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Some fans just expect football clubs owned by owners who are benefactors. We’re not all so lucky to be owned by an oligarch or sovereign state. We froze season tickets prices after a year were commercially, would’ve been sensible to rise prices. The product we’re putting out is fantastic, in...

Apparently, he upset a lot of the newer players. Generally, quite ‘old school’ and considered an ‘complicated’ character by people at the club. What that actually means specifically. That snippet of info I was told by a friend at the Hull home game - all 3rd or 4th hand info. Which I took with...

We’ve gone over this before. There isn’t the coverage you need for a long campaign and if either Wright, Simms, EMC gets injured… you can’t have players simultaneously covering 2-3 positions. That is, if you expect to be pushing at the top of the table which is our goal. Tavares has scored two...

No, but if he’s loaning the club money he wouldn’t get it back so would lose significant sums. He’s doing a good job atm, I don’t get this section of supporters that are so sceptical of him. Commercially, we were a mess during SISU and the relationship so poor, the couldn’t increase prices at...

Even if we bring in loans, it still doesn’t mean our business is over. Robins can’t moan about squad depth and keep the squad size the same and still below the benchmark of 22/23 season. The overall quality is higher Counting our injured at the moment, our starting midfield is Allen, Rudoni and...

Management wouldn’t confirm that - Robins said the other day he’ll never talk about transfer. By all accounts, we’d signed Stamenic barring the formality of signing the contract. The initial reports said Stamenic ‘hesitated’ and lo and behold, when Forest came in he ditched us. From that, it’s...

Well, he came through the academy at Barnet, so hasn’t gone through the conventional route with that ‘Premiership pedigree’. He’s dragged himself up the leagues and since he’s got to Peterborough, been a stand out player for them! I’m pretty sure Toney had a similar journey from Peterborough...

It’s all hypothetical until the season starts. Even if Sakamoto starts the season, the long term trajectory is that EMC and Wright are our longer term options. It remains Another point to make, Sakamoto’s xG stat wasn’t great, he scored a lot of low probability chances and if I’m being...

Yes and no. You obviously need to rotate in and between games and most managers, Robins included, have what they believe is their best team. This was the case last season where everyone was available and match fit, we played the same starting 11 consistently and this season won’t be any...

Even if Sakamoto starts the season, he won’t be ending it as a starter. EMC is definitely rated higher than Sakamoto over the long term. Sakamoto turns 28 this year, he’s probably not going to improve much more as a player. Last season, he was one of my favourite players and we missed him, I...

That’s a given over a 50 game season, but Robins will have a starting 11 for the most important games in mind.

So we’ve spent £12m on left sided players to sit one of them on the bench? Mason-Clark played more or less an equal amount of games at RW before he joined Peterborough.

I don’t think we spent £5m on EMC to sit him on the bench… Sakamoto could make a legendary impact role player.

Wright has played AM and RW at various points in games last season. Perhaps not on the first day of the season, but the 3 will be Simms, Wright and EMC. Sakamoto will remain an important play but just in a different capacity imo.

Why not? EMC and Wright are both players that have been identified as players that will be in the Prem. EMC hit double figure goals and assists last season in L1 and Wright was our top assister and joint top goal scorer. Robins also said post-Stevenage that he felt Sakamoto is still ‘not...

Personally, reckon one of Wright or EMC will play RW.

In Germany all the police around football fans were geared up, looked ready to go and didn’t look like the kind of people you’d want to antagonise. Our approach to policing is a too soft and I believe that has played a part in rising public disorder and violence in the streets. There’s no...

It’s too early to say for sure because who knows what will happen between now and 2029. We can probably all agree that after 2019, the probability of a Labour government in 2024 was quite low. Labour has a massive majority but it is more precarious than you’d expect. As for the lesser parties...

Could genuinely see this Labour government being in for one term. They’ll be challenged on the right by Reform and on the left by the Greens. Without the full details, Reform alone cost the Tories around 80 seats.

I agree, it’s more a symptom of how far we’ve come and the next steps of our progression as a club. The players mentioned are decent, but would Allen get into another playoff chasing team? Probably not, given his last Championship team was relegated Burton. The other consideration is squad...