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To be fair to those in charge, there was always far too much work to do in a single window. We definitely weren’t going to have all players in before the first game. I don’t think we can say what these are like yet until we’ve had multiple summer windows under their control.

I think people hear philosophy and think Russell Martin, maybe Luke Williams, and shudder; but it doesn’t have to mean being a complete zealot to one singular way of playing. As long as we have core principles then there’s flexibility there. I’m not sure I’m a fan of setting up for the...

I agree we’ll have to be patient and we will improve, especially when new players come in. The larger concerns come from not really knowing what we were trying to do yesterday. Usually you can see what the idea is but it didn’t seem the players knew what it was either. Should we be playing to...

In some respects I agree with you. Martin is too dogmatic to manage in the Premier League in my opinion. However, I think he did get it right with us albeit right at the end. He’s the type of manager where more money and resources do help for the championship because he needs better calibre...

Yeah, there was a bit of that with him last season but most of the time the long balls had a point. Today it just looked like we had no other ideas.

The big difference for me is this ownership wasn’t there for those managers. I don’t want to blow too much smoke but we have people in charge that will back a manager now, Russell Martin didn’t have that in his second season especially. I think if these owners had been in charge back then, we’d...

Well, we did play longer balls away from home last year but there was more fluidity and less speculative long balls being played. I think Burgess being in there makes a difference, he’s not a ball player like Darling was, it’ll mean that he’s more inclined to just lump it at times. I’m not...

I’m honestly not sure about that. I get his points tally was fantastic, I’d never dispute that and I actually was happy he got it after helping us stay up. Having said that, if we had a style of play that we wanted to go for then we should have gotten rid of him regardless in my opinion, as...

Not sure how to feel after that performance. I liked some of our games under Sheehan last season and we obviously had the results, I was hoping we’d see a more definite style than what we did there. Just hope we’re not here in 6/7 weeks saying Hellberg should have been appointed. Trying to be...

It did, hopefully he’s made up his mind and we’ll see some confirmation soon🤞

Vital reckons he’s mulling it over, that’s why there’s no firm decision yet. Could well happen though, agreement with Brighton, all down to him.

Rough having to start the season and play two difficult league fixtures without him

With Bianchini it’s clear that Sheehan didn’t rate him. His minutes dropped off massively after he took over. If he does well at championship level, we’ll be able to recoup or maybe even make a profit on him while we have good wing options of our own. I don’t see it as a big issue.

Coleman saying McBurnie no closer than it has been all summer. Not at Fairwood. People are clearly starved of transfer rumours 😅

It’s funny that all of this is likely coming from that Alan Nixon article, he’s sent people into a frenzy and we all know his record with us is spotty at best😂

Disagree, a lot of the time he hasn’t been playing at championship level. His last season in the champ he got 13 and he missed 8 games. He very likely would have got 15+ that season, similar to the likes of Sargent this season, doubt we’d turn someone like him down. 5 goals and 6 assists for a...

Who knows what’s happening. People saying he’s in Swansea but no photos of him. A bunch of Twitter noise is all it is at the moment apart from this thread. Time will tell though

Others were Burgess and Vipi with a very nice first time finish so I’ve heard

Away from the result- regarding Sheehan, it was always a slight worry of mine that he would turn out to be another interim that wasn’t ready for the full job. I really hope this isn’t the case, I’ve said before we weren’t boring under him last year and it wasn’t one dimensional long ball. I was...

Just to add in some optimism, at least we had the ball in the back of the net three times 😂 Agree with the fact we definitely need 3 or four more first team quality additions. Let’s see how we are after the first few games and the window shuts, I think that’ll be the time to judge.