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M40 to Coventry isn’t too bad, it’s just 60-70 miles on the same road!

Clean sheets is a team stat, of course. The players this season and last are the same, barring forward players. Therefore, the only variables that is changing is the CBs. Thomas and Kitching have played mostly as a pair and they have the most clean sheets. There have been enough games that...

Do the research man. Lati and Binks have played over 30 games at CB and you can count their CS on one hand individually.

You’re a professional nit picker. Both Oxford and Bristol City are Championship teams and both teams rotated their teams slightly. It’s not Barrow or Bromley. Besides, there’s enough data from this season and last to establish that we keep more clean sheets with Thomas and Kitching at CB...

My lineup will be: Dovin MVE Thomas Kitching Binks Eccles Sheaf Torp Sakamoto Simms EMC We need to be winning this game and fancy us for a 2-0 win!

Kitching has played 7 games and we’ve kept 3 clean sheets. Binks has kept 1 clean sheet and Lati has kept 2 at CB in 17 games. We’ve conceded 25 goals which is joint 18th in the league. That is clearly a priority to address immediately. Comparatively, we’ve scored the 7th most goals in the league.

Our two best CBs are Kitching and Thomas by quite a distance and FL and his coaching staff need to pick up on this. Let’s delve into some clean sheet data: Latibeaudiere has only kept 4 clean sheets as a CB in 31 matches (CB only). Binks too, 3 clean sheets in 37. Compared with: Thomas - 17...

Doug King made clear that he is happy with Dr Roberts impact in her role and has defended her publicly. Pertinently, what he also articulated at the conference, is that he wasn’t happy MR broke up the relationship with AV, felt that Robins would get exposed without AV/suitable replacement and...

Robins had final sign off on all signings and supposedly interviews each prospective signing too. By that logic, if you believe we should sack Dr Roberts, you must support sacking Robins.

This is irrational Malc. Perhaps look at coaches and players involved in the match on the day versus a performance director. Unless, you believe it was her fault for the late goals we’ve scored and won the game? Does she deserve credit for the wins v Luton, Oxford and the draw v Sunderland and...

Yes and her involvement is phycological evaluations and reviewing fitness levels of prospective signings, what’s so insidious about this?

10 goals in the last stages of the match this season speaks for itself. You know better than that Malc, yesterday we were outthought and outplayed. No, head coach/manager and assistant manager/assistant head coach have the same basic functions. At the conference King confirmed he wanted Robins...

We spent close to £45m under Robins. We’re already in the boom and bust cycle!

By that definition, any manager is a risk. Even hiring a manager who wanted to bring in no staff even though King thought there was a lack of elite coaches in the setup.

I really don’t understand why people are getting hung up on the ‘Performance’ part of her job title. People are just frustrated at things and wanted to point fingers at anyone but Robins. In no particular order, it was AV being pushed out, the flat coaching setup, then Dr Roberts and DK...

Did you listen to King at the conference? Her remit is not related to the on-pitch performance. It’s all about the team’s strength and conditioning, nutrition, sleep hygiene and so on. Apparently the team is as ‘fit’ as it’s ever been and performing higher on these metrics than before she came...

Nope. See the whole reaction to sacking Robins and the indignation of not having lined someone up simultaneously. On this forum, you see people commented on things they have no clue about. 2.5 weeks to conduct interviews and hire a manager is a rapid turnaround in just about any other industry...

Works for both parties in my view in terms of flexibility. 2 years works for Lampard if he does well at the club and keep his options open to progress. In parallel, it won’t be as expensive for King if this does not go well and needs to sack FL. FL and his staff won’t be cheap so the relatively...

Robins had a lot of control and imo, the manager needs to have as much ‘power’ as possible in terms of recruitment (i.e. sign-off) and coaching structure. This logic applied to Robins as much as his successor. Give Lampard everything he needs to have success in the role and then there’s no...

Exactly, the xG for that match was 1.63 to 0.73 which suggests at face value we were by far the better team. We missed 1 ‘massive’ chance, 1 ‘great’ and 2-3 ‘good’ chances. In reality, we chasing the game and couldn’t breakdown a resolute Swansea team. See here...