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Agreed with this, there are players in the team who will do ‘for now’ before they need to replaced. For example, LB is a position we need to improve but Bidwell is experienced and a solid operator and JDS is on a long contract. It’s unlikely either player will be replaced this season. Given...

Just as you were concerned Wright looked like Bakayoko from his highlight reel. The concerns are based on missing one preseason game (with others, not being on the YouTube diary vids) which is flimsy, at best.

Just remind yourself about previous times you’ve judged players too early… Let things play out, if he’s still not broken into the team by game 10, then you can probably start to hit the panic button. He’d had 5 weeks off preseason, signed for us in the first week of preseason and replaced...

It’s not really any different to Wright going off after one dash down the wing. Even if he’s got a slight knock, he’s not going to play in a preseason fixture. I’m not necessarily saying you’re concerns aren’t valid, it’s just far too earlier to say - he missed the first preseason game and...

3 maximum? I’m pretty sure that’s the minimum amount of players we’re looking to bring in. That gets our squad to above the 2022/23 levels which Robins has been benchmarking. As for Lati, he’s either covering CB or RB - he can’t be 2nd choice for both. Again, what happens if MVE gets injured...

I’ve said previous that I wouldn’t. The same applies for Bidwell and Allen too. All of them are decent players, it’s obvious that we’re on a journey to completely revamp the team. If any player is not good enough to get us up to the Prem, or have to potential to get to that level, they’ll be...

Robins was crystal clear throughout last season on the need to add both quantity and quality to the team. He also made the point that our squad depth (2023/24) was ‘net’ 3 players short of the 2022/23 season (it was 3 or 4 in the original quote before we brought in Torp). Accounting for our...

That’s London prices and that Arsenal is competing at the top table of English and European football. Realistically, £40 a game for Prem football isn’t unreasonable in my view - for a ST. The single price games can be taken out of context because these clubs often sell out their grounds and buy...

Nope, this is a pragmatic consideration of the state of our team and the development of younger players. Robins will not go into this season without a 3rd senior striker. Why else would let Godden go? Even now, Godden would be a better option than both Tavares and Obikwu. Simms and Wright are...

Not really, the financial demands of being a Premiership team is high. Fans want their cake and to eat it i.e. the best product available with hundreds of millions spent on the team but to pay nothing for it. Was speaking to a few Prem fans about their ST prices and even at £740 per year, it...

The short answer to your rhetorical question is: yes! Tavares barely plays as a striker for us and Obikwu has experience playing in L2 only. We’ll need another striker for sure. It does not serve either player’s development to be a bit part player in our setup because we can’t trust them to...

It’s done now and he’ll be a free agent this time next year. May as well back him for the time he’s got left.

Which is a given and I’m sure a Prem team could have offered more had there been genuine interest. It’s nothing personal to COH, I think his injury is a reason he slowed down so much after Feb and with proper preseason in him, could come back firing. Southampton looked his most likely...

COH made more backwards passes than Palmer. The frustration with Palmer is that his end product in the final third could be lacking, be it the final pass or shot in the box. He’s a good signing that help progress us from where we were when he signed him, but we’re looking at far more...

Is COH good enough for the Prem though? That’s our end point. My personal feelings was no, he isn’t. He was a free agent and ended up at Sheffield United in the same league as us. A team I wouldn’t consider favourites for automatic promotion.

He’s unlikely to be a starter this season even before we conclude our transfer business and will be let go after his contract expires next season. Good role player to have in the team.

Correct, my bad guys and I’ve edited the post. He looked good in that role because it played to his strength of progressive passing. A tactical idea the team is playing with is to hit those long diagonals to the left and right flanks. Getafe was a warm up and good one at that. Looking forward...

There’s been a Parkinson’s specialist coming to the White House and the press office admitted to seeing Biden. The Democrats have been knowingly keeping the extent of Joe Biden’s ill health away from the public. Is it a stretch to think he may have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s? He did say a...

All of these players wouldn’t be sold for anything less than 15-20m so no Championship sides are going to afford that realistically.

For anyone who watched the Getafe game, did anyone notice Eccles’ tactical role has been changed a little bit? He was playing in the hole front of the defenders and had a clear instruction to spray the ball diagonally to our wingers. It was also a tactic too for our central defenders. Without...