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And I’m assessing properly after 10 games. ATM it’s looking it did last season. What’s annoying me is the looking back at where we were a few years back. It’s ultimately irrelevant. I’d also argue that the semi final was reasonably lucky. League One Oxford at home, bottom of the league...

Becuase for years we’ve had a siege mentality - we enjoyed being the underdog with no expectations. We spent fuck all and we’re mixing it with the best. now we’re stable, one of the biggest spenders in the league, the expectation has rightfully gone up and we’re playing worse than we did then...

Yeah but starting 10-15 games after everyone else usually puts us at a disadvantage

If Dennis Lawrence and Vivaesh were why we were good, and Robins doesn’t have anything to do with recruitment - as according to some on here What has Robins contributed?

Never said his influence wasn’t reduced - but if you honestly think they’ve just thrown 40m worth of players at him without him knowing you’re really naive. ultimately it’s his job as head coach to get the best of out of the players he’s got. It’s his tactics which have us playing this slow...

Of course Robins has influence - he’s got to manage the team.

That’s what the management teams lives and dies by. the squad has been assembled to the management’s specification. The targets don’t change

We’re in the top 3 spenders in both the last 2 seasons. Anything under top 6 is underperformance

It’s worth noting that throughout his career Robins has struggled when he’s in a relatively stable position. He did well at Rotherham with a 17 point deduction and lots of issues and it’s well known how well he’s done here. he failed at Scunthorpe and Huddersfield. Is it possible that robins is...

Based on what? The coaching is done behind the scenes. You have no idea on the coaching credentials

I was saying this the other day. We’re so slow and predictable

F Don’t take you much does it though. We’ve not sold anyone. is it ideal? No - but let’s give it 10 games before you start with your inevitable meltdown. we need a CM - we know this. But let’s see how we cope first

That decision not to sign a CM looking a brilliant decision right now

He’s just been released by QPR - surely Latibeudiere is far better cover

Doesn’t mean we should sit here and think “well it could have been worse”

I stand corrected. It’s a more fluid 4-4-2 at Villa. I’m sure he plays two players that drift in to almost have a 4-2-2-2 even in that situation - ironically we’d need to have kept Palmer.

We’re not going to play 4-4-2. Nobody in the modern game does. you negate MVE to a purely defensive Role. The central midfield gets overrun by 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1. the wide players are seen as more deeper - so again you’re negating the attacking prowess of Wright and whoever is in the right...

If we’re gonna go down that route - say we don’t sign a central midfielder and sheaf breaks his leg tomorrow….. This hypothetical scenario is often brought up, but you can’t base a transfer on it

Talking of Strikers - didn’t Vivaesh at the end of the season say they saw Wright as a more central player? Could they possibly sell Simms to Bournemouth for cash and Billing and play EMC on the left?