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Bassette hasn’t looked like scoring against either of them. I respect Lampard for actually sticking with a striker because they need consistent game time - Haji Wright had a 5 game drought between his run pre-injury. Robins got to a point where Simms would start, then BTA, then Bassette and the...

With the players we’ve got, it’ll end up being EMC and Wright on the wings. If Sakamoto is getting good looks at the far post, imagine what EMC/Wright can do. Sakamoto had a purple patch in Dec-Feb, got injured and had this aura about him. He’s a decent player but his role will be a supporting...

For what it’s worth, Bassette will go on to be a good player, my personal opinion is that it’s too much, too young. On the Lampard point, it’s 7 games in Evo. I don’t think Bassette will keep his place for much longer if the last 2 games are to go by (that’s being slightly kind). The same was...

We don’t know, but Simms was wanted by many teams in our league including Ipswich. Under Robins, he got decision fatigued and couldn’t figure out who he wanted to play. Look at how EMC has thrived since MR has left. As for Lampard, he’s been here for 7 games, let’s wait how his team develops...

In his career at Cov, he averages about a goal every 195 minutes which is good by any reasonable metric. It hammers the point that needs to be played more often rather than having bit part sub cameos.

Every player has a value and if you’re priced out on wages or transfer fee, move on or else you end up like Man U with a stable of players they paid too much for and pay too much to get rid of.

What’s the point in bringing up a stat of the games he’s scored in? It seems pretty flawed to me. I’ll use Gyokeres as an example: In 22/23, Vik only scored in 18 league games and I believe most were against lower table teams. In 21/22, he scored in 15 league games. Which brings Vik’s record to...

A lot of people are cottoning on that Bassette just isn’t at the level required yet. Gyokeres even struggled to break into our dross relegation survival season team with Biamou upfront. Bassette has a lot of brilliant raw attributes but he isn’t impacting games and in key moments, comes up...

Like this season, spent a lot of games getting bit part minutes and when we actually back him to lead the line, his goal scoring record spoke for itself. This season under Lampard, we’ll get plenty of good balls in the box which favours Simms > Bassette and BTA yet we choose to bring Simms on...

Good point today and you’ll take the clean sheet but we moved the ball too slowly and in the wide channels, struggled to take on players. Rudoni and Bidwell linked up decent at times. As for Bassette, he needs a rest because he’s not really impacting the last last few games in a meaningful fashion.

Thought we struggled with the setup because EMC offered something not many of our players do and that is take players on. Bassette didn’t offer anything for me (again) and feel that we need more than a bit of youthful energy. Simms looks constantly more of a threat than him. Another player...

It’s not an unreasonable assumption, but still doesn’t make it right. It could just as easily be £3m in instalments and performance incentives making the deal worth up to £4-4.5m for arguments sake. Such a clause could be promotion which may not be realised. For example, Simms’ deal is worth ‘up...

Loans and experience can be mutually exclusive, we tried signing Joe Worrall on loan in the summer and there are plenty of players out there not getting game time. Going into this season the gaps were pretty evident, the leadership core from the MR era has gone and we hadn’t actually signed...

Agreed that’s this forum can get toxic in a bad patch, not all our players have been poor purchases or a waste money. Look at how the script has flipped on EMC since Lampard took over. We clearly had more money in the pot for Jan. We agreed to sign that Stamenic, we’re chasing Burnley-bound...

Lampard wouldn’t have joined without the promise of being backed in the transfer window. This job has too much riding on his own reputation to not have the team and backing from the owner for his own success.

That there is a flaw because individual stats do not plug into a team KPIs. Our issue is that we concede too many goals and often, there aren’t obvious mistakes - take Hull two weeks ago, no one made an obvious mistake but both CBs were just so slow reacting to the rebound.

When you have a basic belief that a player isn’t a very good defender, how do you measure this exactly? There are a lot of immeasurable things in defending, We have 3 defenders who have played in and around 40 games for us with 5 clean sheets, those players are: JDS Binks Lati (more CS as a RB...

This is true, my point regarding Lati was related to defending specifically. Thomas is our best defender and simultaneously the worst on the ball and it feels like he’s been told to play simpler passes.

You know what, I actually had a good journey back from Pompey! The weather and game was miserable so the only things left to do is enjoy the company, the beer and journey home!

I think they only do it for 70-odd people if I understood what the ticket office lady said to me the other day when I looked at booking it for Sheff Weds in the cup.