Anyone figured out how to do the red button on Now TV web app?

Freudian?? (I bet he's known by that name by many!)

Hmm... it's a weird really that Szmodics left but number 10 is still probably our strongest position (Ohashi, Sigurdsson, Wieman all available for that role, while JRC, Hedges or Buckley can all fill in there if needed)... think I'd spend the money on gk, wingers, centre mid or even a backup for Big Mak before I went for another number 10.

Jackson didn't say he handed in a transfer request, but did say he basically made it clear he wanted to leave on the Podcast, I was really surprised we let him go after so much good feedback from his loan. Essentially Jackson implied Gent wouldn't sign a new deal at the terms we were willing to offer. Wanted first team football. So good on him to be honest, always respect a player who wants to play.

Before loans I think we are probably slightly larger as a squad. In terms of who Eustace plays I think hes basically saying "last year I had literally no one who could impact a game off the bench, now at least I have who has not started out of Ohashi or Gueye and also Wieman " I am surprised we haven't loaned anyone at all yet. We'd usually have a couple already on the books with two more coming in close to deadline day. Thinking about it maybe what we are doing is spending the loan budget on the one year contracts (Fadz, Batth, Wieman) instead?

Is there anything solid in the Travers rumours?

Only thing is Vallecano are quite small - get slightly smaller crowds than Rovers - and finished one spot above relegation last year. As he is a UK based player it is within the realms of possibility (particularly looking at the careers of Raya and Kaminski) that he might go for Rovers as a better launchpad for him.

Yeah - I agree with this. We are still knitting the team together and have a small squad. I'd try and keep 8-9 as recognised first teamers and put in 2-3 fringe players. I would say something like : Pears Duru. Carter Hyam Pickering Travis. Buckley Vale. Weimann. Siggurdson Gueye

Yeah, agreed.... But those writing off his finishing, thats something that can be worked on and improves hugely with confidence. We've seen incredible improvements in the scoring feats of the likes of Szmodic and Brereton in the past, and Gueyes has the capability to repeat it imo. What I like is his movement is very clever too. Often a big dominant player like him will just wait for the long ball, but he has a nice way of drifting and dropping off and finding space.

Not looked at the XG but I would imagine Oxford battered us on it... They missed some really presentable opportunities. When Gueye came on we got control. Hes so good, definitely on his way to the prem imo. Won everything in the air, laid the ball off well, and has pace and good feet to run the channels. Its a very very rare combination to have all of that at our level. I think broadly we played pretty well except central midfield. Its a problem for us - without the ball we're too light in there, Travis and Tronstad (who had okay games individually but exposed in the system) get played through too easily. With the ball we are so wasteful. We need someone in there with more quality on the ball. I really do think we should shift to a central three. Great to have 7 points on the board and have scored so many goals but I wouldnt say we look convincing at the moment. We wouldnt even need to pick different players, just drop JRC alongside Travis and Tronstad (think deeper will suit JRC anyway) and move Dolan on the right. JRC can still get forward, just have a deeper starting position to firm up the midfield....

Frustrating game from Dolan, does a lot right then terrible final ball.

Surely Buckley must come on. Hes not Adam Wharton but he will add a bit of quality on the ball? Really need it in the middle.

The main issue I can see at the moment is JRC wide right isnt working.... need to switch it up. Problem is all our other right options (Weiman, Sigurdsson, Dolan) will all come inside too. No one who really stretches the pitch If we are sticking with 4231 I think Id start Sigurdsson wide right to see how he gets on and use JRC as a sub for the central midfielders or number 10 later in the game.

Yeah vibe i get from JE is he wont take much shit... My gut feel at the moment is he will walk at some point this season if we really have pulled the rug out.

We haven't even signed loan players yet... We invariably end up with 3-4 loans So pretty sure we will hit those numbers. Obviously whether they are the right quality is a different question.

I think in the world of law anything can be postponed for any reason at any time. Bleak House by Charles Dickens writing back in the 1850s... "Jarndyce v Jarndyce drones on. The scarecrow of a suit has in course of time become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have found themselves made parties in Jarndyce v Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit… "

Ah okay... well that makes it a lot more confusing... guess we will all have to wait to figure out what happened.

What number are we up to? Feels like we are all waiting for our McDonalds order to pop up on match day. Any idea roughly how many minutes each case is taking?

85 mins

Feels like it's a lottery on how far down the docket you are as to whether you get seen.... does anyone know how far away we are in the queue?

Are people able to just join and say something over the web meeting?!?

I said keep Travis and get another midfielder also.. so my point was more to switch to a 433 to try and control the game more in midfield. I think Gueye is such a handful that we don't need to a midfield player up so far (as we are doing with Dolan at the moment) and surrender game in the middle.

Hope you are right, I think I prefer any outcome except this dragging on further.

Why do you say that?

Id say the way for us to have the required quality in midfield is to change our system to be more of a 433 with three in the middle. Fitting Tronstad, Buckley and JRC together would help us a lot. Means dropping number 10 from 4231 but I'd do that... At the moment we're quite top heavy pushing four up front. Change to 433 pulls a man back but should give us more dominance in the middle. New GK Brittain. Carter. Hyam. Pickering JRC. Tronstad. Buckley Dolan. Gueye. Hedges. We definitely need to keep Travis for rotation and we need another technical play maker who can rotate with Buckley. Be good if they were left footed as well for balance. That said I think Eustace is happy to not control the ball centrally and push more players up to press instead so I think he will stick with a 4231 with water carriers as DMs.