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The stats do tell the story of the game. Anyone watching on Saturday, it felt like we were going to score with every attack and we more or less did. Our final 3 of our goals were all low xG chances. Even if our xG was double, or triple the figure of 1.27… it tells the story that we were...

Without trying to play ‘alternate history’, I think the club would’ve found itself back in L1 and pushing towards the Championship without Robins. By all accounts, Robins had a good relationship with the owners and that counts for something. Where Robins and Viveash deserve their status as...

The way football is going, the formation matters less and less. BTA starts out wide and darts for the box at the nearest opportunity when the ball is being progressed in opposition half. It's pretty common to see a triangle of MVE-Rudoni-BTA and once MVE can overlap, BTA goes to the box. It'll...

Obviously they weren’t good owners… it’s still the case that their diagnosis of the problems the club face were accurate.

How many charlatans were trying to buy the club way back when? Sometimes, it’s a case of ‘better the devil you know’. Imagine if they sold to that Preston Haskell IV guy? I for one was optimistic about his plans for us… he went bankrupt a few years later. Perhaps the painful steps SISU took to...

We’ll probably play 4-4-2 again as we did v Luton. In fact, the team will probably be v similar to that lineup.

MVE has 3 assists already, that’s why. His attacking play has been fantastic this season. If a team wanted to pay €6m, his early performances will 100% move the dial toward a figure we want.

SISU were right to take on the council over the rent agreement and then over the sale of the ground to Wasps. As a fanbase, we lost faith in them because they failed to deliver Operation Premiership v quickly. Their tactics though, were blunt and alienated the fans who probably didn’t...

He just has a different play style… Lampard was quite complementary of his performance post-Luton. As for his appearances v Derby and QPR, there’s not really much to read into.

It’s been 4 games this season and he started in the cup and will probably score Tuesday. It’s a long season and he’ll get chances. People will be surprised how little strikers score goals from the bench. How many players make an impact (score goals specifically) in 20-30m game time? Not many...

I don’t get why the same people writing off BTA are continuing to write off Simms. Both of them are good goal scorers and it’s a long season and he’ll get chances to prove his worth. We’re not signing a striker with 26 championship goals for £3m. It’s a non-starter.

It’s symbolic though. The new stadium should ensure there is long term stability, which has been a thorn in our side since 2011/12. My only concern is that the costs of maintaining the stadium can easily mount up and impact the playing side of things. However, I’d assume the club has built this...

Apparently Sakamoto had 0.7-0.8 xG over two chances v Hull, one chance being over 0.5 xG… I can’t recall 2 such chances. It’s not an arbitrary measure, there’s clearly a mathematic formula behind it.

Agreed, Torp’s goals were obviously low xG chances and as was Rudoni’s 2nd. The other goals seemed like good quality chances to me but apparently only BTA’s was a ‘big chance’.

To accommodate BTA, he’s not being utilised as an out and winger which makes sense. There was a lot of occasions where, in practice, we were attacking in a 4-4-2 shape with Rudoni (who had a free role) doubling up with MVE for overloads/ball progression. Which allowed BTA and Wright to get in...

Different games are situational too, it’s a long season so there will be games players aren’t available or there’s a tactical requirement to play a more defensive player like Sheaf or Eccles. For balance purposes, you’d look to shift Sheaf/Eccless (in the future) and bring in more of a creative...

I don’t think anyone cares who starts as long as we’re winning games rather than a sentimental attachment to Sheaf. Torp has 3 goals already so if he carries on that trajectory, he will be undroppable. Nonetheless, for Day 1, Sheaf was probably still Lampard’s first choice starter alongside Grimes.

It’s v odd behaviour. The strikers have 6 goals in 4 games games and people are still saying we need a striker… Yet, in every game this season, we’ve ended up playing fullbacks on the wing. For high attrition positions on the pitch, it’s a numbers game and you need 3 wingers who you can trust...

Reality.

In my head, I thought the xG would be similar to Derby last week, probably less because penalties are 0.8 on it. I didn’t expect it to be our lowest xG of the season! We battered QPR and I’ve never seen such a one sided game. This was the type of performance that leads to a snap sacking of the...