1- 4 Can see us been in the game for a while but ultimately getting picked off. Steep learning curve ahead for our new defence/team.
2-4 defeat. They are too strong for us at the minute. We'll play some nice football, but they will be too clinical.
1-4. Never going to be able to defend against Mitrovic with 2 lads who have no Championship experience.
3-1 to Fulham but I know nothing about football, so it will probably be 2-0 to Barnsley. Just hoping it doesn't rain.
**** knows, but yet again we start a season after promo with a teeam that`ll look nowt like the one that went up.
1-3 to Fulham and the Forum is flooded with comments that we are hopeless and will get relegated and if you think differently you are a delusional happy clapper.
Could well happen hopefully Lil. I'm going to watch Luton versus Middlesbrough on Sky later. Borough are quoted at 9/2 to be promoted and the Hatters are offered at 14/1. The game will probably give us a rough guide as to what we could face against the better quality teams as the season progresses. It will be interesting to see how Luton play as well, because it's vital that we get points from Charlton, Wigan and them this month if we are to get off to any semblance of a reasonable start. As we've been saying, our team is an unknown quantity at this level. Thiam is our longest serving player at the moment, (quote in today's Chronicle),so we know it will be a big test for our lads against Fulham who's promotion odds are 2-1 in our curtain raiser tomorrow. Hope our fans give Alfie Mawson a decent reception by the way, that's if he's fit to play of course.
The Chronicle has got it wrong again, then. Jacob Brown made his league debut at Brentford, October 2016 and Alex Mowatt was signed from Leeds in January 2017. Both before Thiam! I fully agree with your comments re Alfie Mawson, old mate.
Our promotion last season was built on the rock solid foundations of masterful performances by Pinnock and Davies, ably assisted by Lindsay. We could play great and win handsomely, which we did at times, but also play poorly or indifferent, and we'd still win because we just didn't concede many goals. Our centre halves and 'keeper were very, very good. On a bad day, we'd still win. We conceded fewer goals than any other team in League 1. We conceded fewer goals than any other team in the football league. Only Man City and Liverpool conceded fewer goals in the English professional game. That's gone. We could do nothing about Davies, but we let Pinnock and Lindsay go for less than the extra a club receives for playing in the Championship compared to League 1. To put that simply, we would have made a much, much bigger profit had we kept Pinnock and Lindsay and allowed them to leave for free next summer and retained our Championship status, rather than selling them, bringing in replacements and being relegated. That we've done this is fc*king nuts. £5 million in transfer fees against £6 million for playing in the Championship. Someone needs an abacus. And now we've sold our top scoring centre forward. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. The reason that football is such a popular sport and gets the heart racing is that it is unpredictable. On a match by match basis at any rate, less so over a season, but you still get Leicester from time to time. However, if you know anything about football, predicting anything other than a heavy Barnsley defeat is hoping for the long shot. Doesn't mean it won't happen, but if you replayed the game again and again a good result for us would become rarer and rarer.
Don't know if it's correct but they reckon the last time we played at this level McGeehan ( Scunny), Mowatt (Oxford) and Brown ( Chesterfield) were all sent out on loan. I bet it means that Thiam has played the most games for us in the Championship.
There would be a karma - like understandable symmetry to a defeat by the same score that we won our first game last season.
1-3. Two centre-backs with no experience at this level against Mitrovic, Knockaert etc will take its toll.