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West Brom and Blackburn are in midtable form and have been for some time. That by definition is slipping up given their current standing. Blackburn have picked up slightly in recent games but it remains to be seen whether they can keep it up.

It's more that they're heavily reliant on him to play a certain way and pretty much everything goes through him. Makes it more difficult for them to find any kind of flow when he's not in the side. To be fair though they won against Swansea without him, although I'm not sure I'd use that game...

I think in all fairness the issue is the ex-Chelsea youth experiment on the whole just didn't come off. Wakefield, Collins, JDS, Panzo, Palmer, Kane etc. It's all speculative obviously but you have to wonder whether the recruitment department had actually identified some decent targets in some...

Same on the opposite side though, with exception to MVE the best RB / RWB we've had since Dabo was a loan and he was exceptionally average. It's not a LWB / LB problem in isolation. Decent wing backs / full backs are just hard to come by. I don't think Dasilva is the worst footballer ever...

Is it that much of a blind spot? Maatsen was decent, then Bidwell has proven to be a good signing. The only real shocker has been Dasilva, which seemingly wasn't a scouting decision but rather a Viveash recommendation. We've had more troubles at RB / RWB I'd say. We've had Dabo who just broke...

Middlesbrough, Blackburn and West Brom are all in mid-table form or lower though. Teams below us don't look particularly threatening either. I don't disagree that we need to be capitalising on teams like Wednesday which are up and down and have injury issues, but it's not season defining...

Yeah obviously we can't be dropping too many points in this current block before playing Sunderland, Sheff U and Burnley. But equally it's not the be all and end all that we have to pick up maximum points against the next 5. Three wins and a draw would put us in a pretty strong position.

This is way off the mark. Football never really works that way either. Looking at the form of teams around us and the general quality which we've come up against I suspect the No. of points to get into the POs this year is going to be lower than in years previous. No one us really running away...

1 loss, 5 draws 2 wins. Clearly not an easy team to break down but 11 points from 8 games isn't a great return for home form. They have the same No of points at home as Luton.

They're a pretty up and down side. Difficult to predict what kind of team will show up but as you say it's an opportunity for us to capitalise on them having key players out. Hoping the extra day's rest will play into our hands as well.

He would've scored as well if it weren't for a very good save by their keeper.

17th in the form table at home. Most of those will be draws which as I said, isn't really that great.

Bannan is injured

Was a better game from Dasilva I thought. Nothing spectacular but his defending was fine on the whole and got forward better. Ball retention was mostly good as well. Some sloppy moments for sure but in all fairness to him he was targeted pretty consistently throughout the game so he was always...

Bannan and Bernard should be out which will help. They're not great at all at home either.

Not really when he goes into his shell for the remainder of the game and we lose all creativity on one side.

He probably just needs to be braver as he can beat a man when he wants to. He looks like he's played within himself quite a bit this season.

Stop gaslighting 🤣 You genuinely have the mental fortitude of a 10 year old.

He's a pretty one-dimensional winger to be honest and very easy to freeze out of a game. Once coaches figured him out by instructing defenders to double up on him he's become very limited which is a shame as on his day he can be a real threat. I'd look for another option in the summer that can...