Lord Duckhunter

What’s he going to find easiest to sort out, the team or his barnet?

I think you’re underestimating the ego of players. How many times have we wondered why players sign for clubs when they clearly won’t get much game time. They don’t see it like that, any potential signing won’t be thinking “I’ll play second fiddle to Larin”, they think they are good enough to replace him. I've no idea whether they’ll look at another option up top. I imagine it’ll depend on Archer leaving and whether they’ll think the young City lad could potentially fit in wider on the odd occasion. Personally, I’d prefer another central striker, but it’s not a priority or the end of the world if we don’t get one. Whilst we may not need a Larin clone, our fingers will be crossed he doesn’t get injured anytime before dec window.

That’s more like it, but there’s still a couple of worries. The first goal was poor & after the Downes/Bragg fuck up they should have gone in 2-2 at HT. The penalty seemed to change everything as before that they had a decent spell of possession at the start of the second half. They seemed to fall apart a bit after that, and our confidence just grew & grew. Leo looked back to last seasons form, Larin on fire, & decent start for the centre half. Wood also seemed a bit more aggressive & Bree had his best game of the season. Perfect scenario for Prowse to slot into the Downes role and he kept us ticking over well. I’m still not convinced by Bragg, gave it away cheaply a couple of times, but I guess he’s not going to be first choice much this season.

Looking forward to his return in the home fixture , to say a proper goodbye. but have seen it’s 17th October so won’t be able to…. He’ll be dropped by then ☹️

What a window… 10/10

It is, I was expecting to pay them at least £6.5m to take him…

Not convinced. Liked the way he played for Jones, slightly further forward so wouldn’t be against him slipping into that role at the end of games (as Charles did few times). Could be useful if we’re chasing the game, particularly replacing Bree (again, as Charles did at Leicester). But I don’t think my blood pressure will be able to cope with him coming deep to bounce balls back to the centre halves or full backs.

I can’t help thinking we’ve dropped a bollock here (pun intended). Maybe they know something we don’t, Bolton’s Goalkeeping scout certainly looks pleased with himself today.

So that’s a no from the last 2 clubs he’s played for, who are in the same league as us. But a yes from us. If he hadn’t played for us, people would rightly be asking why West Ham don’t want him, & why Burnley appear to be showing no interest in a bloke, with more in his “locker” than Shea Charles. OR, Theo Walcott & Lallana were far better players than he ever was, and look how those worked out. You wouldn’t want him above Manning on free kicks, he wouldn’t add more energy & wouldn’t toughen up the centre of the pitch. Bill Shankley once said there’s a difference between old players and experienced players, I know which side of the line Prowse falls imo…

🤣🤣🤣🤣What a load of old pony.

What the fuck are ”goal involvements”.

Total football lego style…

Second worst?

Dreadful. Second half as bad as anything under Will Still. The worrying thing it was the performances of the senior players & players who will feature quite a bit, first team players. Stephen’s & Wood the obvious ones. But Bree is nowhere near where he was, Bragg seems to be going backwards ( or fucking sideways), Leo woeful again, Tom F shows nothing that indicates he’s going to step up this season. Dobin is fucking pony. The lad up top minced around. Edozie weak as piss. I guess you can forgive Wellington as it was his first start, but the others. Dear God. It really was men against boys at the end of the game. No urgency, no fight & no passion. I thought we were going to stuff it down the EFL’s throat this season, use what happened as the trigger to drive us on. Instead of that we look like a load of show ponies sulking about it. Tonda needs to knock it out of people, and Spors needs to bring some real men in, blokes who weren’t affected by it who can impose their personality on the club like the keeper and Larin did last season, We’ve shown less passion, less determination & done more mincing about since that “injustice “, you’d expect more to put it right, not fuckjng less.