Moving on.... lets get back on topic.
Please refrain from posting if it is not on topic. You have been warned, a mod will slap you hopefully.
As for the pre season tour. The game in Australia was a good match. Even the great Robbie Fowler said that the A League has the quality of the championship at times. So that must mean something. Plus they built up fitness without applying unnessisary pressure to the team.
We have played well, and could of scored more. We have controlled the games and been the better team in every one of them.
I think we'll end up getting a winger, a left back a centre back and a forward. That's what we should be looking at anyway. With decent reinforcements in those areas we might make forth, I still think 5th or 6th, but 4th is achievable. Spurs are building a good team, they will knock arsenal of that forth spot as it looks right now, but things can change.
The problem with pre-season has been that we have not really been tested. It could be that we were well drilled and controlled the games, but we will not know until Stoke.
None of the games have really prepared us for the style of the premier league, that is the worry.
With all the other crap floating around regarding transfers we are all feeling very nervy. We just want to get back fighting and the truth is we haven't yet taken or shown the signs to make us happier.
We just don't know were we are. Will be be sloppy at the back? Will we score goals against stubborn defences? This is football, this is the roller-coaster we ride, this is what love for the club does to us. It makes us irrational buffoons.
We just hope that at the end of the day we have more good than bad to talk about.