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I've watched the highlights a few times now, is Biamou's missed chance on the video? I can only seem to see McNulty with the chances. It's a real shame for Biamou, because he was involved n some really good link up play, however, going by Robins' words, you can't be missing clear cut chances...

If there was an award for describing what players 'we need' in the vaguest possible fashion, you'd win hands down. I suppose we also need a striker 'who can score goals' too?

I count myself amongst that number, that and university, I completely became disengaged with football in general - last season I'd regularly forget we were playing. I even missed the Checkatrade final last season because of uni work. However, with a bit of positivity I'm more engaged, but still...

Mark Robins didn’t ‘choose to stick with the cheapest option’ with Biamou. The only striker we missed out on was that Williams from Doncaster - because they chose to keep him. Even then, he’s 5”10, so hardly the ‘dominant bruiser’ who’ll get 10+ goals. If you don’t mind me saying, I think you...

Completely agreed. Mowbray's transfer policy for us was generally quite bad for us and in hindsight, us and Mowbray wasn't a good fit - he's far too used to working with teams with large budgets. In his first full season, he secured some really good loans, however, more or less all of his...

Indeed, he does need another chance, but he also has to be patient. He’s still young so if he’s not getting minutes in the first team, he needs to continue smashing in goals in the U23s - credit to him, he’s done exactly that with a hat trick. The worst thing for him is to be sitting on our...

This is all good! I have a good feeling that we're going to keep our team together, and hopefully, the teams around us our weakened. I think even Bayliss will stay this window - we're not in a position where we have to sell because it'll go to tribunal if he leaves after his contract expires.

This guy has outted himself as the one person who’d probably be worse at running the club than SISU - and that’s some feat! Fraudulent emails, incompetence and uncontrollable social media presence, he’s the midlands’ answer to Donald Trump... “Let’s make Coventry City great again*” *by that...

Great work with the stats. With this in mind, I’m backing us to win, they’ve lost badly to Notts County and Luton, and hopefully we have the edge after our tie at the RICOH. 2-0 to us, McNulty and Maguire-Drew.

I think we should all put his first spell behind us all. He’s come back, he’s a good manager with a good relationship with board and fans alike. I feel the board, with their obvious flaws, trust Robins’ and have backed him in both his spells. So far he’s done really well with recruitment too so...

Right then, it’s settled, winning the next two followed by a loss to Cambridge. I’d play Davies and McDonald at centre back against Cambridge - as a unit I think they’d cope better against their front men.

Beavon is and has always been a consistently a low-scoring striker. Biamou, however, got 13 in 49 last season so he’s roughly a 1 in 4 striker in the league below. I’m unsure whether Ponticelli would better that. Undoutedly a natural goalscorer at age group standard, but he’s clearly a...

I was thinking against teams like Morecambe, Cambridge and other teams with big strikers, that we should partner Davies and McDonald because I think they'll cope with them in a more efficient manner than with Willis. I still think Willis and McDonald is the best partnership we've got. However...

I was very annoyed when we sold Maddison to Norwich, for what I believe to be £3m up front + add-ons to make it worth £9m, because I thought we should've demanded a larger fee, between £5-10m would've satisfied me. However, in hindsight, if he does have a sell-on clause, this could actually be a...

Any top 6 premiership team or other big-money game at home and get knocked out in an honourable fashion. Worst case is a difficult away tie against a scrappy L1 or L2 team I feel. Hopefully this win against Stoke is a real momentum builder for our league campaign, it's now three wins on the...

Funny that, because in May Mark Robins said the following: “we are building a club, not just a team – for now and for the future”. We signed all our young players to new contracts and we’ve signed a lot of players this season - up to about 14-16 now (if we’re counting Pearson). As well as this...

All anyone had to do was look at the stats of Doyle’s appearances since he’s left us, he’s averaged 42 appearances a season (lowest 38 at Sheffield United, 46 last season at Pompey). In his 1st spell with us, the only games he’d really miss was when he was suspended. A durable player, fair play...

I think it’s a premature judgement. The adjustment to professional football cannot be underestimated. He’s on one goal, and that’s obvious room for improvement. But, he seems to bring out the best in McNulty and Nazon because they have been at their most productive playing alongside him. To me...

This may sound counterintuitive, but I think it’s actually better we have a tough run of games coming up. Our record against the best teams would probably have us top of the league, our record against the top 9 is 7-1-1 (however, losses to 10th, 11th and 12th). Frustratingly, we’ve mainly...