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Take it for the batsmen, the two that are world class are Cook and Root and the other three are Stokes, Bairstow and Ali?

We've got some excellent batsmen and some very good bowlers, but worryingly, we have a soft underbelly and you are always waiting for the next batting collapse.

Be interested to know too. For me he has looked commanding, caught well and been very verbal with his defence, the two mistakes apart.

I don't believe he can. I have liked O'Brien.....until now.

Yep. Been saying for a while we don't have depth of cover in the centre midfield. Can only hope that of Stevenson goes we can bring in two players in, in return.

But you say look at the bigger picture, yet we have managed to produce very good players except for a keeper. I'm not necessarily blaming Oggy, but if we can produce good young talent in spite of the way the club has been run, why haven't we produced a good young keeper too, in all that time?

Anyone else watched it yet?

Stevenson could well be next. Bout time we brought through a good keeper.

But then we didn't fail with Christie and Maddison and Bigi and Wilson etc. We managed to sell all those players for very good money.

No, I agree with that. Just expected RCC to be gone and that there must have been interest in him. I still maintain that RCC is a better keeper than Burge. I think we could have coached his impulsiveness out of him.

Yeah. I ONLY read it that way. Why would anyone read it any other way? It's a nonsense.

If we are to have a successful season it is critical we have a good goalkeeper at the helm. I still hope that's going to be O'Brien and this was just a two off.

Surely the assistant saw it even if the ref didn't.

It was a bit weird bringing in another keeper because RCC was and still is under contract. Burge was out of contract, so we assumed he was going. Burge signed a new contract, so we still had both RCC and Burge. Makes it a bit puzzling as to why we signed O'Brien. Thought maybe RCC was leaving...

There will be several drafts of the script. No certainty at all that the leaked script is the final draft.

I should think Shrewsbury will probably rest some players too. After 2 defeats Robins will definitely experiment and change thinges around. The side I mentioned above will surely be competitive won't it? Don't think anyone is saying play all the kids. Players are playing for places, so I do...

And a lot less to just say it out loud.

Why? We have been outplayed by worse.

I think we all agree he has been nervy. That has affected the confidence of the back four and it could be argued that, that in turn therefore cost us points. It is clear that a back four play with more confidence when they have faith in the bloke in the goalkeeping jersey behind them.

Yeah, he made errors, but at least he controlled his area, or least tried to and was very verbal. Burge has always given the back four the jitters and has seemed very much like he hasn't been able to control the penalty area. I sincerely hope Burge does come good, but he has been very error...