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They’ve (Dean Austin and King) said it’s a difficult market because most players you sign on loan, especially from the Prem, expect to play. If they don’t, it impacts the player; parent club and the agent. The takeaway for me was that if there’s a top player available who would definitely...

We’ve added a lot of quality without needing loans. Besides, what people were calling for were hot shot young lads like Doyle back in 22/23. We lacked experienced and leadership but since Kitching, Allen and Grimes have come in, the group looks fine for the time being. Unless we were signing...

Yeah, but 3 teams have to go down and the likelihood of all of them exceeding expectations against us is quite low. As bad as the Derby loss was for us, they’ve got the best home record of the teams we face away after Sheff U. Pompey don’t travel well, Hull have the worst home record in the...

It’s not likely, mind you and to be frank, with Sunderland playing WBA, Bristol, Millwall, Norwich and Blackburn… we want them to pick up some wins (especially against WBA). After all, the difference between finishing 4th and 5th is playing the first tie home or away. If we beat one of Sheff U...

At the current run rates, Sunderland are not out of reach. We could quite easily lose to Sheff U as well as Burnley and still catch up to Sunderland if we won the remaining 6 as that would put us on 77 points. They’ve got some tough opponents coming up where you wouldn’t expect them to lose but...

This side of the New Year, he’s scored a fair few goals and important ones to get us up the table. Scored in a lot of our big games last season too.

I’ve never suggested he is and have said many times Wright is our best player. It’s contextualising things that Simms just isn’t as bad as people make out. Frankly, without he and BTA, we wouldn’t have been in the position we are in now.

Simms scored more goals from open play too… Haji scored 3-4 penalties and had a high xG of chances missed.

We also gave them the first goal and something to hold on to. That allowed us to get rattled and forget how to clear our lines and to string basic passes and so on.

I don’t think so. If Hamer couldn’t get a prem team to buy him and COH only got a top end Championship team to sign him as a free agency after a career best season… where would Sheaf end up? His best interests are probably getting promoted with us which could happen this season.

They draw just as many games as they’ve won so we’ve got a good chance of not losing at least. We were favourites against Sunderland and even against Sheff U away, there’s a c. 54% chance we won’t lose. Against Burnley at home, you’ve got to be bullish about not losing. Since Lampard took over...

I wasn’t saying you were, to clarify. However, it’s definitely been said on the terraces though. Many fans certainly believed that Robins would find a way (including myself) and some people I’ve spoken to have even expressed that anything Lampard has done, Robins wouldn’t/couldn’t have done.

I don’t believe the idea that we would’ve magically turned things around under Robins though despite the ‘underlying data metrics’ suggesting so. Lampard hasn’t completely revolutionised the way we play, but the small tactical tweaks have gone a long way!

We were taking the piss on Saturday… 😂

I’d like to see Grimes-Torp-Rudoni at some point but for the next game, you really can’t drop any of the midfielders. The way Lampard plays, he needs a Duracell bunny in the team to cover the huge spaces between the lines that we leave. Allen is the man for this specific role. At some point, we...

When we signed him last season, he’d reported for the first week of preseason in the Norwegian football calendar. As Sheaf got injured, he was thrust into the first team prematurely and his body couldn’t hack it. Not many players would in a more physical league with no preseason.

Their home form is impressive and has been for a long time but even they beat the likes of Sunderland and WBA, it does us no harm because we’re in competition with those teams too. Watford, WBA, Sunderland and PNE are not easy games. Besides, it’s their away form that generally lets them down...

There’s every chance we could beat Sheff U or Burnley. They’ll obviously be difficult games but we go into the Sheff U game in as the in-form team in the league. I’d be happy with 2 draws but if we score first in either game, I’d back us to win. Last season, we beat Leeds and Leicester but lost...

If they get more 2 more points than us, fair play to them. Looking at their remaining games, there’s no easy games remaining for them. Bristol don’t tend to travel well and away games at Burnley, QPR, Luton and Leeds… they will drop points.

Bristol will drop off because their run in is horrible. The runners and riders: WBA Boro Bristol Ourselves