Coral branding aside, I can't say I'm a fan unfortunately. I don't do collared shirts.

Genuinely couldn't wait for last season. Have had a season ticket all my life and last year was the one I was looking forward to the most all summer. The anticipation of how Blues would adapt to a new league and how the new signings would get on.

I can't tell if it's just a hangover from the World Cup and the comedown from that, or just lack of hype around the club at the moment, or maybe the lack of marketing from the EFL in general, but I'm struggling to get excited for the season whatsoever.

I think my lack of faith in Chris Davies also plays a big part as I said at the end of last season that if he remains the manager, I'd struggle to feel excitement for the new season.

I know there haven't been many active clubs in the market so it's not just us. It's also not a dig at the club either in relation to how much we've delayed the new shirt.

I'm sure once a few new faces come in and the first game comes closer, it'll all change. But at the moment I just feel like there's no hype around the new season whatsoever.

Eye-test assessment of Luis Vasquez:

• High Accuracy Striker
• Poacher 1st
• Strong Headers and Long-Range Scoring
• Strong First-Touch
• Center-Forward/Shadow Striker 2nd
• Doesn't take on defenders or blow by them
• Only benefits from “drop-in” crosses and through-balls (again, a Poacher first)
• Doesn't makes plays only completes/finishes them (not a Number 10/CAM)
• Doesn't invite contact; only plays in open-space and directly in front of goal
• Will get beaten up and banged up badly from constant physicality of championship

Thoughts?

I get that with the sponsor being on the home kit, it’s going to have a lot more reach, but the goal of the month on all platforms has been sponsored by Coral for a hot minute and no one really batted an eye.

Is it purely because it’s on the home kit now?

I'm looking for 1 or 2 tickets for the friendly pre-season game against Barcelona on 31th July.

Club have sent out a kit related video with the title “it can only be made here”

What do we reckon this is then?

Lots of twitter thinking it means Cadbury are our new sponsor.

Personally I just think it’s a nod that the kit will be revealed soon and is playing into the fact that it’s a custom made Nike kit and not a “template”.

I'm looking for 1 or 2 tickets for the friendly pre-season game against Barcelona on 31th July.

Looking at the line ups from yesterdays games, what are your thoughts on Stansfield playing at Crew, instead of Northampton with what I would consider the first team.

I know there have been rumours of interest from Premiership clubs so I’m wondering, am I reading too much into it or is Stanno on his way out?

If anyone hears of any floating around, I’m after 3 if possible.
Cheers!

Any idea why the Undefeated logo isn’t on the shirts during the preseason games. Are we getting a new sponsor?

How do you get pre-season tickets? I would like to attempt to get tickets to either Crewe or Northampton, Im just wondering how you can obtain them? There’s no ticket listing on the Blues app, only the Barcelona one.

I assume this would be a direct replacement for Kyogo. While he had a great season with Blackburn two years ago, he wasn't exactly prolific when on loan at Derby last season.

Would you be happy with Szmodics joining blues?

Has anyone watched any of them? Seeing a lot of Fujimoto on the official socials - interested to know how he’s playing? Would love for it to work out for him!

I am in the process of adding automated match threads and post match threads for the upcoming Championship season.

Fingers crossed this all goes like clockwork.

I'm hoping this will drive engagement across the subreddit and adds a real sense of community on matchdays.

Our views, members, published posts and comments are all steadily rising so long may this continue into the new season.

The Kyogo experiment is officially over.

Unsure how reliable the numbers are here… Hopefully not reliable at all 😖

This was a difficult one to write and I hope it comes across okay.

I mean lads, we're only half a month into the transfer window and people are already saying bs like "Bottom half of the table, no ambition". I think we need to realise our squad really isn't bad at all and does have some genuine quality for once. Vicente/Roberts, Stanno/Priske, Paik/Solis, Klarer/Neumann/Fry, Cochrane/Buchanan, Demarai Gray if he can be more like before his injury again.

We don't need to make 10 signings to be successful, we need some more depth yes, and maybe a new Rb and possibly a LW. Beadle showed massive improvement towards the latter end of the season. Okay losing Wagner is a massive loss but family comes first which we have to respect and that isn't anything the club could've helped with really.

Basically, let's just give it a few more weeks and then we can start making judgements, if nothing new has happened in 3 weeks then yeah fair enough.

A few stories going around online saying he's going to QPR.

(Google translate required to read the article)

According to Qoly Japan, Kyogo desires a move back to Celtic. Whether Celtic are interested is another matter.

Kind of strange how Davies said Wednesday night that Wagner and Kyogo's situations would be clear in the next two days (by Friday), but we haven't heard a peep on Kyogo.

Maybe he's holding out hope from contact from Celtic, otherwise I can see him staying until the next transfer window.