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Thomas aside, Kitching still has the most clean sheets of our defenders. If we had a striker on the bench who had more goals than our starters, it would be strange to not start them. In fact, the reverse is what we do with Bassette…

You can literally count Binks and Lati’s clean sheets on one hand in the games they’ve played in 30-40 games. I can accept the role tactics play in this stat, you look at goals like WBA’s 2nd and that’s a piece of horrific defending from Lati.

It’s a coaching and tactical thing. There are too many players whose form has nosedived to be a coincidence.

It’s been 3 games under Lampard…

The way we were playing under Robins, we weren’t going to do much better for the 4 game stretch we had without him including Cardiff. Robins has failed to beat WBA so not sure what would’ve been different.

Tactically, we looked alright today. Created a lot of openings but lacked clinical finishing. Their first goal was fortunate but the 2nd was just bad defending from Thomas and Lati. It’s time for Kitching to rejoin the side imo.

I’m feeling bullish about tonight despite our bad record at the Hawthorns. Cutting it fine getting there from work though!

By the same logic, he also isn’t being undermined which is the kind of thing that’s been insinuated several times. Be it certain signings, coaching hires/fires, coaching structure and much more. That quote is the most innocuous thing to say in the context and being twisted to justify this idea...

This sounds conspiratorial. Both MR and Dean Austin are on record that MR sets the profile he wants, Austin finds players, gives a shortlist to MR, MR takes his fancy from the options provided and Austin requests money from DK. This is simplified of course. The process isn’t MR sees new...

It makes sense, Binks signing in June would have happened well in advance of that date because as far back as last December/Jan you said if Binks stays beyond the Jan window, he’ll stay. Whoever said it DA and DK made the decision to go with Binks sounds like there’s been spin applied by...

Great signing, takes the modelling workload from the main players.

He is and absolutely a better player than Binks. However, I do think Binks can develop into a really good defender so I don’t hate that preference because the Binks deal was decent - €1.8m is a good buy. @Saddlebrains Robins highly rated Binks so what his involvement in the decision making? I...

Top man, thank you mate!

Has anybody got a sizing advice on the Umbro, Ribero and FA Cup final shirts?

Lampard has only been through the door for 5 minutes! He probably hasn’t had long enough with the players to figure out his best team. From the Cardiff and Millwall matches, there were 4 changes.

I back Kitching to work his way back into the side. He's definitely a Championship standard CB.

I’m not convinced the CET comments are real people to be honest.

It’s reasonable to think we’ll get 1 or 2 signings in, by all accounts we were chasing a CM and a CB (even that RB too) up until deadline day. I also don’t think Lampard would’ve took the job if there wasn’t no scope to invest in Jan/next summer either. He knows this job will remake or break...

When Haji gets back from injury, he’ll play upfront imo. So an axis of Sakamoto-Wright-EMC which to me has great balance. Longer term, I still believe EMC will be ahead of Sakamoto on the right with Simms upfront.

All of this is why I’m cautiously optimistic that Lampard will be a great manager for this team. He’s got top coaches working in his team and he himself has coached at the highest level. Lampard has said he’s used his time out to really focus on the game and tactics so it’s interesting to see...