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Of the two, you’d take Stamenic too who played in the UCL last year… It’s a shame we missed out Browne and don’t blame him for being peeved off at being offered ‘a cuddle after sex’. Sunderland is a similar project to ours, but with respect, I think we’ll finish above them comfortably (again)...

We should just hand them the trophy now… 🙄

Which makes some of the comments about Rudoni seem even more ridiculous. He’s 4 years younger than COH and imo, will end up being the better player. His first half performance against Oxford in the league was quality. Our attacking talent are struggling atm because we’re not controlling the...

In 7 years we’ve gone from scrapping the dregs of the transfer market signing Yakubh, Stephen Hunt, Darius Henderson and so on… to spending 10s of millions of pound on players. You don’t get there by having poor recruitment. People are judging far too much on 4 games. Every year we get off to a...

The Bassette transfer showed that we were operating a ‘best available’ transfer policy. Midfield is a difficult area to sign for and the obvious candidates to bring are out of our price range. We know of 2 high quality targets that slipped our grasp and we don’t know what else went on. Had...

Agreed, I‘m sure many of us expected Sheaf to go. The only reason COH left was because it was on a free and outside of our control. Agreed. The ‘intangibles’ can’t be neglected either. Even in the 2022/23 season, as great as Vik and Hamer were, Kelly and McFadz were just as important. Every...

James would be brought in on a 4th choice basis. Which is pretty impressive. Eccles in particular would thrive having James alongside him rather than Torp imo, and vice versa. We need to take the burden off Sheaf too. When he plays, he’s 82 mpg on average, Eccles is playing 73 mpg. Having a...

It’s not a Pep thing, I remember us defending corners this way since Coleman and Boothroyd. This thing about leaving 1-2 players up top is something the fans feel good about. In reality, the likelihood of clearing the ball and a forward getting onto it and then scoring from it is low. Keeping...

He’d do both Torp and Eccles a world of good. Robins put it quite accurately that our press was off - I don’t think either Eccles or Torp are capable of ‘leading’ that midfield area. Certainly not as well as Sheaf.

Compare our squad from 22/23 to the current one and you should have your answer. Unequivocally, it’s been good. We don’t know the ins and outs but if we couldn’t identify the ‘right’ player at the right price, then it’s perhaps best we wait it out. James as a placeholder signing wouldn’t be...

The ‘meta’ seems to be for teams to pack the box with all there players. Not many teams leave anyone up nowadays. The issue, in my view, was was a failure of organisation. To use an example, if McFadz was playing I’d assume he’d be talking to get people out pushing out. The worry going into...

Yes. Even the Oxford goal (first one), Simms was a scapegoat for many on here. If Binks wins a header in the box, it doesn’t lead to Simms poor touch and the goal. There’s just too much indecision and/or disorganisation in the box. Ironically, I felt more at ease watching the Bristol cup game...

Well, we’re desperately light. At least James would be an upgrade on Kelly from last season. A short term contract for James or Armstrong would be a decent option. Experience and leadership alone could do this team a world of good. Providing more value to the team collectively rather than...

The xgA table does not surprise me at all. All of our goals have been soft so far. Yes, Bristol’s was a great strike but we gave him acres of space. I need to rewatch the Norwich goal but in the stand it felt like another soft goal. In the next games I can see Thomas and Kitching coming back...

Doug has given Robins the resources to do the job and it’s up to him to get the results and if he doesn’t, we may need to find a new manager. The aforementioned sentence means exactly the same as ‘giving Robins the rope to hang himself’. DK’s first action was to give MR & AV extended contracts...

That were often harmless. The issues we’ve seen this season are the same ones we had against the top half teams last season. Too predictable and lethargic i.e. no risky passes between defensive lines. CM was the number 1 priority signing this summer and unbelievably we haven’t resolved this. We...

We played about 30-35 minutes playing 4-2-4. The root cause of our issues is that Eccles and Torp partnership. Allen being a distant 2nd place tells you everything you need to know about the quality in that midfield unit.

It’s hard to be creative when you don’t have control of midfield. Norwich weren’t great today, there were times they would make riskier passes to strikers through defensive lines. We are too cautious and will only pass out wide and by the time those wid r players have the ball, the opposition is...

The missing ingredient is clearly Sheaf. Even then, I remember having plenty of discussion last season about missing Hamer and apparently Eccles and Torp were good enough to step up. In fact, in preseason Allen was good enough. There was a complete denial of how off the pace our midfield was in...

That’s unfair on Rudoni, he looks good in that 10 role, but it is just Eccles and Torp (then Allen) who just look markedly off the pace. It was the same last season when Sheaf was out for the games in Feb/March - when we had COH.