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Absolute rubbish about not being able to compete with WBA Gav, yes you would expect them to finish above us over the course of the season but they're not by any means Citeh or Barcelona at their best, over 90 mins with us being at home it should be a fairly even game and anything could happen. You're right about us theoretically being in the running for two or three playoff places but unfortunately there's no danger of that with Mowbray at the helm is there? Along with a few others, looking forward to this more than for quite a long time. 1-1.

Lot of people getting very cocky about the start, proves Mowbray's a better manager than the likes of Hughton etc etc........ Whilst we're all grateful for the seven points It's a marathon not a sprint and logic would suggest that we're still in for a long old season given the squad we currently have thanks to Mowbray's misuse of Club resources over the last 3 years.

Arma didn't sign for him when we really needed him to. Dack was out with a long term injury at the time so it was very much in his best interests to re-sign, Chapman hasn't done much yet so it was probably in his best interests to re-sign as well and Gallagher is absolutely useless and Southampton saw us coming with that one. Why won't Nyambe, Rothwell, Lenihan, Brereton etc re-sign for him?

Not picking up the phone to speak to players we've allegedly agreed a fee for.

Problem is as always we've left everything to the very last minute. As a lot of staff have been on furlough it surely wasn't that difficult to predict that we would have needed to do everything a lot earlier this year or it would cause major problems.

Mine didn't arrive through the post but I went down to the Club Shop this afternoon and the guy there very helpfully printed a new card off. For the avoidance of doubt I didn't have a ST last season when we couldn't attend after Waggott put prices in the Riverside up 25% but I couldn't find my card from 2 seasons ago. It may be my old card would have worked but the issue is the Club couldn't even do the simplest of things and come out with a definitive statement, either Everyone will be getting new cards or If you already have a card, they will work, please use those.

Starting to look that way, the Armstrong deal sounded a great deal more palatable with a ready made replacement coming the other way. In the same way as a game being called off last season looked less of an issue once a brand new pitch was promised a few days later. Of course neither materialised. I'm sure many will be rushing to blame the owners for this as usual but reading between the lines from what Mowbray said the other week funds have been made available for an Armstrong replacement but our crack recruitment team can't get any sort of deal over the line. Heading for no permanent replacement for our prime asset or at best a loan of some nobody the parent Club is desperate to offload at the last minute. I'd imagine the reason people are irritated about the Obafemi thing is that it was clearly never happening, if the player had been interested it would have gone through simultaneously with Armstrong. However the Club craftily pretended it was still a runner and even pretended he was our main target. Also how on earth can we waste time and effort negotiating a fee with Southampton then our manager never even speaks to the player? Surely it would be normal for us to do some initial sounding out via the player's agent to see if he might be interested and avoid wasting time? Or is it just further window dressing to make it look like we're doing something worthwhile?

How can the player make an informed decision about coming here if the manager can't even be arsed speaking to him?

There's a difference between working hard and being effective. Unless being unable to bring the ball under control is now considered an attribute I can't think of one positive thing he did other than the bit of closing down bds mentioned earlier.

Gallagher had an absolute stinker last night and it always amazes me whenever anyone says running about a bit is a more important attribute than the ability to score goals! 🙂

It really wasn't !!!!

Still nowt, trip down to the Club Shop tomorrow required.

Agree 100% on Gallagher, don't understand the clamour for him to go up front tbh, he's absolutely useless and has regressed massively from his initial loan spell here. And he was only average then. Shouldn't be in the starting X1 at all. If any of the existing staff should get a chance up front, surely it should be Brereton.

Yes, the money would be much better spent there than forking out on another set of loan fees for another bunch of Premier League teenagers.

Still not had mine yet, I might have to make a special trip down to the Club Shop. I'm a bit more relaxed about the thought than if we didn't have seven points on the board but we really don't help ourselves at times.

Great win, especially seeing as I thought the three that started up front were all fairly poor. Carter, Ayala, Rothwell and Buckley were all very good I thought. Chapman also impressive after coming on as sub. A wide man in his natural position posing a threat and providing an outlet. Fancy that Carter in particular did all that could be asked of him and yet again when we've asked one of our own youngsters to step up the world hasn't caved in and he's shown he's up to the job. No way whatsoever should he be going out on loan. At this stage of the season, before injuries bite, we seem to be benefitting from Mowbray only having 11 or 12 outfield players to choose from. Still think we badly need a decent permanent replacement for Armstrong though.

We're there size 10 bootprints all over the grave from where Waggott has attempted to trample all over Jack's legacy? Thanks for everything Jack. Words can't express what you did for us. Some of us will do our level best to try and prevent Messrs. Waggott, Mowbray and Venus from dismantling the wonderful infrastructure you left the Club

Good point hadn't even thought about it. I requested a new card and haven't had it yet. No surprise, we've seen already this administration are completely incapable of getting anything done on time.

It's often not what you know but who you know in this game, Stuart Harvey gets appointed at Sunderland and promptly brings in the abysmal Evans.

Give over Gav. 2 games. If we're still averaging 2 points per game after 10 games then you will have a point.

When was that taken, a month ago?

Decent point on Saturday but realistically there won't be many if any other games this season where we can get away with only having two efforts on target and coming away with a point.

Yes, I'd have thought the signing of this 19 year old is more likely to deprive our 21 year old £10m wonder "kid" of playing time than Garrett.

Mother of God as Ted Hastings would say. The players we've been linked with sound to be scraping the bottom of an incredibly deep barrel.

Unfortunately the boat has temporarily sailed for a Club like ours in terms of signings from Europe. We dithered and dallied in terms of setting up some form of European Recruitment for at least 18 months to 2 years then by the time we finally got something set up Brexit had happened. Fairly typical of the shambolic inertia within the Club.