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Bees and Wasps. Perfect merger opportunity.

There's a lot of players there standing around marking no-one.

Idris Elba is hot favourite.

Yeah, can't read too much into that. Players are always going to be bored and fed up if they are just sat on the bench all night.

And with Burge too if LOB keeps his place after last night.

Andreu wasn't picked last night though and didn't play against Oxford either, so that doesn't explain those two awful performances.

Team spirit is so important. I've heard so many managers allude to it. Great team spirit and comaraderie are vital to a successful team's fortunes. If we have indeed brought in players who are upsetting that equilibrium, the recruitment team should be put up against a wall and slapped about a...

Good thing is (well should be anyway) Robins knows it's not working, so I would expect a change in personnel and tactics. Think Allassani might well get a look in and maybe, just maybe, we will go for 4-4-2. We do have a big enough squad to change things round and hopefully Burge will be back...

You know what esle annoys me? People telling other people what they can post on the 'Things that Annoy You' thread. Grrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!

Give it 10 games and see where we are. We should have much more of an idea of whether the team has gelled and the tactics have started to come together by then. I'm still in Wembley play-off victory mode, so are not worried much at all and am quite chilled at the moment. Give it time.

Fans on football forums who, after only seeing a player play 3 or 4 times, come to the conclusion that they are the worst player ever, or of this century etc. etc. As soon as we lose a couple of games the players are all awful and the worst ever and the manager's a clown. We had it last year...

And they are both foreign too.

You kind of get the feeling that Robins is baffled too.

Maybe Robins was told by his recruitment guys that Bakayoko was a like for like for McNulty.

Not having that! That's far too far lacking in conspiracy for my liking. We need conflict and them not speaking and we need them slamming office doors and the silent treatment and them giving each other the evil eye in training. It's much more thrilling!

Bottom half finish would be disappointing, but I would definitely see a relegation battle as a failure.

Davies has been ill. Allegedly.

No, I realise that, but when they came they must have known how popular he was and we do still have Jones and Andreu and Burge and Doyle and Kelly and Shipley and JCH and Biamou and Ponticelli and Bayliss, so a fair few existing from last year's squad.

Now this is a mad theory and one just conjured up in my head, but....... I decided to share it anyway. Is there any possibility that the squad isn't happy due to the fact there's this unwritten law whereby Chelsea have suggested that Sterling needs to be playing every week and the squad aren't...

Been awful so far. Have we learned nothing from the McNulty saga? He really struggled at the start of the season last year and looked like he wasn't even capable of getting 8, let alone 28. Sterling hasn't been great and nor have Bakayoko, Browne., but lots of these players came with glowing...