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We finished 9th last season and Grimes is more like Hamer than Eccles, if you want to build a profile of the two.

We played Sheaf and Eccles together too, it’s not really fixed. The profile we actually need from a perspective player is long range passing and a ball carrier in midfield. That’s what Grimes offers so imo, would slot in nicely alongside Sheaf.

Didn’t we play Hamer and Sheaf together? It’s not necessarily an either/or situation. If Sheaf is unwilling to sign a contract in the summer, we’ll have to sell him. It’s not likely we’ll sell him this window because he’s injured. So for at least 10-15 games in the season, we’ll have both...

Sheaf and Grimes, Rudoni/Torp as a AM in a 4-2-3-1 for me.

If Sheaf was winning to sign a contract, it’d be stupid to sell up. Form is temporary and with more depth in the squad, Sheaf’s minutes can be reduced to mitigate injury.

The stopgap would be signing players to get up to the Prem. We’ve signed a lot of promising talent that gives us profitability in the squad. We’re not going to get promoted if all we’re doing is signing 20-24 years to sell on. Using Grimes as an example, he’ll give us 4-5 years potentially and...

Yes, in the summer it’s unlikely we keep Sheaf though. Unless he is willing to extend his contract, which is a doubt. Maybe if we finish in the playoffs or just short of it, we’ll keep MVE, Sheaf and so on. It’s important we’re ambitious this window and next to demonstrate to the fans and the...

We’ll play similarly to how we did last season in a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 with Haji and EMC as our wide players. There’ll be plenty of energy from Rudoni to chase down defences, it was often the case that our defensive shape was a 4-4-2 in the early FL days too.

His stat line is similar to Hamer’s for us in 22/23 so it’s exactly the signing we need.

He deserves a contract extension, imo. A good role player and leader, even if I had written him off earlier in the season. If we sign Grimes and another CM then the case for moving him along becomes stronger. Grimes is the kind of signing that is probably the immediate replacement if Sheaf was...

Allen, all due respect to him, is a useful role player. Nothing more, nothing less. He’s put in a fine string of performances and lately and deserves all the plaudits he’s getting. There’s levels to this and players like Sheaf and Grimes are just 2-3 gears ahead of him.

I wouldn’t worry about it too much, just take it game by game! 74 points should be enough for 5th or maybe even 4th.

Did you see us making playoffs at this point in 2022/23 or further back, us winning the league in 2019/20? On both occasions, I didn’t. 6 points off playoffs is a good place to be, especially since we’ve nearly halved that deficit since Norwich away. Hilariously, there was more than few people...

Sorry, my bad - I skipped over his name when skimming the team sheet earlier on. In any case, he hasn’t played a minute of football so it’s not ‘clear’ he’s seen as an understudy.

Why is the at clear? He is yet to make an appearance on the bench. We don’t play a RW because we don’t have 2-3 wingers to play. Things will different when Wright and EMC return - that point is actually clear. If you only have 1 winger fully fit and available, how can play a formation that...

He hasn’t gone missing, he hadn’t played consecutive games since September before starts v Bristol and Blackburn. Being limited to 20-30 minute cameos will not help any player, especially strikers. Just look at Eccles, was a top performer in the team yet his substitute cameos have attracted...

Our best 11 with everyone available, imo is: 4-3-3 Dovin MVE Thomas Kitching Bidwell Torp Sheaf Rudoni EMC Simms Wright

The best part? It wasn’t even his best tackle, when he flattened their #8 in the middle of the pitch was just great see.

Bassette was screaming for it… but he was running away from the goal towards the right. It was a poor shot but Bassette didn’t give him a great option either because and he’d have had to cut in on his left, it was a poor run.

Allen is a great role player who should be kept in the fold because he’s a senior figure in the team and hard worker. Not only is he playing a good role at DM, he’s also been filling as captain in Sheaf’s stead.