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He’s also talked up Rapha and gave him next to no game time. Realistically, if he’s as good as everyone says, we’ll give him experience in L1 or L2 to prove himself. Look at how good Addai is doing right now, he just wasn’t at the required level when he was with us. Goalkeepers generally take...

The referees and linesmen can see when there’s daylight between the attacker and the defender. The whole purpose of VAR was to be a tool for when incidents were ‘clear and obvious’ rather than vice versa. I don’t blame VAR, the rules need to be tweaked to avoid scenarios where players get...

Everyone knows that’s the rule so people can’t criticising the match officials or VAR for that per se. The debate here is whether or not that rule should change because there’s been significant incidents that put player welfare at risk. I’m sure Van Dijk done his ACL in a similar incident.

Keiffer Moore’s non-penalty MPG (384) was worse than Simms. Anyone suggesting Moore or Morris to replace Simms has lost the plot or hasn’t looked at data. At least when people suggest Bundu, he’s had a good season with 10 goals and 6 assists. At 28, and this season being a potential outlier...

Asante is the most likely to leave. Simms has started more games and was praised by the coaching staff and his peers more recently. Simms has least demonstrated he can go on big scoring runs whereas BTA goal scoring record is much weaker. Say we were offered a minor profit on either player...

You’re right but you’ve missed the point. The rules should be changed so that match officials can give offsides where it’s obvious to the naked eye. There’s been a few avoidable injuries that would’ve been prevented if the referees could flag up early where the player is offside. It’s common...

As irritating as early KO’s can be (specifically away games), from my POV they’ve come less and less of an issue as we’ve been marching up the table. A cynical take would be that the people claiming they’d give up the ST were more bothered about results than the irregular KO times.

Disagree it’s been our weakest position. Dovin was a good signing but Sod’s Law came for his ACL. Up to that point, he had put in a decent claim to be POTS. If Lampard won’t commit to Wilson as Number 2, we absolutely need to sign another permanent GK. It’s potentially harsh on Dovin if it...

£450-£500 is reasonably fair considering inflation and the price freeze last season. Maybe offset that with a slight increase to the Premier League Package to £575 for new entrants to push that product to boost the coffers in the offseason.

Grimes is a class player but he hasn’t put too many of those balls behind the lines since he’s got here. Aside from an eye catching pass or two e.g. to EMC v Sheff W away.

How about Morris? 😂 Joking aside, my view is that we get the best out of Haji playing off another player, be it off the left or as a striker in a pair.

He was arguably our MOTM which is high praise. Was gutted he had to go off as a potential penalty taker… We need quick longer balls to take advantage of the good physical qualities we have in the team; EMC, Saka, Wright, Simms and BTA. Hopefully more to follow.

Let’s not forget that he’s played roughly half his appearances upfront and tactically his role wasn’t a winger in the traditional sense like Sakamoto. I’m happy with Wright’s output in 23/24 as well as 24/25 and I’m not one of the boneheads suggesting we should sell him. If we want to have a...

Absolutely not. He played 1000 more minutes than Simms and scored the same amount of non-penalty goals.

After all, Wright did cost double the price and is closer to his peak years. It’s a reasonable expectation Either way, you’re moving the goalposts because the facts aren’t friendly to you. We’re talking goals and Simms scored more from open play in the league and in the cup and his peak form...

There’s no shitting on Haji from me at all. It’s using your own logic against you. I’ll reiterate the fundamental point that tactically, something needs to be adjusted to get more out of Wright, Simms, BTA and Bassette because I think all of those players are good.

The whole season was 19 goals for Simms. Wright scored 3 more league goals and he scored 4 penalties. Godden also didn’t score in the league past September, only 2 goals v Oxford in the cup. Likewise, Haji scored 6 in his first 25 games so all those forwards were struggling to various degrees...

1 hattrick which using your ‘Simms Formula’ is scoring in 2 out of 6 games. In actual fact, he’s scored in 3 games in 14. It’s not bad, but could be better. That Sunderland home performance v much looks like an outlier, unfortunately.

I was talking about Wright here…

I hope you’re right but his post-Lampard numbers concern me, just as they do with all of our strikers.