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Not a chance. He’s played CM more or less the whole time. We played more directly with Hamer because he had the quality to launch counter attacks from deep. Every time we tried it last night the passes were mostly intercepted or too strong/weak to our forwards. Hamer was no slacker...

Explains a lot. In the first half we played the box and couldn’t play through WBA at all and all they (WBA) needed to do was to shuffle side to side to nullify us. We could’ve played Haaland upfront and he wouldn’t have done much. The issue with our performances isn’t who’s up front. We just...

Particularly, since Sheaf’s injury…

This game needs to be a win or we probably end up bumbling along until the end of the season.

I have seen/heard it a few times and I’ve read posts thinking Gyokeres first but it just didn’t make sense.

Ah yes, because we have a wealth of wingers to play…

No - Victor Torp was my understanding of the post.

Out of curiosity, who - if anyone - stood out for you last night?

Unpopular opinion, but I don’t COH’s performances have been that stand out. He’s had some wonderful goals but his overall play needs improvement if he’s to be a Premiership player. Hamer was the best midfielder in the league and is playing for one of the worst Prem teams in years. Would COH...

Simms had a few chances that he fluffed and silly mistakes on the ball which has made him a scapegoat. He needed to do a lot better in 2-3 instances. The reality is, however, is that neither Wright or Simms had decent service. Whose responsibility is that? We played a lot of side to side passes...

Torp had a bad first half but picked up in the second. It’s where most of our energy came from midfield. We keep losing the midfield battles and clearly miss the quality of Sheaf in the team.

I wonder if people would change their opinions now? This negative run against Top half teams (Norwich, PNE and WBA) may suggest that perhaps our midfield isn’t as good as people believe.

We’re not shit and you need to stop pissing the bed every time we have a bad run.

With two quick strikers away from home, we need to play as we did last season. Absorb pressure and hit teams on the counter. Tavares at RW isn’t really the answer to Saka’s absence. Our defence needs to stop leaking goals so playing 3-4-1-2 may improve this.

The reason we’ve reverted back to 3-4-1-2 is because Sakamoto is injured. I remember having this discussion 2-3 weeks ago. The link up between Sakamoto and MVE on the right was made the system go so well. It’s no coincidence, in my view, that performances and results tailed off when those two...

That’s overkill in terms of figures floating about - there will be plenty of good quality free agents out there. That £13m is spread rather thin and you’d prefer 2-3 ringers instead of 6-8 players on fees. In terms of priority, my ideal window would look like in priority order: 1) AM - COH /...

FA Cup would be legendary - I’ve changed my mind since the last thread on the topic. It’s felt quite nice being snide about being in the quarter finals! 😂

FYI - for all those L and XL shopper’s who can’t purchase their size online. My brother picked me up a home jersey and an away one this morning so the superstore is stocked up. The shop in town is not stocked though. I hope this helps someone!

That was when we were away at Hungary, iirc because I wanted to get tickets there. It was really poor, just as bad as last Friday’s performance. I distinctly remember thinking I could catch an early train at 2-0 but thought ‘what if we pull it back?’ and 5 minutes later it was 3-0 and too late...

Which option would give us a better chance of promotion in 2024/25? Option A for sure. It’s more like you’d get 1-2 ‘quality loans’ for £4.25 million. Kieffer Moore would’ve been an expensive signing if you include wages and likewise, Fabio Carvalho wouldn’t have been cheap either.