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Ah I see, well that makes perfect sense then. Yes, he comes across really well. I think he's about 25 now and really needs to be playing football regularly. Based on what I've seen so far he is easily good enough and is probably Championship standard. Ipswich fans had good things to say about...

Based on what I've seen of him, I'd want him on the wing. He's got the ability to go past his opposite number and his end product seems to be consistently good. I'd be worried about sacrificing that by trying him further back. I also haven't seen enough of what he defends like. We conceded a...

Edwards has been absolutely brilliant in a limited amount of time - unfortunately he's got a hamstring injury and has been out for a few weeks, he is certainly someone we have missed. We have some real quality in the squad but not a great deal of depth in certain areas. Why do you ask? Wasn't...

We were 3 at the back last night, but Long (right sided centre back) got injured after 5 minutes. Mills came on and the right wing back (Stevens) went to right back in a back 4, so Mills was playing right wing. He did well all night, worked very hard, covered ground really well and beat his...

Yeah, it was a very good ball. We absolutely dominated the first half on Saturday but a sickness bug had done the rounds during the week, so most the team was spent by the second half. In the end a point was a fair result as we had nothing in the tank and it was one way traffic towards our goal...

Oh good news. Mills' red card has been overturned... shows what I know: https://www.oufc.co.uk/news/2023/october/stan-mills-appeal-successful/?fbclid=IwAR38kedeEv2zMEzbvP8Y2UIIUF7PKpywFggbw-33EOryLAgp88Jz2roA7jQ

No worries, I'll endeavour to keep you updated on Mills... although nothing for the next 3 games, you can see the challenge in the video below and judge for yourself. Problem is that I think it's one of those that also wouldn't be overturned on appeal, so he's not going to be playing again until...

Hello, sorry for the delayed reply. Tuesday night was a bit of an odd one. The game was done after 60 minutes - Shrewsbury had just gone down to 10 men and we scored from the free kick after being on top all game. From that moment, Manning was happy to just kill the game. There were a number of...

Yeah, I suppose it's early days and he's had limited minutes so far, only really coming on for short cameos towards the ends of games. Think there's a good chance of him starting on Saturday though, he's only on the bench tonight in our pizza pot trophy match.

Perhaps conflated with a mix of loans and permanent signings. McAleny and Kenny were previous loans, whereas Ledson and Lundstram were signings who were both very impressive (especially Lundstram who was clearly a mile above League 2 level, which is where we were when he came).

Another view of Mills' tap in on the weekend: I think that's the first time I've seen him come inside with the ball. Up until now I had only noticed him try and get down the line past the left back. Perhaps he should do it more often.

Ah no, I think Manning (our manager) should have got Mills on sooner, but he wasn't trying to see it out at 0-0. Once we got him on, the game changed and once Leigh equalised our tails were up and I think we got carried away. Leigh got a second yellow for diving it to win the ball but he got the...

Mills came on 10 minutes too late today for my liking. Despite the fact we were down to 10 men (what do you mean you can't elbow an opponent in the chest?) Port Vale were tiring and we needed someone to run at them. He had their left back on toast when he came on. Must have beaten him 3 or 4...

I think he may have already played wing back in your youth teams, is that right? Certainly seems to have the physical attributes for it. Agree entirely on the 'uncomplicated' bit. Seems to know what he's good at and sticks to it.

We are apparently after another forward/winger type before the end of the window, but then we've also lost a starting winger (Browne) to injury (again). Even so, I expect Mills will get a good amount of minutes even if he's not necessarily starting each week. I don't think that's a bad thing...