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Agree with the sentiment, but isn’t all down to King. We’ve just missed out on players who would’ve fit that bill!

Agreed that the stats don’t take ‘game state’ into account and because we’ve conceded first so often, we’re chasing games and that would distort the xG somewhat in our favour. Conceding the first goal this season has been absolutely cancerous for our season 14 times in 24 games is only bettered...

Their defence was poor but on that particular goal, the replays show that the GK flapped it into his own net. If he’d parried it back into the box and we get the rebound in, fair enough. From our POV, Sakamoto did a great job to get in that position and leap up for the header, but it wasn’t a...

Exactly, in fact, for Sakamoto’s goal I’d have been livid if we conceded a goal like that. With Eccles’ strikes, both well struck but his 2nd should’ve been saved by the keeper. A lot of people around me asked if Brad Collins was playing for them… which says a lot. You take it because up until...

It’s not because Eccles scored two ranged efforts which are inherently low xG chances. We’ve seen Eccles take that shot to know those two goals, whilst great, were outliers. Just as Sheaf scored that screamer v Sheffield Wednesday away in the league. It’s not arbitrary, it’s people’s...

It’s a team effort, we’re clearly not functioning as well as last season and to me, it’s tactical / coaching. COH hasn’t pulled up trees at Sheff U and with Rudoni having a higher goals and assist output, it hasn’t been a massive loss. The Sakamoto-MVE has been overhyped, they had a good spell...

The team has been pants and if your source is right, it’s probably to do with the coaching this summer. If you’ve got 5, 6 or more of team underperforming, it’s not the players, it’s the manager/tactics/coaching and it’s still early days in FL’s tenure to make a massive impact.

I don’t think we’ll sell this window at all. He’s certainly worth a lot more than some of the sums people have banded about. Such short-sightedness!

Well worth the money for his goals in the FA cup alone, let alone his league goals.

Why weren’t people saying this about Wright and Simms last season? The base fee for Bassette and BTA is only 0.5m below Simms. Bassette plays like Vik except he’s nowhere near as good as him in his loan spell here. The narrative behind Bassette compared to BTA and Simms is a bit weird. He’s...

It felt like most of Saka’s passes were backwards and whilst he wasn’t the only person guilty of that, he frustrated me the most. Taking the easy option was something Robins referenced a few times this season and this was a problem today under Lampard. We need players who drive the ball out...

Bassette hasn’t looked like scoring against either of them. I respect Lampard for actually sticking with a striker because they need consistent game time - Haji Wright had a 5 game drought between his run pre-injury. Robins got to a point where Simms would start, then BTA, then Bassette and the...

With the players we’ve got, it’ll end up being EMC and Wright on the wings. If Sakamoto is getting good looks at the far post, imagine what EMC/Wright can do. Sakamoto had a purple patch in Dec-Feb, got injured and had this aura about him. He’s a decent player but his role will be a supporting...

For what it’s worth, Bassette will go on to be a good player, my personal opinion is that it’s too much, too young. On the Lampard point, it’s 7 games in Evo. I don’t think Bassette will keep his place for much longer if the last 2 games are to go by (that’s being slightly kind). The same was...

We don’t know, but Simms was wanted by many teams in our league including Ipswich. Under Robins, he got decision fatigued and couldn’t figure out who he wanted to play. Look at how EMC has thrived since MR has left. As for Lampard, he’s been here for 7 games, let’s wait how his team develops...

In his career at Cov, he averages about a goal every 195 minutes which is good by any reasonable metric. It hammers the point that needs to be played more often rather than having bit part sub cameos.

Every player has a value and if you’re priced out on wages or transfer fee, move on or else you end up like Man U with a stable of players they paid too much for and pay too much to get rid of.

What’s the point in bringing up a stat of the games he’s scored in? It seems pretty flawed to me. I’ll use Gyokeres as an example: In 22/23, Vik only scored in 18 league games and I believe most were against lower table teams. In 21/22, he scored in 15 league games. Which brings Vik’s record to...

A lot of people are cottoning on that Bassette just isn’t at the level required yet. Gyokeres even struggled to break into our dross relegation survival season team with Biamou upfront. Bassette has a lot of brilliant raw attributes but he isn’t impacting games and in key moments, comes up...

Like this season, spent a lot of games getting bit part minutes and when we actually back him to lead the line, his goal scoring record spoke for itself. This season under Lampard, we’ll get plenty of good balls in the box which favours Simms > Bassette and BTA yet we choose to bring Simms on...