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He deserves a contract extension, imo. A good role player and leader, even if I had written him off earlier in the season. If we sign Grimes and another CM then the case for moving him along becomes stronger. Grimes is the kind of signing that is probably the immediate replacement if Sheaf was...

Allen, all due respect to him, is a useful role player. Nothing more, nothing less. He’s put in a fine string of performances and lately and deserves all the plaudits he’s getting. There’s levels to this and players like Sheaf and Grimes are just 2-3 gears ahead of him.

I wouldn’t worry about it too much, just take it game by game! 74 points should be enough for 5th or maybe even 4th.

Did you see us making playoffs at this point in 2022/23 or further back, us winning the league in 2019/20? On both occasions, I didn’t. 6 points off playoffs is a good place to be, especially since we’ve nearly halved that deficit since Norwich away. Hilariously, there was more than few people...

Sorry, my bad - I skipped over his name when skimming the team sheet earlier on. In any case, he hasn’t played a minute of football so it’s not ‘clear’ he’s seen as an understudy.

Why is the at clear? He is yet to make an appearance on the bench. We don’t play a RW because we don’t have 2-3 wingers to play. Things will different when Wright and EMC return - that point is actually clear. If you only have 1 winger fully fit and available, how can play a formation that...

He hasn’t gone missing, he hadn’t played consecutive games since September before starts v Bristol and Blackburn. Being limited to 20-30 minute cameos will not help any player, especially strikers. Just look at Eccles, was a top performer in the team yet his substitute cameos have attracted...

Our best 11 with everyone available, imo is: 4-3-3 Dovin MVE Thomas Kitching Bidwell Torp Sheaf Rudoni EMC Simms Wright

The best part? It wasn’t even his best tackle, when he flattened their #8 in the middle of the pitch was just great see.

Bassette was screaming for it… but he was running away from the goal towards the right. It was a poor shot but Bassette didn’t give him a great option either because and he’d have had to cut in on his left, it was a poor run.

Allen is a great role player who should be kept in the fold because he’s a senior figure in the team and hard worker. Not only is he playing a good role at DM, he’s also been filling as captain in Sheaf’s stead.

Makes you think where we’d be this season if we just started Kitch and Dovin and stuck with them.

Personally, I disagree. He set his stall out and a lot of people, whilst disagreeing with the decision, could see his point. Yes because they’re our two top scorers and Lampard favours playing with wingers. The team has got good results but the team looks undercooked imo. Look, the early...

Wright is still our top scorer. In the league Torp and Rudoni are our stop scorers who are available.

That’s genuinely exciting news!

It’s missing our 3 best players. Haji Wright is still our top scorer and he hasn’t played in 2 months. It could’ve been 4 wins on the bounce with a bit of luck. We didn’t deserve to lose v Norwich and a difficult away draw would’ve been a positive result.

It’ll be 4-6 weeks until everyone is available to us so plenty could change and I’m not worried about what may or may not happen in that timeframe. As a principle, you find ways to accommodate your best players and we won’t do that playing 5-3-2 with everyone available.

Thomas had a great game too today where he absolutely flattened 2 players. ‘Pwopa’ CB play!

This system Lampard has reverted to is probably the best solution we have with the current personnel available. 5-3-2 is a balanced formation, which is what we need in the absence of arguably our 3 best players; Wright, EMC and Sheaf. With everyone available, it’s not the best fit especially...

Not really, we had some poor results playing 5-3-2 this season. Lampard will want to play with wingers, even Rudoni is operating as ‘half-winger’ in the current system and we go to a 5-4-1/3-4-3 when Sakamoto comes on. We won’t know until everyone is back, which will be quite a 4-5 weeks. My...