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Dovin was in fine form between Jan and Feb and a big contributor. However, goals win matches and in that same period, BTA and Simms scored 7 goals v Bristol, Blackburn, Swansea and Sheff W. Without those goals and results, we don’t get a look in at the playoffs and people have forgotten that...

Outside of Rudoni and Wright, there wasn’t much goals in the team. What would we do if Rudoni got injured? He played a role in 33% of all our goals in the league last year. Which is mental. People moan about BTA and Simms but we put in our best run of form playing them upfront together last...

I am including Rapha who may get more minutes this season. If we intend to play 4-2-3-1/4-3-3, we can’t really do that with Rapha, Sakamoto and EMC. If we’re only signing ‘cover’ players, we’re wasting our time. Seriously, it won’t be that difficult to find a winger who scores more goals than...

Why don’t we just wait until the season starts before giving up on any player? Lampard was asked about signing a striker and his answer suggested ‘no’ and given the Bassette rumours, it’s revealing. If you’re King, you’d be putting the onus on a manger to work with Haji and 2 players who...

Not from the bench. Ironically, a lot BTA’s minutes would’ve been out wide too. Leeds sub striker (Joseph) scored 3 goals and 4 of their top goal scorers were wide players. Likewise, Sheff U had 5 wide in theirs and Keiffer Moore scored 5 goals last season from the bench (less than Simms lol)...

Quick comparison: - BTA + Simms = 4374 minutes played, 12 goals - Sakamoto + EMC = 4842 minutes, 9 goals. Let’s put aside that we do not have the depth required to play 4-2-3-1 without playing players out of position… 9 goals from 2 attacking players is just not good enough. For context...

Haji Wright scored 12 goals missing 3 months of the season… even Simms scored 19 goals in his first season here. Meanwhile, our 2 wingers between them didn’t get past 10 goals… that’s actually what’s holding us back.

There’s no argument that his crossing and assists are great assets… The way a lot of people talk about Sakamoto as being an undisputed starter and whilst he’s a good player, he doesn’t have that ‘x factor’ to be a game winner for us, week in and week out. Again, all this focus on...

If we want to improve on 5th place, we need more than 20 goal contributions in a season from the wing. This debate has been had out, but it’s pretty clear that Haji wants to play striker and that’s also where Lampard wants to him. Haji is a blue chip striker in this league and his output for us...

Not Sakamoto? His FotMob match rating was 6.80 over 44 games. His goal tally of 4 outperformed his xG of 3.11 (or something like that). Bobby Thomas’ xG was 4.78 for reference and had about 15 more shots too. When you’ve got 10+ wingers from last season on 12-15+ goal contributions and we have...

Having 4 strikers for 1 starting position must’ve caused a lot of problems last year. None of them got a good run of games and either got bit part minutes, played out of position or both. Pretty sure all 4 strikers believe they should all be starting in their preferred position. Signing...

Given that most away games go to general sale, the ‘abuse’ clearly isn’t widespread. Sure, there’s been games where a mate has helped me out and vice versa. Trust me, to get to 1400+ or so, there’s times where it can be a labour of love. I was questioning my sanity when going to Blackburn away...

I don’t know too much about BTA from his WBA days but I agree with these assessments based on his time with us. In his and Simms’ defence, they formed a good partnership with a lot of goals in the Jan-Feb run where we played 5-3-2. For me, given that all of our strikers have struggled in a...

All the signings ought to be players who can fight for a starting berth from Day 1. I don’t think we’ll sign a striker nor is it the number 1 priority imo. The question should be how we get BTA or Simms back up to their 23/24 stats. Do that, and it’s serviceable until Haji is 100% fit and...

He is a striker though, he made half of his career LW appearances under Robins in 23/24 and 24/25. On that note, not only had Haji slowed down in terms of goals and assists playing LW from Jan 2024 and into 2024/25… we’ve changed manager and the tactics aren’t the same. Haji’s one goal from LW...

I actually have. It was stated earlier that aside from a stretch under Robins, he hasn’t been as effective at LW than at striker. He scored a brace v PNE (plus v Blackburn 3/4 games earlier) which was the game before we switched to a 4-2-3-1 and Haji’s role changed to LW. Between Plymouth...

He’s scored more and possibly even assisted more as a striker so that doesn’t check out. To do what you do with Simms a lot and focus on this ‘games scored in’… He scored in 3 games as a LW this season and scored in 6 as a striker last season. Played 16 games as a LW, 10 as a striker. Scored...

@fernandopartridge eye balled it and it’s about the same and off the top of my head, it’s about the same. So let’s test that. This season, it was 8 goals up front split evenly between 3-4-1-2 (Robins), 4-2-3-1 (Lampard) and then 4 goals from LW. 23/24, he started upfront on his own in about 4...

5 players to cover 3 positions… What could possibly go wrong!? Meanwhile, our CB scored more goals than one of our wingers… So why don’t we start with improving the 11 that’ll be starting the game? We’re talking about Haji Wright and where his best position is and based on goals, it’s not LW...

Then it wouldn’t be a player’s best position by definition? With the current squad, yes. The point I’ve been making is that we need wingers more than strikers. We have 3 strikers behind Haji in the pecking order and unless we make a sale, we won’t bring anyone in. Personally, I’d sell BTA and...