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I went to Barnsley away under Boothroyd and my mates went with me to and we picked that game 'because we always beat Barnsley'. Lost 2-1, and I don't think we've won at Oakwell since. But, I think a lot of this stuff is mindset. From that game I referred to, we were very much a club in terminal...

Still remember throughly enjoying Ball’s goal against Arsenal despite being 4-0 down! Despite being battered, I enjoyed the game because I went with absolutely zero expectations.

Rose also made an error which lead to us drawing against Gillingham who hadn’t troubled us all night. Hardly staking a claim for the starting berth. I like Rose, and for sure McFadz will drop out the starting lineup eventually, but he’s too important to the team at this moment in time to...

Top clubs have a win-now mentality so they’re mostly buying established stars to get them CL football and trophies. Man U fans use the Mahrez as an example. That’s a terrible example for them to use. He was signed when LCFC were in the Championship and he scored 3 in 19 that season. He wasn’t...

The club does factor in a players characteristics. MR confirmed a while back that we look for players who will fit in with the current group of players. The context was something about fostering the great team spirit we have. You see that Kastaneer fits in well with the group of players - the...

This article and the ‘Moneyball’ comparisons came at a weird time because I only watched the film last week when I was off work sick. Ironically, the analytical approach the A’s used was based off analytical models used in other sports, and football (our football) was one of the sports that...

Potentially, I’ve mentioned it a few times, but there’s no reason switch things up yet.

In fairness, I do agree that the home team should make some cash off of this. Especially the smaller clubs - Bolton made more money off their away fixture than Colchester did. For us, we’ll have 2 away games the club will make money from, this is good. But, when bigger clubs start playing us...

The thought of using Kastaneer as leverage for discount on Shankland is hilarious. A win-win deal for us if that is remotely true. I don’t know who/what your sources are. Whilst I’d like to believe it, I’d be surprised if we made a move for him this season having just bought in Walker.

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Promoted teams will almost always have the smallest budgets in the league, and 1-2 of them survive most years. They have to adapt to survive in this league in the long term. To use us as an example, we’ve built a young squad for quite cheap. If we were to stay up, our budget will have to...

Whilst we like to play from the back, we’re not exactly a team that runs up the possession stat. For possession, we were about mid table last night and on Friday we won with 38% possession. Against Barnsley, if they’re going to press all day, we’ll probably let them have the ball and hit them...

That leaves us with 2 strikers for the season...

Admittedly, we're all trying to second guess MR's thinking. My view is that MR probably wants the flexibility to go 3-4-3 if need be, especially with Jobello to eventually come back in. The 3-4-2-1 we play is very flexible anyway, Allen and O'Hare regularly pop up in wide channels, so it's not a...

Giles will start v Barnsley, and probably the following game before McCallum starts.

Again, you’re not wrong. Last season, all of our wingers were injured so we didn’t have that option. I’m sure Robins will be looking to give himself as many options as possible.

Agreed. But, we need options if we need to change things up. We can’t just rely on one system and the same personnel otherwise we run the risk of being found out tactically.

Playing Giles at LW wouldn't be playing him out of position, it's his natural position and is being re-coached as a LWB.

It's Dabo all over again...

Giles has got off to a good start, but Robins wouldn’t have chased a player he very clearly favours to sit on the bench. My guess is that McCallum sits the first game of two out on the bench before being a regular starter. I don’t know what MR is thinking, but this could be a v good signing...