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It is never "best eleven" because of injuries, form, opponent. It is a myth. Anyway, it should be best "shape" into which players come and go. That was the learning from Southgate's England incidentally, and also why Bayliss was played out of position - he is a good player but Kelly and Doyle...

Probably too attacking - he will keep Doyle a little longer. If it were me Stiring for Grimmer, Bayliss for Stirling, Allensi or Shipley on the left?

as I said, my interest is in the contract clause that appears to mean that we had to buy him at the end of the season

That much is what I said, the twist is that in our desperation to solve a problem, did we agree to a contract that meant we had to buy him, even tho by May, Robins could have concluded he was not up to the mark

Watching this site go into a state of apoplexy over transfer rumours is as good a reason I can think of for having a transfer window - otherwise it would be in this febrile state all year. Which would be good for Nick's traffic, but bad for the blood pressure of everybody else

At Wembley as soon as coming on, he skinned their fullback down the left. We waited for more, but that was it. Summed him up really

I wondered about this. Did we buy JCH in haste because Biamou was not showing good enough form at that point, so mainly for the final promo push, but got locked into a deal to take him on at the end of the season only to realise we had a dud. Mind you with 2 more pages to read of this thread...

when is kelly due back? Could we play one holding midfielder - Ogogo?

Chaplin on the subs bench at Pompey incidentally

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