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A loan is usually taken with a view to playing or else why bother. In which case, is this a vote of no confidence in Tats? I would totally understand that as I think I can count on the fingers of two hands the number of times this season he has gone to the line and crossed. He doesn't trust...

Note all those panic stricken bedwetters who desperately posted during the first half struggles against both Bristol and Blackburn. Both teams are / were above us in the league table and yet for all the backs to the wall stuff, we got two clean sheets. Watford may be on a poor run but are a...

3. Bobby MacDonald. And you missed out Tommy Hutch who actually played for his home country

A win surely, if narrow and hard fought. Same team - please avoid the temptation to play Da Silva rather than Bidwell. Thomas for Binks maybe, the folks who made the trip to Ewood park can say who performed best.

Having looked at the highlights, the first Dovin save was good, but most Championship keepers would have saved it. It was at a good height and not that powerfully hit. The second came immediately after he had done a really good punch out, so he had to get back up and run across - that was a...

...had reached the same conclusion. Similarly we do not need to spaff money on Paterson. He doesn't fit into the new formation Both the most likely departures now look important to the team, and all we would get with the money in all probability would be a player of a similar level. Even...

....but what did it produce? Did he create a chance - apart from the one when he fell over? It's all show and no delivery. He certainly can't defend and seems very unwilling to overlap. He is a good outball receiver but that is about it. He has always been a luxury.

Rarely disagree with you Deity, but I'd leave Lati and BTA in. Bassette lacks BTA's footwork skills and Lati doesn't give the ball away so easily. Bidwell, meanwhile, is a deity.....

Absolutely right. All the twinkly footwork leads to bugger all and in the meantime he is a defensive liability. Bidders' charging runs create far more chances. Da Silva = flatter to deceive

We are definitely more direct. far more kicking by the goalkeeper, particularly yesterday. Under Robins I sensed the goalkeepers were in fear of being dropped if they kicked long to often

Best: Dovin and Kitching. Begs the obvious 'if only' question? Kitchings long passes down the left were particularly effective Astonished by the negativity of the match thread during the 1st half. I really enjoyed it. It was either a bit frantic or more direct, take your pick But great fun. I...

Torp was one of my top players for the game only bettered buy Dovin and Kitching. He has a really neat trick of dispossessing an opponent legally almost from behind. It is is a shame that by and large thereafter he plays the ball back to reset the attack, rather than forward because at the...

It has always puzzled me why contract talks drag on so long. I know all the stuff about agents, but these are boilerplate contracts with only a limited number of variables. However yesterday I did learn of one boilerplate contract clause that some agents insert that gave me a clue about how...

This is only a problem for the last few weeks of the season when EMC returns. Wright and EMC cannot be satisfactorily accommodated in the same team. End of. Both are great on the left wing and poor in the centre or on the right. We have seen that many times. In particular Wright was bang...

Simms v Luton

On the fitness front. If EMC is due to be training this week, will he be available? I assume Tats has recovered from Cardiff.

I did not make the game, but the comments on here are pretty consistent Dovin is locked in and Lampard & Carr's decision to continue playing Collins has cost us. Kitching was good in defence as well as the goal. His exclusion might also have cost us. Allen and Torp did a good stint as defensive...

...any tennis player who wins Wimbledon year after year (except Bjorn Borg). It's boring

I would not let Kitching go without cover. And there must be some good loans out there....

Bloody good manager. he has a load of dross to work with