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Really? I’d have thought one of the group players who left the goal scorer unmarked in the box were culpable.

We’re in a strong position because we play the most important fixture are home against Boro. Even a draw v Luton guarantees we’re 6th on the final day. Leeds should beat Bristol so again, we’re looking decent value for 5th too.

Congratulations on the people voting for Biamou outing themselves as idiots.

He did last season so does that count for nothing in your view? He’s still a young player and has 2 years on his contract, give him time.

Hopefully Birmingham come and spend over the odds for Bidwell… 😂

One thing is unarguable, the results are better when he plays.

Birmingham will get exposed next season imo because they have spent massively on decent Championship players. It’s pretty common for teams to get 95-100 points in L1 and struggle in the championship. People have said we overspent on Rudoni and frankly, it looks like great value and wouldn’t...

That’s not the point I was responding to. People trotted out the ‘how many games has he scored in’ argument before I and others pointed out that Simms scored more goals from open play and in more games than Haji last season. Haji also missed more ‘big chances’ which has been the case this...

I don’t think we’ve overpaid for either player because the market is just that inflated. Birmingham spent £15m on Jay Stansfield who scored less goals than both our strikers last season. As you say, if £10m for Cannon is the going rate, we’ve done alright.

Yes, but did Wright miss a gilt edge opportunity to bring us back in the game? He also missed a big chance against Hull at 0-0. Ironically, last season Simms scored more open play goals and in more games than Wright (excluding penalties). I’m confident Simms will regain form.

I can’t put my finger on it exactly, but we look a better team with Simms playing even if he hasn’t been great individually. He does occupy defenders better than Haji and that creates space for players like Rudoni, Wright and Paterson (see Pompey winner). It’s good to know he’s doing what the...

It’s just the same things being rehashed on new threads. Dovin is injured and Wilson is either not fit enough or good enough to be behind Collins in the pecking order. There’s nothing we can do about the situation until we can sign a keeper in the summer. I’m more interested in how tactically...

He’s not beyond criticism, it’s just strange seeing this thread pipe up when we’ve conceded 3 shot goals against bottom of the league. It’s just odd target when there were plenty of poor performances elsewhere. Sakamoto and MVE didn’t take on anyone, Bidwell has been poor since his new...

We haven’t figured out how to get results from losing positions. When we score first, it’s a high probability we’ll win. If we concede first, it’s more or less guaranteed we won’t win the game, we’ve only beat Hull (H) from a losing position this season since Lampard has come in.

Which suggests it’s more tactical than formation, is it not? We left our lines pretty exposed when we played 5-3-2 and there were games we could’ve easily conceded first. Norwich, Sheff Wednesday, Blackburn and even Swansea to name a few. It’s a tactical flaw that’s been exploited by the...

Great. Another Brad Collins thread. He won’t be our GK next season as we’ll almost definitely sign another in the summer.

Agreed. Iit’s also a reoccurring theme that Haji is also missing big chances and our chance creation has took a nosedive in the last few games. If Simms had missed some big chances, I’d be a lot more accepting of the finger pointing. He wasn’t the reason why we conceded 3 goals today...

Simms didn’t play well today but at the end of they day, the big chances fell to Haji and he missed not 1, but 2 gilt edged chances at 3-1 down. There were many poor performances so targeting Simms is a bit cheap. Sakamoto didn’t take a player on, Rudoni and Wright failed to get balls in the...

It is more to do more with tactics than a formation. Dropping Sakamoto for Binks does not seem like a change that would change our fortunes. It was also a different mix of players. It’s a clear trend when we play the bottom teams away from home. They hit us on the counter attack because we...

Another loss and we trot out the same lazy trope that playing 5 at the back would magically work. Our record with 5-3-2 was against teams mostly above us.