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It never ages well either. You’d think people would learn. Footballs fans do the ‘eye test’ whereas clubs have teams of data analysts that monitor performances. Frustratingly, a lot of posters just cannot seem (or choose not to) to grasp the concept of continual improvement. We’re trying to...

You don’t sign Premiership-ready quality players in the championship. We’re improving incrementally, so buying players to develop. What good Prem strikers are signed for £10m?

Since his brace at Cardiff away, there’s been 23 league games. He’s appeared in 20 games, starting about 14 with a return of 1 goal. Godden has 0 assists too.

Why don’t we compare Allen and Palmer on this season’s contributions?

I seem to recall Gyokeres struggling to get into the team ahead of Biamou when he first joined us. I’m sure many people wouldn’t have fancied signing him on the fee we did and no one would’ve called him being a top Championship striker either. We’ve signed Simms to a 4 year contract and to...

It’s no coincidence that since we changed formation, our goals have come from out wide… Sakamoto and Wright did not look like scoring before playing as wide players. Simms has a lot good attributes, he is strong, quick for his size and has some good movement in the box. His finishing is...

Eccles needs a rest. We have 3 games in 7 days between the 11-17th Feb and another injury in midfield would be bad! With that in mind, I’d want to get Torp and Kelly up to spend whilst resting a starter for a big week ahead.

He says he prefer being out wide… He’s mostly played wide for them since October so I think he’s just saying he’ll play wherever for the team.

Whilst it was a good effort, the better option would have surely to have crossed to Simms who was calling for it? It’s little moments like these that as a team, we’re taking low probability chances instead of getting the ball in the box. Even Saka has chipped in with a far post header this year!

Godden hasn’t scored a goal in the league in 12 games. It’s not insane.

We don’t need to panic too much following the Norwich result. My team would be: Collins Lati Thomas Binks JDS Torp Kelly Palmer Allen Wright Simms MVE, Eccles, COH and Sakamoto to get some well needed rest. Torp, Kelly and Wright to get some match fitness back. Otherwise, it’s a strong side.

The algorithms underpinning social media platforms can also railroad people into rabbit holes. To use this as an example, if someone has concerns around immigration. First, they may be fed perfectly reasonable arguments against illegal/legal immigration levels. From here, the algorithm will...

Missed chances are going to frustrate people. Palmer looked really good yesterday, until it came to the final pass or finish. Unfortunately for him, he won’t be starter until that improves. I hate to admit it, but @Grendel’s ‘nearly man’ label is not unfair. As for Allen, he had a decent game...

Penalties aside, I can’t think of a chance where Godden has missed that was gilt-edged. Same with Simms too. Our creativity has come from our midfield and they’ve been very good at creating things for themselves - some of Sakamoto’s and COH have been brilliant individual efforts, for example...

Given the values people said they’d ‘take’ for Gyokeres and Hamer this time last year and compare it to what we’d actually ended getting up with… You’d be surprised what some teams are willing pay. I’m not going to keep the receipts on this one. We’ll get what we get if we ever decided to move...

Godden's goals drying up is telling. He is a player who has always had a strong conversion rate so when he's not scoring, it's generally because he's had a low volume of chances. Do you think the crossing and passing in the box has been good enough? Even Gyokeres scored 1 (maybe 2?) headers -...

Yes, it was a chance he should’ve buried. Two things: 1) We need to be creating more chances 2) Our defence needs to tighten up - we’re leaking goals atm There were games last season where Gyokeres would miss two or three 1-on-1s but then score a goal. Reading and Birmingham towards the end of...

If Hamer had 2-3 years left on his contract m, £20-25m wouldn’t have been an unreasonable ask. Benrahma went for 20-odd million for Brentford a few years ago. Likewise with Gyokeres, would’ve comfortably been worth another £10-15m had he had longer on his contract.

Did we forget Hamer went for £15m as a 25 year old midfielder with no Prem experience and with 12 months left on his contract?

It’s important to engage with people you really disagree with. It depends how you want to go about these disagreements. The natural instinct is to say ‘you’re wrong, you’re a racist’ but people will double down on those beliefs. Anyway, if you haven’t heard of Daryl Davis, then you’re in for a...