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The margin between being a playoff/auto team and being a bottom half team in this league is very little. Revisiting the 22/23 season, how often did we grind out results where we won when we should've drew or drew when we should've lost. Right now, it feels that every 50/50 goes against us. I'm...

How many minutes has he played? He’s started 10 games and no consecutive starts since September. We’re not getting anything out of any of our strikers because let’s not forget that BTA and Bassette only cost £1m less than Simms. Simms cost £3.5m upfront with incentives taking it to £8m which...

It’s not really a relevant question because not all strikers like taking penalties. He scores enough open play goals that I’m happy with.

He can, he’s scored 2 headers this season and scored at least 3-4 last season. Similarly, he does run behind, his goals v Plymouth, Stoke, Bristol away and even Sakamoto’s goal v Cardiff was created by Simms getting in behind their defence and outmuscling before getting a shot off. For hold...

Simms leading Bassette in progressive carriers, pass completion and touches in the box? With less progressive passes received too. It’s non-starter, Simms needs a run in the team.

So what? He scored 2 v Wolves, 1 against Man U and Leeds. This scored in ‘x’ league games stat is a distortion of stats. Wright only scored in 12 league games and he’s a penalty taker, in fact, open goals only, they scored in the exact same amount of games. To compare, I’m going to...

It will develop, hopefully. Gyokeres in his first two seasons was the same, he’d do all his twist and turns to get onto his right foot. That changed in 22/23 and it made him a way better striker who was far more difficult to defend against. Bassette shows many of the same raw attributes than...

I’d like to see us sit a lot deeper. Add in EMC and Wright next Simms up front and then look to hit balls behind defences when we win it back in our own half. The midfield is just really badly stretched most games and has been all season.

Binks for who? What happens if you play 6 defenders and still concede because you’ve just given up on the midfield and/or attack. So they have the remaining 5m to throw the kitchen sink at us. It’s just not a sensible move, sorry.

Is he actually that good at pressing? How many times has he won possession in the opposition half? His work rate is excellent, I can give him that. He’s very easy to defend against.

Hamer’s team was fighting to stave off relegation in the Eredivisie and the bottom half of that league isn’t particularly rated by many people on here.

So who would you have brought on? Just saying anyone isn’t helpful. I could see a logic in bringing on Tavares to just stretch the play potentially or maybe Torp for BTA and play 5-4-1 to seal the draw If anything, the more viable critique is that we seemed to consider going for the win when...

Yeah, did you see the state of the 22/23 after the loanees went back and selling Vik and Hamer? It was a squad that’d struggle to stay up. The players remaining in that team are; Allen, Sheaf, Bidwell, Wilson, Eccles and Tavares. We’ve signed 17 players since then so dividing that by £45...

What subs would you have made? It does irritate me when fans just want a manager to make changes for the sake of it. Looking at our bench, there was only really Torp to bring on. Sakamoto was supposedly not 100% so that leaves: Binks JDS Tavares Rapha Kitching was having a good game so would...

You can tell the ranker of losing in stoppage time has clouded people’s judgement. It was a good away performance and had we held on for a draw, the narrative would’ve been that Lampard’s tactics were spot on and we were unlucky to concede such a good strike for the equaliser.

You don’t be 3rd in xG GD overall if you’re a shit team. The key data metrics suggest we’re a decent outfit that is underperforming.

At risk of sounding delusional, you can’t completely rule out the playoffs. 11 points isn’t that much of a gap. It’s unlikely and I wouldn’t bet on us making it or the team putting together a winning streak. That said, stranger things have happened. A few signings this window and Haji and EMC...

I’d like to see us play a full strength team for this. Dovin MVE Thomas Kitching Bidwell Eccles Torp Rudoni Sakamoto Simms BTA Assuming Sheaf is out and the formation is 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1, either works for me. I’d like to see Rapha get more minutes this game too.

Let’s go Bunting mental…

Awww, it’s nice we’ve made up now! 😂 x This is why I think the issue(s) with the team are ability rather than application. The players we have are generally good at their jobs. As a team, the right pieces aren’t quite there yet. The defence is too loose and whilst I’d like to see the back 4...