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The first line is ridiculous. Success in the polls for Reform will literally be made or break. Instead of sniping from the sidelines at both Labour and Conservatives, they actually have run local governments and have a record to defend going into future elections.

Labour were expected to win and they’ve lost a v safe seat. It is bad and doesn’t bode well in the seats where Reform’s vote share was much stronger. This government, despite the huge majority, was elected on a historically low vote share % so any moderate swings away from them could mean they...

4D chess. Some of the interpretations on here require a high level of skill in political spin or delusion… Runcorn was Labour’s 49th safest seat where Reform had roughly 5% of the vote share in 2024. It doesn’t paint a good picture for the majority of the 90 or so seats where Reform came...

Not necessarily. They see both goalkeepers in training and Wilson may not be performing well on the training pitch. We don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes, perhaps Wilson is 100% physically ready but mentally not there yet. There must be a reason he isn’t playing if Collins starts...

Lampard will have a say over signings and contracts. I’m certain Robins would have let Bidwell go on a free and Lampard has chosen to keep him because he was playing well for us then. As for Wilson, my assumption was that he was favoured over Collins and extending his contract made some sense...

Wasn’t he one of the best last season? It’s all irrelevant because we’re not going to sign Angus Gunn. If anything, we’ll probably end up signing a keeper from abroad who is expected to deputise Dovin but capable enough to be trusted because we’ll need him for half a season minimum.

Call them and rearrange it?

This is true - and this makes the situation all the more baffling. I still cannot fathom why we gave Wilson a new contract. Is there a potential buyer for either Collins/Wilson?! It’s a real shame Collins made the mistake against Luton because he put in a MOTM performance up until that moment...

The telegraph has reported that he’s not 100%. There was a discussion on CWR where it was noted Wilson doesn’t take part in the warm ups. This suggests he’s not quite right to play… Then you have the ITKs who say he is fit and ready to play and even that he himself expected to play. It’s all...

Sunderland are due a result against anyone at this rate…

The Luton example was used because it was a forced tactical change and a good defensive performance by and large. It demonstrated to me that if we adjusted things tactically, we can defend capably in the formation which this discussion is actually about. I’d like to see us drop deeper away from...

You still haven’t addressed the points about the personnel being different when we played 5-3-2 because this is just as important as the tactical plan. We both watched the game v Sheff U, we created a ‘threat’ before the goal so it cuts both ways. Overall, we were arguably the better team in...

It’s not downplaying that run by pointing out that there moments during this spell where we rode our luck. It was those away games that Dovin put his hat in the ring for POTS. Co’mon, you’ve definitely been advocating 5 ATB for a while now. My critique has been tactical rather than formation...

Yes, the original point was that we could and arguably should’ve conceded first. We didn’t have a proper chance until Simms scored. The second half against Blackburn is where we managed the game masterfully but in the first half we were on the back foot, without a doubt. Again, judging by our...

Is it tactical tweaks that are required or formation change? The conceding goals is an issue, that’s taken the headlines by the likes of yourself, Stupot and Fernando but the lack of chance creation has seemingly gone under the radar. Again, I just struggle to see how 5-3-2 fixes that, the...

So why did Dovin get MOTM? It’s the same with Sheff W and he scored well v Norwich and Oxford too. He’s an underrated match winner for us and his absence has been genuinely missed.

If Collins was in goal, we probably go 1-0 v Blackburn and don’t win the game. The second half, we nicked a quick 2nd goal and could sit back on a 2-0 lead to create a 3rd chance that Rudoni should’ve scored. Blackburn had more shots than us and we really rode our luck and some good...

The chance creation has been a problem in all the games we’ve lost. How does 5-3-2 correct that problem? It doesn’t. You can point out our individual errors at the back (which formation does t automatically fix btw), it’s our chance creation since Oxford away that has considerably dropped off...

If we were to beat Sheff U, you’d have to back us beating Bristol City or Sunderland.

The personnel wasn’t the same. The reason 5-3-2 worked so well is because the midfield 3 complemented each other perfectly. Torp and Rudoni played so high and wide, they were operating like an LM and RM up the pitch at times. A midfield trio of Grimes-Sheaf-Rudoni fundamentally alters that...