Exiled_Rover

Nope, absolute amateur hour.

That's hugely unfair writing Leonard off.

Well evidently we're not bringing in any reinforcements, so this is Leonard's and Markanday's chance to stake a claim for a starting spot.

There's a video clip of him training in Ireland on YouTube earlier this year - he said he expects to be in and around the first team this season. I don't know if that's bravado or they've told him as much.

We don't even have a striker on the pitch so I wasn't expecting goals - I just wanted to see what Barnes / Batty et al looked like.

I understand an away game in Austria (although it'd still be easy to do), but a game against a League Two side at their ground? It's literally all set up for it and has been since the pandemic. Baffling. Ah well.

So not streamed again? Yikes.

Ooooph, starting without a striker. A clear message from JDT.

No debate about it - the defender has had to play the ball because the striker is running in behind him. Therefore, he's influenced the play - offside.

Coventry have just signed their 7th player of the window (and gone way over the money they received for that Swedish fella).

Have we been playing 4-3-3 in the pre-season?

A traditional home shirt design that they continue to get wrong? Reversed. Halves.

Where's Ethan Walker in the pecking order? He wasn't sent to Austria, but he's stood out when I've briefly watched the U21s.

And they wonder why RL is dying on it's arse. National tv audience and the game has been decided by a disgraceful call by the referee.

Bairstow scored another 60+ runs at a rapid rate - no problem with the lack of declaration in this match. We've lost 2 days due to rain - you're never getting a result in a proper Test.

I went this year for a T20 - lovely ground.

Who is Norwood and how much do they want for him?

Save us, Harry Leonard, you're our only hope.

That's our second XI yet somehow we're losing £20m a year - literally 9 Academy graduates in the starting XI (and 8 on the bench).

I'm calling the NSPCC.

Johnny, it's a lovely story that you've got back to playing Test cricket and I'm pleased those worse outcome scenarios didn't transpire - but that doesn't mean I'll overlook how bad you are behind the stumps.

Give over.

He has just spent 3 weeks training with Gallagher, Dolan and Hedges - he knows they're not going to score.

You only rate 3 of our Academy graduates? They seem to think Leonard, Edmondson, O'Grady-Macken and Fyles have something about them (and potentially Gilsenan).

I'm as 'realistic' as they come, but we are missing 2/3rds of our summer signings. They'd both start. Tronstad is a damn sight better than Morton too imo. Obviously ideally we'd bring in 2-3 more starters (it used to be 3-4, but there's no way we'll bring in 4 at this point).