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I am going to guess Collins MVE Thomas Kitching Bidwell Torp Sheaf Rudoni Tats Sims EMC Dropping Eccles is the surprise. Unless he drops Sheaf instead

this is a good point. In the play off season both palmer and hamer were good at a rapid transference from defence to attack straight down the middle of the pitch (O'Hare was injured for the second half). We have really missed that drive. It has all been dinky doo, give the opposition time to...

The O'Hare in his pomp, before the injury, not the pale shadow we saw ambling about the pitch the other saturday

...and Rod Liddle

Defence is the big problem: You can't keep leaking 2 a game. The combo of MVE-Thomas-Binks-D Silva with or without Lati clearly is not working. If you keep repeating the same thing, don't be surprised if you keep getting the same result. So the backline must change The midfield is lacking...

They must bring back Kitching, and I would insert Torp for Eccles. But Frank is wedded to 4-3-3 so your line up above becomes Dovin MVE - Kitching-Thomas-Binks Torp Sheaf Rudoni Tats Simms EMC Personally I would:- 1. Bidwell at left back 2. Tell Tats & MVE to just spend the whole week sussing...

That explains EMC doing the marking with da Silva tucked in. It has the additional bonus of ensuring Da Silva's woeful inability to mark a man does not get so much exposure

I would prefer him to eccles

Rudoni & EMC were good. Rudoni's skill rescued a number of 50/50's Everybody else a bit meh. MVE in particular has lost his mojo. Collins distribution remains a cut above - shame he can't do the main job he is employed to do, stop shots Simms made a difference Torp added some aggro into...

First chance to comment since getting back (via the pub) - Dreadful performance with the exception of EMC and Rudoni. - Worse than Derby, who at least were tactically well marshalled. Cardiff were crap - Basic skills lacking - like the weight of pass - We can't keep having the combination of...

"Apparently" doing a lot of heavy lifting there. If he did then what ever confidence I had in the Lampard appointment has only been further eroded

...or alternatively they both know how crap at least two of those are. Simms clearly has potential.

I like this team but it does look wobbly defensively and is Bidwell fit? It is not a deal breaker but I would include Torp at the expense of EMC. I always seem to want 13 players to cover all the contingencies so I really want 5-4-3 doh!! New manager bounce. (apparently this down to the...

...rather have Cooper. deeply depressed by the idea of Lampard. Represents a lot of what I heartily disapprove of in an individual. A show pony

Good luck to all those making the trip. It's a long way to go of an evening. It is the proverbial 'Burnley on a November night' (or something like that anyway) as the toughest test for team and fans I feel more optimistic than I would have after Derby. It all hangs on the defence doesn't it? We...

On reflection you are probably right.....

I suspect it was the 'She says' bit that really pissed you off

Comment from my neighbour on Saturday looking across towards the dugout. "We already have a lot of coaching staff now. Too many" she said. We can't absorb without removing some. It would be tough on Carr, and on the players having to handle a second change in months

He's been there got the T shirt a couple of times and so better than Lampard. A bit of a Robins mark II. More likely to be in for the long term than Lampard. Seems like the best fit by far of all the names that have been banded around. He must know his next job is going to be in the...

This is also what I had in mind but with Collins in goal. He might on another day just have got to the second, but could do nothing about the first His distribution is the best of the three goalies.