Well that and because they had this Arsenal CF on the bench, but only decided to play him in ET.

Absolutely fallen apart since Morton came on.

Got subbed on for our only CF though and appears to be playing RW - so that was odd.

And because of that they're getting far more sympathy in the press / from the football community than we do. We're literally in football purgatory - at least their nightmare is coming to an end.

They appear content to put in the absolute minimum so we don't fall foul of the authorities.

Drogba is the prototype for me in these systems. Obviously there aren't many of him knocking about!

A few of them look streets ahead of their colleagues. Interesting that Liverpool are selling Quansah - a young, talented, English CB. With the Champions League registration rules you'd think they'd hold onto him for dear life. Anderson won't be at Forest for long, he's fantastic.

He's another small #9 playing upfront on his own. It's what I fear will happen to Leonard and has happened to Ohashi all season - they just don't impact the game enough. You have to be lightning quick, or incredibly intelligent at their size playing against two big CBs.

Premier League clubs? No. Championship clubs? Absolutely.

It's endemic - he's just soft as shite. Anderson looks like he's playing a different sport to Morton. Also do we have anyone else on the bench for Stansfield? He's done nothing.

Why wouldn't someone else come in and gazump is now that they know he's available?

Right, so they've taken a look at him for 6 months and thought "nah".

Not even a youngster. At 23 if he's not made it by now he never will at Brighton.

Morton comes on and immediately gets beaten in the air for a goal. Shite player - absolutely no idea why people rate him.

Fantastic player. I'd be more curious to see which Academies they came out of - I know Elliot, Livarmento and Scott (edit: and Hutchison and Stansfield) aren't at their original teams, I bet they're not the only ones.

That's awful from Stansfield - an absolute tap in.

As he ambles over there, running like he's carrying a piano on his back...

Both managers overdelivered and then were lied to. Both said "sod this for a game of soldiers".

Bit like whatever that lad from Orlando was called.

Dennis - hadn't played for nearly a year (and never got fit for us) Woodrow - awful Forshaw - CM who Plymouth couldn't get rid of quickly enough No new contracts for Travis / Brittain / Tronstad Significant investment.

So do we (or rather the club) think we're close to signing another CB? Or are we going into the season expecting one of the Academy players to step up and fill that 4th CB option? Currently we've gone from: Batth - Hyam - Carter - Sanderson to Hyam - Carter - S. Wharton That's a downgrade however you spin it.

It's signings like this we actually should be making - young, talented players from L1 and L2. Ones that have a few games under their belts and stand out at that level, but aren't quite yet of interest to Premier League teams. The £40m or so from Wharton, Szmodics, Raya et al has been completely spaffed on running costs now, so our owners don't have to put their hands in their pockets, but realistically half of that should have been spent on the best young players from Crewe, Charlton, Reading etc. If you want to run a model where you develop players and sell them on, you have to actually invest in the players first. The Academy will bring some through - but as we're seeing the most promising ones get pinched before they can sign professional contracts. I've no idea what to make of O'Riordan - I've barely seen him play. I hope this loan works for him. It seems he played well when he went back to Crewe, so there's still a player in there somewhere, but he quickly needs to push on as he's 21 now.

So we have no money for transfers and our most promising youngsters get picked off for pennies. Don't you just love football?

That's a really odd move. I assume they're trying to ship him out - a loan with an option to buy. At 21 he really should be breaking into the first team.

Broughton bought him and it seemed neither JDT or Eustace fancied him. Normally that'd be a damning indictment because they see him in training every day, but both managers also consistently started Calamity so they're not infallible. He's come on twice as a sub.