Exiled in Toronto Mk2

Build with Baath and Weimann? They’ll be lucky to still be playing this time next year.

Eustace is being somewhat unimaginative with his signings IMO. I’m struggling to see Travis (who couldn’t get in an Ipswich team just up from Div I) and two pensioners being the heartbeat of a promotion side

Getting it over the bar from where he was was the amazing part.

Gordon Banks save from Pele there - unbelievable! Buckley playing to not get bought by anyone. Cantwell playing 25 yards further back than did Tyjon

I enjoyed the last 30 mins more than many seem to have. Keeper - will take some cojones to come back from that start Montgomery - schoolkid, completely at fault for their first. Miller - put him in the team; much better at playing/passing out than Hyam and that throw should get us 10 goals Wharton - I’d also put in the team. Pickering - Pickering Tavares - reminds me of Wharton Jnr; great awareness, always looking round; shows for the ball and knows what he wants to do; does it in one or two touches. Tronstadt - maybe he’s the one who has asked to leave Hendriksson - schoolkid I didn’t notice once Tyjon - mixed but the good bits were where it counted, set up both Pape’s chances De Neve - schoolkid who scores. Pape - Pape

Don had a couple of years maybe before Jack started making a difference. He funded Archibald and Ardilles didn’t he? Propped up the Riverside, put a big ad on the Blackburn End roof. Don did a good job, but he definitely had a helping hand. The Mackay years were exciting, the Saxton years steady-ish, which got him the push in the end. As I recall the years between Kendall and Mackay, the predominant feeling was a bit like now: going nowhere, no dosh, anyone any good gets sold before their prime.

Bit of revisionism methinks. Under Saxton, before Jack started paying for stuff, we finished 10th, 11th, 6th, 5th 19th and 12th, not much different to our last few years.

Not too despondent. Lost because our CHs were completely AWOL for the long throw. But it was clear to me there’s still a lot of rebuilding needed, particularly in centre mid - with no forward threat all in the middle, no direct running at CHs, teams can double up on our wingers. One of Travis/Tronstad has to be replaced as starters. My other main worry was Yuki: no hold up play as the forward and no nothing as the #10. Plus, with Miller’s humongous throw you have to have Papi on the pitch. I can see Miller being the third CB, then 5-2 ahead of him.

I’m liking this fella’s passing resemblance to a young Vinnie Jones

I agree about the team, but I thought it a hammer blow to the club - a pointer to there being only a future of Coddingtons and Conlons, rather than any more Newtons. Brittain will be forgotten this time next year.

Keith Newton

Speaking as a veteran Crohn’s expert (45 years and counting), the good news is that biologic drugs have revolutionized its management, with years or even decades of remission being far more common than in the past. The bad news is that its course is completely unpredictable and he could be in for major surgery next month - but then so could Wharton, Carter and Leonard. The one thing I’d say is he won’t be a malingerer in the treatment room for slight knocks - you soon learn that remission is a gift to be made the most of.

When Mercer is posting about himself and other folk arguing with the Chadbot, you know there’s no news. Have to say VI is growing on me, seems to know what he wants and it’s clearly not what we had. Seems like forever that we’ve had no pace, not enough height, not enough physicality, two defensive centre-mids because our defence was crap, and keeper even worse. About time to try something different. Brittain had a good season but JDT had him on the bench for JRC. As to losing Weimann’s and Dolan’s goals, we’ve said this every season since Dacky/Graham broke up. Someone will step up.

Kean, Agnew, Shaw, Senior, Chesterton, Singh - did any of them leaving really change the trajectory of the club? And if the family read Glenn’s WhatsApp messages, why does it matter which empty suit is in charge here?

Piss poor marking

Noticeable that the new gaffer has put a stop to Dolan’s drag backs, back heels and going round in circles - as did JDT - and he’s a much better player for it; good movement prior to create space for the pass and a good finish. And no way we get that goal with Pears - the quick releasing of the ball by Toth found a player who’d made a run to get into space - he’d have wasted his breath with Pears. I said two moths ago I thought we’d only get in the playoffs if the manager had the balls to drop Pears and Cantwell, which he didn’t till it was too late…

Do you mean 97.65% of the many thousands of registered users of this site or 97.65% of those who have voted, which is a tiny percentage of those many thousands?

Big differences for me are Toth’s much quicker distribution, and to someone who is expecting it, plus Trav and Sonny getting more advanced in possession.

And his distribution is much quicker

Who was the shifty looking bloke next to Gestede?

Anyone else think Pears was to blame for the second? A pointless performative dive for a shot heading for the corner flag.

Going back to my pre-retirement life, if I’d encountered those three in the boardroom, the only one I’d have listened to was Sunhail. I didn’t like everything he said, but at least he said it clearly and briefly. The other two however, are obviously out of their depth. The Geordie Sir Les Patterson blathers on endlessly, saying nothing and with zero charisma. Jeremy the trainee next to him was even worse, he makes Greg the Egg sound like Warren Buffet.

Is one point from the firs five games our worst ever managerial start?

It was a good save, he got an un-Pearsy like strong hand to the shot so it went up and away to a defender.

Two crosses into our box all afternoon - courtesy of two giveaways by us - both given free headers by the weak as piss Hyam, both easily beating the truly abysmal Pearsy. 5 goals in a week that would all have been saved by any of the keepers we faced.