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I'd like to see EMC make an impact at RW and whilst he may have played his best football at LW, the way he plays could lend itself well to RW. Unless we sign a 'blue chip' LW, there isn't much point moving him about. My preference would be sign a RW but find it interesting we've been linked...

There are raw materials to work with but his work in the box is pretty poor and highlighted by commentators who've watched us and him play. If he's not willing to put the work in to improve and his ego inflated to the point where it impacts the wider group... move him on.

True and reading between the lines, Bassette has been unhappy he's not getting game time but whenever he had game time he hasn't made an impact. If he's going to be a frustrated figure and negatively impact the group, then its for the best we move him on. I do think Robins/recruitment team made...

When you define 'top priority' and positional needs, you're looking at starting players, right? Hence why we signed a highly rated GK because starting Wilson/Collins for 2-4 months on the season was a significant risk. 10 goals from sub strikers isn't a terrible return. The top 3 who play 1...

In 23/24, both Simms and BTA hit double figures playing predominantly upfront on their own in a 4-2-3-1. This narrative they can only play in a front 2 is false. They both had bad seasons last year and the coaching staff need to understand how to get 2 players back to their form previously. If...

Dovin was in fine form between Jan and Feb and a big contributor. However, goals win matches and in that same period, BTA and Simms scored 7 goals v Bristol, Blackburn, Swansea and Sheff W. Without those goals and results, we don’t get a look in at the playoffs and people have forgotten that...

Outside of Rudoni and Wright, there wasn’t much goals in the team. What would we do if Rudoni got injured? He played a role in 33% of all our goals in the league last year. Which is mental. People moan about BTA and Simms but we put in our best run of form playing them upfront together last...

I am including Rapha who may get more minutes this season. If we intend to play 4-2-3-1/4-3-3, we can’t really do that with Rapha, Sakamoto and EMC. If we’re only signing ‘cover’ players, we’re wasting our time. Seriously, it won’t be that difficult to find a winger who scores more goals than...

Why don’t we just wait until the season starts before giving up on any player? Lampard was asked about signing a striker and his answer suggested ‘no’ and given the Bassette rumours, it’s revealing. If you’re King, you’d be putting the onus on a manger to work with Haji and 2 players who...

Not from the bench. Ironically, a lot BTA’s minutes would’ve been out wide too. Leeds sub striker (Joseph) scored 3 goals and 4 of their top goal scorers were wide players. Likewise, Sheff U had 5 wide in theirs and Keiffer Moore scored 5 goals last season from the bench (less than Simms lol)...

Quick comparison: - BTA + Simms = 4374 minutes played, 12 goals - Sakamoto + EMC = 4842 minutes, 9 goals. Let’s put aside that we do not have the depth required to play 4-2-3-1 without playing players out of position… 9 goals from 2 attacking players is just not good enough. For context...

Haji Wright scored 12 goals missing 3 months of the season… even Simms scored 19 goals in his first season here. Meanwhile, our 2 wingers between them didn’t get past 10 goals… that’s actually what’s holding us back.

There’s no argument that his crossing and assists are great assets… The way a lot of people talk about Sakamoto as being an undisputed starter and whilst he’s a good player, he doesn’t have that ‘x factor’ to be a game winner for us, week in and week out. Again, all this focus on...

If we want to improve on 5th place, we need more than 20 goal contributions in a season from the wing. This debate has been had out, but it’s pretty clear that Haji wants to play striker and that’s also where Lampard wants to him. Haji is a blue chip striker in this league and his output for us...

Not Sakamoto? His FotMob match rating was 6.80 over 44 games. His goal tally of 4 outperformed his xG of 3.11 (or something like that). Bobby Thomas’ xG was 4.78 for reference and had about 15 more shots too. When you’ve got 10+ wingers from last season on 12-15+ goal contributions and we have...

Having 4 strikers for 1 starting position must’ve caused a lot of problems last year. None of them got a good run of games and either got bit part minutes, played out of position or both. Pretty sure all 4 strikers believe they should all be starting in their preferred position. Signing...

Given that most away games go to general sale, the ‘abuse’ clearly isn’t widespread. Sure, there’s been games where a mate has helped me out and vice versa. Trust me, to get to 1400+ or so, there’s times where it can be a labour of love. I was questioning my sanity when going to Blackburn away...

I don’t know too much about BTA from his WBA days but I agree with these assessments based on his time with us. In his and Simms’ defence, they formed a good partnership with a lot of goals in the Jan-Feb run where we played 5-3-2. For me, given that all of our strikers have struggled in a...

All the signings ought to be players who can fight for a starting berth from Day 1. I don’t think we’ll sign a striker nor is it the number 1 priority imo. The question should be how we get BTA or Simms back up to their 23/24 stats. Do that, and it’s serviceable until Haji is 100% fit and...

He is a striker though, he made half of his career LW appearances under Robins in 23/24 and 24/25. On that note, not only had Haji slowed down in terms of goals and assists playing LW from Jan 2024 and into 2024/25… we’ve changed manager and the tactics aren’t the same. Haji’s one goal from LW...