I have a Player To Watch candidate for you all this season, Harry Smith of Sutton United, a Giant Bastard of the finest quality. Here we see him last week at 0:45 with some Completely Unnecessary (and Obscenely Protracted) Shithousing, immediately marking him as a man of profoundly low character. Later in the game of course (at 2:15) he scores a Giant Bastard Header, leaning on his poor defender as one might upon a gatepost to survey the scenery
Followed up this week by some heroic Ultraviolence in the first fifteen minutes. The camera unfortunately misses everything except the prelude and the aftermath, beginning at 0:06, but I almost find the jump-cut between initial grappling and opponent writhing in agony to be more evocative than had we witnessed what transpired. It's a crying shame we will now be deprived of him for three games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFIVMKbU4pc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GBQ39F7IpE
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Yeah it's been a bad start for them , think they've signed 4 strikers this past window too and nothing has clicked for them at all.
On this basis I give Russel Martin 6 weeks. Awful defending. But but but we have to play out from the back & there is no plan B. Well, he might be re-thinking his plans if they have another 5 goal deficit.
I know they've lost a few but they"ve still got some very good players, and Coady, Winks were good signings for the Championship. Think they'll cruise it this season.
Leeds have had a bit of an indifferent start in dropping points at home but have had injuries (Bamford, Firpo, Dallas, Cooper and now Spence all out) and still recorded very good away wins at Ipswich (their only defeat of the season) and now Millwall. Leeds only finished three points behind Leicester last season and in Daniel Farke they have someone who has worn the Championship winning T shirt - not once but twice. In fact, if we go back to his first Championship win with Norwich, they actually started the season with just five points from their first six games but still ended up with 94 points. They currently have nine points from the same number of games.
We will only truly know the state of play and even whether the likes of Ipswich can maintain their excellent start after 15 games or so but I would probably rather be a backer of Leeds at their current price of 8/1 than Leicester at 2/1
So can people finally agree with me that it fucking DOES help if you get your business done early rather than waiting until Sept 1st to finalise your squad.
Oh, and a couple of decent strikers help (Colbey Bishop scoring again !!)
I know you wont like it.......BUT I WAS RIGHT.
No one disputing that early business is better than late. It is why Portsmouth are where they are and why we are where we are.
I expect Portsmouth to slip down the table as the season progresses though as they did last year. Probably have a stronger squad in a weaker league to challenge the play offs though.
Reading won 9-0 at Exeter, while Wigan beat Leicester U21 7-1
This buying players & keeping a settled squad malarkey might just catch on
Makes being a Charlton and Kent supporter feel a bit better!
Generally when you have enough money to buy quality players to begin with you don't need to replace them as often...
Huge pressure on Russell Martin.