Lighthouse

All this talk of a third signing has got me thinking. Do you reckon we can get #announcehackney trending on Twitter or would that just be really immature?

Awesome, it’s aboot time we announced this, buddy!

SR signed Ben Brereton Diaz, Juan Larios and Nathan Wood to play PL football. I’m not sure you need an ‘agenda’ to criticise them.

If you say so, I've read all this before and I don't just mean Bazunu. Bialkowski in 2012 - "We have to pray Kelvin never gets injured, we'll never get promoted in goal." Then we went up, had a revolving door of goalkeepers and people were slating all three of them, Gazzaniga in particular. Even Boruc copped a lot of flack in our first season up. Then there was FF, post injury when he had his mental health struggles. Save percentage about the same as Baz people were saying he was the reason we lost the 2017 cup final. Stekelenberg, everyone hated him, 'statistically the worst keeper in the league' etc. McCarthy, one howler after after another. If you think Baz is bad then literally every manager who's had a choice has picked him over McC. Two of them decided to swap keepers eventually, there was no improvement and both got sacked six games later. Then there was the absolute meltdown on this forum when we signed George Long on loan... well that's what's coming in a few weeks when we sign another 'backup' keeper. Baz is the worst keeper we've ever seen in the football league... since the last worst keeper we've ever seen and until the next worst keeper we've ever seen.

There are plenty of bullies out there who only pick on one or a couple of people in any given social group. Most of them will only display such behaviour to people they feel are beneath them and are in some way weak and powerless. I don't believe Tonda to be an inherently nasty person. I'd like to think he doesn't needlessly belittle people out of spite or ego. Nevertheless the reports about his behaviour certainly suggest unpleasant behaviour in coercing junior staff members into tasks they weren't comfortable with, which fall outside their job description and indeed the laws of the game.

Bazunu wont be back up. He's a 24 year old RoI international who will want to be playing regular first team football, which it's pretty clear he wont be getting here. He will leave this summer, hopefully permanently and we can get a decent fee for him. I know I'd be p*ssing into the wind trying to argue that Bazunu is not infact the worst goalkeeper in the football league and I'm not going to bother. However, if you think we're getting better to come and sit on our bench, you're likely to be mistaken.

Fantastic signing, genuinely thought there was no chance of that happening. The cynic in me says we've pushed this through early to try and get the fans back on board and TBF it'll certainly help. Hopefully we can follow this up with Larin.

Lets just all be happy that if Peretz does sign we'll never have to see f**king crisp packet wrists in goal for us again. 63% save record this season makes him statistically the worst keeper in the league. I had hoped we'd already seen the last of him when he went on loan. Sadly he's let in some absolute stinkers for them, so now their fans think he's crap too and I doubt they'll make it a permanent transfer. Best case, I reckon we can offload him for half what we paid for him but it'll probably be another loan. I'm talking about Ramsdale BTW.

We must have been watching a different FA Cup semi final.

He needed to leave and play regular football at a lower level to kick start his career. He’d have had neither of those things if he’d stayed. The fact that he got exactly what he needed and it’s working for him doesn’t mean we were wrong letting him go.

It certainly would be an impressive and somewhat surprising signing, I'd have thought he'd have other offers in the PL and abroad. It wouldn't be a bad way to start the transfer window.

Between Tonda being appointed and the end of the season we played every team in the league, many of them twice. I could believe that it was just Ipswich and Boro, they were two vital games against very good teams. What I can't believe is that we sent someone to spy on relegation fighting Oxford United, then didn't deem it necessary to spy on anyone else for the next five months.

Well, if you showed me the two power play scores and asked me who was going to win, I’d have lost money. After their openers fell they had nothing. If we hadn’t dropped their tenth wicket partnership a couple of times, they could’ve been done for even less.

Not rained for a couple of hours now, with a fair bit of direct sunshine to help dry the pitch and not much of anything heading this way on the radar. Hopefully we get our full 40 overs in and don’t end up getting screwed by DLS in some way.

Which begs the question; why do it?