• CO CountryRoyal 5 Aug 2017 · 6:59pm

  Well, at Heathrow having a pint before my flight. After that performance I think I'm grateful I'm going to miss the next couple of games, needless to say it wasn't very good. :lol: It was very demonstrative of an injury laden team, and perhaps highlighted our limited pre season. Lacking match sharpness is a polite way of describing that dross. Couldn't string more than a couple of passes together, ball retention was a foreign concept, we were pushed off the ball easily, second to every 50/50 etc etc, it was just shambolic. I thought Jon Dadi looked good, put himself about and very energetic but I can't help think that Kermorgant…

• JA Jagermesiter1871 5 Aug 2017 · 7:14pm

  I feel like the club has been deliberately going for a slow start since we lost in the play-offs. Everything in pre-season seem half arsed from signings to friendlies and an opening display like that was guaranteed. The lack of urgency with signings particularly - it seems like we're waiting for deadline day when in reality surely you want the bulk of your transfers done as early into pre-season as possible so any signings can bed in. Utterly bizarre and I'm not sure what the clubs reasoning is.

• BO bobby1413 5 Aug 2017 · 7:19pm

  Can someone more informed than me tell me where our other players are? McShane is suspended but fit and can return whenever - right? Quinn is injured still/again... for how long? McCleary? The others who I cannie be bothered to name or remember

• SU Sutekh 5 Aug 2017 · 7:20pm

  Just on the back if those marks compared to last week v Vitesse. Sounds like a repeat of the first half of that game which makes me wonder just what on earth they've been doing in training all week as you think they'd have worked hard to get that sort of cr@p out of the system Swift has been a poor copy of himself since well before Easter, Ilori is a hell of a lot better than that apparent mess delivered today so let's just put that down to a one off. It also took me a while to spot Clement was on the pitch last week so let's hope that his apparent repeat performance today is not indicative of what to expect from him. And, as has…

• CO CountryRoyal 5 Aug 2017 · 7:24pm

  I feel like the club has been deliberately going for a slow start since we lost in the play-offs. Everything in pre-season seem half arsed from signings to friendlies and an opening display like that was guaranteed. The lack of urgency with signings particularly - it seems like we're waiting for deadline day when in reality surely you want the bulk of your transfers done as early into pre-season as possible so any signings can bed in. Utterly bizarre and I'm not sure what the clubs reasoning is. Waiting for the right player at the right price, when teams have already decided who they want/don't want in their squads. Wells is a good…

• OI Oilroyal 5 Aug 2017 · 7:30pm

  I feel like the club has been deliberately going for a slow start since we lost in the play-offs. Everything in pre-season seem half arsed from signings to friendlies and an opening display like that was guaranteed. The lack of urgency with signings particularly - it seems like we're waiting for deadline day when in reality surely you want the bulk of your transfers done as early into pre-season as possible so any signings can bed in. Utterly bizarre and I'm not sure what the clubs reasoning is. Waiting for the right player at the right price, when teams have already decided who they want/don't want in their squads. Wells is a good…

• DO download 5 Aug 2017 · 7:39pm

  Can someone more informed than me tell me where our other players are? McShane is suspended but fit and can return whenever - right? Quinn is injured still/again... for how long? McCleary? The others who I cannie be bothered to name or remember McShane is carrying an injury.

• YU yuomi 5 Aug 2017 · 7:43pm

  Tbh that was a perfect follow on from the playoff final, and summed up a pre season which has been notable only for its total lack of coherency and urgency. At Wembley, we sat back for 120 minutes and created, at best, a couple of half chances. Today was the same, only without the half chances. We can't pass, we can't retain the ball without passing, no one can find space, there's no communication, there's a total lack of effort and, most worryingly of all, no one seems to give a shit. I'm happy to put this down to first day nerves/blues/lack of match fitness/we haven't won an opener in 12 years, but there are ominous signs there…

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