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Eccles definitely at fault for the first goal but having watched the replay, Thomas should’ve done better. Lati at CB is bemusing, what was he doing for the 1 v 1 they missed in the second half?

The goal today wasn’t Thomas and Lati’s fault, Cardiff had more players in the box than us and their spare man headed it across goal for Robinson. There is a lack of quality in midfield, Robins mentioned it many times towards the end of last season. Defensively, we’ve been pretty weak since Feb...

We can’t play counter attacking football if we concede the first goal of the game 60% of the time. This is the fundamental issue facing this team because the team that scores first, often wins (or at least not lose). Today is a great example, 1-0 down after 5 minutes! We do ourselves no favours...

In fairness, there isn’t synergy with the CMs and AMs, I don’t think Rudoni compliments them that well. That’s not his fault, it’s just there’s a need of a different profile of player in the team. With Hamer, he would either a) send the ball up the field from our own half or b) dribble the ball...

It takes months to bed in a new style of play and as FL mentioned, they have to a lot of coaching in games because the volume of games has been massive. Half his games have been played in the last 2 weeks. It’s not an excuse, there’s just a need for patience with the team and FL. It hasn’t...

Form is temporary, class is permanent. This skid mark of form may work in our favour if we can get him to sign a new contract. With COH, his form in Dec-Feb all but confirmed he was never going to sign a new contract.

Hull are also in a false position based on this. It’s not just us, but we’re 3rd in xG GD and yet we’re 15th in the league. Why would that be the case? Frankly, it’s all about the first goal in match. Why? When we score first, our record is 5-2-2 which is 1.89 PPG (which is quite low). The...

EMC and Wright are both game changers, it’s unfortunate that neither are fit. In midfield is where our issues truly lie. Eccles, Torp nor Sheaf are bad players. However, they’re just all more or less the same player, there’s no variety in midfield and none of them are comfortable with a)...

Plymouth are just a shit team, that’s why. They’re bottom of just about every category there is. I’m sure you watch our games and you can see that when we concede, the team we’re playing often lets us have possession and sits back in solid formation. So we’re going to be having more possession...

I said ‘distorted’ and the two aren’t mutually exclusive. We’re not a bad side, but we concede the first goal of the game far too early. Our record when conceding first is 2-4-8 (discounted today but looks like we’ll lose) - 0.3 points per game. 60% of games we’ve conceded first needs to be...

Exactly! That’s where they’ll end up too! On one metric (xG for and against), we’re up near the top of the table. The other, goals conceded first, it’s alongside relegation-bound teams.

Reading between the lines, it seemed like the relationship between the owner and manager had broken down by the point MR may have wanted a new number 2. Specifically, that King had lost faith in MR so why go out and hire a new person if you’re pretty certain you’re going to sack the existing...

At what point did he want Nevin? I’m sure this info would’ve been available in the summer. Him not going for any of the other coaches he brought in could be an admission that he got that restructure wrong. If MR could see that and the. Asked for Nevin and/or Ramsey, it could’ve been too late in...

Stuff I’ve been told corroborates this. I was told at Ipswich at home that AV was leaving and that ‘he was a complicated figure’ and fell out with quite a few players. Particularly, the relationship with Ben Wilson was bad which explains why Collins went from first choice to 3rd choice when AV...

Joe Edwards won a UCL with Tuchel as assistant manager and the fitness coach was at Chelsea during the Chelsea glory days from Mourinho onwards. Two coaches that are frankly, overqualified.

Agreed but we don’t know what was said, he could’ve made out he really wanted to join us! After all, the deal was agreed in principle and all that was needed was for him to sign the contract. The reports from Serbia suggested he was hesitant to sign but (with hindsight) that was probably his...

It’s what Saddles source was reporting that Browne felt ‘dissed’ that we dropped him for Stamenic and it is plausible. It’s unlikely we would’ve pursued 2 CM options simultaneously because we’d have been left with Stamenic, Browne, Eccles, Sheaf, Torp and Allen for 2 spots. It’s overkill from a...

I disagree, Stamenic has UCL experience and looked a real talent and whilst Browne is a good player and leader who undoubtedly improve the team, I reckon Stamenic would’ve been the better option. The club wants to get to the next level, signing a player who’s had a great career in the...

Here’s what we know of 3 targets: Stamenic - gazumped by Forest Browne - jilted because we went for Stamenic over him Mystery loanee CM - injured and only just come back It snowballed after we agreed terms with Stamenic because we believed he was signed and he pursued another option at the...

I didn’t think it needed to be explained in great detail, to be honest. It’s pretty self evident that the most important goal in a football match is the first goal. This is backed up statistically and the only teams to concede the first goal more often is Hull and Plymouth. Therefore, it does...