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It hasn’t been done for a while but if you look at this season, our form is identical to Sheffield United and Sunderland are below us and Bristol in the 2nd half of the season. In short, Sheff U are trending downwards at the wrong time (compare to Luton in 22/23) and Sunderland’s rapid start has...

The rumour is that there’s strong interest in Eccles and assuming he’s 3rd or 4th choice, there may be a temptation to cash in on him and take the profit for FFP purposes down the line.

As lucky as we’ve been with stoppage time winners, there does seem to have been a run of bad decisions against us, to name a few: - Plymouth red card not given - Derby’s second being out of play - PNE’s goal being offside - Stoke’s goal being offside - a couple of stonewall penalties not been...

So did Robins, his line of questioning is a bit naff at times… I’d get short with Clive if I had to show up and answer his questions on a weekly basis.

Something like that assuming the outs are as rumoured. I’ve got a feeling Allen may end up leaving because you’d have thought he’d sign an extension by now if he was planning on staying. Kai Andrews is one to watch because it sounds like he’s doing well in Scotland so perhaps he’ll have a part...

The big absence is Torp. You can compensate for leaving Sakamoto out of the team if you have 2 CM capable of creating goals and assists. Rudoni, Torp operated v high and wide in that system and Allen was asked to cover a lot of distance so I have my doubts that Sheaf and Grimes fit into that...

Particularly with our wingers. Sakamoto and EMC are good players but when they have ineffectual games, who is on the bench to change the game? I’m hoping for more from EMC next season as he’s shown some great glimpses but the season has been stop-start for him. Sakamoto, imo, would make a...

First and foremost, it’s a squad game and there’s been times this season where there isn’t any game changers to bring on. The best example is our wide players, we only have 2 out and out wingers contracted for 25/26. There’s also planning ahead for some departures which could be anything from...

We’ve also scored goals to compensate… The personnel that made 5-3-2 work are not available and this is something people have overlooked when calling for 5-3-2.

Dovin is a class act with bags of potential, but we don’t know how he’ll recover or for how long. The minimum is Dec 2025 but 12 months takes us to late March 2026. I doubt the loan market will be brimming with experienced keepers, it’ll be most likely young keepers Prem teams want to farm out...

If we got to the prem, 100% agree because we’d be able to afford a seasoned pro like Ken Darlow (to name drop) who is at the level required but not as ambitious to play. If we’re in the Championship, perhaps counterintuitively, we should go for a younger pro willing to push Dovin. With the...

I reckon we’ll go for a permanent deal. We need a more reliable 2nd choice GK than Collins and Wilson in the longer term. Assuming Dovin’s rehab is perfect and he’s back playing by December, we don't want to be in the awkward position of him being on the bench for a loanee. We want competition...

There’s a lot of overthinking on this thread. The must win game has always been Boro. Some seriously funky stuff needs to happen for anyone else to realistically pip us to the playoffs. The job this weekend is to pick up a point, minimum. I’d love to finish the job this weekend but we don’t...

I don’t have a problem with someone buy the tickets and giving them to friends and family. People are only upset at this lad getting a ticket because it’s a massively oversubscribed game. If it was Hull away on a Monday night, I suspect less people would be so upset about it.

Defeats the purpose and is an administrative nightmare. It’s a fact of life that whatever system you have, people can just buy a ticket and sell it on to a 3rd party.

We have a top end Championship team, since Lampard has come in we’ve been operating at Top 4 form. Even under Robins the underlying data metrics suggested we were massively underperforming. It’s the defensive mistakes and GK errors that have cost us dearly this season throughout. Regardless of...

I hope he turns into prime Buffon because we need something to get us through to the end of the season and hopefully the playoffs!

They’re equal on points so both teams will be gunning to win the next game. It does matter if Sheff U win or lose. Whilst it won’t impact their league position, they will still want to get promoted in the playoffs and playing an in form team like ourselves or Bristol away in the first leg isn’t...

As well as Bristol getting less than 2 points from now. If they lose v Leeds, they will also need a win against PNE who may also need a win to stay up.

Would you want to be in their position or ours? I don’t think Sheff U would want to lose v Blackburn if they would then have to play them away days later. Bristol are an interesting admission from that list, they have Leeds away so they are unlikely to get above 71 points.