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The same as at most top clubs nowadays, through a combination of traditional scouting & technical scouting. Technical scouting enables us to get the low down on an enormous amount of players that fit the managers criteria with no cognitive bias & is obviously completely objective. Targets are...

You have to be able to defend a bit as well, of course, but I'm saying it's not their number 1 principle & to say that it's just a fancy name for an attacking full back is really not understanding the role at all. Giles struggles with defending, positionally as much as anything & he was...

Complete myth that we recruit like that.

It really isn't.

We have one of the best recruitment teams around imo & they are hugely well regarded by others in the game.

Agree. Did you fill in the survey they circulated? I voiced that quite vociferously. £10 per game & they've actually managed to miss our goals twice 😡

Well that's just it, it's not the fact that we played 1 up front, it's the fact that the 1 was Biamou.

No. We only had 1 corner & James took it.

Bit simplistic but where did I say Baka/Gyökeres wasn't his fault? But if budget wasn't there or there wasn't better available then not completely on him. Fwiw, I fully understand keeping Baka in the summer. In hindsight it hasn't worked at all but it should have been he either contributes to...

Not really this season. Bristol City have recently with Walsh etc but he's been injured for a year so a bit different

I totally agree & disagree with the personnel Robins selected yesterday. I can only think that Walker is struggling fitness wise more than we know. The formation & general pattern of play early on was ok, it was never going to be pretty - awful pitch, Wycombe's tactics etc. but after the break...

No denying yesterday was piss poor mate & believe me I'm massively frustrated by it but I'm not panicking yet. I said before the game I didn't think we'd easily win like some believed & we're not the only ones who have failed to beat them. It's good to debate where we're going wrong lately for...

In fairness, it's not just here. Everywhere on social media you have fans saying the same thing. Anything other than 4-4-2 is seen as negative by some.

Hopefully!

Yeah definitely... Thomas Frank should have been sacked by Brentford for not playing 2 strikers against them too. Sure, they won the game & put 7 past them in the process with 1 striker but posters on here know better.

Godden only managed around 11 minutes & only got 18 vs Luton. He himself says he doesn't feel ready to start & can only do "15-20 minutes"

You don't think Robins knows that? He actively tried to offload him in the summer don't forget. The fact is, due to fitness issues with Walker & Godden coupled with under performance from the likes of Bakayoko & Gyökeres he's been forced to give Biamou a far bigger part than we wanted.

I'm sure there was a Telegraph interview with Robins or Farndon near the start of the season saying something about it & that they didn't feel it was the best option with such a condensed season as they were barely getting time to train between first team games as it is & they would be needed in...

I couldn't believe that, it was ridiculous! I do a lot of work with goalkeepers & yes, they are instructed to raise their knee to protect themselves but not fully stretch out your leg with studs showing like that! He got penalised for it v Rotherham & was lucky he didn't make contact today.

Personally, as a manager I'd welcome this break to have the whole first team squad training together & working on things but I can see your point.