Figured I’d start the thread a week early, is that illegal? Preseason has been hard to tell given the lower level of opposition, I suppose much like the early European rounds, tough to tell our true level based on somewhat unknown opponents we play.

jury still out on molloy and sivert, two of our new signing ‘starters,’ not sure if they are up to the pace and physicality of our league, plus we haven’t resolved our width issue, if anything we’re worse with not having duk or hoillet. Think we’ve upgraded the keeper though, although he’s had very little to do so far.

starting 11 is predictable, although I think sivert is suspended? Immediately highlights the squad imbalance, we don’t have a legit replacement. Would like us to actually try jack Milne in holding mid but the last few games would have been the games to experiment with him in there. I’d say we’ll see mcgrath in center mid and possible Vinny on the left simply because we don’t really have anyone else? Saying that, I’d take mcgarry at left mid over Vinny but I don’t think JT sees him that way.

saying all of this, my ideal is we sign another holding mid this week who starts and McGrath is on the left, plus a right mid is signed benching Morris.

anyway, still optimistic, 2-1 us with sokler and McGrath getting the goals.

7 hours ago, Reekie_Red said:

We have. £3M from Espanyol. Which was wildly below our valuation. We rightly told them to get in el mar

Should have said an acceptable bid although interestingly the only source for the Espanyol is the article in Daily Heil. Only article I could find from a Spanish source also mentioned that the story came from the British press. 

18 hours ago, Elgindon said:

Fawanews is where I stream games,...normally good quality picture,but you often have to refresh a few times during a game. Not aware of other sites,and not techy enough for Firestick? VPNs etc whatever they are...

The RedTV stream in itself is pretty shite. Much more often than not in the last year or so I've had to watch on our opponent's stream as they tend to be better quality and buffer less. Last night it seemed to be slightly improved but still pretty shite. Then 5 minutes from the end I remembered that it was on Sky whose streams are far less problematic. 🤦‍♂️

Nilsen really caught my eye last night, he's a metronome player that just keeps it all ticking over nicely.  His through ball for the second was lovely, it's the kind of ball I want to see from Clarkson more often 2bh. 

 

This feels different

even just watching Thelin on the sideline,  he has an aura

I'm ruddy excited about this season and am convinced we will still bring in at least 2 to go right into the first 11