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You’re right that 4-4-2 isn’t going to be the best Plan A. As a Plan B, 4-4-2 would be great option, particularly when trailing games. We definitely need different midfield options to facilitate it.

You can’t rely on just 2 goal scorers. Iirc, Robins spoke of needing 3.5 goal scorers in the starting eleven (defined as 10+ goals) back in the L2 days. After Wright and Simms, who are our consistent goal scorers in our team? Perhaps Sakamoto or COH at a push. We need an AM and a winger to...

Throwing tantrums befitting a toddler… We’re a work in progress, patience is the key here.

As well, we've given up a lot space in midfield too - defending is a real team effort. Some experience added to this team would be beneficial. Not McFadz experience, a player in their prime who improves us who has good leadership qualities.

This summer I imagine we’ll actually recruit the personnel to play 4-2-3-1 rather than 3-4-1-2. Get 1 winger, CM and an AM through the door and we look instantly for it.

Writing off players months into a multi-year contract is also a bad idea. That’s been proven time and time again.

I really hope our recruitment team is more inventive than the posters on this thread. Sign ex-players is not a good recruitment policy.

Last season proved that with a good defence, you don’t need a top GK. The more pressing concerns remain the outfield players. We’ve conceded far too many good chances and too many goals compared to last season. It’s still 3 clean sheets in 2024; relegation threatened Stoke and Rotherham and in...

Agreed. Showed some really good glimpses. He’d just signed at the start of the Norwegian pre-season, Sheaf gets injured so he’s thrust into the team, picks up 1-2 knocks and is out the team for a month. It’s been a tough start, and with a pre-season with us under his belt you’d hope he can...

Atm, our options out wide for next season is Sakamoto, EMC and Wright. Really, having JJ as a filler is a waste of a signing. Happy for JJ to get his career back on track, but top L2 performers are not guaranteed to make the step up to Championship.

Realistically, we’ve just ran out of squad, haven’t we? The accumulation of games and injuries have gone against us. Frankly, as @Saddlebrains alluded to 1-2 weeks ago, the coaching team seem to have accepted there’s more work needed. I’ve been in the camp all season that our midfield just...

He didn’t freeze out Bidwell but it was apparent that he was 2nd choice - that isn’t the same thing. Bidwell worked his way into the team through better performances than JDS. Since Sakamoto’s injury, we’ve struggled to make 4-2-3-1 work because we just don’t have wingers. Palmer, Tavares and...

Do you think Robins would cut off his nose to spite his face in relation to COH? If Robins genuinely believed COH was the best person to start, he would. He was given a chance against Leeds and Southampton and didn’t pull up trees.

If we’re talking about December-Jan, he was our best player. Since then, chipped in with a few contributions but there’s a reason he’s been dropped from the squad. There’s no way Robins would start Palmer over COH if he felt that was the best way to get to the playoffs. As for tinkering with...

100% - I’d have walked off after being field a stupid question like that. We got battered by our local rivals and if we play like that against Man U we’ll get humiliated. This was a worse performance than PNE.

Personally, I don’t think he starts for either struggling Prem or top end Championship side. If we aspires to be a squad player, I’m sure he’ll have many suitors. Some of the areas you no listed were certainly true pre-ACL injury. For example, he was the most fouled player in the league and I...

In Robins’ opinion, he‘a clearly favoured Palmer in recent weeks. COH’s form or even cameo performances haven’t warranted a start. Godden used to get minutes but that’s stopped when he’s been stroppy about it. What team in towards the top of the table would COH nail down a spot? I recall...

I think Palmer is a good player but when all said and done, his assist and goal contributions aren’t that of a club chasing Premiership promotion. He has sparks but there are plenty of players out there capable of getting the output (I.e. goals and assists). I don’t think we renew his contract...

Does COH improve our team? The evidence from Feb suggests ‘not really’. Even his goal scoring form, his performances were skewed towards his G/A contributions. Therefore, whilst he was getting goals and assists, all was well. Long term, MR is in the right I feel. COH is a loss but not...

I’m a big Bidwell fan, but he’s definitely a player that we’ll need to replacing this summer or next. There will be better players out there but that takes nothing away from his contributions since joining. As for COH, it’ll be a loss but again, we survived losing Hamer and Gyokeres. Two...