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They’ve both been overlooked. BTA has spent a lot of time being played out of position and Simms playing 10-20 minutes here and there. They’ve both often had 20-30 minutes cameos and it’s not a lot of time to impact a game.

How can the squad get toxic but not around Robins personally? If the were frustrations around playing time and positions, then how is that not a reflection on Robins himself? Even if the players didn’t like the coaches, that again is a reflection on Robins. Robins was a great manager for the...

Sakamoto will become a good role player, he isn’t a stand out starting calibre player. Players like EMC and Wright actually are.

We were on the verge of signing 2 wingers and presumably bidding for Grimes in the background. It’s not outside of the realms of possibility imo.

The first report earlier in the week said we’d had 2 bids rejected too. It’s been going on for longer than expected, now the cat is out of the bag, @Jimmy87 was this the CM you referred to when saying we were speaking to a ‘RB & CM?’

Yes, the first 5 games and then another 2 after then. My point was never about total starts, was it? MR just couldn’t decide who to play play where this season.

There’s a difference in starts and sub appearances and you know that. After September, Simms didn’t make a single consecutive start until Jan. It was the same as BTA, who’d everyone had written off until he started a few games and scored goals.

Alongside bringing Kitching, Allen and Simms into the side… Each of those players have made a positive impact in the area of the pitch they’re playing in.

You’re in Heat on a Thursday night? 😉😂

We conceded a lot of goals playing 5-3-2 this season, the formation isn’t the ‘magic wand’ in our turnaround. At full strength, our squad is most suited to a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1. We’ve got a good mix of wingers to come on. The defence could be a concern, Thomas and Kitch had a 10-12 game stretch...

The results spoke for themselves, unfortunately and had it been any other manager, we’d have been demanding the managers be sacked. Us fans definitely weren’t the most qualified to make that judgement, sentiment blinded us when our results were bad over 30-odd games.

Nothing to do with his time at Stoke. I’m certain Robins would still be in the job if he’d stuck with the team that served him well last season.

Chelsea youth team versus Wolves and Ghana. Viveash’s background was elite and considered one of the best coaches in his field. He would’ve worked alongside world class managers too in his time at Chelsea. Robins himself admitted Care and Boateng needed to ‘develop into their roles’ which...

Robins couldn’t decide who to play or how all season. Results have almost immediately picked up as soon as he joined. Now, things seem to be developing nicely now he was more contact time between games to coach the players. Robins is a legend and always will be, however, he made a lot of...

There’s levels to this. Boateng and Carr’s resume compared to someone like Ado Viveash is chalk and cheese. King’s whole point was that he was worried that without an elite coach beside him, MR could get exposed. The subtext of what he said was that MR was ‘threatened’ by higher calibre...

Just how badly did MR mess up the post-AV coaching structure? 🤔

Swansea are very much a mediocre championship team that is not too dissimilar to us before we got relegated. Add a player like Grimes to our setup and we’ll comfortably be a better side and serious playoff contenders. It’s an upgrade for Grimes professionally in the exact same way Hamer and COH...

EMC will start ahead of Sakamoto and Sheaf will start.

Only if we’re signing a player who’d be considered league leading as with Grimes. Defensively, Thomas and Kitching are an effective pairing. It’s not the best in the league but it’s certainly good enough for a team pushing playoffs.

It was never a bad squad. We finished 9th last season and ought to have finished higher. This offseason we’ve improved on that squad so 9th really is a minimum expectation. With Torp growing under Lampard and Grimes incoming, we may be on the verge of sorting out our post-Hamer midfield...