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I think I’m consistent across the board on this. We can all agree the start hasn’t been good enough, but I don’t think we’ve been as bad as our league position suggests. It takes a small win run with a bit of luck on side and all of a sudden the narrative changes. When things go badly there’s...

Probably quite a lot left, only 1 block had sold out Y4 (unrestricted) when I logged on at 12:00 for the 1100+ sale. After this and PNE, I’ll be in the 1200+ club!

Robins is on record saying the coaches are settling into their roles - it’s too early to evaluate them at this point. The early start hasn’t been great, but plenty of time to improve things. Let’s think back to 2017 when AV was starting, there was doubt expressed at the time of MR to coach...

It’s a gold medal performance in the mental gymnastics from @shmmeee today.

Would you have signed Ivan Toney for £10m then? Also 24 and in a team who pump their forwards stats… Vik didn’t have amazing stats - he played in the Swedish second division before BHA picked him up. Your point on Sheaf contradicts your previous points on EMC and (probably Kitching as Barnsley...

It’s funny how people remember things. The reality is, Sheaf and Vik were examples of what a good job the coaching team have done with these players. It happens year in, year out and it’s the same culprits making the same hasty judgements. The recruitment policy has been criticised at stages...

No, he was clearly a ‘cut above’ from Day 1… 🙄

Toney cost £10m… I’m not going to nitpick this examples. All of the L1 players we signed had Championship experience with the exception of EMC. £4.25m for a 24 year old player with 19 goals and 13 assists in the league below is good value. Just how you and others slated Wright and Simms last...

When Vik first joined us, he had been a bust at Swansea and struggled to get in the team ahead of Biamou. He scored 2 goals in his first 12 games and if we were to revisit the original Vik signing thread, there were many sceptical comments on there. There will be similar comments regarding...

Would’ve taken £8 for him and/or Hamer too! 😂

There’s been plenty of players who have come good from L1 over 21, what a silly thing to say. EMC’s numbers last season for Peterborough were similar to Toney’s before Brentford signed him. EMC will come good, to reiterate the same point I’ve made on several threads, it’s not possible that...

Sheaf and Eccles also need to be braver on the ball and put balls in behind defenders. They haven’t done this nearly enough and we’re never going to take advantage of the pace we have in the team if Simms, BTA, EMC, MVE, Wright and Bassette are not running onto balls. Looking at how well Vik was...

Frankly, they’re amateurs with amateurish opinions. Management on FM24 or managing the Dog & Duck 2s is not real experience! 😂

Our 2 best chances v Stoke were in the second half, Binks and Simms, both from corners: https://www.sportinglife.com/football/live/190305/stoke-city-vs-coventry-city/xg-shot-maps As for Swansea, you’re right - I thought both Bassette and Rudoni’s big chances were from set pieces.

Which is a result of slow and risk averse build up play. We seen what happened with England this summer, despite having world class talent available.

Again, he and the rest of the forwards are being scapegoated when the problem is so obviously our lack of chance creation. Of all the players taking the easy options, it isn’t the likes of Simms, Wright, BTA and so on. Watford away is the only game we can point at the forwards failing to deliver...

It’s convenient scapegoating when we’ve have had several games. BTA played upfront for most of Saturday and we still lost, despite the ‘effort’ he put in. EMC and Wright have missed a few chances, Watford (A) springs to mind because we should’ve been out of sight before the equaliser/should’ve...

Simms doesn’t necessarily work on confidence or high energy running - he’s a convenient scapegoat when things aren’t going well. People instinctively like BTA and Bassette because they run more but their output is less than Simms. If we’re only going to create 0.6 xG a game at 0.05 xG per shot...

Wright and Simms scored more goals than Gyokeres and Godden did in 22/23. We’ve added BTA and Bassette to the mix so our forward department is overall in a stronger position. Vik has become an elite striker (or thereabouts) in his own right. Defence is a difficult one to judge, I’m convinced an...

Exactly, which is why my ire is directed at our midfield. We had about 0.6 xG on Saturday over 13 shots so we didn’t create any big chances at all. This was a trend last season against the top half teams, the Norwiches, WBAs, PNEs and Hull’s of the league.