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Ahead of EMC? I’m not going to pretend to know anything about him, but this doesn’t strike me as a season defining signing to me. I understand everyone’s frustration at the loan back, but we have got ourselves an excellent player. 19 goals and 12 assists for £4-5m is potentially a bargain...

Our record against the teams around us is what is going to let us down this season. Good results against Leeds, Leicester and Southampton and arguably Hull away. Since then, we’ve lost twice to WBA, PNE and to Cardiff. The loss to Norwich was quite damaging too. We need to improve defensively...

I don’t know how you came to that conclusion. The point here is that we set a budget at the start of every season and Robins was backed well in the transfer market. In the summer, we our recruitment was predicated on playing 3-4-1-2 and resources allocated accordingly. The plans have changed...

You’ve said MR hasn’t been given the resources when he has. I’m sure MR could have identified another target if he wanted. He’s signed the player and being unable to play him for a few months is an inconvenience but doesn’t impact the bigger picture. We’re working to a 5 year plan, not a 1 year...

So the resources were provided then, were they not? It would’ve been ideal to get EMC over the line but that wasn’t the difference between making the playoffs and not. Our results against the teams around us did make a difference.

We signed said player for £4+ million. The club thought they had secured him permanently without the loan back agreement. Why aren’t you following this?

Robins has been given the tools. It’s not King’s fault Robins recruited to play with wingbacks and 3 central defenders. EMC was also Robins’ target and the deal we got was probably as good as we could get in the circumstances. We didn’t lose to WBA, Norwich, PNE and Cardiff because we didn’t...

What were your realistic expectations? We’ve spent more money this season than probably the last 20 put together. Let that sink in for a second. It just isn’t realistic to expect to replace 17 players and improve your position in one season. That just the playing staff, we’ve not even started...

EMC is officially our player now and the payment being deferred as a gesture of goodwill doesn’t change that. We agreed a deal to sign EMC in the Jan window but P’boro pulled out of that. So it is fair to say MR was supported in the window - he secured two long term targets.

I absolutely can. We needed a CM, we go and sign Torp. We needed a winger, we pursued MR’s top target and failed on deadline day because P’boro couldn’t secure their targets. The sums exchanged is £6-7m, when have we ever spent that in January?! It’s one less signing we need to make in the...

It’s well known now that we agreed a deal to sign EMC in the window but Peterborough pulled the plug. There isn’t really anything DK or Robins could’ve done as we’d pursued the player for the whole window. You said Robins wasn’t supported, he was.

We spent £7m in January… As for COH, it’ll be loss but he’s not irreplaceable - we survived better players leaving.

That’s bang on in my view. 3 strikers is probably enough for the season if we’re playing 1 up front and we’ve got 3 wingers too. Is Bidwell expected to stay? He’s linked with a move every window and he has 1 year remaining. Are we looking to add any loans to supplement the signings outlined?

It’ll be a quite a narrow 4-4-2 assuming the front 4 is Saka, EMC, Wright and Simms. The only reservation I have is that one of Simms or Wright would need to function slightly deeper to bridge the gap between the midfield. The priority will be an AM imo.

Viveash did mention we could play a 4-4-2 with the personnel we have. More likely to be a Plan B rather than a Plan A though. It will be good to able to use a 4-4-2 if we’re chasing games, for example.

Our best player? 😂 I’m sure we’ll be fending off plenty of suitors in the summer for him then.

Simms and Wright have a lot about them, agreed. We need to get more balls into the box for Simms, he’s really proven his value as a goal scorer in recent games. On the McFadz point, he’d be valuable had we stuck with 3-4-1-2 but in a back 4, I don’t think he’d suit that at all.

He was solid as always, but I disagree he’s been ‘excellent’ in any of our recent games. This isn’t an insult by any stretch… Hamer was excellent, Sheaf last week was excellent. No one was excellent today, we lost to a pretty poor team today. I’m tired of hearing about how good our midfield...

Last year we had Gyokeres and Hamer who were 2 of the best players in the league. Our team this year is more rounded and the quality is spread across the pitch. There isn’t the same ‘X Factor’ of Vik and Hamer and stubbornness of defence to grind out results and drag us up the table. Yet, we’re...

That’s a start but games like today, Norwich, PNE and WBA we lacked something in midfield. My hope is that Torp adapts to English football and flourishes next season and Eccles adds layers to his game too. If we want to be a strong playoff team pushing automatics, we need someone as close to...