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If your plan is to play 1 striker and to get to half time at 0-0 then he's fine to start the odd game because he chases a few lost causes, wins a few balls in the air and isn't too bad at holding the ball up if it's played to his feet. From that point of view he's a cost effective 4th choice and...

All I said was I didn't think there were any 9s today. If anything was silly, it was the 4 post rant and giggle at my expense that you had about it afterwards. The result, team performance and indivdual player performance are different things. The result was good, the team performance was...

The result was a good one, I'm happy with it. Thought player ratings were for how well our players played though, but if there is some special formula I need to factor in that includes opposition budgets and league position please share it. Will be harsh on Walker when he scores a hattrick vs...

There are some crazily high ratings on here for a 1-1 draw against a poor Norwich side, where we were 2nd best until the subs were made. Think a late equaliser has gone to people's heads - there were no 9s out there on the pitch today.

A lot of people were moaning at the Birmingham 0-0 but it'll be the game we look back at as the 'reset' for the season.

Liam Kelly is an absolute danger magnet. He's always in the right place, In fact, he should change his middle name to Danger so that he can introduce himself 'Hi, my name is Liam Kelly, Danger is my middle name.'

When every thing goes through the WBs and we get the ball out wide so often, 2 tiny, hardworking AMs are an utter waste. Get 2 strikers in the box and get Sheaf and Hamer arriving at the edge of the box. No idea what Robins plan is to win that game again. It's fine trying to get to half time at...

All I want from a match is to maximise our chances of getting something from the game but like the 4-2-3-1 the other week it's completely hamstrung if we play that deep. Rather have 2 up front and one of the box AMs deeper to link it a bit more in the 2nd half.

Has there been a good 90 min performance from an AM when we've played 5 at the back this season? The box is too far apart and nothing is going through the middle, all through the WBs. All he can do is run anround and close players down.

Still think McFadz is dragging us too deep in defence. Kelly and Sheaf getting sucked short to look for the ball and then the gap between the 2 DMs in the box and the 2 AMs is huge, and Norwich are dominating midfield because of it. Any move we make has to go through the wing backs and it's all...

Jamie Allen is playing well so far. That was a terrible ball to him from Dabo in the position. Really harsh people blaming him there, that's a chest height cross from 10 yards, should have been hard and low.

When you watch natural instinctive strikers like Godden or Walker they are constantly ready to make the run, they already know where they want the ball to go. Baka just hangs around up front, waiting to react. He needs to be much more aggressive there and dictate to his teammates where he wants it.

This is the start of 4 games in 10 days and by far the hardest fixture of the 4 on paper. Even if we lose today I don't think you can really judge this team selection until that run of matches is over. What I do find strange is why Baka couldn't be given 20 minutes in the week. Or why Allen has...

He can't shoot for shit. That side of his game needs to massively improve or we'll be comparing him to Luke Thomas by the end of the season.

I expect Robins will arrive at training early tomorrow and will slip a copy of Escape to Victory into Wilson's locker! Emergency keeper to be signed in time for the weekend.

You know when your cat has been stuck inside bored for ages and then goes fucking mental for 5 minutes, making weird noises, running up the curtains and pouncing on any passing adult thinking he can take them down, before sitting down in a comfy spot pretending nothing happened? That's what...

Walker, Dabo, McCallum and Kelly definitely fitter. We've also started giving free kicks away in 'good' areas too to break up play. It was lucky tonight though, both the awful pass back and the reaction from the defender - you don't see it too often at this level and their disallowed goal could...

I was pretty bad tonight too but think the absolute gift of a goal masked the toothlessness of the last 2 performances. If he's just buying time until Godden is back then fair enough but we won't know that until he is. Back to back clean sheets is commendable after so many goals conceded.

Because he's had 10 years as a professional footballer and played 45 games. That's a lot of time to body sculpt!

It's exactly what we needed in the last 20 mins of all those games we conceded late goals in. Missed a trick leaving him unused on the bench the whole time.