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Tonight showed that our strength is depth isn’t that great. Granted, Sheaf and Eccles were injured and Lati too. The reason I’ve been banging on about wingers all preseason is because right now, Rapha is our only recognised winger in the squad. EMC is carrying a knock so his minutes are being...

‘Can’t play upfront in Lampard’s system’ ‘His best position is LW’ Apparently…

Two changes: Grimes > Torp BTA > Wright

I don’t know. My worry at the time is that we were so desperate to get rid of SISU we were willing to buy anyone’s bullshit. There’s plenty of bad actors as football owners and we could’ve went from one lot to another that were just as bad. Going through the archives, we’d see many people...

Our team was in a v different place to Notts County’s and personally, never understood the idea that we could’ve went the way of Notts County had we lost in the playoffs. I was quite happy with our team back then, we’d have lost McNulty, Willis and Bayliss but with the funds it wasn’t game...

It just means messiah tbf! I was just being silly! 😂

It was bad and hindsight can be 20:20. I don’t think Robins was the lisan al gaib (Dune reference) and the only person who could’ve led us back up the leagues. But, appointing Robins was about the best decision could’ve made in that moment and meant that relegation to L2 was moment to ‘reset to...

The stats do tell the story of the game. Anyone watching on Saturday, it felt like we were going to score with every attack and we more or less did. Our final 3 of our goals were all low xG chances. Even if our xG was double, or triple the figure of 1.27… it tells the story that we were...

Without trying to play ‘alternate history’, I think the club would’ve found itself back in L1 and pushing towards the Championship without Robins. By all accounts, Robins had a good relationship with the owners and that counts for something. Where Robins and Viveash deserve their status as...

The way football is going, the formation matters less and less. BTA starts out wide and darts for the box at the nearest opportunity when the ball is being progressed in opposition half. It's pretty common to see a triangle of MVE-Rudoni-BTA and once MVE can overlap, BTA goes to the box. It'll...

Obviously they weren’t good owners… it’s still the case that their diagnosis of the problems the club face were accurate.

How many charlatans were trying to buy the club way back when? Sometimes, it’s a case of ‘better the devil you know’. Imagine if they sold to that Preston Haskell IV guy? I for one was optimistic about his plans for us… he went bankrupt a few years later. Perhaps the painful steps SISU took to...

We’ll probably play 4-4-2 again as we did v Luton. In fact, the team will probably be v similar to that lineup.

MVE has 3 assists already, that’s why. His attacking play has been fantastic this season. If a team wanted to pay €6m, his early performances will 100% move the dial toward a figure we want.

SISU were right to take on the council over the rent agreement and then over the sale of the ground to Wasps. As a fanbase, we lost faith in them because they failed to deliver Operation Premiership v quickly. Their tactics though, were blunt and alienated the fans who probably didn’t...

He just has a different play style… Lampard was quite complementary of his performance post-Luton. As for his appearances v Derby and QPR, there’s not really much to read into.

It’s been 4 games this season and he started in the cup and will probably score Tuesday. It’s a long season and he’ll get chances. People will be surprised how little strikers score goals from the bench. How many players make an impact (score goals specifically) in 20-30m game time? Not many...

I don’t get why the same people writing off BTA are continuing to write off Simms. Both of them are good goal scorers and it’s a long season and he’ll get chances to prove his worth. We’re not signing a striker with 26 championship goals for £3m. It’s a non-starter.

It’s symbolic though. The new stadium should ensure there is long term stability, which has been a thorn in our side since 2011/12. My only concern is that the costs of maintaining the stadium can easily mount up and impact the playing side of things. However, I’d assume the club has built this...

Apparently Sakamoto had 0.7-0.8 xG over two chances v Hull, one chance being over 0.5 xG… I can’t recall 2 such chances. It’s not an arbitrary measure, there’s clearly a mathematic formula behind it.