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There is a squad in there but 1-2 players will turn it for us. Get Wright, Simms and EMC as the forward line and an intelligent signings at CM and CB and team will be looking really sharp. In attack, we can get the ball to dangerous positions, that final link has been missing since Hamer left...

Defensively we’re so fragile and it’s a piss take, frankly. In 2024 as a whole, it felt like we gifted goal after goal to the opposition. It needs sorting out asap as it’s holding us back.

No, I don’t believe so. Collins first start was against Sunderland because Dovin had a ‘freak accident’ or whatever Rhys Carr said at the time. Collins literally conceded an average of 2 goals a game and there was a statistic floating around that we’d conceded something ridiculous like 15 goals...

It’s a wonder he was ever dropped in the first place, heard something about his attitude being an issue. But statistically he’s been comfortably our best GK and today was a good performance from him, there wasn’t a lot he could do about the goal. I wonder how many points were dropped because of...

I thought BTA made some useful contributions and in the absence of BTA and Wright, he adds something a bit more to attack in terms of dribbling and directness. Sakamoto looked better today but still too hesitant taking on players. Likewise the midfield 3 of Eccles, Torp and Sheaf didn’t do much...

I just don’t think he’s quite over his injury from preseason because he was taking injections at various points to get through the game. That will impact your performance and it’s not helped that the team as a whole are just not playing well. That last point applies to everyone btw.

How much could you realistically expect to change in the one month he’s been in charge? Yes we’ve played 8 or 9 games but there’s not actually much contact time with the players because we’ve been playing so many games in quick succession.

Rudoni gets more goal contributions too. Had COH stayed with us, my suspicion would be that we’d be talking about him in the same vain as we are with Sheaf and MVE. I think he’d be struggling this year for us as he had been for Sheff U who are a better outfit than us. That’s just an opinion...

Lati and Binks’ clean sheet record speaks for itself and not in a good way. Thomas, however, makes far less mistake generally and with todays goal, could’ve done better but he’s had to scramble to get back to their player because we’ve misplaced a pass with our fullbacks high up. His passing...

Eccles definitely at fault for the first goal but having watched the replay, Thomas should’ve done better. Lati at CB is bemusing, what was he doing for the 1 v 1 they missed in the second half?

The goal today wasn’t Thomas and Lati’s fault, Cardiff had more players in the box than us and their spare man headed it across goal for Robinson. There is a lack of quality in midfield, Robins mentioned it many times towards the end of last season. Defensively, we’ve been pretty weak since Feb...

We can’t play counter attacking football if we concede the first goal of the game 60% of the time. This is the fundamental issue facing this team because the team that scores first, often wins (or at least not lose). Today is a great example, 1-0 down after 5 minutes! We do ourselves no favours...

In fairness, there isn’t synergy with the CMs and AMs, I don’t think Rudoni compliments them that well. That’s not his fault, it’s just there’s a need of a different profile of player in the team. With Hamer, he would either a) send the ball up the field from our own half or b) dribble the ball...

It takes months to bed in a new style of play and as FL mentioned, they have to a lot of coaching in games because the volume of games has been massive. Half his games have been played in the last 2 weeks. It’s not an excuse, there’s just a need for patience with the team and FL. It hasn’t...

Form is temporary, class is permanent. This skid mark of form may work in our favour if we can get him to sign a new contract. With COH, his form in Dec-Feb all but confirmed he was never going to sign a new contract.

Hull are also in a false position based on this. It’s not just us, but we’re 3rd in xG GD and yet we’re 15th in the league. Why would that be the case? Frankly, it’s all about the first goal in match. Why? When we score first, our record is 5-2-2 which is 1.89 PPG (which is quite low). The...

EMC and Wright are both game changers, it’s unfortunate that neither are fit. In midfield is where our issues truly lie. Eccles, Torp nor Sheaf are bad players. However, they’re just all more or less the same player, there’s no variety in midfield and none of them are comfortable with a)...

Plymouth are just a shit team, that’s why. They’re bottom of just about every category there is. I’m sure you watch our games and you can see that when we concede, the team we’re playing often lets us have possession and sits back in solid formation. So we’re going to be having more possession...

I said ‘distorted’ and the two aren’t mutually exclusive. We’re not a bad side, but we concede the first goal of the game far too early. Our record when conceding first is 2-4-8 (discounted today but looks like we’ll lose) - 0.3 points per game. 60% of games we’ve conceded first needs to be...

Exactly! That’s where they’ll end up too! On one metric (xG for and against), we’re up near the top of the table. The other, goals conceded first, it’s alongside relegation-bound teams.