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How is Billing still on the pitch?

GTFI!!! edit: never mind

100%. You really would have thought the players would be a little better prepared. We all expected a tough start but this is ridiculous.

Optimism....failing.

This is the kind of bad luck early on in the year that can derail a whole season. We need to show what we’re made of today and fight back.

I’m feeling confident with this one. I’ve picked us this week in my locals last man standing competition.

Yeah I got a bit excited while I was out, then got a bit upset by the final whistle, decided to make the most of the night. Slightly regretting it this morning lol

Got to apologise guys. Was out last night and had an absolute shit load to drink. Anything I posted on here please ignore.

Got it wrong yesterday . Hourihane is dreadful as a DM. Guilbert and Targett should have started, God knows why we’d spend all that money on two new full backs just to play the old ones. Elmo wasn’t too bad, but Taylor embarrassed himself imo, his positioning is comical at best. Need better going forward.

Absolutely abysmal as a dm, players just walk past him. He should be there to compete with McGinn and nothing else, can pass and has a great final ball but truly dreadful at covering the defence. Smith made a mistake playing him and also not playing our best fullbacks.

A lot of these teams fans have a superiority complex, every year is their year. Even so, it’ll be great on the occasions that we turn these teams over. I’m just glad seeing our name amongst theirs again. Also been desperate to have a pre-match thread to look forward to all summer.

Damn it! Never mind, there’s always next year.

Last year I went with Reus Krispies. Don’t think I’m going to hit that standard again.

I’m in. Thought I was being clever using Obi Wan - Kenobi Nil, then realised I’d already been beaten to it

Ok. But your point about us bringing in so many players being risky, all 5 of those teams spending over £50 million brought in 8 players or more during their first season. Like I say, 4 of those 5 survived, along with many others who didn’t spend quite as much. Some teams have indeed brought in a lot of players and failed, but a lot of them had a low net spend, meaning they brought in a lot of cheap players. I’m not saying spending more is guaranteed to be better than bringing in players on the cheap, but it usually is.