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Like anyone, they have to earn their spot. Leading up to Jan, many people said they’d drive Kitching to Blackburn before the window opened. Since Norwich away, he’s been a trusted Lieutenant for Lampard and trusted with the captain’s armband for a handful of games. It’s been a bad season for...

He’s missed half the games for one season. One thing you don’t account for is that when Sheaf played, he averaged 82.5m per game (similar to 21/22 and 22/23) which, for reference is about 10m more per game than Eccles. In the context of having a small squad and the muscular injuries he gets...

Agreed, it’s critical infrastructure the club needs to invest in if we want to develop for the long term. It is, but it’s not a lump sum in the clubs bank account. Man City don’t own their stadium and I’m sure Leicester’s owners didn’t buy the ground straight after promotion. Invest in the...

Why would you knee-jerk sell a depreciated asset? He was our player of the season last season…

The difference between this season and last is that we needed him a lot more last season because we didn’t have the numbers. This season has been so stop-start, he needs to get right and I don’t trust the view that he’s ’not feeling it’. I may be recalling things incorrectly, but at one point...

What would your opinion have been last season? This demonstrates that form comes, goes and fans are fickle. At the end of the day, Allen was fit and available for most of last season and was firmly behind Eccles, Sheaf, Palmer and COH. Allen has always been a useful role player and has found a...

I’d rather the club built a highly competitive squad. Luton are building a stadium rather than buying one which is a lot more expensive. Renting a stadium has certain benefits with respect to maintenance. Money you’d rather not have to commit until you’re an established Prem team.

It’s not quite the same because the Prem is a massive jump, but who would have felt the likes of Allen, McFadz, Kelly and Wilson would have played key roles in us finishing 5th place in 22/23? The point here is that there are players who can make the jump up and there will be those who surpass...

The guys on the Not The Top 20 podcast were waxing lyrical about how Haji Wright is too good for the league. On his day, he is unplayable in this league.

I think you’d be surprised how many players could make the jump up. Ayari has become a decent role player for Brighton this season and many people thought he’d struggle to make a career in the EFL… The priority we’d have as a club is adjusting the playing budget from lower to middling...

With the money they’ve spent, their GD and their comparatively ‘easier’ run in, they’ve got to sneak in at 6th! If Carrick can’t do it this year, when will he?

You’re right. I was adding to what you were saying because many people throughout this season said that we specifically needed loan players and accused King/Austin of refusing to sign loanees. Which supported your point that you don’t ‘need to need’ loans and we agree on the view that it has...

What do you think posting on the thread is doing?! 😂

If we got promoted, we have to look at it like a 2-4 year project. Accept that we’ll probably get relegated first time around but sign the quality needed to future-proof the team for 2-3 seasons to bridge the gap.

The recruitment strategy is to sign the best players available to us, irrespective of whether it’s a loan or not. Austin was open that the loan market they were operating in was difficult for a variety of reasons. If the official policy was ‘we don’t like loans’ they would’ve just said that and...

For example, WBA under Mowbray are 4-4-3 (W-D-L) so they’re at risk of dropping out of the Top 6. They drew against Burnley and Leeds away and followed up with a draw v Hull and they nearly threw it all away. The same applies to Bristol City too, their away form hasn’t been great, they’ve won...

He’s 29, I don’t think that’s the kind of player we’d be interested in.

If a CM is likely to be sold this summer, it’s probably Eccles. His value hasn’t gone down and imo, he’s the odd one out of the CM cohort under Lampard. In Lampard’s 4-3-3, we attack in a 3-2-5 shape and because Grimes drops back, there’s a lot of space between the CMs and the CBs. With this in...

The assumption of many on here is that it has been dismissed out of hand when it clearly hasn’t. We sign 2 loanees last season and one player was written off as terrible last season is doing well for Brighton this season. The first order of business after 22/23 was to rebuild the team and we...

Context is everything. We picked up COH when we were in L1 and Vik in our first season in the Championship after a bad first half season at Swansea. Neither player was brought in to be starters initially, especially Vik who was behind Biamou, Godden and maybe even Walker in that first season...