Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 10, 2023 Administrator Share Posted August 10, 2023 all kick-offs 15.00 (BST) unless stated Saturday 12th August, 2023 Coventry vs Middlesbrough, 12.30 Birmingham vs Leeds Cardiff vs QPR Huddersfield vs Leicester Hull vs Sheff Weds Ipswich vs Stoke Millwall vs Bristol City Preston vs Sunderland Rotherham vs Blackburn Southampton vs Norwich Watford vs Plymouth West Brom vs Swansea Saturday 12th August, 2023 Bristol Rovers vs Barnsley Burton vs Derby Cheltenham vs Bolton Exeter vs Blackpool Fleetwood vs Cambridge Leyton Orient vs Portsmouth Lincoln vs Wycombe Oxford vs Carlisle Peterborough vs Charlton Port Vale vs Reading Stevenage vs Shrewsbury Wigan vs Northampton Saturday 12th August, 2023 AFC Wimbledon vs Wrexham Barrow vs Sutton Bradford vs Colchester Gillingham vs Accrington Stanley Harrogate vs Forest Green Mansfield vs Morecambe MK Dons vs Tranmere Newport vs Doncaster Notts County vs Grimsby Salford vs Crawley Swindon vs Crewe Walsall vs Stockport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Need to build on our draw with Leeds. This is one we should be looking to win, especially after QPR got twatted by Watford last week and having another very tough game away to Leicester next week (which I'm going to, so expecting to lose on that basis alone). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 3,827 Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 I'm going to go Brum 1-1 Leeds. I just think at this moment, a lot seems to be against us and it feels a good time to play us whilst we're missing players and generally short in the squad. Obviously now the Gnonto stuff hasn't helped so we've lost a big player there tomorrow on top of Summerville's injury. Brum might just fancy it for this reason. Really feel for Farke. He's having it rough, but I said the first 6-7 games to mid September would be up and down and its gonna prove that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,918 Posted August 11, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted August 11, 2023 Win needed. Coventry was the one I feared. They will have every trick in the book ready for us being a Warnock side but I think we'll overwhelm them. 0-2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 10 hours ago, Lucas said: I'm going to go Brum 1-1 Leeds. I just think at this moment, a lot seems to be against us and it feels a good time to play us whilst we're missing players and generally short in the squad. Obviously now the Gnonto stuff hasn't helped so we've lost a big player there tomorrow on top of Summerville's injury. Brum might just fancy it for this reason. Really feel for Farke. He's having it rough, but I said the first 6-7 games to mid September would be up and down and its gonna prove that way. Ah fuck off, really???? I transferred him in for Gnoto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 Boro should be level there. Bad miss from Silvera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 (edited) Thought Coventry would have struggled a bit without Gyorkeres and now Hamer. Fair play so far, especially after just losing to the Man City of the Championship. Edited August 12, 2023 by Bluebird Hewitt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 1 minute ago, Bluebird Hewitt said: Thought Coventry would have struggled a bit without Gyorkes and now Hamer. Fair play so far, especially after just losing to the Man City of the Championship. There's still time for them to bottle a 1-0 lead like they've done in their past 2 games... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 2-0 now though. Wright with his first of the season. Boro look so wasteful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 3-0. Game over with a deflected goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Pyfish+ 2,773 Posted August 12, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted August 12, 2023 1-0 to Grimsby. Our first goal of the season finally! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 We're struggling with Huddersfield's physicality. It's one thing this season I'll worry about and an area where teams will better us. 4 goals at Southampton already. 2-2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Pyfish+ 2,773 Posted August 12, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted August 12, 2023 Sunderland losing again! 1-0 down to Preston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 Huddersfield miss an open goal. Terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Hewitt 1,282 Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 Shite. Utter shite. O'Dowda needs shooting after letting QPR's player run right behind him. Grant hasn't done much so far and Rambo must be thinking why he's returned to the club. Clearly showing why he's been at the top level but no one else is on his wavelength Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 Mavididi! Low shot straight through the keepers legs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 Gritty win, not pretty in the slightest but in this league you have to grind out those kind of wins. Especially against a Warnock side who nearly hit us on the counter a few times. 