29 Jul 2026 10:04:57
FFS Please just stop, I've been through worse preseasons and we’ve gone on to win the league. Not that is what’s going to happen this season. So we had no Pickford, Branthwaite, Garner and potentially Grealish. We played virtually two different 11’s and not all the right combinations on at the same time. So with the greatest of respect can you all just wind your necks in, it was a training session, the transfer market is now just starting to warm up, multi million pound deals don’t just happen overnight. I’m sure we’d all want all our deals be done on the day the window opened and then we steamroll every preseason game 10-0 but back in the real world that isn’t happening so take a breath and see it for what it is a preseason training session.
Just to satisfy the truly miserable, I think something is going on with Iroegbunham as he isn’t dominating or bossing, he’s just getting involved when the ball is near him, definitely just going through the motions. Also the young lad Graham isn’t ready for the Premier League. Admittedly out wide rather than a 10 he still gets knocked off the ball too easily, opportunities aren’t given they’re taken and if he’s got it he needs to show it. Hope that was balanced enough for you all.
UTFT COYB
{Ed025's Note - thats your point of view Big C and you are entitled to that mate..as are we all, but lets not kid ourselves mate..if something is yellow, looks like a lemon and tastes like a lemon...its usually a lemon..
29 Jul 2026 10:23:54
My first post, guys, I fully agree, Big C, let's get pre season done, and bring on Palace on the 15th. I hope, like all of us, we get the new additions we are desperate for. But I don't think we should judge on what is basically a ramped up training session.
29 Jul 2026 10:31:30
Big C, whilst you are right in some instances, aren't you worried that there is still a lack of movement in the transfer market. We are expected to pay to watch this same s****. The league is only 3 to 4 weeks away, and we are miles off where we should be. Has the past not taught us anything?
29 Jul 2026 10:42:43
Big C, are you sure you're not DM. ??
29 Jul 2026 11:16:44
The squad is weak no doubt, but it's early days. I think that the board must have been waiting to see how the Ndayie situation played out before attacking the transfer. Let's hope so anyway because we need a minimum of 4/5 players to be competitive.
29 Jul 2026 10:37:57
Absolutely BC its getting beyond tedious with the professional level of these Putin style media hunter hating bots. It exposes the needy flip flops who just love to be with the mob. It also exposes a lack of knowledge and reinforced that these pages are nothing more than a women's cake and gossip get together. Victoria Sponge anyone?
Banter? Neurotic waffle more like.
Calm down dears. I've seen us a roaring preseason and then fight relegation and terrible ones and do rather well. We have money we have owners we have to be realistic we are 3rd choice with no euro comp for players and as with all summers, it'll go crazy next week onward. Turn of news bow and enjoy the summer. Go for a walk have a wan9 who knows who effing cares.
29 Jul 2026 11:08:58
I like lemons ed not all are sour and Dev it's a marathon not a sprint.
Maybe I'm just more patient than most.
Doesn't do for us all to be the same but can we just have a modicum of calm it's preseason the World Cup has just finished and the transfer window is just warming up even ssn transfer program doesn't start till Monday.
Finally I heard from our milkman's granddaughter's aunty;on the mothers side; heard from her toy poodle that heard it from biscuit the Labrador that we're signing Vinicius Jnr for a Mars bar and 10 shillings and 6 pence.
Have a good Wednesday everyone
UTFT COYB
29 Jul 2026 13:02:59
Don't like what's being posted, don't come on and read it and like yourselves, everyone is entitled to their opinions.
29 Jul 2026 13:20:51
A couple of decent signings and the mood should improve.
I've seen poor preseasons before, but we were another level of poor in the second half.
What kills you is the hope and expectation.
Every year I'm hopeful of improvement, but I'm seriously worried this year if the squad stays as it is. The lack of decent links and Ndiaye possibly on his way out (still hope this is nonsense) .
29 Jul 2026 13:49:47
Don't particularly disagree with anything posted. It is just a pre-season game after all.
That being said, it is Stoke. They finished 17th last season and are not a good side, yet we allowed them to look like a PL side. No Pickford, JB, Garner, but we still have PL players as replacements, and the drop off should not be as clear as it was.
I watched the entire game and it was s***e. No attacking patterns, no fluid movements, no urgency to turn the screw - same old dross.
I appreciate transfers can take a long time to happen, but we aren't going after world class players here.
The holes in this team are and have been evident for a long time - remedying those holes should not be taking as long as it takes us.
Villa lose Tielemans and Rogers and then arguably go and get two upgrades in Gomes and Manzambi instantly. Some may say that is an unfair comparison as they are in the CL. Fair enough. Brighton have brought in 8 signings. Ipswich 11. Spurs 7.
We have brought in Hackney.
There are plenty of players out there to go after to improve us. We should not be waiting to see what happens with Ndiaye (a winger) , to go and sort out a RB, 6 and Striker.
29 Jul 2026 14:08:11
Agree with Big C, like others.
Palace lost their last two friendlies (Bromley) .
So have Villa.
United lost at home to Wrexham. None of them are getting on the manager's case.
Still looking forward to the start of the season.
29 Jul 2026 15:54:16
Spot on Big C.
29 Jul 2026 16:05:41
Do they play as poorly as we did in the last quarter of the season and continued it into the pre-season?
I'd love to be wrong but if we are still playing like that mid August, I fear for the season.
29 Jul 2026 22:21:48
So, people aren't allowed a different opinion? I have seen nothing to suggest we have improved from last season or that our tactic is likely to change.
{Ed025's Note - we are all allowed opinions Brass, now i know you might not like what you hear guys but in the end its just different takes on the situation, at the moment i think we can all say that nobody definitely knows whats going to happen this season, but we have to respect others views whether we agree with them or not or this forum will just become a bitch fest, cheers..