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Torp was one of my top players for the game only bettered buy Dovin and Kitching. He has a really neat trick of dispossessing an opponent legally almost from behind. It is is a shame that by and large thereafter he plays the ball back to reset the attack, rather than forward because at the...

It has always puzzled me why contract talks drag on so long. I know all the stuff about agents, but these are boilerplate contracts with only a limited number of variables. However yesterday I did learn of one boilerplate contract clause that some agents insert that gave me a clue about how...

This is only a problem for the last few weeks of the season when EMC returns. Wright and EMC cannot be satisfactorily accommodated in the same team. End of. Both are great on the left wing and poor in the centre or on the right. We have seen that many times. In particular Wright was bang...

Simms v Luton

On the fitness front. If EMC is due to be training this week, will he be available? I assume Tats has recovered from Cardiff.

I did not make the game, but the comments on here are pretty consistent Dovin is locked in and Lampard & Carr's decision to continue playing Collins has cost us. Kitching was good in defence as well as the goal. His exclusion might also have cost us. Allen and Torp did a good stint as defensive...

...any tennis player who wins Wimbledon year after year (except Bjorn Borg). It's boring

I would not let Kitching go without cover. And there must be some good loans out there....

Bloody good manager. he has a load of dross to work with

...frankly your wife is likely to be as good as if not better than most of the tosh on the various transfer twitter feeds

Looks like we have solved the long running goalkeeper problem

ha ha ha

And it on paper at least is stronger defensively

...assuming it's 3-4-1-2

Bassette rather than Simms; utterly mystified Without Sakamoto in the way maybe MVE might put in some runs I wonder if Frank regards this as a free hit. Likely to lose, might as well learn something

BTA, Rafa, Kitching & Allen would be my guess. And any 1st team with Allen in it is scraping the barrel at this level

...always worry when there are a number of changes. We only have in effect a small squad so the number permutations is limited

Lati is the kind of squad player you need. Versatile, tough. But that he is 1st team and not bench is an indictment. He is now ranked above two CB's we paid good money for.

Well its not working is it, we have effectively neutered ourselves. Nor are they doing it on the left. Also that doesn't change the point, as what we are missing is MVE using his pace to get to the byline. His defence has still been pretty good. He is still a player. It is what is happening...

Sorry to disagree, but they do plenty of overlapping on the left when they get the chance, but MVE can't get outside Tats without climbing into the front row of the stands. Tats is a stationery target and surrounded. All that Tats can do is pass it back to MVE so MVA cuts out the middle man...