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It’s a bit drastic to be honest. 2 will leave at an absolute push and reading through the comments on several threads, a lot of people stand to look v silly.

I’d like Ange and Spurs to win a trophy. It would be nice for Ange’s prophecy to come true even if his position is precarious at Spurs. Man U being smug about winning trophies despite poor league performances is irritating me. They wouldn’t be in the competition had it not been for VAR...

On that basis, why not hand out free season tickets? You can’t have your cake and eat it, cheap prices for a premium product. Operating costs have increased significantly since the last raise in costs. Even on the premier league package, my ticket price per game works out at £23.91 per game...

Champagne lifestyle, lemonade diet… I’ve managed several people who drive ridiculously expensive cars that they could never afford outright.

If it’s only 3, then: CB LB RW/LW Realistically, you probably have to add a GK as a bare minimum. This is on the presumption there’s no outgoings which seems unlikely. The squad is in a good place, but the gulf between us and the relegated teams will be large so we’ll need to add a little bit...

Hopefully this is the case and they’re slapped with a hefty points deduction and a transfer embargo. We all thought Sheff U were in the shit last summer and they ended up signing the best free agents and even added quality additions such as Burrows for significant fees. They are favourites to...

We don’t have a particularly young side anymore, I’d expect to add one more ‘experienced’ pro but rest of the signings being 25-26 and under.

Almost definitely and generally, his preference is to work with younger players and he’s made that clear when talking about it his coaching style. Robins was more involved with recruitment than we think to be honest and if he did take a step back, it would’ve definitely been his own doing. I...

I highly doubt Lampard joining the club will signal a change in recruitment policy. Grimes was a top end Championship midfielder that was available reasonably cheaply.

As an exception to the rule…

His stats from 23/24 suggest he’s a goal threat playing upfront or LW. Haji Wright hasn’t actually hit ‘form’ under Lampard, he had one game where he was top class but aside from that, the other games he scored he didn’t play particularly well. He should have scored goals v Hull, Plymouth and...

He also gets 19 goals from the left. He scored 16 in 23/24 and underperfomed his xG by -2.3 xG with only Godden doing worse, -3.5 xG. This season Simms and Bassette are our xG under performers (as well as Mason-Clark, BTA, Sheaf and Kitching). Interestingly, Rudoni’s xG this season v last...

100% agreed. Sheffield’s 2 point deduction had no impact on their season. The punishment needs to harsh enough that it could cost an offenders automatic promotion/playoffs/surivival otherwise it’s a slap on the wrist.

You’re right and defence is my first priority too, 100%. You’ve jumped in the conversation a bit too late because @clint van damme and I were talking about strikers specifically and how we get the most out of them. I’ve mentioned elsewhere that we’ve conceded the most in the top half and need a...

No it’s not, this is not a good argument at all. To demonstrate, Gyokeres scored 57% of his goals against bottom 8 teams in 22/23. In fact, he only managed 7 goal contributions against top 7 teams. It’s fairly obvious why. In most seasons, the top half teams tend to get their highest scoring...

So it shouldn’t. Seeing that they avoided punishment by the Premier League because the breaches were in the EFL (or vice versa) were laughable. If there are laughably easy loopholes to exploit, they may as well do away with financial fair play altogether.

Judging by our record against the bottom 8 teams this season, it’s a shame he or Haji didn’t score more goals against them… This argument makes no sense. A goals value is the same whether it’s against top of the table or bottom. People keep bringing up the hat tricks v Maidstone and Rotherham...

Actually, it’ll be nice to put bed the rumours that people other than Robins pushed out AV and undermined Robins. Robins and AV will always be legends at our club, but with what happened post-MR, the club were vindicated in making an unpopular change.

It’s a valid question to ask. Assuming the issue is personnel, the likelihood of us selling all 4 strikers and replacement them all just isn’t going to happen. There’s a few things that we need to improve: - we need to create more chances to feet in the box - wingers need to take on their men...

Have any of our strikers looked good in a 4-3-3? Haji Wright looked fantastic v Sunderland and that was it in his 14 game stint. For me, it’s all tactical. Rewatching last seasons goals for Haji and Simms and this season - our approach to chance creation is v different last season.