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We need 2 CMs now we've lost Hamer. It's the only position on the pitch where we look weaker than our rivals. Sounds like we may only get 1 this window.

Would go back to the box without Hamer. Puts too much on Palmer with 2 DM's and 2 ST's. Have Sheaf & Eccles screening, with Saka & Palmer providing the creativity for Wright. Play an elevated version of our League One promotion tactics and keep the ball more.

We don't need to replace Hamer like for like. Hamer replaced Walsh who was a more possession based player. The system will adapt as the players change. There is no way we can play the counter-attacking style as successfully as we did last year without Gyok & Hamer.

He's currently 3rd choice CM & 2nd choice RWB (will play until MVE gets up to speed). If we sell Gus and sign a CM he'll be no worse off. Even if we sign 2 CM's ahead of him to replace Gus he'll still get plenty of game time but more likely at RWB.

Other than in 21/22, every season under Robins has seen us improve in the second half of the season as he figures out the best tactics to suit the squad & players deepen their understanding of our system. Think we'll be one of the best teams in the league once it all clicks. Just hope we're...

Look worse than they did last year. Wouldn't get promoted from the Championship with their current squad.

We will likely field an entire outfield side XI of 22-25 year olds if Kitching is signed: Thomas (22) Lati (23) Kitching (23) MWE (22) Da Silva (25) Eccles (23) Sheaf (25) O'Hare (25) Simms...

Would rather Gus go now and the team go through major growing pains now and probably kiss goodbye our hopes of a top 6 finish this season. If he stays and leaves on a free we lose out massively financially and spend the start of next season figuring out how to play without him.

I expect us to have 20 shots each and the game to finish 0-0

Crazy that they have gone from a front 2 of Akpom & Archer (55 goal contributions in 78 games in 22/23) in the play offs to Rogers & Crooks (16 goal contributions in 57 games in 22/23) against Milwall last week.

Seem to be in most pundits/experts top 6 but don't see it myself. They wouldn't have made it last year without Diallo in the same way we wouldn't have without Hamer.

Sunderland fans thought Simms was shit until November & Wright has just moved country and had no pre-season with us. We probably will not see the best of these two for a good few months.

If Godden had put away 1 of his 3 big chances against Leicester the bedwetters would be wanking into their socks saying we're going to win the league.

3 out of the next 5. I imagine if they identified one of the seasons that we would be least likely to be pushing the play offs it would be this one. We've had to overhaul the squad and many of the signings came in later than we wanted so didn't get a pre-season. If Hamer goes we're losing...

Having 5 loans was necessary last season to patch up the defence as we didn't have a pot to piss in. Not the case now. For comparison, Brentford had 2 players on loan in their promotion season: Saman Ghoddos - loaned with an option to buy in the Summer window which they triggered in Jan...

Going to be incredibly competitive this year with loads of teams having good windows on paper or already being strong. We're an unknown quantity, especially if we lose Hamer. Could just as easily see us replicating Luton and finishing 3rd or finishing 16th at this point.

I believe if we’d had Gyok for the whole season we wouldn’t have been able to sign him by the end of it. We were lucky he wasn’t fit when he arrived and the coaching staff only got 6 months with him.

I'm sure our Recruitment team know plenty about him.

To double down... O'Hare only signed because we got promoted and would not have signed if we hadn't. So Gyok is the only instance of turning a loan into a purchase while in the same league and that is because he had just had 2 underwhelming loan spells in this league. The idea that we...

Sheaf doesn't really count as a "loan" as it was with an obligation to buy if we stayed up. We couldn't afford to sign him yet as we'd already signed Hamer & Walker that summer. Doesn't fall into the same bracket as Gyok and O'Hare at all (not trying to attack you but seen him added to this...