rodigan

Flying up for this game and for the Townsville game. Any plans for gatherings before | after each game?

wasn't suggesting that i want austin for a second, but the question is what role will this striker play? if it is a back up in a team that plays a sole striker, i can understand the reasoning behind buying someone who is unlikely to throw a tantrum if he isn't the first choice every week... last season, we only played with one true striker, so everyone else was getting scraps - keeping those people happy is not easy... and there are so many new players to bed in here...

Lots to do, but its certainly getting there: GK: Steer Kalinic Nyland RB: Guibert Elmo CB: Mings Chester Hause Konza Engels LB: Targett Taylor DM: Hourihane Bjarnasson [LUIZ or PHILLIPS] AM: McGinn Jack LW / RW: El Ghazi Jota Green [TREZEGUET] CF: Wesley Kodjia Davies [MAUPAY or AUSTIN] If you add in us getting most of LUIZ, TREZEGUET, PHILLIPS, MAUPAY, AUSTIN - we're getting pretty close...

Thor was more involved, but he was spraying the ball all over the place... it says it all when Mings is a better outlet from defence than our DM

Players good enough for squad: Hause Konza Kalinic Thor Players fighting to make the squad: Davies Green Lansbury Taylor O'Hare Players who don't look good enough: Bree Hogan

My starting XI from what we saw tonight: Steer Guibert - Chester - Mings - Targett McGinn - Hourihane - Grealish Jota - Wesley - El Ghazi

i wonder with kalinic having a pre-season whether he may actually have the chance to be the goalkeeper we thought he was when we bought him...

gotta love super john doing super john.... bring on the new season...

not since geoff thomas have i seen a shot go quite so wide!!!

just realised my feed was paused while i went to get a cup of tea and now i'm five minutes behind everyone else...

great to see chester back... am liking our CB unit...

don't understand playing davies anywhere other than in the middle... he's a big lump who holds the ball up - why we're playing him on the wing is beyond me...

so far shows me that those guys who weren't good enough for us in the championship, still aren't good enough for us today, so no great surprises there... our good players and some of our new signings look class and will certainly get better when passes start going to feet and i feel like we have lots of goals in this squad already... pre-season always frustrating as a spectacle - watching man u v perth on saturday exactly the same... (axel looked fine too - they really should be thanking us for the job we did for him)... interestingly, i thought kelvin philips looked completely out of his depth for leeds against man u last night...

good window overall and a number of exciting players working their way into the team.... my only comment on all that has been said here and elsewhere in the site is that while benteke is a huge loss, the simple fact is that last season he scored 13 for us in the league and 10 the season before... its not impossible to think that we've got that many goals in our new striker signings, Sinclair, gestede, ayew and kozak, to the extent he's like a new signing.... gestede and Sinclair have scored three in the first four games...

i have simply been singing a natty little tune since Saturday early evening.... there's a striker, a benin striker called rudy gestede.... very disappointed to hear its pronounced gest-ed.... great start and welcome to the club, rudy!