Simon bristol

Missed a bit of the second half due to working at the same time, but this isnt very impressive…. Theres a lack of goal threat and quality, though the lovely louise makes the world a better place!

Have to agree, looks really accomplished, pace was never his game and his game management and passing is really good.

Just been reading through this,,,, if i was a hibs fan i would be getting extremely twitchy…. They dont have a lot of money im sure,,, 130000 for them to spend on an unproven 16 year old is a huge amount,,, the club is basically paying 130000 to enable the mcallister family to relocate. Now the lad might be the second coming of messi, but if hes not, that is probably all their transfer budget spent on a 16 year old youth prospect

The quality with the final pass is really poor from england, it wont take much for austria to get a decent clear chance in the last 10 minutes, and if they do equalise england only have themselves to blame

Will have to wait and see, but james and williams only played together a few times didnt they, and one of those they were brutally exposed.

Based on last season i wouldnt trust king/ james/ williams to be more than the equivalent of one fully fit member if the squad. At this point massengo is still a doubt too. I think we know scott will play every game in there, if anything happens to him there is a massive problem

I had assumed pring was on the vyner/ moore bus last season? I suspect he wont be getting much game time unless dasilva is out or sold

Quite even so far, city edging possession, not much cutting edge at the moment, cheltenham had a chance, decent save by bentley. Some lively tackles going in!

I just paid to watch,,,, current footage is fleming running a training session, is that the actual footage? Just got switched over to the game

I like massengo but im not seeing a host of clubs from around the world get into a bidding war for him at this point.

As well as being a great player, hes the perfect signing to bring goodwill and positivy back to united, after the greenwood issues plus the way the whole place is run, he will lift some of the gloom

I tend to agree, would be happy to be proved wrong though!

Hes had a good career, but last year was a let down for him and us. I think it would be unwise to count on king for much more than about 5 appearances, and we all know williams and james have had their issues too. If/ when massengo goes we are going to be struggling for numbers a bit.

That rb is shocking, and devines set pieces were pretty bad too as others have mentioned

Yes!!!

I wonder what the cost of this trip is to the club, and whether its worth the expense?! Hopefully it sets us up nicely for the new season!

Its the hope that kills us, but we finished 17th last season and brought in 3 players, only 1 of which has played in the championship before. We have no money and are looking for free transfers from lower leagues,, i cant really see how there will be much improvement in the new season…. Would love to be proved wrong though!

I suspect lee johnson went too far the other way with stats, and didnt have the man management part of the game to back up his love of stats and analysis, but these days, with the level of wages, and social media etc etc, its easy to see why pro clubs use any means necessary to help identify players etc etc…. How we have got it so badly wrong with most of our signings over the last few years i dont know, but i guess we have had people in positions who decide on our signings who have just been pathetic at their jobs!

Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about these 3? Obviously not in the managers plans for this season and need to be moved on!?

Its not hard to predict why we might struggle,the financial position is awful, we have 3 young good players who are all at risk of being sold and we start the season with semenyo injured. 2 of Our new signings have never played in this league as well. while cod and palmer have gone, this is really the last year of the mark ashton contracts, ideally we will be in the championship next season but with all the big wages off the books and a big sale in the bag to let us reset having learned some lessons about rediculous contracts.

Young dane scarlett looks like he knows where the goal is, tammy the second?? Might he fancy a loan here while semenyo is out??

Ooh, nearly a goal for scott!

Nicky hunt was terrible but didnt cost 4 million or so and a gigantic salary! How lansdown as owner didnt ask for some kind of report to explain why this signing was necessary when we had a whole squad full of attacking midfielders at the time is negligent, and this is one of the reasons why we are looking at a points deduction now

There may be less talented players who we have signed over the years, but this has got to be the worst signing we have made for the impact he made

Agreed, hes been on our bench hasnt he? Still, if that young french keeper comes in then it will be all change.