Bluesteel

Exactly. Talking ourselves down the tubes

Rest Pudil and put Thorniley there, Boyd at wing back. I think we might play Hunt in midfield.

How much will umbongo pay us for all this free advertising and name dropping? Football league clubs are missing a trick here.

I don’t think there’s any real difference between JP and DJ other than physical build. Always admired jones as a player but he’s been dissapointing here, possibly due to the role he has been asked to play but we need an aggressive anchor.

Worth a try in the Cup IMO

Thorniley isn’t a wing back, nor is fox or Pudil. Reach and Boyd are the closest we have and perhaps Matt Penney

They should be withheld or means tested somehow so that they do what they are meant to. Ie prevent clubs going bust. Swansea clearly need them but Stoke don’t

I think they could play together. Fletcher can play the same role as Nuhiu but a lot of his goals are poacher finishes and he has decent movement.

Thats the crux of it and in my view they couldve moved George anyway and won their “victory” without resorting to it. Funnily enough he’d have probably been on the bench yesterday as would Clare.

No it doesn’t, we should be able to fall back on compensation regardless. Not suffer by some manipulated bridge transfer. Leciester can easily get their man and pay their way. The rich really shouldn’t be going out their way to shaft those less fortunate and the rules need to change.

Palmer looked streets ahead of Baker in pre season. 2 games later and the consensus is Palmer shouldn’t be included any more when we can’t even bring anyone in for the foreseeable. Couldnt make it up

Appreciate neither is ideal though and we’ve supposedly got a big squad

Thorniley is solid defensively but we could’ve perhaps put Reach at LWB and Boyd further forward. Or if we are down to youth players already then Borukov seems a unit for the more central role left by fletcher when he came off.

It’s good to see young players making the side, but there were quite a few today and being unable to make another attacking substitution probably cost us a win.

From what I’ve seen of him he is more similar to Jones than Semedo or Hutchinson. Doesn’t steam into tackles or drive up the pitch but sits in a pocket of the pitch and passes the ball to whoever is free. He does have the ability to strike a ball though we’ve seen that at Millwall. He’s the kind of player who gets credit in a good side and pelters in a poor one. Personally I think we need a tough tackler in there and have done for years.