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I genuinely don’t think he’s all that. There’s a reason he ultimately lost his place last season. That Dec-Feb stretch everything he touched turned to gold and his goal scoring record was unlike anything else in his career. From that moment, we weren’t going to afford his demands. I’ll risk the...

You’re being an emotional wreck this season Saddle.

He’s also our only wide player to make a goal contribution. Sakamoto is benefitting from his flash in the pan from in Xmas to Feb last season. In reality, he’s also done v little this season too and it goes under the radar. Whilst Simms gets slagged off for last night in a game he improved us...

I don’t get this narrative of Robins looking ‘lost’ on the touch line. His demeanour hasn’t changed from the glory days. It’s catastrophising and it happens every year because many of you lot on here are emotional whenever something goes wrong or someone plays badly. Get to Xmas, take stock...

I’m not sure they’re that great a partnership. Comparing our record against top half teams in 22/23 and 23/24 paints a picture. Both Eccles and Sheaf played in those seasons. However, both of these players are good progressive deep lying playmakers - imo Sheaf is a lot better at that job without...

For sure, the first thing you need when you have a losing streak is to break the duck. We need to avoid defeat v Luton and go into two fixtures consecutively where our recent form against Middlesborough and Sunderland has been favourable going into the international break. There’s this fixation...

Well it was because AV had a lot of internal enemies and was clearly sacked for gross misconduct. Robins wouldn’t have allowed it unless something was genuinely wrong.

It’s a form thing. When you’re in a rut you just need a result to get points on, in my view we had the better of the chances and deserved to win. Again, we’re one point worse off than we were after 11 games in 22/23, it’s important to keep patient and not chuck the baby out with the bath water...

They were but when confidence is so low, you need something to latch into. QPR are also in a similar position to us you feel i.e. punching below their weight. Robins has to extract what positives we can from the game. If one of the many Debby downers on here were managers, they’d be slagging...

We need to add experience to the group. There’s too many young players with nothing to balance it out. When you’re in a rut like we are, there needs more than just Sheaf to lead. Lati, to be fair looks like a leader too but we just need more.

Top half and a lot is riding on the January transfer market.

When you‘ve won 1 game in 9 and lost two on the bounce with a midweek away game, we just needed to not lose. To be frank, we had the better chances too so we can take a positive out of the game performance wise even if the result wasn’t ideal.

He’s scored 2 goals (well, as one was ruled as an OG) and 2 assists. Whereas, Torp, Eccles, Sheaf and Allen have combined for a total of 0 goal contributions. Therein lies your problem. 0 goal contributions in 14 games from our midfielders and we’re scapegoating our advanced players. We don’t...

Why is he being targeted rather than someone like Sheaf or Eccles?

The return to 3-4-1-2 is clearly an attempt to concede less goals. If we need to go into every game needing a minimum of 2 goals, we won’t win many games. Additionally, the idea is to make use of all 4 strikers over the 90 minutes. If we did try and play 4-2-3-1 again, it wouldn’t surprise me...

They had to moved on, 100% agree. Who has replaced them? The CB department is the exact same as last season minus McFadz. Likewise, the CM department is the exact same barring Kelly. That is a lot of experience and leadership leaving the group of players and the most senior players we have...

Sheaf doesn’t look 100% to me. However, I think it looks structurally weak for different reasons. Eccles and/or Sheaf will stand in advanced positions but when they get the ball there, still hesitate to put the ball in the box (non-crosses) and look to go out wide. Too often, we get it out wide...

Our record after 11 games was 2-4-5 (W-D-L) with 10 points. One point better off than where we are at now. So it is comparable, the only significant difference is that we played more away games at the start of the season because of the postponements. I just believe that the team would be...

If he plays like that consistently, he will be back in the team as a starter in no time. He impressed me with the amount of tackles he got stuck into and as you rightly point out, moved the ball forward quickly. It’s nothing against Eccles or Sheaf, they’re just a bit too similar. They keep the...

We’re roughly where we were in 2022/23 so there’s plenty of time to turn a corner. Personally, I’m not panicking and we’re catastrophising over the performances as we haven’t been as bad as has been made out at times.