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We’re just not playing to his strengths. There were moments we tried to use one of the CMs to overlap with him to create overloads in those channels. The best example being Eccles’ superb cross in the second half. I think we want to play 4-2-3-1 still but think we look more defensively balanced...

What an irrational take - got a check where Godden was at when he was 21/22. Simms deserves credit for a decent performance where he improved the team from his introduction. The chances didn’t quite fall tonight. There’s this irrational scapegoating because he didn’t make a reasonably difficult...

How do you know what he can see exactly? There are times, for example, Sheaf looks completely unaware of what’s around him before he turns 2-3 players.

Lati wasn’t at the heart of defence, only from goal kicks for some reason - probably ball progression. The creativity comes from Eccles and Sheaf too. They are too comfortable passing laterally, something they’re both good at. When I comes to making passes forwards in the final third, not so...

Disagree. He’s taking the chance because he backed himself to make the finish. Having looked at the replay, the passing lane wasn’t as open as I thought live. It’s a good thing that he wanted to take ownership, we’ve been far too guilty of players not taking risks when they need to.

You’re moving the goal posts. You (or others) held it against EMC because he came from a National League academy. Toney came through a L2 academy so the difference is minimal. His career started off similarly to our Gael Bigi. Does well in one season, gets a big move, fails to break into to...

David Moyes managing in the Championship?! That is, to be charitable, wishful thinking.

The core of the issue is that the forwards just do not have the quality of chances to score. We can bleat about all 4 of our strikers, but they haven’t been provided the chances to score. Simms proved last year that when supplied with chances, he’ll score. Haji Wright had one shot in the box on...

I don’t think so, £4.25m for a player with that record in the league below is a reasonable price. It’s not quite the same, but Toney for £10m seemed ridiculous at the time. He was 24 and had 23/24 goals in about 32 appearances.

I’m convinced we’ll turn things around but it’s clear that the team needs further investment in midfield and defence. We need experience/leadership and different profiles of players here.

EMC had 32 goal contributions from the wing last season, of course other teams would’ve been interested.

The problem is, and always been our lack of ability to create chances. We struggle to fashion good quality chances and that comes from the midfield and wide players (WB yesterday). Sheaf and Eccles are two individually good players, but do the same things and it negatively impacts the team...

Still scored 0 goals…

The Spain comparison was more that de la Fuente was not considered a top coach amongst his fellow countrymen. Which is relevant and when you consider how Spain looked under Luis Enrique and this Euros… Enrique had many of the same players. Many fancied Germany because they had the best manager...

There are lots of positives about Tuchel and think he was probably the best candidate available in terms of coaching ability. However, international football is not club football and having a world class manager is not a precondition for success. Yet, England fans are obsessed with the idea of...

On the F&B side of things, people should vote with their feet and opt out of paying for substandard products. I’m partial to a HT pint and if I’ve travelled up to the game I’ll end up buying something if I haven’t brought food with me… I regret buying the crap every time!

Scaloni and de la Fuente achieved what exactly in senior football before winning the World Cup and Euros respectively? On Spain and de la Fuente, he replaced Luis Enrique who is objectively a far more accomplished manager and yet de la Fuente’s team look far better. Further back, you had...

Fair enough - that’s way past my time and could not remember a Dutch national team manager being foreign-born in the 90s to present day.

This is chicken and egg thinking here… What major nations have dabbled in hiring foreign managers? I can only think of Belgium, Portugal and ourselves. We put too much importance on the manager and think Carsley would’ve probably done a good job with the team given time. There’s no point in...

The biggest increases in incapacity benefits in relation to MH, iirc in the 20-30 (or thereabouts) age bracket. Mental health isn’t really stigmatised the same way it was say, 10 years ago. Just leaving them alone sounds like a nice idea. Yet, how would young people benefit mentally from being...