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Eccles at centre back? Been on the sauce?

It's easy to see why Dasilva was signed, he's much better technically, close control, short passing etc. He just isn't a full back though and gets dominated physically, both aerially and in a foot race. I think he could only be useful there if we became a side that averaged 65%+ possession and...

He’s not our captain

ST holder 🤷‍♂️ Although nowadays you can watch every game from your sofa so I'm not sure why it would make anyone's opinions less valid if they did that.

I put a lot of that down to personnel though. Milan isn't a winger, Lati isn't a full back and Kelly is pedestrian. You would hope next year Kelly is gone, Milan is back at RB and Lati sees less minutes as a squad player.

Buying and keeping players in their "prime" (26-30 ish) is the most expensive way to run a club. Transfer fees for them will be high, their wage demands will be high and when it's time for them to move on you will get less for them and may also struggle to shift them because of said wage...

city fans trying not to tell people how many matches they go to but I agree, it's an area to improve. I guess my opinion is that our run of good form is more representative of the situation we will be in next season. I blame our two runs of bad form on 5 at the back and then not having any...

Shit tactics? We’ve used largely the same tactics as our good spell though? I guess a lot of your frustrations seem misplaced to me. I look at this season and think the ways we could’ve done better were 1. Switching from 3/5 at the back earlier 2. Bringing in more than one player in Jan...

What’s a fair whack in your view? We’d probably get 5-800k max for Bidwell. Don’t see us spending 15-20m unless Sheaf leaves and Vik moves.

You haven’t watched him so you have no idea how good he is or how he plays. Also, there’s plenty to criticise our centre backs for but one thing they’re actually pretty good at is going forward with the ball and driving us up the pitch.

Been watching the Norwegian prem a lot? 😂😂😂😂 can you please not talk out of your arse for once

Genuinely curious, if it’s not fatigue and injury that has caused our form to dip what do you think it is? And do you not think that players like Wright, Sheaf, Eccles, Milan etc. have looked genuinely tired on the pitch recently?

I would hazard a guess that for a lot of our players this year it will be the most minutes they’ve ever played in a season, so they’re not used to it. Also it’s distribution. We played 8 games in April, with 4 really tough ones (Leeds, Soton, United, Ipswich). Doubt we ever had a run like that...

Those teams would get absolutely fucking battered by elite teams today. I’m talking 10/15-0. They would look like amateurs. It’s incomparable.

Torp is that player, you can see his ball striking is a level above the others. Kelly is finished really, doesn’t have the legs to play in our system. To be honest, it’s not really a necessity imo. Wright and Simms should get 30-40 between them. Sakamoto/EMC hopefully 5-10 each. Maybe 10 goals...

Of course we’re relying on wingers more, we didn’t play any last year! 🤣

not very quickly then

We're only losing one loan player vs 4/5 last year. All our key players have 2+ years left on their contract rather than 1, meaning we're in control of any sales. The team isn't reliant on 2 players anymore, we have quality in multiple areas. Need I go on?

As I thought lol. You're so caught up in the short term you can't see we're in a far better position now. I don't even need to explain why we are, it's so obvious.