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Equally, you have to give things time and 6 games, it isn’t enough time to figure out if things need to change. Looking back to AV’s first season, would anyone have looked at our early performances and felt we’d be playing for Premiership football 5-6 season later. The circumstances are...

Funnily enough, they do measure xG on game state (i.e. when winning or losing) too now. Looking at the Man City v Arsenal match, Man City’s xG was only 1.5-1.6 in the 2nd half v Arsenal. That’s accumulated because they had 29 shots in that half. Back to that Norwich game, we didn’t fashion a...

Gyokeres wasn’t even playing for Swansea when we picked him up. I’d sure people would have preferred us to sign a top end L1 striker at the time we signed Vik. COH’s experience before us was Carlisle in L2, Sheaf on the back of L1 performances with DRFC. Hamer was signed from a lower end...

Luton are only 2 points better off than us and their team should be better than ours. The knives shouldn’t be put for Robins at this stage of the season, it’s silly talk. It’s a different conversation if we’re 20 games in and around 19th still. For arguments sake, if we win the next 3 games...

He did say that about the midfield last season, numerous times and particularly raised it against quality opposition. Going into the season, the squad felt incomplete and nothing changed as the window closed. Defensively, and in midfield we look weak. I feel like we’ve allowed expectations to...

Exactly, the league is a marathon, not a sprint and there’s been plenty of examples of teams starting slowly and peaking towards the end of the season. Just look 2022/23 where us v Middlesborough was a 23rd v 24th clash in Sept/Oct and we were both in the playoff semi finals.

The trends over the last 7 years with MR haven’t changed. It’s been a slow start every season barring the 2nd Championship season where we won the first 6 home games. People also forget that the same questions being asked of MR were asked when Viveash came to the club to replace Robin’s long...

I’d just like to remind the forum that the year we won L1, many people were criticising the style of play and teetering on the ‘Robins Out’ camp. Whenever we talk about that season now, those same people talk about how well we started that season. It’s 6 games into the league season and whilst...

The team isn’t good enough for promotion, the midfield and defence is particularly off the pace. The team should be good enough for top 6.

We’re still only 6 games in - the obvious issues are there and they probably don’t have an overnight fix. This panicking and writing off the players and MR is becoming an annual event now.

Hahaha Nick, always one for the dramatics!

Yeah… you can see on social media and even the lads I go with, too moaning at certain players. We’re still 6 games in. Disappointing start, of course but not really indicative of how the season will go (just yet).

Tactically we’re not all over the place. There’s just a lack of general bravery in possession. Soft defensively, safe in possession and a young team finding their feet still. There’s a need for leaders in the group, absolutely! Still, it’s early in the season… there’s no need to shit the bed.

A lot of hot headed takes at the minute and suspect this thread will be bumped in a few months when we pick up our form.

Have you ever actually tried to politely ask someone to move slightly or even swap seats /vantage point? I’m quite tall and try to mindful if I’m in people’s way but unfortunately, there’s no eyes in the back of my head to always notice if I’m in the way.

It always is a free-for-all at away games. People not being able to buy with friends outside of points bands is possibly exacerbating the issue because you’ll have big groups people going to matches together but dotted over the place. Watford and Stoke away I’ve been consigned to the stairwell...

Definitely. I understand that family costs are combined, but we’re not a Mickey Mouse club that needs to do kids for a quid to get people through the door. Regularly in this thread people talk about ‘added costs’ like food and drink at the stadium. That irritates me because that is a...

It’s a midweek cup game that no one really cares about. It’s why it’s so important FA Cup ties are played on Saturdays, otherwise it kills the atmosphere. Looking at the Swansea game prices, £30 for an adult and £15 for U18s - it was an uproar over £5 extra for a kids ticket.

Agreed, looked good last night and against Watford with some impressive stats in interceptions so far. It’s routine for us Cov fans to panic early in the season when we’ve been slow starters in almost every season in MRs 2nd tenure. It was only our 2nd season back in Championship where we...

Fantastic ball, but as the statistics show, pass completion % is a lot lower than you’d want. He is improving and trying to get better in that facet of the game because he’s tried that kind of pass several times this season and most have gone wayward. It’s a difficult skill to master so it’s not...