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MVE has 3 assists already, that’s why. His attacking play has been fantastic this season. If a team wanted to pay €6m, his early performances will 100% move the dial toward a figure we want.

SISU were right to take on the council over the rent agreement and then over the sale of the ground to Wasps. As a fanbase, we lost faith in them because they failed to deliver Operation Premiership v quickly. Their tactics though, were blunt and alienated the fans who probably didn’t...

He just has a different play style… Lampard was quite complementary of his performance post-Luton. As for his appearances v Derby and QPR, there’s not really much to read into.

It’s been 4 games this season and he started in the cup and will probably score Tuesday. It’s a long season and he’ll get chances. People will be surprised how little strikers score goals from the bench. How many players make an impact (score goals specifically) in 20-30m game time? Not many...

I don’t get why the same people writing off BTA are continuing to write off Simms. Both of them are good goal scorers and it’s a long season and he’ll get chances to prove his worth. We’re not signing a striker with 26 championship goals for £3m. It’s a non-starter.

It’s symbolic though. The new stadium should ensure there is long term stability, which has been a thorn in our side since 2011/12. My only concern is that the costs of maintaining the stadium can easily mount up and impact the playing side of things. However, I’d assume the club has built this...

Apparently Sakamoto had 0.7-0.8 xG over two chances v Hull, one chance being over 0.5 xG… I can’t recall 2 such chances. It’s not an arbitrary measure, there’s clearly a mathematic formula behind it.

Agreed, Torp’s goals were obviously low xG chances and as was Rudoni’s 2nd. The other goals seemed like good quality chances to me but apparently only BTA’s was a ‘big chance’.

To accommodate BTA, he’s not being utilised as an out and winger which makes sense. There was a lot of occasions where, in practice, we were attacking in a 4-4-2 shape with Rudoni (who had a free role) doubling up with MVE for overloads/ball progression. Which allowed BTA and Wright to get in...

Different games are situational too, it’s a long season so there will be games players aren’t available or there’s a tactical requirement to play a more defensive player like Sheaf or Eccles. For balance purposes, you’d look to shift Sheaf/Eccless (in the future) and bring in more of a creative...

I don’t think anyone cares who starts as long as we’re winning games rather than a sentimental attachment to Sheaf. Torp has 3 goals already so if he carries on that trajectory, he will be undroppable. Nonetheless, for Day 1, Sheaf was probably still Lampard’s first choice starter alongside Grimes.

It’s v odd behaviour. The strikers have 6 goals in 4 games games and people are still saying we need a striker… Yet, in every game this season, we’ve ended up playing fullbacks on the wing. For high attrition positions on the pitch, it’s a numbers game and you need 3 wingers who you can trust...

Reality.

In my head, I thought the xG would be similar to Derby last week, probably less because penalties are 0.8 on it. I didn’t expect it to be our lowest xG of the season! We battered QPR and I’ve never seen such a one sided game. This was the type of performance that leads to a snap sacking of the...

Looking at FotMob, apparently our xG was 1.27 which I believe has got to be a mistake. That’s less than the opening day v Hull. We were unbelievably efficient today and we scored from chances that were low xG but Haji x2, BTA and Rudoni’s first were all clear cut chances iirc.

In fairness to KKH, he’s not a winger. If there are games we need people from the bench to change the tide of the game, we’ll still struggle. Rapha looked decent but still v raw. Lampard has said we need a LW and a CB so presumably we’re working on making that happen.

Top 4. In keeping a level head after today. This season we’ll struggle where we need to change things from the bench imo. Can you rely on bringing KKH/Brau and Rapha on the wings when chasing games? Probably not.

Has anyone seen a more dominating performance live or on TV? I don’t think I have. Fair play to the team, at 7-0 we were still looking for goals. Credit to Lampard et al!

In fairness, these are only ‘poor club’ problems you’ll see at the bottom of the championship, L1 and L2… which we all got to experience! In the Prem, it’s a different ball game so hopefully we get to the Prem and establish ourselves sooner rather than later.

I knew this was public posturing but never thought we were seriously in a position to buy the stadium!