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Having a roaming winger is pretty normal. Even on Rudoni’s heat map, he gravitates more to the right hand side than the left when he plays AM. Absolute best team will have Rudoni at AM but Lampard has some job finding his absolute best team.

Why the fear factor? Ipswich have scored 3, conceded 2 and 4 points. They’ve only beaten 1 team in the top half (Hull) all season. We’ve both played 7 top half teams, we’ve played 8 with a record of 6-1-1. We are not in danger Gibbo, we are the danger!

Yes, but is there anything Sakamoto can do that Rudoni couldn’t? If Eccles keeps up his form, it’s entirely possible that we’ll see Rudoni at RW more often. With EMC, the closest thing we have to him is MVE and we at least have KKH if MVE gets injured.

EMC is far more important to how we play than Tats imo. Rudoni was able to come in and do a solid job out wide whereas there isn't anyone in the team with the same directness as EMC. A great example here is the Sheff U game at home where we were pretty toothless until we had that directness out...

True, but why leave the squad depth to chance? Right now we’re reliant on Simms right now, maybe Wright is back next week but may need easing back in. As a whole, our bench looks v weak atm, Allen, KKH are the only midfielders/defenders that’ll make an impact. Looking towards Jan, we do need...

He’s being pushed by a lot of the organisations behind Momentum. When this guy makes contact with reality, it’ll hit v hard. He and Eddie Dempsey will say ‘who elected the bond markets?’ Well, don’t lend from them. Polanski struggles whenever he’s unable to repeat pre-rehearsed lines and he...

Gutted for BTA because he’s had such a good season. If we can sign a striker in Jan, we probably should go for it now. Something is probably in the pipeline because why else would be pass up on signing Bamford?

Asante is out for 6 weeks now?!

There’s a reason our whole bench jumped up as soon as the ref waved off the penalty appeal. They all have iPads watching from this type of angle. It’s a penalty and red card and the referee did try to even things up for a little bit. One instance being where a corner was called in the first...

It looked to me he was trying to shoot with his right foot. He had 2 defenders hacking him down and it’s a clear penalty.

Any Cov player for top scorer will get a good price at the bookies. Simms and Thomas are particularly useful at set pieces, which unsurprisingly, we’re top of the charts. I seen yesterday that we’re the first professional team to score 50 goals this season… There’s only one team who’s scored 30...

Conceding goals from set pieces is becoming an issue again… Iirc, we’ve only conceded 7 goals from open play this season; 1 v Norwich, 1 v Pompey, 3 v Wrexham and 2 v WBA. Have I missed any more?

That’s the season we were ‘comeback kings’ too. Even in 22/23, we did not win a single game from a losing position.

I’m confident we’ll get a draw at least. They will be under more pressure to get a win and that plays into our hands imo. I’m confident that even if injuries pile up this month, we’ll get to January and sign a few players to get over the line. The depth of the bench does worry me a bit. Having...

Probably will have surgery in the summer and fight through this season. Despite being rusty, he had something about him in the ball and he’s still got a big role to play this season.

I don’t think they are, they’ll finish Top 3, Boro, Stoke, Millwall and PNE are all over performing and that isn’t likely to be sustained over 46.

Burnley? He played v Leeds but didn’t start. We draw that game if one of Collins or Kitching takes charges and hoofs the ball away. Home form is always key and no one could’ve had any complaints if won all 9 of our games. At home we don’t look like anything can set us back. Go 1 or 2 goals...

Which is crazy. We’ve had some tough games at home too last season and this. I’m not that worried about dropping off from our current position when our home form has been this good under Lampard. We’ve got all the top half teams at home in 2026 and we’ve done the ‘hard bit’ of playing them away.

Haji Wright, but Simms is a streaky goalscorer. We seen back in 23/24 that once he gets going, he doesn’t stop. I’m really happy for Simms because too many people wrote him off. It’ll be interesting to see if the ‘games scored in’ brigade will criticise Simms for scoring consecutive braces...

On the balance of things, they have better players but feel our team and team dynamic is much stronger. Lampard may even be a better tactician than McKenna too which I did not expect to say this season.