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The assembled playing squad is the manager's responsibility. Obviously.

What do you expect him to say? 'Robins spent all the money on assembling a shit squad and we have no chance for years'? (That's probably the truth). But the Chairman has to offload the failed manager and keep it as positive as he can.

He created this mess and was lost what to do about it. Move on.

What quality players will be available and will want to come here in the January window? And we do need quality not more of the same...

Well he spent and assembled this squad and got them into this position over months.

If Lampard turns this around I will be seriously impressed. We are a shambles all over the pitch.

Our CM is really poor. Slow, poor at covering our defence and poor at progressing us forward.

Poor transfers, some way overpaid and/or on long contracts. Poor squad quality. It's a mess. No short term fix.

We had a centreback problem for a good while. What did we do to address it? sign Binks who was part of the problem. Very odd.

Decent team as long as Saka plays wide right.

Hope Saka plays wide right and Rudoni plays instead of Torp. That can give us more of a spark. And if we press please attack the ball don't just sit off and stifle them, like we did at Burnley. Force a mistake.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Simms upfront. Hope he knows about the MVE, Saka combo. And that EMC plays on the left and Rudoni isn't a wingback. I guess he will play JDS if we want to attack a lot (I'd prefer Bidwell given our defensive issues). Please fullbacks do their defensive jobs...

He hasn't personally done any of those things buddy. He too often loses concentration and produces a very poor loose pass to the opposition in a dangerous situation. Too often an accident waiting to happen and a bit of a loose canon. He's not the only one though. I'd give him another go...

Kitching had a few chances this season and messed up so was dropped. His clangers tend to be bad ones. But Binks is poor so whatever give him another go. Hardly an embarrassment of riches. Getting fullbacks to stop balls being pulled back into the box would be helpful to the centre backs...

You can't always just play a ball into a channel. You need a centre forward to be able to hold up and lay off a ball. Especially a big, not so nimble or quick centre forward like Simms. A big fella being able to do something in the air would also be handy.

He's defensively very bad and that's why he should be moved on.

What we had was a relegation zone team, demoralised, players out of position, poor basics skills, unclear first 11, unclear formation and a manager who looked lost as to what to do. Let's hope we can improve on that.

Just out of interest. What first team affairs is he meddling with?

Reminder. Robins left the new manager with a mess of a squad, low on quality, low on confidence and in a really poor league position. It's time to move on. Give the new manager some time to understand the squad and how to optimise it and add to it.

Mate, we haven't even got a new manager in yet!