Agree with your take - it wouldn’t surprise me if we come away with a win, but certainly one of the tougher teams to play away from home - most likely result is a defeat for us.
I think we’ll keep the same team as we did against Derby unless there were any injuries / niggles from the...
I’m projected tied 3rd, with a 9-4 record, I’ll take that after picking last!
Though there are a lot of question marks on my roster so wouldn’t be surprised if I didn’t get anywhere near that
Derby at home this weekend - really in need of some luck, and some goals! The results haven't been good enough so far - we've had two incredibly unlucky defeats - which if we had won would make the situation look a lot better, but then had a fair amount of luck in our only win against Boro...
Similar for us (Preston that is) - I think our lower budgets and smaller squads mean that even if a player is a bit shit, they still get some game time.
Think the B team saves us a little here too as we tend to operate with a smaller squad, then use B team players to top up when needed, though...
Yeah he’s been out of form and has started doing that a lot - I don’t like it either.
We should turn it around soon - usually after a couple of international breaks the team settles and we play like we should. Becoming an annual occurrence though where we struggle for a while after losing key...
First signal I’ve had in a couple or days, second game we’ve lost this season 1-0 that we’ve seemingly dominated and had at least 7x more shots than the opposition.
Does sound that while we were insanely unlucky against Birmingham, Charlton defended well and most of our efforts were from range...
You don't get much / any if it's outside of English clubs.
IIRC Charlton got a pretty tiny sum for Aribo because he went to Rangers and not an English team.
O'Rourke just copies what he reads on the fan sites of other clubs - a suggestion about Riviere had appeared on our fan site before he posted it, but was rubbished by our ITKs.
He clearly read that we had a free agent striker at the game last weekend and took a punt on who that might be - just...
Makes a change from our No defence good attack!
Reckon you’re probably right. We’ll improve as the season goes on as we always do but early signs suggest the play offs will be a bit too far (unless this Karelis dude has a big impact), I reckon 8th - 11th, same as every season.
It’s Karelis. Club website and twitter confirmed.
One year deal with club option for another year, I’ll take that. Decent scoring record for Genk hopefully can do well. Will probably take a while to get going though not having had a pre-season.
As I said, different reports saying different things... lots of reports in Greece saying it's Karelis.
Who knows, maybe it's both! (though I'd be surprised)
Charlton away for us - they've started brilliantly, and we're still trying to find our feet - I'd take a draw with a couple of goals at this point!
Mbeumo has impressed, so I'd like to keep him in the side, Canos will probably drop out to accomodate Benrahma if he's ready to start. Jensen and...
There's some confusion as to which striker it is we're close to signing - there was a free agent striker watching us play on the weekend, different reports say it was Karelis or Riviere (ex-Newcastle).
Based purely on a quick scan of scoring records, Karelis looks like he'd be the better option...