Maeda and Davis linked up really well last game especially as that was their first time and really like that O'Neil is giving Tudor a good look at

Can imagine 2nd half will be Scherpen, Furlong, Diop, Greaves, Johnson, Barbrook, Compton, Fatawu, Egeli, Clarke, Akpom or Hirst

Then have the likes of Burns, Van Oevelen, Mthunzi, Ogbene and a few of the other youths on the bench

Again just a friendly but slowly getting the pieces into place and be nice to see the boys back at Portman Road COYB

Lone striker, grrrrr. 442 please.

Very impressed with mcateer in this position. Could be a huge find. Just my opinion?

FreddySteady…. There’s a really good reason why the only teams playing 442 these days have idiots for managers or vice versa.

We seem to be shaping up nicely, but I'm a bit worried about where the goals are going to come from. Not too much evidence of this so far.

I am pretty excited for this season, I honestly think the goals will come with chemistry. We're now getting sounded out for another striker, it sounds like Enciso is on the way and I would be shocked if we didn't sign a deep lying playmaker/box-to-box by the end of the window too. Be reyt boys!

Monkey Blue. I just think playing one up top is a bit negative. I’m not a top flight manager you might be surprised to learn.

Who DOES play 442 then?

Well, there's one answer: Akpom.

@benji1611 agreed. We have almost got all the pieces in place. If we can get in:
Enciso - Probably number 10 role (with wide left as an option) and Nunez to push back to CM?
Ueda - Really like the looks of this guy as a striker
Another CM? - Maybe with Taylor moving on or Humphreys being loaned out
CB - Will probably be needed for additional bodies when O'Neil decides to go 3 CBs and got players needing resting or out injured/suspended
RB - I do like Furlong but he is more likely to be a backup this season
Backup LB - Leif will need help

Its great a lot of the new signings are in with about 2-3 weeks to go before new season starts give them time to properly bed in and some are already looking at home (Maeda and Fatawu for example). The last 1-2 signings can always be done once the season starts

FreddySteady…. No one. The point is that we need to go back to the Joe Royle days when more strikers on the pitch meant more goals. Football is certainly more cerebral than that now. It’s without trying to spout the GON football buzz word BS about tactics and movement and patterns of play. Back in the day a team talk was throwing tea cups against the wall and say goooo on!!

FreddySteady…. No one. The point is that we need to go back to the Joe Royle days when more strikers on the pitch meant more goals. Football is certainly more cerebral than that now. It’s without trying to spout the GON football buzz word BS about tactics and movement and patterns of play. Back in the day a team talk was throwing tea cups against the wall and say goooo on!!