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Refer back to the Maddison point, same window.

I wonder what you would have said had Bidwell missed. Who would you have blamed then?

I wish I had your insights. can you share with us what the players mental states of the players were in the moment or how they faired in training up to the game? Sounds awfully a lot like the people slating Southgate for picking Saka to take a pen in the Euros. Who was our 5th best in training...

Your back up plans are Bidwell, McFadz and Wilson. Where this confidence in them come from? If we had a striker or attacking midfielder to hand, I’d understand your criticisms a bit more. My position is simple: I weren’t convinced any of our penalty takers past Gyokeres and Godden would score...

In the medium term, our recruitment strategy will prove to be shrewd. Lot of players adapting from overseas or from lower leagues and with more faces in, we’ll be in a very positive place.

Yes Or, your confirmation bias… You don’t know why the people were saying ‘ffs’ or whatever. You’re assuming it was because of the taker. I can’t quite remember what I did, but I felt dejected after every Luton penalty because sooner or later someone was going to miss.

Let’s agree to disagree. VAR is here to stay and it’s a question of improving it to the needs of our game. We both know that other sporting bodies will be consulted to see how they approach this side of the game. Concepts may or may not work, but at the least will be influential. Side note...

Yes because I don’t think a Championship player has been sold for more than £40-50 million. We could end up with approx £35m for Gyokeres when comparatively, Brentford sold Watkins (3 years on contract) for about £30m. The only way we were getting a better deal for Gyokeres was if we got...

You take a very short term opinion if you genuinely believe ‘it’s all gone pear shaped’. The expectations outlined by MR and DK is that it’s a 5 year plan. We’ve signed younger players who are contacted for the next 3-5 years. We’ve had to gut the team by 16-17 players if you include loanees...

Misguided arrogance? He's a footballer putting himself forward for his team. Shit management? Where has this confidence in McFadz or Bidwell come from!? I am sure that penalties would've been practiced in the build up to that game, and I'm sure our lineup would have been fairly set - but we...

Personally, after Gyokeres and Godden I felt like we were going to miss every penalty. In fact, I felt pretty nervous about Godden and Gyokeres too. When people say they ‘knew Dabo was going to miss’, I take it with a pinch of salt because they probably ‘knew’ the last few takers were going to...

I nearly bought a pair of stock Hummel trainers in this style - I think the sale price was £40. Personally, I like them and will buy a pair. Not sure why there’s such a reaction by some, most big clubs leverage their brand on all sorts of goods.

If Wright has a 90% record, it would make sense for him to step up next. 3 missed this year could get in his [Godden] head a bit. Perhaps he needs a little break from them so hoping the next penalty is awarded when he’s not on the pitch so he’s not been ‘demoted’ as such.

Well it isn’t because VAR isn’t going to abolished so football has got to figure out how to fix how VAR is implemented and it’s already looked to other sports for inspiration.

Agreed, I personally would like to see MR stick with Simms for the next few games - he’s looked good the last two games. The simple answer, in my view, is that without Hamer, our midfield options don’t have the range of passing to be effective in that 3-4-1-2 shape. I really believe that a...

Much more - Man City create a lot of chances!

Agreed, a lot of our struggles come from midfield and the switch to 4-3-3 has mitigated that a bit. In January, my hope is that we can secure that marquee signing and in the summer followed up with 1-2 additional bodies. The starting unit wouldn’t be considered Top 6 standard and the quality of...

Additional context: they scored a wonder goal and we missed a penalty. Seriously, that goal from Burns will probably be the best goal we concede this year - the build up play and the finish…

You can’t really do that when Godden is our top scorer. If you’re not doing particularly well, a way to attract criticism is to not start your top goal scorer. Godden missed a pen and Simms forced an own goal with some good play. I think Simms has played better than Godden in the last 2 games...

Brilliant, the ‘bring Hamer back’ rumours will replace the Liam Walsh ones (which have only just stopped) now… … He’s gone and he’s not coming back. He was a hell of a player for us but it’s time to move on and find new heroes.