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6-7 Hours instead of 48 hours. The timeframes are looking up.

6-7 Hours instead of 48 hours. The timeframes are looking up.

Watch him go somewhere else after all this 😂

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I'm sorry, but am I the only one that finds it amazing that many here have no football knowledge at all? Who's Sonny Bradley, never heard of him I've read. Curtis Nelson where does he play? This Conor Washington we've signed, is he any good? Ryan Woods – you couldn't miss him with his ginger hair and should know that Brentford paid a million for him from Shrewsbury when they got promoted into the Championship, he'll have played 20 times against Derby. The younger here, I thought they lived their life playing Football Manager and knew every footballer in the world.

But does he have a beard?

My biggest disappointment about that interview was to find out he is a Taylor Swift fan 🤮

Hey guys sorry not been on a lot lately but the pain been pretty bad lately so been trying to rest as much as I can before season starts but I am 100 percent I can be. So i will be in full voice come saturday. Getting behind the lads as always i do fancy our chances for coming season.
Also see you all at burton peterboro blackpool and Bolton. Once my op done I might be out for a fair while but will be back asp. But not heard anything yet when that will be.

Hey all - we've done ANOTHER season preview pod - this time roping in no less than 4 rival fans onto the same recording to look ahead to the League One campaign.

With the season upon us, Richard Cutcher chaired a podcast panel with four other opposition fans from around the division, to gauge the mood as the Rams' rivals rate their own promotion chances, as well as who they're tipping to be the league's top goalscorer, which manager is under the most pressure... and who'll finish in the top two.

We were joined by James Jarvis from the 'Lion of Vienna' Bolton Wanderers podcast, Tracey Martin from Barnsley's 'Red All Over', Ben Thomas from 'The Tilehurst End' Reading FC pod, and broadcaster Jake Smith, from Portsmouth's Express FM, for the Pompey perspective. 

LINK HERE:
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG5389778089.mp3?updated=1690835328

Does anyone know which of these three is the goalkeeper?

Do one Rosenior

Cos no team in this leauge has the money for him.
posh strikers go for a premium because of their history of producing.. bar the one we bought lol.
they all end up in the championship because its above leaguen one budgets  

has he signed yet?
 

Heard that we’re so far down our list of strikers now, we’ve turned our attention to train drivers.

Tonight Matthew I’m going to be Stevie Wonder.

Might be worth considering Alexis Sanchez, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, Eden Hazard, Adama Traore, Diego Costa.

A couple of posters (and Warne) have commented about the need for another body in midfield, so I thought I’d trawl through the free agent list on the sometimes inaccurate and unreliable transfermarkt to put together a list for discussion. I don’t know great detail about many of these, it is very much a face value list with a few observations thrown in. I’m not necessarily advocating for the signing of any of them (though the lad who’s been playing in Belgium or Adeniran appeal), and I’ve written the list myself rather than fielding any accusations of being/using AI to do so 😉 
The idea being an opportunity to chat about the potential solutions rather than the apparent problem itself, some more realistic than others;
Midfielders
Josh Onomah (26), most recently played in the championship for Preston
Adam Forshaw (31) just left Leeds, loads of experience at champ and premier league level, no idea of his injury history or qualities. 
Matty Longstaff (23) left Newcastle, scored a screamer on his debut for them but not done much since, was on loan at a couple of league two sides the last couple of years. Right age but maybe not as good as his early promise implied?
Leandro Bacuna (31) left Watford in the summer, played plenty of games in the champ and some in the prem for Cardiff, Villa and Reading
Luke Amos (26) left QPR in the summer after a few years, possibly more of a defensive midfielder? 
Stefan Johansen (32) left QPR in the summer, was a beast in that Fulham midfield a few years back, no idea if he’s still got it. 
Sean Goss (27), left Motherwell after a couple of years in the Scottish prem. formerly played league one at Shrewsbury. Is 6ft 3in so would add another physical presence to the spine, know nothing else about him.
Cameron McGeehan (28), he’s an interesting one, been playing in Belgium’s top flight for 3 years, before that played league one and two football for Portsmouth, Barnsley and Luton. Scored double figures in a couple of his league two seasons for Luton and 6 one season for Barnsley in league one. 4 goals in 21 games last season.
Dennis Adeniran (24) left the Wendies in the summer. Looks to have been a squad option for them playing mid 20s for appearances in the last couple of seasons, unless down to injury? Good age and might not have high demands.
Jamie McGrath (26) left Wigan the other day after cancelling his contract on legal grounds. Goals and assists from midfield in the Scottish Premiership, current Irish international.
Sam Clucas (32) left Stoke, good player for Hull and Swansea a few years back, can play left side of defence. (As a side note my phone autocorrected his surname to Clubcard for a moment, other supermarket loyalty schemes are available.)
Jack Colback (33) 🤮 
There are others, I got bored and also moaned at by the Mrs, but mainly bored. I looked for players UK based or likely to qualify to play in the UK rather than any of the European options as realistically I don’t think we fish in those waters even if we should.

