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Kelly has a foot infection so is not fully fit to play.

4-2-3-1 without Sakamoto and Sheaf hasn’t been great either.

As does COH a lot if the time. It’s probably a tactical thing. Plays a lot of safe passes. Lati looks a much better player as a 3rd CB.

We’ll be back to 3-4-1-2 against WBA.

I’ve already called Lati, Eccles, JDS and Wilson. The forward play hasn’t been too bad, there’s no control in midfield and players like JDS have just been sloppy.

Still think Eccles is one of our best players?

We’ve had some decent chances to pull a goal back. Pull an early goal back and we could make this a close game.

Delusional. The last few games without Sheaf has demonstrated that. Relax, it’s one game. Binks hasn’t played badly and well, I can’t disagree with you on the Wilson point. He’s look shaky in all the games since Collins took over. With the exception of Stoke where he faced one game effort on...

Games like today really show how much he’s got to develop. He wouldn’t start for any other Top 10 team. I appreciate Lati is not a CM and that does t help him but midfield is an area we need more quality in. Absolutely.

JDS and Wilson have played themselves out of the team for the foreseeable. The midfield cannot handle the press. I hate PNE.

Great start lads.

It’s also so remote from the rest of England, it doesn’t surprise me it has such loyal local support.

I stand corrected and have edited the post as such!

No, in January we had a ‘do we even miss Hamer?’ Thread and there were plenty of people saying CM is our strongest position and that we don’t miss Hamer. Then we see Torp coming in who’s barely out of preseason mode i.e. unlikely to be at top form. Yet, the consensus is that Sheaf and Torp...

Is it? We want to be a Premiership club and Hamer starts for worst Prem team since Derby. He was the Championship’s best midfielder last season. Even at upfront, we’ve got nearly the same production from Wright and Simms as Gyokeres. There’s less X-factor but the goal contributions tally up.

I think both Eccles and Sheaf can be overrated a little bit. Central midfield is the only position where it’s not better than last season. Earlier on in the season when people were saying it’s our strongest position - it isn’t. I’m rooting for all of our players, if Eccles could hit Hamer’s...

Agreed and he deserves all the credit for that. All of those players, with the exception of Stevenson would have develop a lot more staying at Cov. Robins and his team have done a great job at developing talent. Based on subjective opinion? Sheaf has been better in most categories and he...

Would you say he’s a standout performer? Likewise, had Hamer stayed, would he start over Sheaf or Hamer? I don’t think so. In fact, would he start ahead of Torp? Probably not. You say he’s been our best player this season but on what metric? It’s claims like these that grate me. I’ve been...

I’m not on his back. This season we were hearing how midfield was our strongest area and now Sheaf is out, we rely on Torp for creativity. We want to be a Premiership team, so Lati and Eccles need to elevate their game.

They’ll trial reducing those blocks over time you’d think. Looking at Norwich’s segregation, it was a the stairs with waist height barrier on either side with stewards in between. There’s no reason why we could work towards that over time. For now we need to prove that fans can sit behind both...