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Toney cost £10m… I’m not going to nitpick this examples. All of the L1 players we signed had Championship experience with the exception of EMC. £4.25m for a 24 year old player with 19 goals and 13 assists in the league below is good value. Just how you and others slated Wright and Simms last...

When Vik first joined us, he had been a bust at Swansea and struggled to get in the team ahead of Biamou. He scored 2 goals in his first 12 games and if we were to revisit the original Vik signing thread, there were many sceptical comments on there. There will be similar comments regarding...

Would’ve taken £8 for him and/or Hamer too! 😂

There’s been plenty of players who have come good from L1 over 21, what a silly thing to say. EMC’s numbers last season for Peterborough were similar to Toney’s before Brentford signed him. EMC will come good, to reiterate the same point I’ve made on several threads, it’s not possible that...

Sheaf and Eccles also need to be braver on the ball and put balls in behind defenders. They haven’t done this nearly enough and we’re never going to take advantage of the pace we have in the team if Simms, BTA, EMC, MVE, Wright and Bassette are not running onto balls. Looking at how well Vik was...

Frankly, they’re amateurs with amateurish opinions. Management on FM24 or managing the Dog & Duck 2s is not real experience! 😂

Our 2 best chances v Stoke were in the second half, Binks and Simms, both from corners: https://www.sportinglife.com/football/live/190305/stoke-city-vs-coventry-city/xg-shot-maps As for Swansea, you’re right - I thought both Bassette and Rudoni’s big chances were from set pieces.

Which is a result of slow and risk averse build up play. We seen what happened with England this summer, despite having world class talent available.

Again, he and the rest of the forwards are being scapegoated when the problem is so obviously our lack of chance creation. Of all the players taking the easy options, it isn’t the likes of Simms, Wright, BTA and so on. Watford away is the only game we can point at the forwards failing to deliver...

It’s convenient scapegoating when we’ve have had several games. BTA played upfront for most of Saturday and we still lost, despite the ‘effort’ he put in. EMC and Wright have missed a few chances, Watford (A) springs to mind because we should’ve been out of sight before the equaliser/should’ve...

Simms doesn’t necessarily work on confidence or high energy running - he’s a convenient scapegoat when things aren’t going well. People instinctively like BTA and Bassette because they run more but their output is less than Simms. If we’re only going to create 0.6 xG a game at 0.05 xG per shot...

Wright and Simms scored more goals than Gyokeres and Godden did in 22/23. We’ve added BTA and Bassette to the mix so our forward department is overall in a stronger position. Vik has become an elite striker (or thereabouts) in his own right. Defence is a difficult one to judge, I’m convinced an...

Exactly, which is why my ire is directed at our midfield. We had about 0.6 xG on Saturday over 13 shots so we didn’t create any big chances at all. This was a trend last season against the top half teams, the Norwiches, WBAs, PNEs and Hull’s of the league.

Agreed with both of you, which is why I was in favour of signing him. I just understand why DK would push back to Robins that the team should be good enough to perform at a certain level until a big money signing can be made. Leadership gives intangible benefits to a group of players, stuff...

The only option on the bench for CM was Lati or Torp. Recruitment wise, CM has to be the top priority because it’s the only area on the pitch that is actually worse than when DK took over the club. Until that area is addressed, a new manager will only have so much impact in the short term.

9 games in, having 2 polls on this topic in such a short period of time is ridiculous. Robins in, he has enough credit in the bank to lead us for the whole season providing that we’re not seriously in danger of relegation.

That’s not true though is it? The money was fronted for Stamenic in a deal worth £4 million or so and that deal cost us signing Alan Browne because he felt jilted. What good would a stopgap signing like Matty James do for us? By the time he’s 100% match fit, it’ll probably be close to January...

That would be valid if he didn’t have good depth at ST. The front 3 on Saturday after EMC came off had a combined total of 46 goals last season. The primary issue we have is that we did not fashion one clear cut chance for one of them. It’s not so bad calling out strikers if they’re missing big...

He shares similarities with Gyokeres and has a lot of energy on the ball with appeals to many fans. He played v well against Spurs but in his league appearances, has looked raw and not quite ready to be a regular starter. It’s a bit much when you have people claiming he should be starting ahead...

If the choice was between a 2nd booking and conceding a stoppage time goal to lose the game… it’s an absolute non-starter, you take the red card.