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You’re right. I was adding to what you were saying because many people throughout this season said that we specifically needed loan players and accused King/Austin of refusing to sign loanees. Which supported your point that you don’t ‘need to need’ loans and we agree on the view that it has...

What do you think posting on the thread is doing?! 😂

If we got promoted, we have to look at it like a 2-4 year project. Accept that we’ll probably get relegated first time around but sign the quality needed to future-proof the team for 2-3 seasons to bridge the gap.

The recruitment strategy is to sign the best players available to us, irrespective of whether it’s a loan or not. Austin was open that the loan market they were operating in was difficult for a variety of reasons. If the official policy was ‘we don’t like loans’ they would’ve just said that and...

For example, WBA under Mowbray are 4-4-3 (W-D-L) so they’re at risk of dropping out of the Top 6. They drew against Burnley and Leeds away and followed up with a draw v Hull and they nearly threw it all away. The same applies to Bristol City too, their away form hasn’t been great, they’ve won...

He’s 29, I don’t think that’s the kind of player we’d be interested in.

If a CM is likely to be sold this summer, it’s probably Eccles. His value hasn’t gone down and imo, he’s the odd one out of the CM cohort under Lampard. In Lampard’s 4-3-3, we attack in a 3-2-5 shape and because Grimes drops back, there’s a lot of space between the CMs and the CBs. With this in...

The assumption of many on here is that it has been dismissed out of hand when it clearly hasn’t. We sign 2 loanees last season and one player was written off as terrible last season is doing well for Brighton this season. The first order of business after 22/23 was to rebuild the team and we...

Context is everything. We picked up COH when we were in L1 and Vik in our first season in the Championship after a bad first half season at Swansea. Neither player was brought in to be starters initially, especially Vik who was behind Biamou, Godden and maybe even Walker in that first season...

They’ve (Dean Austin and King) said it’s a difficult market because most players you sign on loan, especially from the Prem, expect to play. If they don’t, it impacts the player; parent club and the agent. The takeaway for me was that if there’s a top player available who would definitely...

We’ve added a lot of quality without needing loans. Besides, what people were calling for were hot shot young lads like Doyle back in 22/23. We lacked experienced and leadership but since Kitching, Allen and Grimes have come in, the group looks fine for the time being. Unless we were signing...

Yeah, but 3 teams have to go down and the likelihood of all of them exceeding expectations against us is quite low. As bad as the Derby loss was for us, they’ve got the best home record of the teams we face away after Sheff U. Pompey don’t travel well, Hull have the worst home record in the...

It’s not likely, mind you and to be frank, with Sunderland playing WBA, Bristol, Millwall, Norwich and Blackburn… we want them to pick up some wins (especially against WBA). After all, the difference between finishing 4th and 5th is playing the first tie home or away. If we beat one of Sheff U...

At the current run rates, Sunderland are not out of reach. We could quite easily lose to Sheff U as well as Burnley and still catch up to Sunderland if we won the remaining 6 as that would put us on 77 points. They’ve got some tough opponents coming up where you wouldn’t expect them to lose but...

This side of the New Year, he’s scored a fair few goals and important ones to get us up the table. Scored in a lot of our big games last season too.

I’ve never suggested he is and have said many times Wright is our best player. It’s contextualising things that Simms just isn’t as bad as people make out. Frankly, without he and BTA, we wouldn’t have been in the position we are in now.

Simms scored more goals from open play too… Haji scored 3-4 penalties and had a high xG of chances missed.

We also gave them the first goal and something to hold on to. That allowed us to get rattled and forget how to clear our lines and to string basic passes and so on.

I don’t think so. If Hamer couldn’t get a prem team to buy him and COH only got a top end Championship team to sign him as a free agency after a career best season… where would Sheaf end up? His best interests are probably getting promoted with us which could happen this season.

They draw just as many games as they’ve won so we’ve got a good chance of not losing at least. We were favourites against Sunderland and even against Sheff U away, there’s a c. 54% chance we won’t lose. Against Burnley at home, you’ve got to be bullish about not losing. Since Lampard took over...