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4-5-1 Only changes would be Lati & Da Silva out, Bidwell and Saka in. Pack the midfield

Horribly wrong. Da Silva was a liability throughout and I heaved a sigh of relief when Bidwell came on. The second goal was totally down to Da Silva's failure to clear the ball . The first goal I did not have a clear view of but was also on his side of the pitch. Da Silva's asset is his...

He did a really clever tackle back and rob to regain possession at one point in the first half. Top quality and not seen that often these days

Here's what I reckoned 1. Collins distribution is the best of the three keepers. Quicker than the other two 2. From a standing start, EMC is prepared to take the full back on. MVE, Tats and Da Silva don't mind going for the line if put through, but not from a standing start. EMC will, and he...

Hamer 5 - not the dominating player he used to be O'Hare 2 - Just ambles about the pitch. Except on odd occasions like Leicester last season, not the same since his injury

Personally given the circumstances I would prefer a defensive approach with three at the back and Da Silva and Van Ewik as wing backs, and work from there. Torp, Sheaf (hopefully) and Eccles in the midfield, Simms up front with either EMC or Norman. I thought EMC looked a lot better in the 2nd...

Bielsa would be my dream choice

It was obvious against Derby that they could not work out what to do with a two tightly packed blocks of 4. Sheaf in particular - who was the man to turn to - clearly hadn't a clue. The answer was to go wide - get Sakamoto on the wing. The game changed when in desperation that happened, and EMC...

The thought of Lampard is so depressing. Style over substance imho, not sure he's as good as he thinks he is, all ego. On the other hand if you want to hang around with your F1 mates, clearly he's your man Stick to the Robins mold

We know from history that people do not always tell the absolute truth in public and statements should not always be taken at face value Robins was never likely to say in public that it had been imposed on him, altho there is a reasonable chance that it was, and rather than lose face he took...

On the contrary he should have had feelers put out well in advance of the sacking. It's a cruel world. It's how businesses work. Now we have potentially several games with no manager.

If that is what he said, it makes the sacking of MR after the poor Derby performance look even more knee jerk than it did at the time....which does undermine part of the narrative he was selling.

That is a line that suits DK don't forget

Difficult to justify saying that unless it were true as it is the public domain

He's got a lot to answer for

You have to think longer term than that. We have benefited from consistency of management over time. If Lampard were to leave after a short burst of success ( and it would be short) we would be back into instability. Look to Ipswich and I am not sure why people are hostile to Schumacker Curse...

Lampard is devoted to Lampard whereas Robins was committed to the Coventry project. You know Lampard will go if he gets a better offer. I would prefer a promising manager from L1 or a clever young technocrat who is behind the scenes at a big club.

If you think the match day thread is positive, I would hate to see what you think negative. Every match day thread is negative. Once I saw all the comments about Rudoni I thought there would be a fair chance he would score. All that slagging off of Lati - when he's playing out of position...

forgot that. In which case Torp alongside Sheaf and Tats in the pocket

I've got no stomach for this one. I hope Simms is back as we really needed him against Derby. 3-4-1-2 Dovin, Bobby, Lati Binks vEwik, Eccles, Sheaf, da Silva Torp (God knows how much I would have liked to be putting 'James' there) Simms Haji