3 out of 3 this season so far. And we'll only get better with a few more signings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan 18,389 Posted August 12, 2023 Author Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2023 4-4 between Saints and Norwich. Last min penalty for Southampton to equalise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 3,827 Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 (edited) I can't believe the state of this club and where it's gotten itself into. From where Bielsa took it, to what the previous regime (and current one) now have it. Everything that can go wrong, goes wrong for us right now. Two games in and I've not missed this league at all. Absolute dire. We've played two reasonably poor sides in terms of actual quality and yet we've massively struggled. Cardiff was ok from us although mistakes shot us in the foot and we had to play too many squre oegs in round holes. But today, was abysmal. What can you expect with 3 strikers injured, 3 wingers out (2 refusing to play), another 5 injured, not really done much in the window yet compared to everyone else. What can you do when you have Gelhardt up front who is not a 9, Shackleton, Poveda and James as your attacking four? That is lower half stuff. We couldn't even fill the bench and we've just been relegated. Joke. Farke is absoluted fucked, I feel for him. It's a nigh on impossible job at the moment to get this club to a level it should be competitive at and he's had such an unfair task. We have a 17 year old we're having to field in centre mid, and fair play to the lad, Archie Gray is a phenominal talent, but we should not be relying on him. These owners are going to find out the wrath of the fans pretty quickly if they dont pull their finger out and support the manager because he's crying out for bodies. I knew the start would be slow, but that today was so so bad, I cannot see us picking up a single win till after the international break at this rate. One things for sure, its no surprise to me we went down when you see the attitude and commitment that the relegated squad has given back to us when we needed them. Completely gutless and cowardly behaviour and this is without doubt, one of the worst periods I can remember supporting this club, and I include many of the drab years down here when we went nowhere. Edited August 12, 2023 by Lucas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 3,827 Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 Like this a lot from Farke. No messing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,918 Posted August 13, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted August 13, 2023 My gut instinct on us is that we are going to deliver this season - we're already creating the habit of winning games even without playing particularly well and I think we have so much room for improvement that is actually achievable with both time and transfer business. Maresca will be really happy with this so far - early banana skins overcome when we're playing nowhere near our true potential. I'm enjoying football again. All I ask for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N U F C 171 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 I think Leicester are gonna piss it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnivore Chris 2,606 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 Good comeback for Rovers to nick a draw when it all looked dead and buried. Strong start so far, but that's something we are familiar with. Leicester haven't really convinced yet or played particularly well but I think as the season progresses, they will start to run away with it. Leeds on the otherhand.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ 1,918 Posted August 14, 2023 Subscriber Share Posted August 14, 2023 16 hours ago, N U F C said: I think Leicester are gonna piss it If I had a gun to my head I would have us to win the league as I think we've got the most gears to go up and even this early we're demonstrating some good signs. But this does hinge on us getting some more players in - we're doing this while playing Vestergaard (who is a very dodgy defender), rotating youth prospects on the wing and a pretty robotic 'destroyer' midfielder in Ndidi as one of our attacking 8s. I like his system and I think we've played the occasion bit of lovely football and I think when you add better fits to that, we are going to be a class above others in the league. What was good about this weekend is that the other two relegated sides are showing big cracks. I didn't want Russell Martin when we were linked - do not get the clamour over him one bit. He finishes midtable year in, year out, his sides ship loads of goals. Strikes me as very much style over substance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 3,827 Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 9 hours ago, Dan said: If I had a gun to my head I would have us to win the league as I think we've got the most gears to go up and even this early we're demonstrating some good signs. But this does hinge on us getting some more players in - we're doing this while playing Vestergaard (who is a very dodgy defender), rotating youth prospects on the wing and a pretty robotic 'destroyer' midfielder in Ndidi as one of our attacking 8s. I like his system and I think we've played the occasion bit of lovely football and I think when you add better fits to that, we are going to be a class above others in the league. What was good about this weekend is that the other two relegated sides are showing big cracks. I didn't want Russell Martin when we were linked - do not get the clamour over him one bit. He finishes midtable year in, year out, his sides ship loads of goals. Strikes me as very much style over substance. It's worked out like a dream for Leicester really because they'll be no challenge from us with all our issues. Absolute mess we are in 2 games in and it'll be a total steady the ship job this season for Farke, with a view to promotion next year in our case. Very deflating stuff, got 10th place finish written all over it. I think Saints will always be up there for the sheer amount of goals they have in the team but you've had the less disruption of anyone really, its been a smooth transition for you and its absolutely yours to lose. Might well be that someone emerges from last years contingent and steals in. Perhaps someone like a Coventry who seem to have strengthened well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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