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COH made more backwards passes than Palmer. The frustration with Palmer is that his end product in the final third could be lacking, be it the final pass or shot in the box. He’s a good signing that help progress us from where we were when he signed him, but we’re looking at far more...

Is COH good enough for the Prem though? That’s our end point. My personal feelings was no, he isn’t. He was a free agent and ended up at Sheffield United in the same league as us. A team I wouldn’t consider favourites for automatic promotion.

He’s unlikely to be a starter this season even before we conclude our transfer business and will be let go after his contract expires next season. Good role player to have in the team.

Correct, my bad guys and I’ve edited the post. He looked good in that role because it played to his strength of progressive passing. A tactical idea the team is playing with is to hit those long diagonals to the left and right flanks. Getafe was a warm up and good one at that. Looking forward...

There’s been a Parkinson’s specialist coming to the White House and the press office admitted to seeing Biden. The Democrats have been knowingly keeping the extent of Joe Biden’s ill health away from the public. Is it a stretch to think he may have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s? He did say a...

All of these players wouldn’t be sold for anything less than 15-20m so no Championship sides are going to afford that realistically.

For anyone who watched the Getafe game, did anyone notice Eccles’ tactical role has been changed a little bit? He was playing in the hole front of the defenders and had a clear instruction to spray the ball diagonally to our wingers. It was also a tactic too for our central defenders. Without...

Eccles is a solid 7 out of 10 player, week in and week out. You need players like that in every team. In midfield, we lack a player that can do what Hamer could and dominate games with a 8 or 9 out of 10 performances. Sheaf has a wow factor in the defensive elements of his games but in attack...

Obikwu had a decent spell in L2, 3 goals in 16 games is respectable. It’s nothing to suggest he is ready to make the step up as a Championship striker. I want us to show some ambition and get someone who can really push Simms and Wright. They will have goalless spells and another person to push...

Not quite. We’re looking to bring in players with a different profile so we can adapt to various in-game challenges. It’s not a stretch at all. Wright went off as a ‘precaution’ on Friday and in a league campaign, the LW would be well stocked. However, you need Simms to play 90m of every game...

It’s not even worth debating, Robins will want a 3rd senior striker to compete. If we’re in a position where we’re relying on Tavares, Obikwu or Dausch… we’re in trouble. MR knows this. I’d also sign a LB. I’ve made my feelings clear on this in other threads - Bidwell is solid but needs...

I genuinely can’t tell if you’re trolling right now or not… 😂 Both EMC and Rapha are wingers, not strikers. We need a 3rd CF to a) competition for places b) offer something different in matches and c) provide rotation. Robins and AV before he left spoke of potentially playing 4-4-2, which would...

Said as if we didn’t have play COH, Palmer, Eccles, MVE and Allen in wide areas. You’re being literal if you think we’re good because we’ve got rid of 1 and brought in 2 players. We’re a team looking for promotion, players like Tavares, Obikwu and Dausch shouldn’t be anywhere near the first...

In a 50 game season, it’s just not tenable to have only 2 strikers. Wright covers two positions too. Last season, we couldn’t go the distance because too many players had played too many minutes. The team was visibly deteriorating in energy levels from March onwards. This league is too...

He’s still only 22 so some of his highlights would’ve been when he was just breaking through. If we’ve been chasing this player since March we’ve hopefully done all our homework on him and have a clear development plan in mind. Dovin looks like he could be a really good signing and cheap enough...

Eccles’ best game for us was v Leeds at home imo. Sheaf is better as an all action 6 winning the ball over the pitch whereas Eccles’ strength is progressive passing. It’s a good blend. Rudoni offers versatility too as he can play AM, CM, RW, LW and even DM last season. Give us a lot of options...

Coaches aren’t as interested in a keeper’s command of the box. Teams cross the ball less and corners are still low % chances. To the modern game, ball progression is king and having a GK to play accurate passes to midfield players is the move.

Sure thing, it’s the third question in when he says we were interested at the beginning of March.

Dovin in his ‘welcome to Coventry’ video said we made contact with him in March this year so my assumption is that we’re in contact with a few players that fit our profile.

If we’re after a marquee signing in that position, it’s unlikely Eccles would be a nailed on starter. Rudoni has the benefit of being able to play as an AM and RW as well as the CM role. Likewise with Torp and Rudoni. If we actually want to get promoted we need more quality from somewhere...