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He hasn’t even been starting for Burton! What a laughable suggestion to bring him back! 😂

Plymouth on the bank holiday was a good day out, I wish I’d made a weekend of it tbh. The Monday and Friday nights away to Hull in consecutive season… they can fuck off to L1 even if they do have a great fish and chips!

As a team, it’s good that players all over have chipped in but when it comes down to those games where we need that 1-2 star players to win us games, it’s been lacking at times. Bobby Thomas is arguably our most ‘clutch’ player, he’s scored 2 stoppage time winners at least. Defensively...

If Haji is our number one striker going into next season, it’s unlikely we sign a striker. If Bassette is grumbling about game time and you’ve got Simms who can get double figures… signing a player in your star player’s position isn’t happening unless we change formation or get promoted to the...

With everyone fit, Lampard has favoured Haji upfront and his recent game time at LW has been forced. So thinking ahead, you need goal scorers out wide. We almost definitely won’t be signing a ST in the summer unless BTA goes.

Jimmy is a reliable source but Lampard has alluded to players soldering on and for obvious reasons, isn’t going to announce which players and what injuries. Even so, my point that we need more goals from elsewhere on the pitch is completely valid. For reference, Sakamoto’s MPG is 667 and...

Objection! Conjecture!

Simms is playing with an injury himself. That’s besides the point. Assuming Lampard wants to play Wright as a striker next season, you still have to contend with the fact that A) we only have two contracted wingers going into next season and B) the ones we do have mustered 9 goals between them...

The dogs abuse Simms gets is disproportionate imo. By all accounts his season hasn’t been good but his MPG is slightly behind EMC and Sakamoto’s MPG is barely better Bobby Thomas’ yet is treated as an undroppable key player. Looking at the top scorers in the league, you have; Sainz, James...

Last season, we lost all our 6 pointers home and away. We’ve lost a few tough away games and all of a sudden it’s a collapse. It’s not. In our last 6 home games, we’re still 4th in the table on home form where we’ve scored in every game and kept clean sheets v WBA, Sunderland and Pompey...

Unpopular opinion but I’m confident Simms will do well next season. If not, Wright needs to start more games upfront if Simms isn’t up to it and you put out and out wingers around Wright. Sakamoto and EMC have 9 goals between them in 70 games and that isn’t good enough and I’m surprised to see...

The wide areas is where we need the biggest upgrade imo. There’s no depth for MVE, the options ant LB could be improved on and we have 2 contracted wingers for next season. I want to see our wingers take fullbacks on and see a lot more chances created like EMC’s assist v Hull. Too often the...

First and foremost, Lampard and his staff will see it as a failure and so will his boss, Doug King. The injuries and the slow start is obviously a mitigation but all things considered, we did the hard bit of pulling ourselves the table. So everyone should be disappointed if we don’t make the...

I have a general concern that we‘re not creating particularly great chances for any of our strikers. Since Haji has come back, how many of his goals have been good ‘strikers’ goals in the box that we’ve created for him? Most have been exceptional individual efforts or rebounds. He has missed...

Unless the sport we are watching is basketball, then no it’s not a foul or a red card. Was the contact sufficient to bring player down? No, you have to slow cameras down for the faintest bit of contact to be seen.

Not refereeing decisions? We certainly rode our luck when it came to scoring last minute winners and so on but these are things where you ‘make’ your own luck. Refereeing decisions aren’t neatly in that category.

Things have gone against us. At Plymouth, their hero of the day should’ve been red carded twice and against Luton, JDS was red carded when he clearly wasn’t the last man stopping a ‘clear’ goal scoring opportunity. Decisions like that change the outcome of games.

All surprisingly difficult games given the form table. Hull being the exception and a game we should have won. It is what it is. Failure to pick up points v Plymouth and Luton was not ideal but Boro was always the must-win the tie of the remaining 3 games.

It’s not a poor league though, is it? It’s highly competitive and the cliche that anyone can beat anyone on their day is true.

Exactly and even Sunderland have tailed off massively since their rapid start. In fact, I’ll put a cheeky 5-10a on 5th place (hopefully us) beating them over the two legs in the playoffs.