Add to that a young, fast right full-back with Aznou regularly playing left-back. Branthwaite and O'Brien as our new centre-back pairing, and watch us go.

Let's wait and revisit the topic between Christmas and New Year's Eve – a half-term report if you will.

Aznou, O'Brien, Branthwaite, Alcaraz, Barry, Röhl, Garner, Dibling, Ndiaye, are all under 25. All technically good players, with Mykolenko, Beto, Dewsbury-Hall still the right of 30.

Tarkowski will be around for years, as will Pickford. So looking at phasing out Keane, Coleman and Gana in the coming years – with probably new homes for McNeil and Patterson.

With money now available, the quality and competition should only be going one way.

Pre-season: tick. It doesn't matter.

Beto: the main man, for the time being. Barry is probably expected to take over at some point but that could even be next season. It'll be good to see him start getting more minutes.

Creativity fixed: We're obviously much, much better – but we haven't played a good team yet. There will be games where we huff and puff due to problems which weren't fixed in the summer window. We should comfortably create and score more over the season though – and possibly concede more too (but we're not just reliant on the team defending for results, so that's no bad thing).

The Wolves game was very good from an attacking point of view but, those defensive frailties were still present.

The more we open up and attack, then the more we are also going to expose ourselves to the fast counter attack, (something Brighter never capitalised on) so finding the right balance has got to be the most important thing, imo now.

Aston Villa, impressed me as much as any team at times last season, and if it wasn’t for PSR, I expected them to really kick on this season, so although it’s still very early days, I expect today’s game, will help us get a much better gauge on our team.

I’m looking forward to going today, but when I start thinking about some of our players, then because they don’t fill me with great confidence, then I’d probably be happy with a point.

However, I'm just hoping we are picking up the knack of scoring and winning games when we haven't necessarily played well.

The Devils Rejects in their scruffy lean-to have done this for the best part of 60 years.

Branthwaite is a growing concern and not his ability.

Barry is not the answer for now and may never be. We've seen similar with Chermiti.