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First and foremost, Eccles isn’t a first choice player as far as we’ve seen under Lampard. So if someone was willing to pay a few million for a rotation player, it makes sense for both parties. Just because FFP isn’t a consideration right now, it could be in the next couple of years if we keep...

If someone is willing to pay a few million for him, you’d have to take the money for FFP. It means that, in theory, it’s pure profit to put in the transfer kitty (to my limited understanding). Looking at the way teams can break through our high line, we have 2 options to address this imo: 1)...

He had some good games for us but I can’t see him renewing his contract with us. He’ll want more regular first team football. It’s an opportunity to bank the saved wages and potentially pursue a CM. For the right price, I’d be open to selling Sheaf or Eccles. We’ve got Sheaf, Grimes, Eccles...

I was too young to care really, but shared your disappointment when RICOH were chose over Jaguar for the sponsor. Jag Arena had a nice ring to it!

I don’t think we got a choice in the matter because we don’t own the ground, never have. Choosing the stadium to be named ‘Stadium of Light’, is cringeworthy and well worth plastering over with a tacky sponsorship name.

To add to your point, the semi automated offside system immediately tells VAR if it’s onside or not. So surely the intelligent thing is to have that system immediately buzz through to the match officials and/or VAR. They can make the call in real time. Goal line technology works a treat (when...

The same team (more or less) were in the Prem the season before. Morris would be a good player for another club, just not us. We could perhaps use the example of Keiffer Moore? Played as a bit part player for Sheff U and had a worse non-penalty MPG worse than Simms.

Well, we started slowly under Robins in most seasons in his second spell. Anything that happened before the Lampard-era is irrelevant for now. Let’s see how pre-season and season start goes under Lampard.

Next season will be a big year for EMC, he gets himself in the box to score goals and is difficult for defenders to deal with. More athleticism is needed in the team if we’re looking to ‘Prem Proof’ the team. In midfield and defence in particular. If we’re going to play with so much gaps...

He’s also talked up Rapha and gave him next to no game time. Realistically, if he’s as good as everyone says, we’ll give him experience in L1 or L2 to prove himself. Look at how good Addai is doing right now, he just wasn’t at the required level when he was with us. Goalkeepers generally take...

The referees and linesmen can see when there’s daylight between the attacker and the defender. The whole purpose of VAR was to be a tool for when incidents were ‘clear and obvious’ rather than vice versa. I don’t blame VAR, the rules need to be tweaked to avoid scenarios where players get...

Everyone knows that’s the rule so people can’t criticising the match officials or VAR for that per se. The debate here is whether or not that rule should change because there’s been significant incidents that put player welfare at risk. I’m sure Van Dijk done his ACL in a similar incident.

Keiffer Moore’s non-penalty MPG (384) was worse than Simms. Anyone suggesting Moore or Morris to replace Simms has lost the plot or hasn’t looked at data. At least when people suggest Bundu, he’s had a good season with 10 goals and 6 assists. At 28, and this season being a potential outlier...

Asante is the most likely to leave. Simms has started more games and was praised by the coaching staff and his peers more recently. Simms has least demonstrated he can go on big scoring runs whereas BTA goal scoring record is much weaker. Say we were offered a minor profit on either player...

You’re right but you’ve missed the point. The rules should be changed so that match officials can give offsides where it’s obvious to the naked eye. There’s been a few avoidable injuries that would’ve been prevented if the referees could flag up early where the player is offside. It’s common...

As irritating as early KO’s can be (specifically away games), from my POV they’ve come less and less of an issue as we’ve been marching up the table. A cynical take would be that the people claiming they’d give up the ST were more bothered about results than the irregular KO times.

Disagree it’s been our weakest position. Dovin was a good signing but Sod’s Law came for his ACL. Up to that point, he had put in a decent claim to be POTS. If Lampard won’t commit to Wilson as Number 2, we absolutely need to sign another permanent GK. It’s potentially harsh on Dovin if it...

£450-£500 is reasonably fair considering inflation and the price freeze last season. Maybe offset that with a slight increase to the Premier League Package to £575 for new entrants to push that product to boost the coffers in the offseason.

Grimes is a class player but he hasn’t put too many of those balls behind the lines since he’s got here. Aside from an eye catching pass or two e.g. to EMC v Sheff W away.

How about Morris? 😂 Joking aside, my view is that we get the best out of Haji playing off another player, be it off the left or as a striker in a pair.