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Keep as we are and I think it’ll come. They’ve offered little and have the inevitable one attacking tactic. Plus loads of time wasting. Hiwula looks good and Thomas has the beating of his man with absolute ease. We need to use them more and hope JCH/Chaplin can capitalise on a chance. Bayliss...

You can Chaplin is desperate for a goal; one from open play after his recent misses will help his confidence a lot. Thomas has the beating of the full back (and their whole defence) let’s use him more.

I say the same thing every single game. We have pace in abundance, let’s use it. We’re starting to wake up a little now at least.

Junior Brown looks scared of the ball. We need to try and play on the ground and use the pace we have. The obsession with playing through Doyle is especially hindering on days like days. We need to use Hiwula more too as he looks on it today. JCH needs to get himself more involved.

Has Bayliss touched the ball yet? Hiwula and Thomas look lively, they need more of the ball though. They look slow at the back, we need to exploit that.

Nothing game so far at all. Akinfenwa dropping onto Willis, I’d like him and Davies to be aware of that and swap where needed. Chaplin fluffs another chance. It’ll come im sure, as he’s clearly a talent, but let’s hope it’s soon.

Is Jones injured/ill? Only two options to directly change the game from the bench.

Quite attacking though to be fair. Let’s hope that indicates we’ll play with a positive intent.... Still think we’ll win today.

No team news yet? When I left this morning it was cold, so I’m definitely not dressed for the warm weather.

Is that a genuine question? If not, then Nick already beat me to the response.

Correct, the winning goal did, but (genuine question) can you recall any other goals, or even chances from a similar set up? And I’d argue the first goal wasn’t specific to being a big man at all, it was a poachers goal. I understand the Doyle hoof ball point, but that’s literally my argument...

I’d like to see a Chaplin-Hiwula partnership too. Both have good movement, pace and are tricky players to mark. However it would be heavily reliant on us playing football tomorrow i.e. with positive intent, on the ground or looking for balls over the top to maximise the pace we have, without it...

Does that indicate a 5-3-1-2? With Mason and Hickman wing backs? Or is it 4-4-2 with Hiwula left wing, Hickman right and Andreu behind Bakayoko?

Bizzare and harsh comments from Robins, unless that management style is a motivator for Hiwula? We will see. However he did the same to Bakayoko and he’s not really had a kick since. Granted, Hiwula didn’t do much when he came on, but he had nobody around him to create; Thomas and Jones were...

Is Brown definitely still out? If so, I’d have the following defence: Sterling Willis Davies Camwell Predominantly because that’s four defenders in their correct positions as opposed to Sterling at LB and Thompson/Willis RB, which would mean two out of position. Granted Camwell is a risk, but...

Please can we bring a second striker with pace one to run off JCH. Jones Hiwula Thomas, that pace should scare teams.

Thompson on for Hyam. We’ve gone from decent defensive cover to being on our last legs. Not sure why Andreu has re appeared and we haven’t used one of the actual strikers we have on the the bench. Pace will change this game.

Nibble. How quick was that?

Don’t think I can bring myself to form a proper response to an adult who used ‘lol’ and ‘slagging’ in the same sentence. Have a go at re phrasing and I might respond.

Portsmouth really are there for the taking. I’d like to see pace against there back two. Again, I like Andreu but it isn’t his game or position tonight. Want to see Thomas and Bayliss on the ball more. JCH (bar the miss) has started well.