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Viktor Johansson, he went to Stoke. Named their player of the season last year. Given how much he was available for (£1million apparently) surprised a Prem team didn't snap him up as a number 2 option. I assume we were looking at ball-playing goalkeepers under Martin, I wonder if we have moved on from that sort of profile and will focus on ... shot-stopping and commanding the box...

Very little we can read into this. It's so hot that it was always going to be a slow going game. 4 weeks to go until Wrexham so plenty of time to ramp things up and get everyone fully prepared.

We don't have a silly accent so we're one up on them already

Exactly. Teams are in pre-season already, a new manager will want time to implement a style, new tactics. 5 weeks until the new season is still enough time but not ideal compared to everyone else. Leicester may be OK because they have a lot of quality but it doesn't bode well for them. At least we got our house in order in advance.

All of those are top players at this level. Luton over-achieved the season before when they got promoted. We'll be fine. We could be utterly shit and we'll still finish 6th minimum.

Adams was phenonemal for us last season and we never replaced him. We'd have scored a lot more goals and created a load more if he had stayed. He was a massive miss. Archer will come good for us next season, he looked effective on the counter (his best games were at Man City and Arsenal and the cup game against Liverpool when we deviated away from RussBall...).

I'll be amazed if they and Sheff Wed don't go down. No idea who the other spot will be, Oxford suffering second-season syndrome maybe.

https://www.southwesternrailway.com/plan-my-journey/planned-improvements/september-2025-works No trains to Southampton Central on Sunday 14th!!!

Ooops, we weren't supposed to announce them, presumably a scheduled tweet was set up. Swiftly deleted but the Ipswich and Portsmouth games are Sunday 12pm kick offs.

Or not... the EFL have postponed the announcement until tomorrow

Absolutely agree. It'll be interesting to see how we set up against let's say Eastleigh (where you'd assume we want to dominate) and the game against Brighton, where you'd expect we'll be on the backfoot.

Announcement at 4pm

£65 is outrageous, and no season-ticker holder discount either. If it was £30-40 I'd probably buy it.

TV games up to the end of September will be announced either today or tomorrow. I don't think we'll be seeing a lot of 3pm kick offs...

Selective history indeed... Lowe's second stint destroyed the club. It was Leon Crouch who tried to mend things. Anyway if it wasn't for Lowe, we wouldn't have got Liebherr so in some respects we should be grateful.