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I worked out that of the players likely to feature in a first team game, so excluding development players like Walters, 25% of our team is called Jordan, Jodi or Jordy

Is the squad at risk of being too big? Don't want SISU to get frit, Robins to get over confident or the marginal players disgruntled. We had a tight happy squad last year, and brought players through - Hyam, Bayliss, Shipley and even Ponti all came thro. I would make do with O'Brien as a...

No they weren't. The key was to play Kelly far more forward than initially was the case imho. Look at the McNulty goal against Notts County - the key was Kelly's engine - which must be amazing - because he covers the length of the pitch and then loops round behind Bayliss while TB holds the...

P.S. always puzzled by those who say they have "faith" in MR. You can really only have "faith" in a deity whereas M R had failed at his two previous positions. Like a life in politics, all managerial careers end in failure He has done a good but not faultless job here - it should not have...

But in the supporter opinion life cycle, this is "peak optimism", as we have hardly seen any of them play in a proper competitive match. Soon Brown will be pants, Mason a dog, Ogogo a carthorse, Allensi too small and so on and so on. By definition, You Tube clips are hardly a sensible view. At...

Stirling for Grimmer?

Will he play on Sat, and if so how does the midfield look if Andreu drops back into contention for one of those places?

That is utterly naive

ah ha, good thought

I think there are some suppositions there with little evidence but you may be right. Still think it true that the long drawn out nature of this means it is less and likely that it is the right thing to do. Time to move on and find another target

I only look at this thread to see if there has been an announcement, which there has not. But you can reasonably assert that Chaplin is not forcing a move otherwise the agent would have made something happen regardless of Jackett's preferences surely? Therefore m'lud I suggest to the jury that...

Playing Bayliss in the centre with only one defensive midfielder - the new guy Ogogo, who is barely fit or Doyle (getting on a bit) leaves us a bit weak defensively. That is partly why Robins not unreasonably, played him on the right wing, leaving Doyle/ Kelly to do the gruntwork

Last Year O'Brien, Grimmer, Hyam, McDonald, Stokes, Kelly, Doyle (C), Vincenti, McNulty (Nazon 84'), Jones, Beavon (Biamou 72'). This year? Burge Grimmer Hyam Willis Brown Stirling Bayliss Ogogo/Doyle Alllesani Andreu Biamou (Jones, Kelly, Mason, JCH to come or in reserve) Looks stronger to me

I quite like this, but the planning assumption has top be Ogogo for Doyle after 60 mins or so

Amazing how many unfit players there are (or at least not fully fit) Factors to assume Davies unavailable MacDonald playing poorly therefore Willis will be risked No Chaplin or equivalent (he has had a while to sort this out) happy to be proved wrong Brown was bought to be first choice...

whatever happened to Adams Bailey and Jennings

I hope Robins goes back to the tight defence model he used in the first half of last season, that might get us up higher than otherwise Incidentally, in the rollicking autumn of Robins version 1, was McGoldrick a sole striker up front, or was someone else alongside him? Can't remember

How do you know we haven't already?

below half way