I love the optimism of the new season. Might @Davideven manage to start every single match thread? 
We've done well rebuilding the defence, and Fozzy will be fine starting off at left wingback.
A shame we're lacking forward power. The thing is any good loans won't come in until the very end of the transfer window, so we will have to play the entirety of August with our own players. I think that means goals will be hard to come by, especially with Sibley missing preseason injured. So missing out on this game and the next few.
I fear it means we'll be bringing Waggy back in time for this match. I'd really hoped we'd do a lot better. But instead of McGoldrick bagging so many of the goals last campaign, this time around they need to come from all over the pitch and that's not a terrible thing.
I remember one sunshiny season opener when we built Sunderland 5-0. I'd settle for the same again. COYR! 

Analysing the game as objectively as possible:
Negatives -
Two of their three goals came from our back/sideways passes - regardless of the opposition that’s something that seriously needs to be addressed. Both Nelson and Smith can only have had what is known as a brain fart and switched off, not truly focused and made a pass that led to an opposition goal. In a preseason friendly, perhaps the intensity isn’t there and that’s the sort of thing that happens? We were guilty of similar things last season though, hopefully this was needed in order for it to become a focus. 
The opposition were very good today, really hard working and played some fantastic football at times. Berge and Ndiaye are absolutely top quality footballers and were both humming today, they do have a lot of footballers that are Championship standard but they do work really hard off the ball. No surprise they were promoted given the makeup of their team. It won’t be enough for the Premier League, but if they can add a couple more players of that standard then who knows. A lack of speed and an outlet to unbalance them was evident, Collins was isolated at times. NML played really well, perhaps a lack of legs in midfield. When Smith, Bird and Hourihane are all starting - the lack of depth on the bench is evident. I do feel like we could probably do with another centre midfielder, despite us only being in the market for two more. Difficult with our budget. 
Subbing Thompson, honestly he was struggling but I felt like with it being a friendly that he could’ve been given the last 45 minutes as a learning period. If he’s likely to start Saturday in that position then it would’ve been worth it. We don’t have to defend the same way in League One, so really it would’ve been a good test to see if he could’ve grown into the game and essentially survived it. No better time to throw him into the deep end IMO. 
Positives - 
In friendlies, you typically try and look at indicators for the ceiling of the team going forward. I feel the system is starting to feel a little more natural, the back three for the most part looked balanced and there was less getting in each others way. Cashin and Nelson getting crosses in the box wasn’t to be expected but good to see, albeit they may have to work on them going forward. The football at times was great, very slick and we did create decent chances - ironically the 10 minutes before their two late goals were our best period of the game.
Bringing me on to my next point, Waghorn can definitely still play. I thought he was like a man possessed, pressed really well and created a couple of chances - if he had scored it would’ve been a no brainer. You can see that his level of fitness and technical ability will definitely make him an asset in League One, anyway. Really did well. I felt Washington also looked sharp when he got on. I don’t think there is any player, bar Thompson, that actually played too badly at all. Mistakes, sure, but most had a positive game in the grand scheme of things. 

Thank you 😘

With a new head of recruitment who is highly thought of, I was expecting some lower league gems unearthed with potential to develop and increase their value, along with a few incomings who have never met Paul Warne. Is Mark Thomas currently in residence?

No but Hourihane was.

No but Hourihane was.