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Worth noting that only 4 of that side played in the first team at the end of last season - Hiwula, Kelly, Shipley and Mason. This is a complete new side. And a team minus two players earmarked for 1st choice - Allen and Kastenauer. Noted the latter came on. You have to make a mitigation for...

We do have at least 3 in the line who seem almost ready, Eccles Ngandu and Bapaga plus Westbrooke. None of them is a right back however

narrow win, another clean sheet. Allen on the subs bench but comes on

Sterling ran the length, and stopped twice to consider his options, before putting it onto Chaplin's head, against Wycombe at home last year

Utter bollox Thomas Stirling Bright Armstrong Murphy........I'd even forgive Maguire-Drew because he was the one who, in his first game, got a corner onto Davies's head to set up Willis against Stoke. Worth the loan just for that Two or three good loans are compulsory for a promotion push. You...

Robins rarely (if ever) changes a winning team. Expect a substitution around the 60 minute mark Godden for Baka.

Our squad is now quite large, so we have to live with it. It's up to Robins to turn water into wine from now on. I would rather have a loan right back but understand if Robins sticks to Dabo & Pask. I want to see the Under 23 guys coming through, there are 4 or 5 on the cusp, of which you would...

Robins is very good at being deliberately obtuse. One more reason why our owners like him

You have two front men on the bench. One too many. I'd have Will Bapaga for Biamou

Why is it to the detriment? Any club can get loans, just like any club can buy or find talent any other way. It is just a way of finding players. And they are usually better than the norm for the division so they up the standard. This is a competition you know, it is meant to be to the...

We got three good players out of it last year. Loanees are part of the mix now - 2 or 3 each season. Plenty of permanent players stay little longer - like JCH If they are rubbish you are not stuck with them The most likely way to find wingers A player like Bright can work his way up the...

Why on earth for, it is one of its strengths

I'd rather have a couple of the Allen type any day. particularly if one was about 6' 2" who frightened the shit out the opposition just by looking at them. Can't remember which game it was, but we bossed the first 2-3 minutes with Bright looking very good, then we were bullied for the next 87.

I feel the same about Bright as I do about Bayliss. Lovely player to watch but in terms of getting out of League 1, a more functional player like Allen, or a loanee defensive midfielder to free up Kelly is more important. We need players who boss the show, neither Bright or Bayliss did that...

That was partly a problem last season. I remember against Oxford thinking that for all his skill he was often in places where those skills were not at their most productive. With his bright green boots your eyes were drawn to him, but the output was very mixed

Does it look like Robins was unable to get the best out of JCH? A failure of man management as much as player attitude?

What has Westbrooke done wrong?

The annual obsession with wingers...........Here we go again. First cuckoo in Spring is followed by the desperate sound of the lesser spotted football fan demanding speedy wingers. Haven't we just bought two - Jobello and Kast. Do we not have a highly rated teenager in the development squad but...

A better right back.

That is the model at this level. We are actually not that dissimilar