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Since Lampard has taken over, the defence has generally improved. I’d like a marquee signing at CB, but Kitching and Thomas were a good partnership last season, we had the 9th best defence in the league and that’s with poor form towards the end of the season. With 4 first team options, unless...

I agree that we need a CM, RB and a CB, I don’t believe we need to shuffle the pack at LB until the summer. There’s sufficient cover in all the positions you outline that we don’t need to change the system. Even if MVE got injured, you’d stick Lati at RB as he played many times last season...

Karma for not respecting the shirt! 😂

You’re not selecting the team. If you want to play 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 and you don’t have the personnel available to do that, it’s a problem. 5-3-2 has served a purpose and given us balance against tough opposition. That said, we have 3 quality players that are wingers in EMC, Wright and Sakamoto...

Yep, if we did an inquest into football fan behaviour, a lot of people be guilty of acting unacceptably. It’s just a bit too personal to be talking about a specific person, making speculative judgements based on what they’ve seen/heard of them and that person isn’t here to defend themselves...

The Australian kid who has played 10 minutes all season. Both Robins and Lampard said the same thing; talented player but his body isn’t robust enough to play meaningful minutes yet. CM and RB are positions of need, agreed. That doesn’t mean we’re not working on signing players in this...

Agreed. Like anyone, if they’re doing anything illegal, they’d get banned. If behaving like a twat is enough to get you banned, many football fans up and down the country would be issued with banning orders.

This is also making an assumption the person is disabled when they may not be. You also don’t want to upset unstable people and potentially put these supervisors in danger. This is a non-issue to be honest. Football fan behaves poorly at many football games, it’s not new.

Yes, if we want to play with proper wingers. If Lampard wants to play Haji as a striker, we have 2 first wingers and that’s it.

Agreed, shouldn’t be talking about a ‘vulnerable person’ and/or ‘drug addled idiot’ on a public forum. If people are concerned, signpost whomever to reach out and support him.

It’s pretty simple. We can’t play the formation we want to because of 2 injuries. We’ll be pursuing multiple targets and if @Jimmy87’s info is right, we are talking to a RB and a CM.

I generally trust what the ITKs have to say, it’s just the details they sometimes appear to fill in the blanks themselves. Supposedly it was ‘1 in, 1 out’ too this window. It’s more likely that at some point it was mentioned we need to clear out some deadwood before spending big.

The meeting not going well doesn’t necessarily equate to us not being willing to pay his wages.

We need depth, having to change formation because two players got injured isn’t great. In recent games, we barely make 5 subs because there just isn’t the quality to bring off the bench. If we want to compete in the playoffs, we probably should be able to bring 4 quality subs you’d be happy to...

“Physically demanding” in this context is a euphemism for taking a kicking.

Credit to Lampard where it’s due. Two massive back-to-back wins. Another win against Watford and we’re back in the conversation for playoffs.

Anyone know you can’t book hospitality yet? Or am I doing something wrong?

If we try it for 5-10 games and it isn’t working, then you assess the facts in the ground and adjust accordingly. RW is not an unfamiliar position to EMC so there’s not reason he can’t make an impact. The only data we have on EMC playing RW is a few cameos and 1-2 starts on the right. The...

Do we? Saka, Wright and EMC. Rudoni has played there but isn’t a winger. It took 2 injuries to necessitate a change in system because we didn’t have the personnel to play 4-2-3-1. It was the same last season when MVE was a makeshift RW.

Most reviews of him in the early days weren’t favourable on the left. It took 3-4 games to change people’s minds. You need to find a way to fit all your players in the team and one of those players will have to play in a different role.