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He also gets 19 goals from the left. He scored 16 in 23/24 and underperfomed his xG by -2.3 xG with only Godden doing worse, -3.5 xG. This season Simms and Bassette are our xG under performers (as well as Mason-Clark, BTA, Sheaf and Kitching). Interestingly, Rudoni’s xG this season v last...

100% agreed. Sheffield’s 2 point deduction had no impact on their season. The punishment needs to harsh enough that it could cost an offenders automatic promotion/playoffs/surivival otherwise it’s a slap on the wrist.

You’re right and defence is my first priority too, 100%. You’ve jumped in the conversation a bit too late because @clint van damme and I were talking about strikers specifically and how we get the most out of them. I’ve mentioned elsewhere that we’ve conceded the most in the top half and need a...

No it’s not, this is not a good argument at all. To demonstrate, Gyokeres scored 57% of his goals against bottom 8 teams in 22/23. In fact, he only managed 7 goal contributions against top 7 teams. It’s fairly obvious why. In most seasons, the top half teams tend to get their highest scoring...

So it shouldn’t. Seeing that they avoided punishment by the Premier League because the breaches were in the EFL (or vice versa) were laughable. If there are laughably easy loopholes to exploit, they may as well do away with financial fair play altogether.

Judging by our record against the bottom 8 teams this season, it’s a shame he or Haji didn’t score more goals against them… This argument makes no sense. A goals value is the same whether it’s against top of the table or bottom. People keep bringing up the hat tricks v Maidstone and Rotherham...

Actually, it’ll be nice to put bed the rumours that people other than Robins pushed out AV and undermined Robins. Robins and AV will always be legends at our club, but with what happened post-MR, the club were vindicated in making an unpopular change.

It’s a valid question to ask. Assuming the issue is personnel, the likelihood of us selling all 4 strikers and replacement them all just isn’t going to happen. There’s a few things that we need to improve: - we need to create more chances to feet in the box - wingers need to take on their men...

Have any of our strikers looked good in a 4-3-3? Haji Wright looked fantastic v Sunderland and that was it in his 14 game stint. For me, it’s all tactical. Rewatching last seasons goals for Haji and Simms and this season - our approach to chance creation is v different last season.

13 goals a season is a slightly above average return. This season, it would’ve only been 7 goals from the golden boot. Simms’ first season was good, his second season was unsatisfactory. I don’t think it’s time to get rid of him at all but he has to turn things around next year. Simms, BTA and...

I’m glad we have ambitious players pushing to start football matches. In the case of Lati, he’s not as strong a defender at CB as Thomas or Kitching. Frankly, we need to upgrade on one of those CBs in any case. Lati is a defender suited to 3 CB formations, he’s not defensively strong enough to...

Exactly, looking at his stats on FBRef, he’s arguably a better player than MVE too. I don’t mind selling any of our players as long as we have a shortlist of players we believe can make an immediate impact to replace them. No player is too good for the club and we’re in a strong negotiating...

Whilst there’s a need for another RB, it seems inconceivable that we’d spend £5+ million on a ‘backup’. If we sign KKM, it would indicate we’re preparing to let MVE leave.

Surprised Torp has created the 3rd amount of big chances in our team. Considering he’s played 2366 minutes for us (just over 26 games), that’s impressive. It goes to show that we need a bigger season from him next year if he gets more minutes.

Sheff U all the way.

If we make a good slice of profit, any and every player is for sale. Brentford sold Watkins (and a couple of other) before picking up Toney and winning the league.

This is well reasoned. However, Robins started the season with Lati and Binks so it’s clear that at some point, Robins decided that the same players would swap role; starters to role places and vice versa. Truly a strange decision from Robins that probably played a part in him losing his job...

Yeah and in relation to Vik, he’s gone on to score goals in European competitions and is behind Salah in the golden boot running. Vik for €60-80m about is about as safe an investment you can make for Prem team needing a top end striker.

For promoted teams, not individual Championship players. This is a fundamental difference because it’s a lot easier for a player to make the step rather than a 25 man squad. Plenty of players have made the grade stepping up from the Championship. As I’m watching the FA Cup final, a few of...

On Vik, there’s a few Arsenal, Man U and other Prem supporters who question if he can adapt to English football, seemingly ignorant to the fact he cut his teeth in the Championship. Which is a more physical league than the Prem and there’s been a lot of Championship players who make the grade...