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It’ll be 4-6 weeks until everyone is available to us so plenty could change and I’m not worried about what may or may not happen in that timeframe. As a principle, you find ways to accommodate your best players and we won’t do that playing 5-3-2 with everyone available.

Thomas had a great game too today where he absolutely flattened 2 players. ‘Pwopa’ CB play!

This system Lampard has reverted to is probably the best solution we have with the current personnel available. 5-3-2 is a balanced formation, which is what we need in the absence of arguably our 3 best players; Wright, EMC and Sheaf. With everyone available, it’s not the best fit especially...

Not really, we had some poor results playing 5-3-2 this season. Lampard will want to play with wingers, even Rudoni is operating as ‘half-winger’ in the current system and we go to a 5-4-1/3-4-3 when Sakamoto comes on. We won’t know until everyone is back, which will be quite a 4-5 weeks. My...

It’s a fair comment to make, it’s not a good look if Robins goes to Stoke and smashes it.

Time will tell on that front. The back 4 from last season was good enough to finish higher than where we are now.

It was apparent Robins just didn’t know his best team or system. In time, I felt he’d have figured it out eventually, King didn’t and he was closer to things than I. Seeing how he gets on at Stoke will be proof in the pudding of whether or not King was right to sack him. One thing is for sure...

We’ve had a good run using it but it’s doubtful that this team setup is seen as the best long term solution. For starters, you need Haji and EMC in the team. You could maybe get that in 3-4-3 but not in the 5-3-2.

In my opinion, that’ll get the most out of our squad of players. 5-3-2 has served us well but it’s very much a stop gap until our star players return.

It’s all tactics and a style of play. There’s a really nice balance to Torp-Allen-Rudoni that wasn’t there when the CM partnership was a pair of Sheaf-Torp-Eccles or all 3. The way Lampard has setup this 5-3-2 has been fantastic. Rudoni and Torp operating almost as alternating wingers at times...

Publicly, Robins and Lampard both said the same thing that he’s a talented player but just not robust enough for standard we play at. I don’t know what that means exactly. It doesn’t point to him being necessarily unfit, more his body being too fragile to cope. That was my interpretation. Even...

Lati can play RB so it’s not as disastrous as it seems. I don’t believe the transfer policy is one in, one out as people have reported earlier in the window.

Allen is the glue in that midfield 3 atm. He covers a lot of distance, picks up a lot of second balls and is tidy in possession. He hasn’t been flash, it’s been solid all around in his game and compliments Rudoni and Torp nicely.

I’m sure people said that when they signed Will Grigg for £5m in League 1.

It was our home form that got MR sacked. We conceded 11 goals in 6 games and we hadn’t played the better teams at home back then. There has been a material improvement under Lampard and whilst it’s early days at Stoke for MR, it’s not looking positive atm. Lampard hasn’t had Haji available to...

Since Lampard has taken over, the defence has generally improved. I’d like a marquee signing at CB, but Kitching and Thomas were a good partnership last season, we had the 9th best defence in the league and that’s with poor form towards the end of the season. With 4 first team options, unless...

I agree that we need a CM, RB and a CB, I don’t believe we need to shuffle the pack at LB until the summer. There’s sufficient cover in all the positions you outline that we don’t need to change the system. Even if MVE got injured, you’d stick Lati at RB as he played many times last season...

Karma for not respecting the shirt! 😂

You’re not selecting the team. If you want to play 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 and you don’t have the personnel available to do that, it’s a problem. 5-3-2 has served a purpose and given us balance against tough opposition. That said, we have 3 quality players that are wingers in EMC, Wright and Sakamoto...

Yep, if we did an inquest into football fan behaviour, a lot of people be guilty of acting unacceptably. It’s just a bit too personal to be talking about a specific person, making speculative judgements based on what they’ve seen/heard of them and that person isn’t here to defend themselves...