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That’s what baffles me to be honest. I only support Cov because it’s my local team and that was drummed into me from a young age. Seeing people support clubs miles away, that they’ve only seen on TV is just not for me.

Who are now on a 5 game winning streak now and have a mathematical chance of making the playoffs themselves. Besides, it needs a massive GD swing for Millwall and just can’t see a way they finish above us and Boro. Quick maths in my head is that they’d need us and Bristol to get no more than 1...

I’m relaxed about it, Bristol have won 4 away games all season so are unlikely to beat Leeds who presumably still want to win the league. PNE cannot sit safe in their position either so all of a sudden, Bristol have a tough relegation threatened side on the final day. Back to us, playing Boro...

A friend of mine sorted me out for this one and I’d initially been told we’d missed out but a handful of tickets were available online after the club tweeted it had sold out. If I couldn’t go to a game and some poor soul who from the other side of the world wanted a ticket, I’d let them have...

Sakamoto’s individual performance was indictative of the team as whole when you compare the WBA and Plymouth games. At WBA, he impacted the game massively and on Monday was anonymous. I can’t recall him taking anyone on or crossing the ball. Whichever league we’re in next season, we need at...

It’s a good balance between him and Grimes. Sheaf acts as a pivot higher up the pitch and Grimes does a similar thing in a deeper position. Lampard was on the money when he called out the lack of imagination in the final third. Too often Rudoni, MVE, Sakamoto, Wright or Paterson wouldn’t take...

Agreed. The rationale was sensible to rest Sheaf (and JDS) given his recent injury issues.

It’s Pompey away all over again. Where you just had to put Dovin back in. If you concede every shot on target you face, you won’t win many football games. The same is probably gonna happen this weekend with Wilson. If not, he must’ve spent the whole time out of the team on the piss.

The time for another Lampard hoodoo-breaking special is Saturday…

He won’t get an assist for it, but Simms undoubtedly created the space for Paterson by occupying 2 defenders in the box.

Even if we don’t go up, it’ll be an exciting summer. If we can bolster the defence and get some wingers in, we’ll be in a really good place. It makes me think someone like Stoke, Derby or Boro would fancy putting in a bid. Robins and Eustace were big fans iirc. He’s a solid player but he’s not...

Just going off gut feeling here, but Sheaf is staying imo, we’ve got a contract extension option so he’s effectively contracted to 2027. The interest in him won’t be there so his best bet is promotion with us atm.

To summarise why we lost yesterday because we made too many individual errors and didn’t create enough chances. We could play 6 defenders but if we leave players unmarked, give the ball away in compromising positions and fail to clear our lines… we’ll still concede goals. We still have to...

Fair play to them all, if we didn’t have them in February before the other players came back, we’d have been in a bad place.

Provisional outs: Eccles Lati BTA Bidwell/JDS Wilson/Collins Interesting tidbits. Is Eccles attracting interest from a team in our league to above? I know you didn’t mention a GK specifically, it’s a fair presumption that Dovin’s injury has changed things. The reports linking us a GK were...

Last season he did score 13 goals when starting most games… which is 1 in 3 in a 46 game season. In 17 of his appearances this season have been less than 30 minute appearances. That certainly has skewed the numbers, equally, it’s misleading to say he’s scored 6 in 40-odd presented as if he’s...

‘Featured in’ is the operative word here. When you work out the minutes he’s played, it’s nearly half the games - 25.5 games. It’s totally different comparing a player who’s started 40 games versus someone who’s come on as a sub in a similar amount of games. The long term data on Simms’...

1 goal in 13 for Sheff U. He only scored the 9 goals over 6 games. 2 in 13 for Leicester too, all scored in one game. I don’t think we’ll get much better than Haji and Simms to be honest. We’ll have to work with what we’ve got.

Players have bad seasons and this is something people seem unable to accept. Simms has had a drop off, there’s no denying that. He’s struggled to break into the team, with injury and loss of form. However, when the team needed him to deliver, his goals were instrumental in shooting us up the...

There you go, he cost £3.5m which is decent value. Isidor is on a goal per 252 minutes, Yates 326 MPG and even Zain Flemming is 235 MPG. I’m not going to go through the games the scored in but will probably be a surprisingly low %. Piroe has only scored in 14 games in a freescoring and dominant...