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Despite fans groaning when the fullbacks stand off wingers, it's a very clear tactical instruction to defend the box much better than we had in recent seasons.

Exactly, you’re right. It’s important to recognise most of the game I listed are at home where we’ve been nearly flawless under Lampard as a whole. I’ve been cautious to not say we should beat Boro, Leicester, Ipswich, Southampton and others who we’ll be favoured to beat despite being very...

They're another team who's away form is tragic. The difference between their record at home and away is night and day, at home they average 2.1 ppg and away its 0.73 ppg. One is nearly automatic promotion form (usually around 2.3-2.4 ppg) and the other relegation form. If we beat Birmingham...

Be very confident! There’s a few fans that should be dead cert wins for us: Swansea - home and away Sheff Wednesday - home Oxford - home Pompey - home These are games that should be 100% wins. Next up there’s fixtures like: Millwall - home Derby - home Charlton - away Blackburn - away PNE -...

He’s being level headed about everything and that’s despite being dealt a bad hand. He gets a season ending injury that may turn to two just as he was establishing himself as a top GK in the division. We missed him badly and meant signing another GK was a non-negotiable this summer. Dovin has...

He seems like a genuinely positive influence on the group, doesn’t he? My mates and I joke that he’s there for magic tricks but in reality, you just don’t need a 3rd choice GK who’s going to be that competitive with your starter and backup. In a sense, they’re there for the dressing room.

Agreed, it would take Southampton having Leicester City 23/24 form for 22 games to him 85 points - that’s the required run rate for 2.5 ppg for them. It’s a similar story for Ipswich to get to 89 points. The caveat here is 2.5 PPG is slightly higher than what they actually need to hit those...

That would be gutting for him but their last manager was good and they had a disastrous start. Their issues are well past bringing in a new manager.

Maybe, they did that in the 2010s and were back up in 3-4 seasons. If Edwards gets back to back relegations with 2 parachute payments teams, his stock as a manager collapses.

He always has a hot streak too. He’s played in the prem before and wasn’t v good, is v injury prone and it’s telling a Prem club haven't picked him yet. Has the talent to play in a top division in Europe, perhaps the Prem but there’s a reason he’s still at Norwich.

I feel like Wolves are the kind of club that’ll go straight back up so in the short term, terrible move. In the medium to long term, might turn out well for him.

I agree on Wilson but being 3rd choice isn’t too outrageous, Scott Carson was Man City’s 3rd choice and he’s massively behind various 1st and second choice GKs. Frankly speaking, a 3rd choice GK has got to accept that they’re basically never going to get minutes.

It’s possibly too soon to call Hellberg better than Edwards imo. Boro’s form could be a new manager bounce because with the exception of an emphatic win v Hull, the other wins were expected. That said, whilst Edwards did v well getting Luton up, he struggled massively when they went down. His...

Considering Leicester home tickets get above £50 on their resale platform, this is literally the last club who should be kicking up a fuss.

It’s mad how Simms and BTA were shit last year and both players have had better records than the likes of S. Armstrong and Campbell.

If we score first, we’ll win the game in a similar vain v Boro imo. Concede first and think we’ll struggle a lot. They’re vulnerable defensively so we’ve got to aiming for 2 goals.

Things could literally only get better for them. It’s a difficult away game but unlike last year, I think we’ll go there and give them a good game and get positive result. This is 100% a game we need to get winning, same with Charlton. Southampton and Birmingham are games I’d love to win but a...

Perhaps. At this moment his record is 2-2-2 and their only wins at home are against QPR & Southampton who have averaged 1.2 points per game away from home. They’re ones to watch but I’m not stressing about Norwich just yet. They’ve got a difficult stretch of home games going into our game...

I’m sceptical of that because his career to date has been v average. Found a niche this season but like Campbell last season at Sheff U… players tend to revert to the statistical norms. If a player has 2-3 seasons of consistency, I’m a lot more likely to believe the hype.

Carsley makes sense to me, he’s coach most of the first team and has a track record in international football. Spains manger cut his teeth in age group international football. As for Lampard, if he keeps things up with us, a genuinely top end European team will come in for him. I don’t rate...