won't sign anyone new while Pears, Buckley etc are taking up Pasha's precious wage budget

Nobody knew there, but the fans all did.

Can they not get a dodgy stick?

It’s even got Bob Fleming out of posting retirement… times really are bad.

How do you all expect people working at our club to know how good he was though?

Good point.

Scratch that, seems as though it was a "pre match kit" or something. What a joke. How many more ways will they think of to fleece the fans.

I agree, we're only 2 games in, although it isn't me judging him, it's Derby fans. The partnership point still stands though .

its up to the keeper to claim the ball,even if it means clearing everyone out,friedel was a master at it,you wer`nt getting in the way of our big american🙂

Bleak times when you open the forum, see this thread and realise "Christ, less than a week to go till the next installment of misery".

Maybe they'll be back in for pears

.......Although if it was one of our new players it'd be far too early to judge them!

I'd like to see the same starters as Brum game. I think it's the best line up we've got tbh

We should just have one of our CBs push the GK into the back of the net every corner. Apparently that's legal now.

inspired goalkeeping and defending 🤣

If its the difference between promotion and not, or relegation and survival, then its a price worth paying. Too often here the focus is on the individual - their cost, transfer fee, wages, scope for increasing in value The focus really needs to be on the team and giving it the experience, depth and quality to actually go and achieve something in the game rather than just existing with no purpose whilst rivals all overtake us.

Saying it from last season, a successful partnership is never down to one of the players.

Real Madrid would be the dream move. 3 English players playing for real

Linked with Real Madrid, Liverpool, City and United. https://archive.is/20250812161108/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14993807/Premier-League-transfers-Wharton-Donnarumma-Liverpool-Manchester-United-Tottenham-Aston-Villa-Everton.html

August 2011, after Everton beat us 1-0, I had that feeling of relegation. Even so early in the season: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/14600659 It was crazy that we didn't get even a point from that match. Dominated it from start to finish, hit the woodwork 3 times, including 2 missed penalties. Then an outrageous penalty decision against Chris Samba gifted them all 3pts in the 92nd minute. We deserved so much more from the performance and it felt like a mugging. Resulted in being our 3rd league loss on the bounce to start the season, and the rest is history. I have the exact same feeling after the Birmingham game, and the similarities are terrifying.

I'd persevere with De Neve for now, he does at least seem to know where the net is.

Chelsea game was boring. Should have watched Forest game. Hoping for goals from Man Utd and Arsenal game

he was`nt to blame on his own,coventry front line were quick and inventive,looked to me that the whole derby side is slow,that was their undoing

i orginally layed arsenal on the betting exchanges but after seeing utd`s line up i`ve taken a small loss and backed arsenal ,there is no difference from last season from utd,still the same shite in midfield and defence,i very much doubt wether a new front three will make a massive difference

Ah yes did see that ITV had some games didn't clock that was one of them. What a ridiculous show this place is.