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Agreed with both of you, which is why I was in favour of signing him. I just understand why DK would push back to Robins that the team should be good enough to perform at a certain level until a big money signing can be made. Leadership gives intangible benefits to a group of players, stuff...

The only option on the bench for CM was Lati or Torp. Recruitment wise, CM has to be the top priority because it’s the only area on the pitch that is actually worse than when DK took over the club. Until that area is addressed, a new manager will only have so much impact in the short term.

9 games in, having 2 polls on this topic in such a short period of time is ridiculous. Robins in, he has enough credit in the bank to lead us for the whole season providing that we’re not seriously in danger of relegation.

That’s not true though is it? The money was fronted for Stamenic in a deal worth £4 million or so and that deal cost us signing Alan Browne because he felt jilted. What good would a stopgap signing like Matty James do for us? By the time he’s 100% match fit, it’ll probably be close to January...

That would be valid if he didn’t have good depth at ST. The front 3 on Saturday after EMC came off had a combined total of 46 goals last season. The primary issue we have is that we did not fashion one clear cut chance for one of them. It’s not so bad calling out strikers if they’re missing big...

He shares similarities with Gyokeres and has a lot of energy on the ball with appeals to many fans. He played v well against Spurs but in his league appearances, has looked raw and not quite ready to be a regular starter. It’s a bit much when you have people claiming he should be starting ahead...

If the choice was between a 2nd booking and conceding a stoppage time goal to lose the game… it’s an absolute non-starter, you take the red card.

We’ve spent all this money, but haven’t actually addressed the essential ‘needs’ for this squad. Signing Bassette for 2.5m was great. But was signing a striker to be 4th choice a good idea when we missed out on our top 2 CM and CB targets? The midfield has actually had little investment in it...

It’s early days, MR is probably putting the young GK in his place to get him to work harder. On the Collins point, it seems that he is on too much money to easily shift and apparently v distant from the first teamers personally. Wilson was going into this season firmly as the number 2 option.

I think they lack guidance, all of our CBs are 25 and under. McFadz finished the season strongly last season and moved into a player-coaching role. I recall Kitching and/or Thomas talking about their relationship with McFadz early last season and how he guided them in training and so on -...

I wasn’t given specifics (nor did I ask) but was told he doesn’t take training as seriously as the others and as a principle, MR expects players to train as they play. Seems odd to me too but considering he hadn’t made any mistakes, it passes the sense check. The same person told me at...

I don’t believe Dovin has been dropped bc he’s seen as inferior to Wilson - he’s done nothing wrong in the games he’s played. I’m not claiming to be ITK, but a friend of mine was supposedly told that Dovin was dropped for having a poor attitude. After the matter, I was shown a text to him dated...

Then they should’ve taken a second yellow and a one match ban then? At least we’d have come away with a point! If it was a 60-80th minute goal, I’d 100% agree with you. In stoppage time, you take the red card. Kitching did that against Blackburn away last season and we drew the game in the end...

I don’t think Chris Hughton was a Forest legend. In any case, if we got rid of MR, has there been any succession planning? Are they available and most importantly, will they take us forward? A brutally honest assessment of the squad is that the quality isn’t there to challenge at the top of the...

All of our forward players have looked poor this season. So one of the following has to be true. 1) all of our forwards are duds or 2) tactically, we’re not getting the best out of these players. Bearing in mind that Haji Wright, BTA and Simms scored a combined total of 46 goals last season, it...

The issue is players not performing in a way the coaching staff want them to. On one hand, I understand why MR will be frustrated with that. On the other hand, he needs to consider if the players can execute his tactical instructions. Both Sheaf and Eccles are good at keeping play alive and...

A flexible 4-4-2 could work, plenty of teams run this as a defensive shape but in attack it’s a bit of a free-for-all with players attacking ‘space’ rather than positional play. In practice, you could run something like: 1) Rudoni-Eccles-Sheaf-Wright Here you would have Rudoni as a RM who...

Such a lazy argument. On one hand, AV leaving was a disaster and he has all the answers to our problems (exaggeration). On the other, our form for 20-30 games has been poor so perhaps MR should get sacked when AV was number 2. It’s 9 games in the league, you can’t really judge anything...

You’ve just said it, the variables have changed so you need to wait to see what that impact is. End of last season was completely different too, we’d ran out of steam after a tough FA Cup run (small squad) and on top of that, mostly top 7-8 teams. Robins has been honest in saying the coaches...

If I was a football manager, my first priority would be to be tough defensively and most of the goals we’ve conceded this season have been too soft. It’s just a shame that both our experience is probably FM related! 😂 We’re football fans, if we knew exactly what to do, we wouldn’t have mundane...