honeybradger

If went into the market and signed a young right winger we would be very happy if we signed Riley Carr. Bags of speed and technical ability and good decision making. I think the expectation that we will go into the market and improve on our youngsters is unlikely. You only need to look at our £7mil winger signing in Mavididi on the other wing to realise that the ability that Riley Carr has would be out of the price range for a club like ours. Basically Evans and Carr should be competing for first choice.

I think saying his output was poor is a bit harsh when: 1. He's 17 and this was his first season in senior football. 2. Northampton were awful on the whole before he joined. 3. He only played 700 minutes and they were sporadic as well. 4. He stilled scored twice despite all this which isn't even that bad. He could have scored more but his finishing wasn't great that season. Still I think it is encouraging that at least he found himself in the right positions.

I'm a little disappointed that we are yet to see either Jake Evans or Lorenzo Hutchinson play at striker yet. You could see today that Evans was already a lot more comfortable playing centrally in the attacking midfield role than he is out on the wing.

Nelson has had one full season with us and you have already written him off. The likes of Winks, Faes and Skipp have had multiple seasons of failure for us yet were quite regularly referred to as "our best player", "our best defender" and "championship quality" over the course of last season when they should only be referred to as "sh*t".

KDH was also getting pelters for not being good enough for a large portion of his time here. "Too one footed" etc Our fans our overly harsh on our young players and too lenient on the senior pros who are actually responsible for our downfall.

A blessing in disguise.

Tommy Neale, looks like he might be playing his way into Russel Martin's plans.

It's more the 2 years we have wasted with him in midfield when we have 3 or 4 academy midfielders better than him.

Neale is playing well. Genuinely sickening see the difference in performance between him and Skipp.

Aluko wow

We are so much better in possession when Skipp is not our deepest midfielder. Page and Braybrooke are far more comfortable in tight spaces, get Skipp off and put those two as the two in midfield. Edit: even Luke Thomas can turn better in midfield FFS.

Brilliant from Aluko and Braybrooke

Braybrooke looked like he was thinking "I received better passes in league 2" after that pass from Mavididi.

Who is Donnelly? Don't remember him playing for the U21s Is he an U18s player? Edit:U21s player apparently, surprised he is in over someone like Gray for example

Bit rude to Matty James to even be compared to Winks. He schooled him last season at 34 years old even after all the injuries he has had. Winks has contributed similarly to this club with the likes of Soumare. That is the conversation he belongs in.

Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.

Whatever position he plays in will take minutes from an academy player. Which is fine if the senior player delivers but based on recent form he is likely to be another BDCR where we might as well have just played an academy player.

This is a gutting transfer from the perspective of those 3. At least one of them will struggle for playing time this season because of Chaplin coming in.

It was more understandable when Cooper, Van Nistelrooy or Cifuentes tried to make Faes work as a player as he wasn't as infamous as he is now. At this point his track record of letting managers down is so clear and obvious that it is just nonsensical for Martin to not pay it any heed and play him, let alone give him the captain's armband considering his relationship with the fans. It's just a decision that has caused needless controversy and which lacks any form of common sense.

I'm not sure if you've heard but we are not a club in the championship. Thanks to the underperformance of the likes of Winks, Vestergaard and Faes. If you can recognise why managers would choose to play these players surely you can also recognise that when these same managers have gotten more familiar with them that they fall out of favour, even getting frozen out. Even under Enzo who was the only manager to stick by them the fans were begging Faes to be dropped towards the end of the season as his constant mistakes eroded our 17 point lead on 3rd place. Under no circumstances can Faes be allowed to start in this upcoming season. You can state that most championship clubs would love to have him but the evidence would suggest that that is incorrect, based on both performances and lack of interest in the market.

Still got Faes, Okoli, BDCR, Skipp, Coulibaly, Thomas, Choudhury to offload. Probably forgetting some others as well.

That's another benefit of having so many academy players in the first team. The younger ones are going to get more opportunities going forward.

Based on how he was when he was a regular on foxestalk, it's surprising to hear Geoff Peters refer to him as a "shitweasel". He must have heard some very bad behind the scenes info about Winks.

Out of interest did you watch the game yesterday. Or for that matter have you not seen the last 4 seasons of Faes. He was all over the place against league 2 opposition, he might not even be good enough to play for us in league one. He is also in the conversation for our worst centre back ever.

Suddenly I feel lighter.