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Since playing 5-3-2, we’ve comfortably been the better team in terms of xG. In the league, the only exceptions being Norwich and Leeds and in both games, we should’ve scored more than we actually did. Our home form has also been solid, I don’t know why there’s this moral panic because we...

Yes. By definition, if they’re too good for the Championship, then they are Premier league standard. Staying up is the real challenge, of course. We’re not at full strength and haven’t been for a while now. When everyone is back, the team will look like a top 6 team in our division.

There’s sometimes a tendency to oversimplify issues. It’s taken 2 games against top opposition for people to turn on the defenders again. Ipswich and Leeds have Championship dream teams and at the end of the day, we’re missing our 2 best players and EMC. Both games, we concede early goals and...

Believe or not, I didn’t have a choice… 😂 He was a good lad and better than the Vile supporter he replaced in my digs.

My Burnley supporting-flatmate supposedly had Burnely ITK info and from his end the interest was non-existent. His opinion was that they had plenty of CBs that they didn’t need him. The ITK info for Grimes was pretty last minute so it may not have been untrue at the time.

I do not believe that a top 3 team in this division was ever seriously interested in signing him. Everytime he controls the ball where he hooks it round his body, my heart stops.

There wouldn’t be any TV money without Man City, Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham in the league.

No where near? We finished 9th last season and remain 3 points from the playoffs. The team is good enough to finish 6th and it’s 100% doable.

£15m including add-ons is entirely reasonable to expect for Simms. Not a bad shout, but you’d have to play Rudoni RM over Sakamoto because we need at least one creative midfielder, Sheaf and Grimes are more progressive players who are safe in possession. Torp and Rudoni are more risky on the...

When Dovin scores 8 out of 10 despite a howler, it puts into perspective just how good he was last night and kept us in the game. He 100% gets the benefit of the doubt.

His whole Cov career, it’s 2.5 so why chuck the baby out with the bath water? If you’d sell Simms for anything less than £15m, you’d have to be an idiot.

Simms is closer to 1 in 2…

Goals just aren’t an important metric for a striker anymore are they?

Leeds were a better side than Ipswich last season, but they’ve improved bottled in the automatic race and again in the playoff final. Daniel Farke is a manager who’s won 2, maybe 3 promotions to the Prem? They’re just too good.

He’s still our top goal scorer and with 25-odd goal contributions last season… suggests we need him. It’s funny how the mood has changed since the Leeds defeat regarding 5-3-2. At the end of the day, Leeds were too good for the division last season and they’ve improved this season. They’re a...

We’re talking about 1st half only. The original point I made was about giving ourselves a chance by not making two basic errors for the goals. The shot map has them having 7 shots and aside from James’ miss, all were speculative efforts mostly. Piroe had a decent chance on 10 minutes. The...

Torp is comfortably a better midfielder. It’s unlikely that we are going to play Grimes and Allen together in a 5-3-2 because their role is too similar. Perhaps in a 4-2-3-1 or a 3-4-3 where a double pivot can work. Two pivots in a flat 3 with no wingers is hamstringing our chance creation...

Dan James had a massive chance that was saved, yes. That was it other than the goals and at that point we were already 2-0 down and chasing the game. They were constantly a threat but we’d limited them to long range chances. The sloppiness of the goals we conceded was really disappointing and...

We could’ve potentially snatched a draw if we didn’t gift them with a 2-0 lead. They only really picked us apart in the second half where we just going for broke to make it 2-1.

The three other players were certainly clumsy, but they didn’t make unforced errors in the manner that Lati had. Leeds are just that much better than us and really shouldn’t be in this league still.