What's going on?

Other teams have lost to inferior opposition but as Marc illes says the worry is still at the back as they carved us open too easily. Bar mills who has not impressed in the other games that will be our back 5 come 18th August and they must improve. We were poor at the back last season which was blamed on personnel rather than tactics. This season you have to ask now that the personnel is all coyles so if it is not sorted why? Even knight is now a coyle signing.

i just hope they have'nt stopped playing for coyle,we will find out on the 18th august.

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Indeed we will, when the season BEGINS. Stopped playing for Coyle? Half the team haven't my even begun to play for him. Come on, get real. They are friendlies, time for experimentation and fitness. Results don't matter too much.

Lol holdsworth. Liverpool lost to Roma and Chelsea lost to a collection of the best MLS players who are half way through their season - We lost to Falkirk.

I've only seen last-night so far this pre-season but it's extremely worrying how blunt we are in attack and equally useless defensively. That said, our passing looks pretty crisp and we look pretty fit, albeit slow as hell. We need at least 1 new striker regardless of n'gog and Sordell and to my mind, a new CB to push ZK further and further from the line-up

I think we are getting a bit uptight about our results over the border.

We have several friendlies to play yet, let's wait and see what happens in those games.

Anybody know when Ngog is scheduled to return to action?

I dont care what these scores are, I just dont want another Lee situation. You guys seem to be worried but I am not, Turf moor is where it will matter.

Apparently N'gog will be back in light training tomorrow if all goes well.

Aristodemus, I'd love to know where you're getting your enthusiasm from. I get that it's the league games that count and also that we have 4 more friendlies to hone our game - But everything so far looks painfully similar to last year. That doesn't unnerve you?

People quote ore seasons where things went badly and the season went good but nothing has been good for 18 months now. The rot must stop somewhere and against poor Scottish opposition was maybe a good time

Ore pre

I kinda agree with Petrov again, but we used all 22 players yesterday, so I' not worried when all of them are getting a run out and all of them are finishing without picking up injuries. Now that would be a bad season getting one of our stars injured again! Things are ok for now. We can get thumped in friendlies for all I care, provided that we beat Burnley and start strongly in the league

I am enthusiastic because our squad is easily good enough to be promoted and I think we will. These games are just like training, I am not concerned by results in the games, only injuries.
Maybe you feel different, it wont change my mind.