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I’m about WW and scaling the stairs after a heavy leg day at the gym had my legs like jelly! 😂 It’s also quite slippy when it’s wet and cold so I’m surprised there hasn’t been anyone who’s fell over near me.

Gyokeres is a unicorn player and we are unlikely to find a player better than him in a lifetime. Simms’ overall goal scoring record speaks for itself and he does a very thankless task of holding the ball up and being a general nuisance. Granted, it’s only been a short sample, but Haji hasn’t...

Burnley is a small town, population of around 96k. They won’t really get much more than 25k really.

Although there’s a lot of empty seats during this barren spell of theirs. We don’t even sell out our season tickets and stadium utilisation is 83%. Talk of expansion is silly when attendances of 7-12k are within recent memory.

Even if we lost all 3 matches, which I don’t think we will, we’re still odds on to finish in the playoffs. We've got more favourable run in than all the teams around us barring Blackburn whose form is patchy. A win v Derby and Sunderland and you’d back us to get 2-4 points v Sheff U and Burnley.

Anyone interested in a tactical read, this Twitter thread is good:

You’re Wright because he’s only really played LW regularly since joining us. He has scored most of his goals playing as a striker in 2 man partnership with us rather than as a lone striker here. The way we’re playing atm, Haji will make the most of his attributes picking the ball up and running...

Against Derby and/or Sunderland, I’d like to see Sakamoto-Simms-Wright. I’m assuming EMC is injured, but even if he’s fit and well, Sakamoto has played so well in the last 2 games he absolutely deserves to keep his spot. It’s his shirt to lose.

He’ll go on the wing eventually, Simms has added a lot of value with his hold up play and physicality against defenders. Wright’s most impactful moment yesterday was when he picked up the ball and ran at defenders down the left flank. Wright did put pressure on the defender which led to a poor...

We started slow and Stoke had the better of the first 13 minutes but then we completely controlled the half. Second half, it was even until they got back into it where they could’ve won it to be fair. We did also come close where Lati broke forward and botched a cross to Haji which would’ve...

We should’ve been at least 3-0 up going into the half… The first half performance was far more dominant than their 2nd half performance. Stoke weren’t great at all and you can see why they’ve been so poor lately. Even Robins admitted their 1st goal ‘came from nothing’ and their second goal...

We’ll have to wait and see really because Haji isn’t 100% yet. With Sakamoto playing so well and BTA having just come on, the most natural change to make would’ve been Simms. Likewise with the Oxford game. With how direct we’ve been at times lately, you probably want Haji and Simms getting in...

Exactly that and some of the matches have been against bottom half/relegation contention teams that you’d really expect them to pick up 2-3 more teams.

I agree but not sure why BTA remained at LW when they were on the pitch. BTA is a good striker for this level, he’s just not a good winger imo.

He’s just not a winger and we probably need to stop playing him there. Haji looks better out wide in a 4-2-3-1 and I just feel we lose a lot in the last 2 games he came on for Simms.

I’ll freely admit that my perception of them was rooted about 3-4 games ago. They’ve been horribly inconsistent and dropped points against teams they ought to beating and now that have a tough run in. They’ve been inconsistent all season and they’re probably punching below their weight.

Stoke played how we did earlier in the season. They defended their box horribly and all 3 our goals were pretty avoidable. They got the rub of the green for a) the penalty and b) their equaliser that was offside. One thing that irked me about me about his pre-match press conference was when we...

Exactly, same with WBA too so the teams around us won’t necessarily be picking up that many points. We’re well in the driving seat.

They do have arguably the best striker in the league but actually, I agree with you. Their window of opportunity was getting wins v Oxford, Hull, Derby and Blackburn. They drew all 4 games and lost to PNE. Their next 6 games: Sheff W (h), Bristol (a), WBA (h), Plymouth (a), Sunderland (h) and...

Agreed assuming Haji could go the distance without risking him getting injured. Haji’s best snippet was when he picked the ball up at LW and was otherwise anonymous. His position was good for the chance where Lati crossed the ball in but the final ball was lacking. No idea how we didn’t have a...