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Would like to see the ref get a yellow out soon for them, plenty of little cynical pulls and pushes so far just to break up momentum

Can I also take a moment to say thank fuck that wasn't a bad injury to Thomas. I know we might only have him for another month but that's 4 more games.

Deserved that. Really good display so far. More crosses in this 20 minutes than the whole of November I reckon.

Already a big impact on the shape: Bayliss playing higher up the pitch with Kelly able to get box to box, Chaplin playing as the furthest forward striker. Extra man in all our attacks so far. Baka looks like he has a free role though, literally all over the place so far.

I just hope that Robins, and the fans, give the players a chance. Half the team hasn't started a league game for 2 months so there's bound to be a bit of rustiness.

Baka to take an early yellow by going through their keeper so that they have to bring Chris Dunn on.

That's a lot of changes! Some brave decisions, good to see.

Burge Sterling Willis Davies Brown Bayliss Kelly Ogogo Thomas Chaplin JCH Doyle on for the last 30 minutes if we need to see the game out. Bakayoko on for the last 30 if we need to score.

Would very much rather he stayed but might force us to play a more cohesive style if does go back, instead of just relying on his pace to cover for all the underlying issues in our game plan.

Davies is brilliant when he is facing the ball in a backs to the wall situation but pull him wide or get behind him and he's so slow which makes him look poor. It's his weakness, like Grimmer's lack of acceleration which means he's always beaten to the byline. Davies is a very good L2 defender...

Was playing the same role as Biamou and now JCH for most of the time - a thankless, isolated task and unfortunately had the least attributes to make that role succeed. Feel sorry for him that what was probably his last season in pro football ended like that - a short guy who didn't score very...

I'll raise you some guy called Sam: 'Bakayoko's first touch is shit because of his weak ankles'

There's a Robert Page joke in there somewhere!

It's a couple of hours every two weeks though, it's not going to affect every day training.

This went very quiet. Everyone been paid back then?

Interesting point about the money. Is it that those teams shouldn't have been relegated or that they had much more money than everyone else when they did come down? Would have thought much of the current table corresponds quite well to average gates/income with the exception of bradford who are...

Just thought it was an interesting comparison to see how closely related this year has been on the last. 23 goals conceded in 20 games, with much the same defence and in a league higher is still very respectable. In terms of game plan I think we're doing much the same as the first half of last...

2017/2018 P20 W9 D5 L6 GF21 GA12 GD+9 Pts:32 2018/2019 P20 W8 D5 L7 GF21 GA23 GD-2 Pts:29

I'd play Thomas on the left and Bayliss right I think. I don't think we're getting enough return from him cutting inside on his left foot, while a couple of his crosses have looked decent. Would have a look at how he does beating his fullback on the outside and crossing the ball into the box...

A lot of the issue now with Doyle is a secondary impact of teams adjusting to Thomas' pace. Word about Thomas' speed seems to have got around the division now and recently teams have started playing deeper to negate it. This stretches the area that the midfield need to cover which makes his...