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We’ve had a good run using it but it’s doubtful that this team setup is seen as the best long term solution. For starters, you need Haji and EMC in the team. You could maybe get that in 3-4-3 but not in the 5-3-2.

In my opinion, that’ll get the most out of our squad of players. 5-3-2 has served us well but it’s very much a stop gap until our star players return.

It’s all tactics and a style of play. There’s a really nice balance to Torp-Allen-Rudoni that wasn’t there when the CM partnership was a pair of Sheaf-Torp-Eccles or all 3. The way Lampard has setup this 5-3-2 has been fantastic. Rudoni and Torp operating almost as alternating wingers at times...

Publicly, Robins and Lampard both said the same thing that he’s a talented player but just not robust enough for standard we play at. I don’t know what that means exactly. It doesn’t point to him being necessarily unfit, more his body being too fragile to cope. That was my interpretation. Even...

Lati can play RB so it’s not as disastrous as it seems. I don’t believe the transfer policy is one in, one out as people have reported earlier in the window.

Allen is the glue in that midfield 3 atm. He covers a lot of distance, picks up a lot of second balls and is tidy in possession. He hasn’t been flash, it’s been solid all around in his game and compliments Rudoni and Torp nicely.

I’m sure people said that when they signed Will Grigg for £5m in League 1.

It was our home form that got MR sacked. We conceded 11 goals in 6 games and we hadn’t played the better teams at home back then. There has been a material improvement under Lampard and whilst it’s early days at Stoke for MR, it’s not looking positive atm. Lampard hasn’t had Haji available to...

Since Lampard has taken over, the defence has generally improved. I’d like a marquee signing at CB, but Kitching and Thomas were a good partnership last season, we had the 9th best defence in the league and that’s with poor form towards the end of the season. With 4 first team options, unless...

I agree that we need a CM, RB and a CB, I don’t believe we need to shuffle the pack at LB until the summer. There’s sufficient cover in all the positions you outline that we don’t need to change the system. Even if MVE got injured, you’d stick Lati at RB as he played many times last season...

Karma for not respecting the shirt! 😂

You’re not selecting the team. If you want to play 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 and you don’t have the personnel available to do that, it’s a problem. 5-3-2 has served a purpose and given us balance against tough opposition. That said, we have 3 quality players that are wingers in EMC, Wright and Sakamoto...

Yep, if we did an inquest into football fan behaviour, a lot of people be guilty of acting unacceptably. It’s just a bit too personal to be talking about a specific person, making speculative judgements based on what they’ve seen/heard of them and that person isn’t here to defend themselves...

The Australian kid who has played 10 minutes all season. Both Robins and Lampard said the same thing; talented player but his body isn’t robust enough to play meaningful minutes yet. CM and RB are positions of need, agreed. That doesn’t mean we’re not working on signing players in this...

Agreed. Like anyone, if they’re doing anything illegal, they’d get banned. If behaving like a twat is enough to get you banned, many football fans up and down the country would be issued with banning orders.

This is also making an assumption the person is disabled when they may not be. You also don’t want to upset unstable people and potentially put these supervisors in danger. This is a non-issue to be honest. Football fan behaves poorly at many football games, it’s not new.

Yes, if we want to play with proper wingers. If Lampard wants to play Haji as a striker, we have 2 first wingers and that’s it.

Agreed, shouldn’t be talking about a ‘vulnerable person’ and/or ‘drug addled idiot’ on a public forum. If people are concerned, signpost whomever to reach out and support him.

It’s pretty simple. We can’t play the formation we want to because of 2 injuries. We’ll be pursuing multiple targets and if @Jimmy87’s info is right, we are talking to a RB and a CM.

I generally trust what the ITKs have to say, it’s just the details they sometimes appear to fill in the blanks themselves. Supposedly it was ‘1 in, 1 out’ too this window. It’s more likely that at some point it was mentioned we need to clear out some deadwood before spending big.