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Please read the post.... Maybe I want to ditch the strikers because we were singularly poor at scoring goals - all those 0-0 draws at home. Clearly you can't ditch the lot, but you still have to recognize they are not good enough, so all of them are individually dispensable if not en masse...

If you accept the figures above (I realise you may not) £2.25m went on four strikers and £1.45m on two midfielders, out of 29 players - including Bapaga, Drysdale and Eccles, who have barely featured. If I was SISU, I would be pretty chuffed with that.

Excluding loanees*, it is easier to say who Robins would definitely keep - there are only three (with three other possibles). Keep: Dabo, Hamer, O'Hare. And even then if the right offer came in... Possibles Walker (potential) MacFadz (until his legs finally go) Wilson (you need a second...

But in 4 years under Robins it has produced the following regular first team players Year 1 - Bayliss & Shipley Year 2 - MacCallum Year 3 - Nobody Year 4 - Eccles (fringe) Next year - Drysdale? This is a piss poor return on investment.

I was tring to get to the "managerial added value" - which would be expressed as the difference between the spend ranking and actual position ranking. As has been said, the more you spend the higher you go..And although it is basically true, you can see from Henshaw's table it is not absolutely...

I think this is what I was looking for. I was expecting to be able to do a graph with spend along the bottom and points up the side, and the line looking like the top left quartile of the clock. So extra money at the bottom reeps high rewards but you get much fewer bangs for your buck the more...

Frequently on here I see the assertion that the City have the second lowest budget in the Championship, with only Wycombe below us. Where are the stats to back this up? If somebody could point me in the right direction, or if somebody has them, I would be grateful. I'm interested in looking at...

we need to keep playing our strongest team not because we still need to be mathematically safe but because winning games is fun, good for the players after a tough season and provides a positive launch pad for the season to come. Summer training would be much betteer on the back of a strong...

Wilson Osti MacF Hyam DaCosta James Kelly Sam Mac Hamer Godden Walker (Viktor G if Walker is struggling to be fit for whatever reason) Rest O'Hare We want to be as high up the table as possible, every place counts - top of the bottom half wwould be a real achievement. It's good for morale...

currently above Blackburn / Mowbray...

It ain't all over.....

Fair point

He IS tactically stubborn. And tactically conservative. It is something he has to work on, along with how to use substitutes to best advantage. He seems to take the view that changing his starting line up during a match amounts to an admission he got it wrong.

But was inexplicably on the bench, when we played one up front, iirc

The last time we saw him actually play for any period was the first half of the season in League 2. We had brief appearances in League 1, including a nice goal at Southend. But that is it. When he came on against Luton or Barnsley, can't remember which, he just looked like a boy who would be...

Sorting out the strikers for next season is quite a tough job. Neither of our top two have exactly excelled. Godden has shown something like sufficient skill to warrant a place in the starting line up, and even then only just [that was a diabolical miss at the end, just not clinical]. On the...

I agree with this, sadly

Jodi will never play for us again, meaningfully at least.

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This board has a strong feel of King Canute's courtiers. May not come this time, but it is surely the logical end game of where the sport is right now. Too many games across Europe have little meaning. The world is getting smaller.