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So who would you have brought on? Just saying anyone isn’t helpful. I could see a logic in bringing on Tavares to just stretch the play potentially or maybe Torp for BTA and play 5-4-1 to seal the draw If anything, the more viable critique is that we seemed to consider going for the win when...

Yeah, did you see the state of the 22/23 after the loanees went back and selling Vik and Hamer? It was a squad that’d struggle to stay up. The players remaining in that team are; Allen, Sheaf, Bidwell, Wilson, Eccles and Tavares. We’ve signed 17 players since then so dividing that by £45...

What subs would you have made? It does irritate me when fans just want a manager to make changes for the sake of it. Looking at our bench, there was only really Torp to bring on. Sakamoto was supposedly not 100% so that leaves: Binks JDS Tavares Rapha Kitching was having a good game so would...

You can tell the ranker of losing in stoppage time has clouded people’s judgement. It was a good away performance and had we held on for a draw, the narrative would’ve been that Lampard’s tactics were spot on and we were unlucky to concede such a good strike for the equaliser.

You don’t be 3rd in xG GD overall if you’re a shit team. The key data metrics suggest we’re a decent outfit that is underperforming.

At risk of sounding delusional, you can’t completely rule out the playoffs. 11 points isn’t that much of a gap. It’s unlikely and I wouldn’t bet on us making it or the team putting together a winning streak. That said, stranger things have happened. A few signings this window and Haji and EMC...

I’d like to see us play a full strength team for this. Dovin MVE Thomas Kitching Bidwell Eccles Torp Rudoni Sakamoto Simms BTA Assuming Sheaf is out and the formation is 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1, either works for me. I’d like to see Rapha get more minutes this game too.

Let’s go Bunting mental…

Awww, it’s nice we’ve made up now! 😂 x This is why I think the issue(s) with the team are ability rather than application. The players we have are generally good at their jobs. As a team, the right pieces aren’t quite there yet. The defence is too loose and whilst I’d like to see the back 4...

He does, as does Lewandowski for Poland. They also play a lot of games v inferior opposition. Both strikers get a lot of criticism from the media at times. Lewandowski is criticised for his performances at major tournaments and as for Haaland...

He scored 1 in 3 for Sunderland and scored more open play goals and in as many games as Wright did last season. He definitely has what it takes.

Robins actually managed Bassette best imo. My bad, I keep forgetting his injury! I’m glad the stats corroborate what I seem to be seeing. The central issue this season is that our strikers are not getting touches in the box. Of course a striker is going to struggle if they’re not getting...

You had leaders in that team. Hamer and Vik were the stars but of equal importance, was Kelly and McFadz. You can see just how influential McFadz and Kelly (in particular) are on the team and organising everyone in game. This squad just lacks that calming influence under pressure and when Sheaf...

Robins is no longer here, but a comment he made in one post-match interview was that the players were ‘taking the easy way out’ and not being bold in our passing really resonated with me. To me, it’s one of those things that, once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it. It also sums up our season...

I agree he needs to do more. The frustrating thing for him must be that he started those opening 5-6 games and wasn’t great and was dropped and hasn’t had a consecutive start since. He had some good games v Watford, Luton and NYD v Cardiff and was dropped each time. Comparing it to Haji, he...

Forget Istanbul in 2005, Rob Holding’s hairline is the best comeback in football…

People made this same argument about Lati/Binks starting ahead of Kitching… Then Lampard was impressed with him and he will probably start the next league game. You could’ve applied that logic to Collins over Dovin and eventually, we look at lot better with Dovin in goal. As for Norwich...

He excels at finishing chances and his goals for us show that. Vik is a unicorn player for us and it wasn’t just him. Hamer’s passing was perfect for him and we just don’t have that in this team. Vik wouldn’t have done as well on 22/23 without Hamer in the team.

Simms needs a run in the team similar to the one Bassette has had since Robins has been sacked. If he has 8-10 games and he doesn’t score, then we’d need to go back to the drawing board. Which would be a disaster and sends all the wrong messages out to the fanbase. The team losing MVE, Sheaf...

He’s just a number 9. Won’t do much outside of the box but inside the box is a different player. That’s dependent on getting chances to your striker though which we’ve not done well this season. My personal view that a front 3 of Haji-Simms-EMC could paper over the cracks of our midfield woes...