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He’s probably not fit enough to last 90m and Thompson played well last week, deserved another chance. Thompson wasn’t confident today defensively, which magnified his shortcomings as an attacker — we certainly lose impetus without 2 attacking fullbacks!

Re-read my post, it explicitly says they finished the final 20m well. Besides that, we limited them to mostly nothing long range chances. They fed off our mistakes. That winning goal was superb finish, right in the corner, 8/10 times a L1 RB misses that. Youre being apocalyptic about this...

It was an end to end game, frankly, we looked more likely to score throughout the 90 than they did. They did finish the final 20 minutes well in fairness. Hiwula was threatening so taking off either him or Thomas could be seen as harsh. Agreed on your last point. Jones nor Bayliss had the...

My half time thoughts: This is a weird game, we’ve looked the most threatening throughout the first half and they capitalised on our errors. Negatives: Thompson doesn’t look confident at RB, our defence has dilly-dallied on the ball too much and we’ve just had to take one too many touches in...

Agreed. The team should remain largely intact, with a minor shuffling of the pack to manage injuries/fitness. We’ve got Cheltenham to be a bit more experimental with our setup!

Personally, Kelly would’ve been my choice in Bayliss’ absence. To me, Doyle and Ogogo isn’t the best combination we have in central midfield because neither are particularly confident at carrying the ball or linking up play. Kelly has a good range of passing that supplements Doyle well — even a...

God no. In this case, I’m the one being robbed with extortionate tuition fee which we get charged interest on...

Sounds like the Checkatrade trophy. Stevenson wasn’t getting game time with us, nor Colchester. Frankly, he needs to build his game up somehow because he’s gone from a solid L1 performer to someone who can’t make an impact at a mid table L2 side. You can’t blame him for wanting to leave given...

Right now, Serie B is a mess. It was supposed to have had 22 teams competing, only 19 are because a few teams went completely bust. There are teams in Serie C refusing to play their fixtures because they believe they should be in Serie B because of said liquidations. Winner: Championship wins...

I didn’t get in 40k debt for nothing haha.

The English football leagues are typically better than their continental counterparts. The 3rd divisions in Italy and Spain are regional leagues, our 5th tier is a national league. Our leagues also have more teams in them too. To add an anecdote, my Italian friend believes the Championship is a...

It appears you’ve missed the point. The point wasn’t ‘it was all tits up when Biamou was playing,’ but rather that JCH’s introduction has changed our fortunes somewhat (among other players). Gillingham was his first start where he put in a dominant performance and we really should’ve won that...

If you want to bring stats into it, JCH had a better goals and assists ratio than Biamou even last season. So statistically, JCH was better even last season. This said, our form as a team at the end of this season warranted Biamou’s selection. Which brings me onto my next point. We’ve won 5 in a...

Last season, Biamou was probably better than JCH overall. However, this season JCH has been a menace for defences and has looked dominant in ways Biamou simply hasn’t shown to date. Biamou is a solid player, but JCH really has stepped up this season. Gillingham, Sunderland and Bradford he’s...

Before dismissing him as a playboy who used football as a plaything, perhaps look into the things he did for Leicester as a community, donating £2m to a children’s hospital, £1m to a university’s medical department and donated £100,000 to rebirth the remains of Richard III. It really does seem...

Considering his replacement, Hiwula, is scoring a lot of our goals, then The question is surely ‘is it a coincidence that we’re winning now Hiwula is in the team’. Ironically, there was a thread not too long asking what had happened to Hiwula. Well, he’s been given a run in the team and is...

Damn, you would’ve thought I learned that at university... I wouldn’t take a pint off you, nor give you a black eye! But, if you’re offering, I’ll have a Guinness and black* please! * all my Irish ancestors are rolling in their graves at this sacrilege!

The part I've bolded is my argument. I'm happy with the depth we have and believe in only signing a player who is better than what we have right now. Allassani is out on loan and injured, Shipley is a CM by trade (a good player tbf) and currently, our LM is someone who's a striker by trade (and...

We probably will loan Thompson out at some point. But, the pertinent point is that we shouldn't go out and buy a central defender just to sit on the bench, which is what you're doing if you're signing a 4th choice CB. We should be looking at strengthing the Starting XI now we have the depth in...

At 19, Willis made 31 appearances in a squad that literally had about 20 first team players. Where Jordan Clarke was playing CB... In that sense, he’s lucky to have got the chances he has. As for Thompson, he’s highly rated, and doesn’t need to be thrust into the first team unnecessarily. He’s...