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Totally agree, Sakamoto was fantastic. It wasn’t his best game from an attacking perspective but defensively he won every 50:50 and helped the team win the ball high up the pitch. As did Torp and Allen. The selection dilemma we have is where does Rudoni fit in for Sheffield United? Torp has had...

If we play like that against Sheffield United and/or Burnley, we could definitely get another win under our belts. WBA drawing v Hull was a big bonus. For their efforts against Leeds and Burnley away, they may as well have lost both games and beat Hull today. They are so inconsistent, I reckon...

If it weren’t for a Haji hattrick, no one could have any complaints with Allen being awarded MOTM. Lampard has used Allen so well tactically and both manager and player deserve the plaudits.

Da Silva has been underrated in his last few appearances. I wouldn’t want him playing against a PNE type team but against Sheff U and Burnley, he helps with keeping possession and even used his body well in defence. Bidwell was shite against Oxford and Derby despite him being first choice in my...

Exactly this. Allen isn’t a spectacular defender but his energy in midfield means he often doesn’t need to be because he’s just always on hand to pick up a loose ball or pressure an opposition player into making a defender. Today, however, he won many balls and was fantastic.

You definitely need cracking role players and imo, Allen really encapsulates this. He played so well in the 5-3-2 games and was replaced for Grimes and whenever you write him off, he just finds ways to add value that make you change your opinion.

In my view, it wasn’t down to complacency. At Derby, it was conceding the first goal that made the game unnecessarily difficult. As good as we were today, we looked slick at Derby away until we conceded the goal. The way we leave the lines so open, it was my view that Allen would complement...

Jobe Bellingham played today? 😂 Joking aside, I fancied us to win because we’re at home and we’ve been faultless under Lampard barring a home loss v Leeds. I fancy us to pick up points in all our remaining home games.

It was the opposite, we completely penned them in and frankly absolutely dominated them. Great call!

Allen in for Eccles was such a consequential change, the amount of distance he covers is so important and an upgrade on Eccles in terms of the tactics. I’ve been guilty of writing him off and whilst I think we need ‘better’, he deserves his contract extension and has been so influential. He’s a...

Best performance we’ve put in for a good 2-3 seasons in my view. Too many people panicked after Derby away. All we needed was a bit more legs in midfield and Allen provided that. Allen, Torp and Sakamoto won every 50/50 in the midfield. Haji Wright is the obvious MOTM because his hattrick was...

Considering people wanted us to sign Langstaff from Notts County last season and Tyler Walker’s record in L2 was fantastic, it wasn’t a bad signing at the time. For whatever reason, he didn’t get look in after a decent first season with us. His career before joining us was pretty good so I...

100% - for home games I used to have to commute just under 2 hours to get to games until I moved back to Coventry. I still went to games but at times it was a slug after a long day at work.

I don’t deny that it doesn’t happen. I’m deeply sceptical of the scale of it. My central point is that most people can get tickets to games because they go to general sale. The highest points bracket has been 1700+ so it’s not like the super pointers get extra benefit being 200-300 points over...

It’s easy to look at the last 3 games and say we’ve not played well, which is true. However, these teams play low blocks and try to hit us on the counter and can be difficult to break down. At least in these next 3 games, the games should be more open to create better chances. With Pompey...

That only works when games are sell outs and most of our games went to general sale. It only works when you’re selling when demand exceeds the supply. Given that we haven’t sold out every away game, the demand hasn’t always been there so no idea how this cabal of elite members are selling...

16 points is very doable but I don’t think we’ll need that many. The league is trending downwards from last season. We’re 1 point worse-off from 23/24 but our league position is better. A win at the weekend will mean that we’ll be unlikely to fall out of the playoffs before the Burnley game...

There’s obviously mitigating factors, how many points were we off playoffs in the end? 9? We all just need to relax and take a breath. We’re not going to win every single game and the important thing now is getting back in the points this weekend.

Piss take. It’s going to be a very late night!

Why do you think that? We’re in a better league position now than we were back then. On game day 37, we drew to a bottom of the table Wigan Athletic and we were 9th place. Our record from there wasn’t the most spectacular, 4-4-1 (W-D-L). That was 16 points to hit 70 points and we need 14 to...