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Yeah he should take the Geordie Messi tag :) a bit more literally and practice controlling, deciding, releasing and moving on in a second or less. L1 is not going to give him time on the ball, in first halves especially. Just sharper in his general play, we know he's going to be one of our main dangermen

A generous sprinkling of 8/10s I think...and when you have those, you're going to do OK Back 3 and WBs were the strength of the team I thought The 4 subs that came on were greatt - Mustapha will now know he's in mens football and I think he'll rise to the challenge. Smith was fine. Looked out of wind towards the end of the first half, but then came out and gave his best 15-20mins before going off. For the next few games, might subs who outperformed starters get picked instead? This would be Grant and Robertson for Roberts and Evans... Apart from the excellent long-range effort early on, too many of Cal's touches were disappointing. He'll have to work on being sharper or MP will go elsewhere.

Hi Robbie, thanks for posting the MoM A lot of candidates today, we had a whole host of great performers I thought. Ness picked up where he left off last season Bedeau back to best it seems - great captain's performance. Tsaroulla - wow, he looks like a L1/Championship player All subs were good, but special mention to Grant of course. Let's hope a goal in the first game sets him off on a much better season statistically. But I was blown away by Lipsiuc - I know fans say they saw this at Burnley (I didn't) but that a first choice L1 LWB right there on that evidence. What an athlete, bombing up and down for 95mins and with quality in all he does (I won't blame him too much for the goal, it was a reasonable attempt to block, their player had luck on his side).

Great game - we really were the better side overall. It looked like we'd be the victims of our own poor finishing, but the equaliser deservedly came and I think we'll gladly take a point against the league favourites.

Big 2 league jump for RR. Good luck to him

I think we will give a good account of ourselves....but, like last season, doesn't it seem inevitable that we will have a little hole to dig ourselves out of after the first few games? I'm expecting a loss I think fans would take a draw if offered now, right? A win would feel like setting up our entire season and would give our confidence a major boost

It's a tough league and adjusting to the point we can really compete takes time. The Mustapha signing has boosted my confidence a bit. As usual, the squad will change through the season. I see us pulling clear of the relegation scrap to finish 18th

be shocked if he wasn't - he has the directness, power and pace to terrify teams if he's on song

Congrats on the MoT @Fan of Big Tone, as for those prices though... For 575 quid I will stand outside your house whenever you're out. Have we got a deal?

Some amazing Hindolo Mustapha videos on Youtube - you can see why Monty had him as a top target

Norwich City 2-1 WBA Infantino Portsmouth 1-1 QPR Bradford City 3-1 Peterborough Leyton Orient 2-0 Sheff Weds Gillingham 1-2 Walsall York City 1-2 Bristol Rovers Solihull Moors 2-1 Boston Southend 2-0 Scunthorpe My Infantino / Joker is on the Norwich game to double the points, like he'll double the World Cup each time - 192 country World Cup Saudi Arabia, 2034

Mustapha attacking midfielder - as we've been saying for weeks

Definitely, we've been waiting for these but most new arrivals have been defenders and deeper midfielders. I think the club have deviated away from a balanced recruitment strategy, spooked by... - going into the new season with 2 long-term injuries in defence - having each season at L2 hit by losing our entire starting midfield at different times. Sanders' injury would have rung this alarm again - needing options and depth in defence/midfield in case players get exposed like Rawlo, Brindley, Cameron and Baldwin were. So insurance in these positions is seen as a must I think. Added to this, the hardest area of recruitment is strikers and other players who can put it in the onion bag. Hopefully it's a case of using the entire window to get the right players in instead of being panicked into taking a punt against the data model. But as things stand you have to agree with the pundits, a season scoring profile of something like....Roberts 12, Smyth ?, Acquah 5, Ndlovu 5, Jones ? Cooper 4, Grant 3, Tsaroulla 3, plus defenders and mids is only going to go one way. As MP said a couple of interviews back, we absolutely need to do more to replace the goals lost from Jatta/Dennis/Hall/Luker/Iorpenda departures.

Good keeper. 8 million seems shocking. Lower end Prem/Top of Championship is another financial world

It was only the final I caught in Argentina. I'm pretty well travelled but the treatment I got as a visitor there was the best I've ever seen. So relaxed and accepting, they know you're not local but treat you just like one, some interest, lots of friendly chat but no fuss at all. Lovely place, but it was provincial an not B.A.