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It’s a good balance between him and Grimes. Sheaf acts as a pivot higher up the pitch and Grimes does a similar thing in a deeper position. Lampard was on the money when he called out the lack of imagination in the final third. Too often Rudoni, MVE, Sakamoto, Wright or Paterson wouldn’t take...

Agreed. The rationale was sensible to rest Sheaf (and JDS) given his recent injury issues.

It’s Pompey away all over again. Where you just had to put Dovin back in. If you concede every shot on target you face, you won’t win many football games. The same is probably gonna happen this weekend with Wilson. If not, he must’ve spent the whole time out of the team on the piss.

The time for another Lampard hoodoo-breaking special is Saturday…

He won’t get an assist for it, but Simms undoubtedly created the space for Paterson by occupying 2 defenders in the box.

Even if we don’t go up, it’ll be an exciting summer. If we can bolster the defence and get some wingers in, we’ll be in a really good place. It makes me think someone like Stoke, Derby or Boro would fancy putting in a bid. Robins and Eustace were big fans iirc. He’s a solid player but he’s not...

Just going off gut feeling here, but Sheaf is staying imo, we’ve got a contract extension option so he’s effectively contracted to 2027. The interest in him won’t be there so his best bet is promotion with us atm.

To summarise why we lost yesterday because we made too many individual errors and didn’t create enough chances. We could play 6 defenders but if we leave players unmarked, give the ball away in compromising positions and fail to clear our lines… we’ll still concede goals. We still have to...

Fair play to them all, if we didn’t have them in February before the other players came back, we’d have been in a bad place.

Provisional outs: Eccles Lati BTA Bidwell/JDS Wilson/Collins Interesting tidbits. Is Eccles attracting interest from a team in our league to above? I know you didn’t mention a GK specifically, it’s a fair presumption that Dovin’s injury has changed things. The reports linking us a GK were...

Last season he did score 13 goals when starting most games… which is 1 in 3 in a 46 game season. In 17 of his appearances this season have been less than 30 minute appearances. That certainly has skewed the numbers, equally, it’s misleading to say he’s scored 6 in 40-odd presented as if he’s...

‘Featured in’ is the operative word here. When you work out the minutes he’s played, it’s nearly half the games - 25.5 games. It’s totally different comparing a player who’s started 40 games versus someone who’s come on as a sub in a similar amount of games. The long term data on Simms’...

1 goal in 13 for Sheff U. He only scored the 9 goals over 6 games. 2 in 13 for Leicester too, all scored in one game. I don’t think we’ll get much better than Haji and Simms to be honest. We’ll have to work with what we’ve got.

Players have bad seasons and this is something people seem unable to accept. Simms has had a drop off, there’s no denying that. He’s struggled to break into the team, with injury and loss of form. However, when the team needed him to deliver, his goals were instrumental in shooting us up the...

There you go, he cost £3.5m which is decent value. Isidor is on a goal per 252 minutes, Yates 326 MPG and even Zain Flemming is 235 MPG. I’m not going to go through the games the scored in but will probably be a surprisingly low %. Piroe has only scored in 14 games in a freescoring and dominant...

Why is that an anomaly? We played a full strength and Haji Wright played in the same game but didn’t score. It’s also offset by the Wolves and Man U games too. Even so, if you discount those goals and Haji’s penalty goals, Simms scored more than Haji from open play. It’s a straight comparison...

You’re right when it comes to small sample sizes. After a season or two worth of data, I don’t think it is.

Brum, it’s too hard to judge because of his illness. They probably wouldn’t have got relegated. As for Sunderland, they had a year in the wilderness but the new manager has done well with the same group of players (more or less). Looking at WBA’s team, they were always in a false position...

Why just April? Does it have something to do with the fact he scored 5 goal in March and 4 goals in Jan through Feb… More importantly, how does Simms MPG compare to BTA and Bassette? They’re your alternatives for the rest of the season so best to use them as a baseline. I’ve used Simms total...

It’s just a really odd timeframe to use.