2026-27 Pre Season

[Happy Dosser]

8 hours ago, grizzlyg said:

Apparently that was pre-agreed

I thought the same: the substitution was right on the  30 minutes mark so I presumed it was planned. What did surprise me was that Thor didn't get on.

[mio]

I’ll not bring it up again as I’m not going to bully this guy but he’s not a football player. He had no idea what he was meant to do, his movement was awful and what tipped it for me was when Eli took his penalty, he stood 25yrds out looking at the east stand. He’s a striker supposedly, he should be on the edge of the box.I honestly thought we’d been duped by George Weah’s cousin. 

Anyway… on another minor point, the big lad who came on in the 2nd half? Nagunda? Or something? He’s 16yrs old!!!! 16!!!!!! I thought he was a coach when I saw him warm up at the start of the game. He actually looks like he can play but he desperately needs to shed some timber.

 

[grizzlyg]

2 minutes ago, mio said:

I’ll not bring it up again as I’m not going to bully this guy but he’s not a football player. He had no idea what he was meant to do, his movement was awful and what tipped it for me was when Eli took his penalty, he stood 25yrds out looking at the east stand. He’s a striker supposedly, he should be on the edge of the box.I honestly thought we’d been duped by George Weah’s cousin. 

Anyway… on another minor point, the big lad who came on in the 2nd half? Nagunda? Or something? He’s 16yrs old!!!! 16!!!!!! I thought he was a coach when I saw him warm up at the start of the game. He actually looks like he can play but he desperately needs to shed some timber.

 

Has MJC swapped glasses with you? 🤣🤣.  Lets give Vogt time and see how he is. Yup young Samuel that came on is a unit.  Giving these young lads game time can only benefit them.   Judging by injury list and probable sales we are going to need a few of them to be ready 

[wellfan]

On 7/15/2026 at 1:58 PM, wellfan said:

I’m afraid this season already has disaster written all over it for me.

And last night confirmed it. 

[purestate]

6 minutes ago, mio said:

 

Anyway… on another minor point, the big lad who came on in the 2nd half? Nagunda? Or something? He’s 16yrs old!!!! 16!!!!!! I thought he was a coach when I saw him warm up at the start of the game. He actually looks like he can play but he desperately needs to shed some timber.

 

Agree Ngandu looked like a football player in terms of touch and composure but physique requires a bit of work.  At 16 though he could just be in that classic growth phase. My 193cm 19yo  went through a fair few tumphy phases.  
 

only signed in July - Him and  Thompson defence of the future - while the manager still under 40 😆 

[Jonesy]

14 minutes ago, wellfan said:

And last night confirmed it. 

Fucking hell man.

[Kmcalpin]

No Zander McAllister last night? Please don't tell me he's injured as well. 

[SteelmaninOZ]

Just in case you missed this 

 

[mio]

42 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:

No Zander McAllister last night? Please don't tell me he's injured as well. 

I was hoping to see him play last night, he’s the one youngster I think has a huge chance.

[Spiderpig]

1 hour ago, grizzlyg said:

Has MJC swapped glasses with you? 🤣🤣.  Lets give Vogt time and see how he is. Yup young Samuel that came on is a unit.  Giving these young lads game time can only benefit them.   Judging by injury list and probable sales we are going to need a few of them to be ready 

I take your point re the academy players, but we are 5 days away from the Euro qualifiers, and two weeks tomorrow the Premiership campaign starts, so last night should have been about getting our 1st choice 11 up to speed etc but it was a shambles.

It was a decent enough performance against a good team but, we were all over the place, 3 goals gifted to Genk by shocking defending, the new signings did not look fit especially Vogts,he looked like a competition winner getting his chance to play with the 1st team.

When you add to this the ever expanding injury list and the ongoing uncertainty over players leaving or not we are heading into the season in a pretty unprepared state. I really hope it all comes together this week and we can concentrate on getting past Havnar and into Q3, that will give us the boost we need to get off to a good start in the league, hopefully with the injury list reducing quickly.