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All due respect to Southampton, they don’t really have the squad capable of staying up playing with their ‘clear football philosophy’. Same with Burnley under Kompany and Maresca had he stayed at Leicester (academic ofc). That rebuild could define Pep’s legacy in that GOAT conversation which is...

They do that in rugby and there are some v suspect decisions made, there are occasions where a player can have a nasty head collision and somehow pass the concussion protocols but be subbed off shortly anyway because they’re clearly not right. I’d to see the clock be stopped and normalise teams...

Mental to think this being flown about after 6 PL titles and one bad run. Looking back to ourselves, it can show how easily a solid foundation can be undone. But Man City have a few players in their team that over the hill with Walker and KDB being 2 such players. Even if Pep survives this...

100% - I really don’t understand why referees can’t see through the blatant play acting. In rugby, the game playing on just makes sense. There’s no incentive for players to not stay on the floor in football because the referee will often stop an opposition attack for treatment. The amount of...

I thought that was for the keeper holding on to the ball for 6+ seconds?

I don’t think we are and the proof is in the pudding. That is, more shots and shots on target, higher xG and the eye test shows we move the ball quicker. There’s definitely improvements to be made but our fixture list is pretty packed atm so the time on the training field is limited. Burnley...

I don’t think it’s on the players necessarily. To me, it’s a tactical issue because the trend was that we’d struggle against the ‘lumpy’ sides. Not only did we lose, we didn’t get shots on target. We also didn’t know who was going to play or what formation from game to game at points. Which is...

It’s not FM25 mate where we can cheat by ‘managing’ Man City to spend £100m on Kitching… 😂

Just as the Swansea and Sheffield Wednesday were freak results? We were just unable to break down those kind of teams that are happy defending and hitting teams on the counter. Just looking at how we attack, part of the problem is that under MR, we didn’t get the ball in quickly enough compared...

Last season (presumably 22/23 too) we our record against the bottom half was impressive, iirc. Hull were one such hoodoo team so that’s a positive step in the right direction! The striking thing about that Derby game was just how stale it felt. Leading up that match Robins just couldn’t decide...

The Premier League is one place we won’t make it with Lati at CB… 😂

Last season, we had some great performances v Leicester, Leeds and Southampton. The issue was more playing the teams around us like PNE, Norwich, WBA and so on. We lost just about every 6 pointer last season home or away. Our record against top half teams cost us a playoff spot. This season has...

He didn’t, but it wasn’t helpful that MR couldn’t decide on a formation or what personnel to play. How you get to a position where 3-4 players who performed excellently last season went off the boil is probably down to the manager not having faith in certain players. That isn’t trying to...

It’s a tragedy with that boy, but a 20mph limit doesn’t fix this. He was killed by some idiot in a stolen car doing 60mph (or more) in a 30 zone.

He tried Lati at CB v Millwall and we kept a clean sheet which is a rarity this season so WBA was always going to be unchanged. You look at the soft goals v Cardiff and Hull Lampard may look to change things up again v Pompey. Personally, I think he should start Thomas-Kitching but that’s...

Maybe I’m being too harsh because I haven’t watched the replay from WBA and the chance happened at the opposite end of the away fans.

Again, it’s 4 games in so you can take what you will from it… things rapidly change. The only constant in defence atm is Thomas and MVE. The rest of the spots are up for grabs.

EMC had the best xGA (goals and assists) in the small sample size under Robins and there were multiple chances he should’ve done better. He had 1-2 chances similar to his goal yesterday and there was the gilt edge chance at Watford too. We’re talking about a player who had 30+ goal...

100% because we’re actually making efforts to cross earlier at the byline. How many times under MR and Carr did we get to the byline not cross it? Too often a phase of play would look something like this: We get to a crossing position and the would-be crosser passes it back to another player...

He’s only swapped Lati and Binks around twice. It really is too soon to say and if we win our next 2-3 games, I don’t think the team will change much because why would you change a winning team? Lampard is still getting to know the team and the characters but one thing is for sure, we’re still...