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Barnsley’s home record since the return from lockdown has generally been quite good and they turned over good teams last season. A draw is a good result and we could’ve won. Beat QPR, and really should’ve got a point from Bristol. We’ve had a decent start to the season. Ultimately, if you keep...

We haven’t been ‘spectacularly found out’ in the last few games. Bournemouth are literally a class above us. We’ve just come up from League 1 and we’ve put together a team for about £2m. We’re going to get battered by a few teams who have established Championship/Premiership teams. This is the...

We don’t really have the players to play anything but 5 defenders. We don’t have any fit wide players. Eventually, we’ll end up playing Walker and Gooden upfront. Unless, we switch to 3-4-3 with a combination of Giles/O’Hare/Jobello/Hilßner as wide players. It’s early in the season, too many...

Damage limitation given the situation. Probably helped to get McCallum on to reduce the wages we'd pay in a game we were 2 goals down and down to 10 men - the game was lost.

Shows how Liverpool are winning the transfer market. Bring Thiago in for £20m, and sell Brewster for £23.5m. The transfer market is a seller's market so teams have to pay the asking price to get their targets.

We need options, and my view is that if the 3-4-2-1 shape is to survive in its current form, an AM needs to score more goals (be it Hilssner, Jobello, Allen or Shipley, or Tyler Walker needs to leads the line. I don't think Gooden should be dropped (at all) to accommodate one of those AMs so...

Agreed. This is partly why I think we’ll go to 2 strikers soon. With Allen, COH and Gooden, there isn’t an option to go direct, no pace to get behind the line and not enough physicality to beat defenders. Assuming no signings are coming in, unless Jobello can play in that AM/wing role, we’ll...

If we’re going to get a loan, I agree that position is where I’d prioritise. We need goals from either an AM or a striker and a change in formation. That’s where I see us going from here. In attack, Allen did look largely ineffectual even before the sending off, but for 29 minutes we were also...

You’re right in saying that Jobello is an outright winger. However, I don’t see why we couldn’t accommodate that in the current setup. Allen and O’Hare often get the ball in wide channels. As long as Jobello can keep possession, press hard, he could provide a useful outlet on that wing/AM...

In fairness, injuries to JJ and Hilßner probably haven’t helped things. Jobello will hopefully offer something more direct going forward. Going forward, I do believe that MR will switch to two strikers. The two AM options, at this point, probably won’t provide enough goals. Also, we need to...

Kelly will return to the starting lineup when 100%. Sheaf is a good player, but needs to work on moving the ball a bit quicker, in less touches. None of the midfield made their passes, Hamer, Sheaf, Shipley or even COH. We were against a superior team.

He was our best player tonight and the difference between a 3-1 defeat and a 5-1 defeat.

A few weeks ago we were two leagues apart and their team costs £90+ million compared to £2 million. This point may, or may not, apply to you but what do people expect us to get out a game like tonight? There are disappointing aspects about tonight’s performance, but two of their goals were...

Panic central. We can’t do it all in one window, and the most likely tactical switch will probably be Walker going upfront with Gooden. Makes the most sense.

Well it’s not and it’s a 46 game competition. We’ll be fine, but we’ve got to accept that there are a lot of teams who are better than, and we’re going to lose most of our games.

I don’t think he pussied out, he looked like he overshot the tackle. He really needed to foul him if he weren’t in a position to win the ball.

Personally, I think we could do with playing Gooden and Walker upfront together. I thought Allen came on and made an impact in the press and was more lively than Shipley. But, Gooden isn’t athletic enough to make an impact in open play. We don’t really look like we’ve got a lot of goals in us.

Hamer has created the most chances in the Championship by a margin of 3. V impressive start! Half of those have come from corners I imagine.

I'm registered to both and haven't received the email so I assume I've done something wrong. I signed up for a month to Sky when I seen we had 2 games live in the coming month, so I'm not that bothered about it. Any thoughts?