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International friendlies as people kept mentioning he was an international, they are his only two international appearances. Training sessions basically.

Dovin has played two friendlies where the attendances were 200 and 100, so those who were comparing it to playing at elland road in the championship are a little way off the mark. Have seen people using that argument earlier in the thread.

I still maintain Dovin will be the long term number one but he's done absolutely nothing so far in his appearances here to make people believe he would have definitely saved the second and third goals

Looking like we should have sold Wright and Simms in the summer right now, would have got £10-15 million each for them

Blackburn has become a massive game in the context of the season, another poor performance and the pressure is really going to be ramped up

Certainly seems determined to make it, would have been easy for him to knock it on the head after Birmingham like many thought he should. If he continues learning from his mistakes and keeps going he could well become a decent manager.

Dovin will be the long term number one imo but don't think its the worse decision to take him out the team for a few matches.

I was only applying your own logic of selective ommision of Wilsons best season previously as it wasn't comparable in your view But now you want to include his worst period in the team to compare with Dovin, even though it isn't comparable for the same reasons as you dismissed his best season...

The majority of Wilsons appearances would have been with 5 atb also last season? And doesn't account for the defence either improving or getting worse from season to season?

Will you be able to do that unless Wilson also plays 20 matches in the same team this season?

What are Carr, Delaney, Boateng and Dempster doing? Wasn't Delaney a defender and played at a decent level?

Pretty much what i would do at this moment but maybe play Sakamoto instead of Wright and have Sakamoto and Rudoni playing off Simms, Sheaf if fit to start and maybe Lati for Binks

Its a massive concern as their value will plummet if they have a poor season. We may come to regret not selling them both in the summer, we would have probably been able to turn a small profit on Wright and a decent one on Simms.

Can be unplayable on his day but don't have him as a leader

Agree about getting the leaders on the pitch, who are they though? Sheaf, Eccles, Kitching, Lati, MVE. Maybe Thomas? Any obvious ones I've missed out?

3-4-3 / 3-4-2-1 ----dovin --lati thomas kitching Mve------------------da silva/bidwell ------sheaf eccles ---sakamoto----rudoni ------------simms If you want a bit more width or pace in a particular match or are really chasing a match then swap in BTA/Wright/EMC for Saka and Rudoni and push...

No idea but couldn't have done much worse to try something different. At this point i would probably try 3 at the back to see if we can stumble upon a working formula for the season

Not a dig at Eccles but more of the whole squad, but Eccles was asked if as captain he says a few words in the dressing room when things aren't going right and he said not really he leaves it to the coaching staff, and then trotted out some cliche about how theres 11 players and 11 captains out...

Will be sad if Robins leaves, yes we should be doing better than where we are at the moment but I really think this team is lacking personal in key areas right now and not sure a change in manager solves that.

This is abysmal and we've not had a particularly difficult start to the season on paper