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Imagine calling a player who has 32 goal contributions in the league below a ‘hidden gem’. Even if EMC achieves half his output from last season, the numbers are significant and improves our team. He’s come close a few times already and that’s without playing particularly well.

It’s one way to cut the deficit… 🙄

There’s just no reasoning here…

Really? Barnsley got to the playoff finals with Thomas and Kitching as their captain - I was at their game and they were unlucky to have lost. I’m pretty sure Luton signed one of their CBs too that offseason - so it was a top end L1 unit. They looked a fantastic duo when we switched to 4-2-3-1...

Is anyone going to the game tonight?

Is this a joke? Tavares ahead of Simms, Sakamoto, Wright and Bassette?! 😂

Labour have shot themselves in the foot significantly already over ‘attacking’ pensioners. Reeves has spoken about this fiscal ‘black hole’, which has that’s dented confidence and spooked savers and wealth creators into fearing tax rises. Hence, only China has more millionaires leaving the...

The biggest challenge to Labour is in fact Labour themselves… 😂 Their majority is built on fragile foundations and pretty mild swings could see them lose a lot of seats. Sir John Curtice has broke down the data and it doesn’t paint a good picture.

We tried to sign at least 2 players on loan this summer. Our squad is relatively light so getting the numbers up with our own assets puts the club on a better long term footing. In previous years, we had a tiny squad that was patch up with 5-6 loans a year. Add 1-2 permanent signings to our...

They were also involved in Barnsley’s playoff season but, what does the recruitment team know, eh?

Signing players from a league below is the norm for 95% of football teams. Sakamoto was signed from a team relegated from the Belgian first division, likewise with Hamer in the Netherlands. Signing players from the league above isn’t easy either, Birmingham spent up to £15m on a striker who...

Robins isn’t going to have his coaching team picked for him. In any case, Delaney was brought in as a youth coach before King became owner. He also wouldn’t praise people in public who he didn’t rate and were forced on him. Take the tin foil hat off. Any rational person will know that is it...

They’re all and have always been Robins appointments and he is on record saying he was impressed with the candidates he interviewed. There’s no conspiracy here. If he’s about to appoint an AM, it’s because he feels he needs it to succeed. It could be because the new structure ‘isn’t working’ in...

I think I’m consistent across the board on this. We can all agree the start hasn’t been good enough, but I don’t think we’ve been as bad as our league position suggests. It takes a small win run with a bit of luck on side and all of a sudden the narrative changes. When things go badly there’s...

Probably quite a lot left, only 1 block had sold out Y4 (unrestricted) when I logged on at 12:00 for the 1100+ sale. After this and PNE, I’ll be in the 1200+ club!

Robins is on record saying the coaches are settling into their roles - it’s too early to evaluate them at this point. The early start hasn’t been great, but plenty of time to improve things. Let’s think back to 2017 when AV was starting, there was doubt expressed at the time of MR to coach...

It’s a gold medal performance in the mental gymnastics from @shmmeee today.

Would you have signed Ivan Toney for £10m then? Also 24 and in a team who pump their forwards stats… Vik didn’t have amazing stats - he played in the Swedish second division before BHA picked him up. Your point on Sheaf contradicts your previous points on EMC and (probably Kitching as Barnsley...

It’s funny how people remember things. The reality is, Sheaf and Vik were examples of what a good job the coaching team have done with these players. It happens year in, year out and it’s the same culprits making the same hasty judgements. The recruitment policy has been criticised at stages...

No, he was clearly a ‘cut above’ from Day 1… 🙄