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Imho we could do with obsessing less about the defensive qualities of our strikers. Bassette and BTA pairing would likely be snuffed out by any team that had anything about them unless we find a very different way to play. Reality is that the only time we have looked consistently decent over the...

...for a kid with 0 goals at this level. Some of our fans seem to think that 'looking busy' and 'shouting at your team mates' are the two key attributes to look for in a striker. Wright fails both tests. Imo, and I'm not sure there is a right answer here, we have to go as close as we can to the...

Except in this case the exotic new girl at work is some Norwegian guy you've never met but some computer algorithm thinks might just work out.

Wilson, bidwell who are both injured... and then maybe we are done. Not the point though. I was here and so were the rest of you (most of you).

Screw form. Revenge! Sweet, sweet revenge!!!!

I know you were building up to this but I am impatient. Average position excluding Robins since 2017 - 15.26 Average position under Robins - 8th.

I too like to slag off my own team's players when they are doing well and am immensely proud when I deem them to have proven me right!!! :D

He is desperate for a goal and when he picked it up he likely hoped it would open up for him. He could have passed, he might have nailed it, he might not have, Bassette might have scored, he might not have... but he put himself about and probably looked more of a threat in his cameo than the...

Agree with all of this. The injury really helped QPR and we didn't really do anything going forward after that til Simms (like him or loath him) came on. Couple of decent balls from Eccles but not a lot else. Palmer is still, for me, one of our best performers this season. Came in a couple of...

Again I don't want to focus on individuals. Contrary to the match thread I thought Eccles did alright and hit some cracking balls into forward positions that BTA couldn't quite exploit. But we were dominated in MF for a huge chunk of the game and MvE was horribly exposed/lacking support.

Far too much talk about Simms on here. We were sh!t for 60 minutes before he came on and in the 15 minutes he was on the pitch he had 2/3s of our shots on target. I'm not sure why the bit where he actually looked like he might do something is the focus here rather than the rest of the...

Maybe idk. But they looked good together last season which raises the question as to why we are playing a 2.

I was looking forward to this season mostly based on the Simms/Wright partnership. It feels like they have played a few minutes together this season.

I remember another decent chance against... err someone too... but (and I don't want to nerd out on xG) since you can't score half a goal my understanding is that as long as he scores before he reaches 2xG he will be converting about as many chances as you'd expect. My huge issue here is that if...

Could be wrong but I think I have seen Kitching play LB too. Not sure I would fancy either him or Binks as a wingback though so would probably need a change in formation.

Yeah, I've been pretty liberal with the numbers. TBF we probably don't even need the xG to tell us that - it just backed up what I thought. He is not really missing chances like he did beginning of last season, he's not even getting into positions to miss chances.

Back on a free in January? It would make for an interesting chant?

478 minutes played 1.67xg - I make that 1xg about every 3 games and the equivalent of 5 games in our first 10. That suggests he should make it to about 7 this season!W00T!!!

Pretty compelling case that we are only 1 player away from a decent team and that Simms would fill his boots with the right player behind him? I would like to see a breakdown of who is missing these chances? My gut feeling is that Simms isn't that far off his xG which is even more troubling. In...

I'm really not convinced the context here is wide enough. If you'd told me when he was appointed that we would be considering sacking the manager who re-established us as a decent championship outfit because he had an iffy first 10 games to the 24/25 season I'd have thought we were stupid. The...