Is the delay because FF can’t decide on the exact profanities used when Pasha was excoriated? Or is it more mundane than that?

If you go position to position we are stronger in some and weaker in others. The obvious weaknesses are up front due to the loss of Dolan and Weimann. If we replace those 2 with the mooted RW and AM then the squad is no weaker than last season and in certain areas can be viewed as stronger.

Batth and Weimann were on low salaries, as reported by Jackson on a few occasions. They came here to prove themselves with presumably the expectation that if they did well they would get a new contract and a pay rise. Presumably Derby offered bigger contracts.

Thanks. Why is he out though? Is it infected? Or he just can’t take being ridiculed so won’t play?

What’s this about? Just a picture on its own isn’t very informative.

Dapper…..

Maybe don’t do repeatedly, quoting the same post every time. That’s just trolling, and also very very boring.

I thought we’d be going down the semantics route. Very tedious. Rare: dictionary definition- an event that doesn’t occur very often. so it’s rare.

It’s rare in that very few teams in any given season have a striker that hits 20 goals. The argument was that you should be looking for a new striker if you don’t have one that hits 20 per season. My point is that is not the norm for most clubs , it is the outlier. The stats are available. 16/17 - 4 players 17/18 - 2 players 18/19 - 9 players 19/20 - 3 players 20/21 - 3 players 21/22- 5 players 22/23 - 3 players 23/24 - 2 players 24/25 - 0 players So as you can see, it’s a relatively small % of strikers that get 20 goals in MOST seasons - if it’s 3 per season on average that means only 3 out of about 48 strikers (2 per team) get to 20 goals. So it’s rare.

In an ideal world perhaps, but I don’t think anyone in the Championship got 20 league goals last season. It’s quite rare in fact. We’ve been a bit spoiled with the goal returns on the last few years of AA and BBD. Most clubs in the Championship never have a 20 goal striker.

I think Leonard showed a lot of promise under JDT, but he needs games in L1 to build his confidence. I think his movement is really good, similar to Ohashi in the way he finds space. He just needs a bit of luck with injuries.

If we only play 1 up front and have 3 strikers. I don’t see the need for another. I doubt the 3 strikers see the need for another either. You can’t just keep accumulating players. Unless of course Val doesn’t think the 3 strikers are good enough. In which case you’d imagine we’re on the lookout for another one.

I don’t think these are classed as competitive games so the bookings don’t count. Might be wrong…

Thanks for an objective post👍

You always say we’re terrible😉

I’m not watching it. Reading the thread it appears we’re the worst team in the world according to the usual suspects. I’m guessing that’s not the case?

The same Cantwell who played in Europe for a huge club like Rangers and also played in the Prem? They won’t know who he is?

Oh dear, it’s going to be a long day!

If you just say ‘I was wrong’ we can all shake hands, move along and forget the whole sorry saga. What say you?

Poor mans Adam Forshaw.

Mullarkey

Which is fine but that’s wasn’t the discussion we were having.

Not really cos it’s not relevant. None of that means there isn’t any money for transfers. We’ve already signed 4. We want 4 more. Most will be permanent signings involving an outlay just as the first 4 were.

De Neve and Kargbo on left. Hedges and new signing on right.

The numbers have changed. Depends when you started watching football which you prefer. Monty is a CM.