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I don’t think so. Perhaps more pertinently, can you scout for the things he’s missing?

I just think he’s a stupid footballer. No sign of any football intelligence in his game and therefore not able to develop his natural attributes. We obviously bought him with the intention to build on his physical foundations but he’s proved unable to so far.

It's frustrating but we can't not sign someone when they've passed a medical because they had a groin operation 9 years ago, can we?

Sure. That was very much what I would do, not what I think MR will do. I prefer Mason over McCallum for what he does in the final 3rd. Our fullbacks have a lot of responsibility to attack in the 4-3-3 and Mason seems to have a much better understanding with Hiwula and this season, the area I...

Was one moment in yesterday's game where O'Hare was flying forward with the ball and Kastaneer actually tackled him and then did nothing with the ball he'd nicked off O'Hare's toe.

In the 4-3-3 there's absolutely no interchange between the 3 forwards because of the distance between them and our play ends up too linear and all in channels up the pitch - Dabo, Westbrooke and O'Hare play together on the right. McCallum, Shipley, Hiwula down the left. Nothing much down the...

He only missed the 4 September league matches, it's not like he's just come back from a 6 month lay off. He also played in the 2nd half of the Rotherham game before the full 90 against FGR. It is strange to have given him 120 minutes in 3 days and then leave him as an unused sub for 2...

Agree with the majority of that. I thought McCallum did ok defensively but didn't get forward nearly enough as he should have given how much space there was on the flanks today. When he did get forward his crosses were poor. Dabo did twice the running and his crossing was far superior. Also...

Well, that's another one where we've failed to score in the first 30 minutes and it was a pretty classic example. They were well in the game 2nd half and had chances to win it.

Genuinely can't believe all we've done in this match is swap 2 forwards. We might have had loads of possession but they have shut down the middle of the pitch all match and it was obvious a change was going to be needed after about 20 minutes. Love Robins for what he's done at the club since he...

Rose or Dabo for me. Rose has made several very well timed challenges in the area. Dabo defended well and got forward too

Bunch of dirty bastards this half. Need our captain on.

Pretty lacklustre overall. Very comfortable at the back - they're playing pretty deep and only 1 up front. Our midfield 3 a little overwhelmed by their midfield, which is often a 5, so a lot of our play is forced out wide. Dabo's getting a lot of ball down the right and playing well but McCallum...

What an absolute waste of our first corner.

Fullbacks will have to do a lot of work today - might be tough to break down their 4-2-3-1 through the middle with our 4-3-3

Shouldn't be on the bench if it's injury related, rather have Bapaga there when we have Watson to cover in emergency. Robins has made no secret about how highly he rates McCallum though - if he was going to give him a couple of games to progress his development I suppose home to Tranmere and...

Kelly played 35 minutes 2 weeks ago vs Rotherham and was fit enough to play 90 minutes at FGR 11 days ago. Without Godden or McFadzean in the team we don't have a single player over 25 years old in that starting XI although many of them have plenty of league experience already. I'd rather we...

Robins must know he's gonna get absolute pelters if we don't win in front of a large following, after leaving out arguably our 2 best players this season and on the back of 2 defeats. So yeah, I think it's a brave decision. Doesn't mean i think it's a good decision though :)

Some brave decisions in that team selection. No Mason or Kelly in the starting line up and Godden injured. From the offal: Striker Amadou Bakayoko comes into the starting eleven this afternoon for the clash against MK Dons. Baka makes his first league start since the 0-0 draw with Bolton...

Considering we had a 10 game unbeaten run and are 3 points off the autos, it's surprisingly slim pickings!