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Considering Biamou scored 9 goals in his debut season including two in the game that got us to Wembley and was a key player during those run in games I am sure you would agree, particularly as you posted after his first goal for us last season “how pleased you were for the lad”, that a team half...

Over a 46 game season we finished 6th, one place inside the play off positions. How, after 46 games, could that be lucky? Surely luck would have evened itself out over that many games? I saw all but two games last season and I never came away from any game feeling we were lucky to get the result...

If you go back to our last relegation before 2002, 1958, only one more manager would be added to the list, Billy Frith. We therefore had 14 managers in a period of 44 years when we had three promotions, an FA Cup win, a run in the UEFA cup, two League Cup semi finals and 34 years unbroken in...

The answer is three but I am not sure of the relevance of the question? That is also three relegations in the past 16 years when we have had,I think, 16 permenant managers. In the 34 years before that with no relegations we had by my calculation 13. Not sure what the figures prove except that in...

Probably the next time we lose or don’t score a goal and the same daft ideas for changing the manager are rolled out.

I already mentioned in the post above that Scunthorpe hit the woodwork twice. With regard to your question, it isn’t as simple as yes or no because the circumstances have to be taken into account. If it was one goal from open play and all the performances were like the one at Blackpool then the...

You make so many daft comments and easily disprovable statements (ie the highlights showing the quality of our chances) that it is almost as if you are saying things for effect. Couldn't be true could it?

The point being made was that it wasn't a lack of tactical awareness that cost us but individual errors, ie the inability to put the ball in the net from presentable chances. You can add to that Andrue switching off at their short corner which lead to their goal. The goal scoring problem is one...

Is Brown better than Mason? Haven’t seen it yet.

At the risk of labouring the point, (but it is a point that some don’t seem to get), we lost this game not through being out played, out fought or the manager being out thought. We did not lose because the tactics or the formation was wrong. We lost because the players missed chance, after...

Not true. Willis, Burge and Kelly all injured. Bayliss and Sterling away with England. Quite a few of the signings were late arrivals too. They started a back a week later than other teams due to the late end of last season.In the pre season friendlies it was clear that players such as Grimmer...

Win percentage wise Robins is one of, if not the, best manager that we have had. Yes, it can be pointed out that other managers had to find their wins at a higher level. That makes no difference as Robins can only operate in the league we are in with the resources that we have. If he is such a...

How many did Plymouth have?

Ironic that you would comment on someone who has a fixed view on a player that will never change.

I am glad that the general fan base doesn’t have the views of a few who regularly contribute to the matchthread on here. Absolutely unbelievably negative. The same people were saying the same things last season in what turned out to be a promotion campaign. We played well today in the first half...

Just thought. I think Jasper was a fan of JT so may have sung it but the song itself definitely came from JT.

No, the song about the Bantam Cock is by a now dead singer called Jake Thackeray. He used to appear regularly on a BBC Saturday night programme called Braden’s Week. On after MOTD but before the late night Frankenstein or Dracula film.

Bakayoko is no Cyrille Regis, but a comparison can be made in the fact that you won’t see the best of them if they are played in the wrong way. Sillett based his team plan on playing to Cyrille’s strengths and not playing him as a target man, a role that didn’t suit him, as had been done by the...

He was awful against Blackpool.When he came on yesterday I thought he looked sharper, ball was being played to his feet and he had a few reasonable touches. Like anyone, he needs to be given a chance.

I like Ponticelli and at some stage he will get a chance. However, in both the pre season games at WBA and against Derby he seemed way off the pace. I thought he may have been one of the players referred to by Robins after the Albion game along with JCH, McDonald and Grimmer who I all thought...