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We don't need 25 Championship quality players as some have suggested. I think you actually only need 20 or 21 players Robins trusts to play & are Championship quality with 4 or 5 youth players pushing for minutes (Howley, Burroughs, Tavares, Rus). Man City only have around 18 or 19 players who...

Pure paper talk (see James Maddison going for 10 million before being sold for 3 million + add ons). Chelsea are desperate and need to sell 3 players (preferably homegrown) before June 30th to comply with FFP rules. I bet Burnley manage to get a decent deal for him near the end of this month...

Negative comments about Panzo show recency bias. In the 13 games before the World Cup break we kept 10 clean sheets with Panzo starting all of them. We only conceded to Burnley (best team in the league), Blackpool (because everyone had the shits), and Rotherham. During the break people were...

Agreed. Palmer looked an uninspiring signing based on his stint at Bristol City - don't think we should look too much into that based on their coaching set up. We may see parallels where Da Silva has a slow start to the season (as he gets used to the system) but starts to look really good in...

Tranmere we deserved win (I don't blame tactics just poor finishing) and Rotherham a very bad day at the office. Shrewsbury felt different because it was a game we could/should have won from the position we were in had we been a little more pragmatic. I did not mind starting 1 up front...

McGoldrick is another example of when one up front worked since relegation from championship. Basically need a striker who is clearly above the level we are playing.

It probably does, although I imagine they are not quite so high. Anyway, I was not intending to argue NW's initial point that young players are the reason for our league position. I was arguing that it will not stand us in good stead for next season, as most of the appearances have come from...

As somebody said on twitter, it does not look too rosy when 53 of those appearances came from 4 loanees - Sterry (13), Page (18), Agyei (13), Wright (9)

Not even our worst start in League One is it? Only had 3 points after 8 games in 2012-13 before Robins came in.

Has not done enough since he's been here to merit a championship job IMO

2013-2014 First 15 Under Pressley W:9 D:3 L:3 2015-2016 First 15 Under Mowbray W:8 D:4 L:3

Makes the Maddison loan even more annoying. I imagine once Vincelot is back and Rose is up to speed Bigi will be frozen out, not sure about the other two spaces.

Nigel Clough has agreed in principle to return to Burton Albion as the club's manager. #BAFC

The pre-game stats for this game are ridiculous: Barnsley - 6 League defeats in a row, 16 defeats and 7 draws of their last 23 visits, the last win coming in 1923, and failed to win away since mid-August. Coventry - 6 unbeaten in the League, unbeaten at home this season.

Those mentioning Jacobs, the Birmingham Mail are reporting that Jackett wants him to step up to the first team this season.

Full pre-season and I think he'd do well in this league. I'd imagine we'll be offering a deal way below what he's recently been getting and might just be an option if he can't get anything better back in Germany.

Didn't Wilson get injured on New Years Day and was out for 3 months though? He might have gone had he not got injured, no club would sign a player who was out until march. They would much rather wait until the summer and also look at how he recovered from the injury.

No chance we'd get £5m, Dele Alli went for that and he has been one of the best players in this division this season.

He made an angry scot look like the messiah, and we've been dreadful ever since he left. I would have him back in a heartbeat.

Can't count the away loss at Barnsley either can we as he watched that one from the stands