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Personally, I think Simms and Wright will come good and we’ll be overall better off. Hamer hasn’t been replaced yet but it’s important not to rush into buying a player to get someone in. If we have to be weak for a few months in that area, so be it if it means we eventually get the right...

Pretty gutted we didn’t cash in on Wilson now…

He cost a lot of money so I want him work out too! If he’s a bust, it could impact the working relationship between Robins and Doug King. Especially given the context of some poor form. It so happens that Robins has so much credit in the bank, we’d have to genuinely be in a relegation battle...

We’re a team in transition, we’ve gutted the whole team and had to replace our 2 best players. If view Operation Premier League as a project, which I do, then we have to be pragmatic and accept it’ll take a few transfer windows for things to come together. Especially if 4-3-3 is here to stay...

That’s not how form works and even a sceptic like yourself surely has to acknowledge that being in the right positions to score goals is a promising sign. I’m sure it’s not personal, but you do seem like you have an axe to grind with Wright and it’s pretty ugly. Be patient, he’s not even been...

The ‘lazy’ accusation is ironically, a lazy trope to make by a lot of football fans. Forwards get it more often because they’re waiting to make their move and it’s easy to single them out if they’re not chasing the ball down. Wright and Simms in particular have come in as big money signings...

If we stick with this 4-3-3 formation, I’d like us to add some fun wingers to the team. In the mean time, looking ward to seeing where COH fits in: does he fit in that 3 man midfield (where he started on loan for us) or does he start out wide?

Staying and signing a new contract are two different things. He certainly wouldn’t have forced a move like he did in the end, but equally, wasn’t guaranteed to sign new terms.

Likewise, had we got promoted, we would have been favourites for relegation so we’d be in a position where we’d be unlikely to command a large fee. In preseason I was banging the drum about how Gyo wouldn’t go to Lisbon over Prem teams. Actually, going to Lisbon makes a lot of sense as he can...

You wouldn’t want to alienate someone who’s been a good dressing room influence the whole time he’s here. He’ll know he hasn’t been good enough and will have to wait his turn to prove himself again. Collins is a good GK, he was Barnsley’s #1 when they made it to the playoffs and was playing...

Middlesborough had a lot of upheaval, no doubt about that. We’ve pretty much started over completely. 5-6 loans went back to their parent clubs, 11 players released and we sold two of the best players in the division in Hamer and Gyokeres. If we have a plan for January and can get good quality...

I don’t think we create many clear cut chances tbh. Compared to last season, think of how many clear cut chances Hamer and Gyo fashioned? For me, and I know this is subjective, but a lot of our chances are sorted by having a stronger midfield. It could be the case that COH comes back and makes...

If they were, we certainly wouldn’t have squandered as many winning positions as we have and likewise, we would created more chances. Both players benefitted from playing alongside Hamer last season. They have the joint responsibility of try to create and attack as Gus did. I’m hoping they...

I don't think we chose to keep him...

At WBA game there was a guy berated Wright for ‘just standing there’ several times when we were passing around the edge of the box. My thoughts to that were a) we were playing too conservatively to play a risky pass and b) he does make a lot of runs higher up the pitch. All our strikers do, but...

The biggest area in need of improvement is undoubtedly midfield. Not only are we short on numbers, we’re short on quality. In all the games so far, we’ve generally struggled to create clear cut chances and in games where we’ve threw away leads, the midfield has lost control. Yes, COH and...

Overreacting just a tad.

The problem is the midfield, we move the ball far too slowly and don’t create good chances. We consistently lose the battle in midfield. Even Godden has stopped scoring because he hasn’t had the chances. We can’t not replace a player like Hamer and expect to maintain our performance levels. If...

There’s a pragmatism, he spoke this week about players making decisions on the ball. Even without the benefit of hindsight, Eccles dribbling in the box under a lot of pressure probably doesn’t qualify as a ‘good’ decision. By contrast, Bobby Thomas’ passes that were a bit dodgy sits under poor...

We love to concede a daft, soft goal this season… Must drive MR crazy.