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That’s a sensible approach to have, if you don’t concede, you can’t lose. Building a team on a solid defence (in any sport) is a more reliable model of producing winning outcomes than building it on a great attack. We had a great attack in Pressley’s first full season, and there’s no point being...

We’ve signed a 21 year old for 4 years and you’re judging him after 14 games. Like many, you’re way too quick to judge over a v small time frame.

No way! I knew I recognised that name, she taught at my school for a while!

Disagreed. His win % speaks for itself so must be something right over his two spells at the club. He’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but he’s done a great job. His approach has always been quite counter-attacking, even in his first spell. He’s a pragmatist and just because we...

Hiwula, JCH and Chaplin are all projected to hit double figures. Chaplin hasn’t really set the world alight yet but it’s a case of being patient, like with McNulty. Hiwula, Chaplin and Bakayoko are all young men with a lot developing left to do so their prices are probably a bit inflated because...

Not really. There were 4 games between his 1st and 2nd goals, and then 1 game between his 3rd goal. There have been 3 (4 if you want to include his 13m v Walsall) games since his last goal. To say he's 'slowing down' after a 3 game drought is ridiculous. If you break down his appearances into...

He’s projected to hit double figures at his current rate.

INTERVIEW: Mark Robins Reflects On Burton Defeat

I’m glad I’m not the only one! Looks like JCH like got the nod on — it’s unclear if Willis touched it in its way in!

4-4-2 can be just as isolated, if not more isolated than a 4-2-3-1 because of the gap between the midfield and strikers. Disclaimer: 4-4-2 is our best formation right now — this is not a debate about the merits of each formation.

Appointing Peter Reid instead of Eric Black is the greatest 'what if?' in my time as a supporter. Yet, when we gave Andy Thorn the full-time job, he did terribly and a lot of us would've felt that same 'what if?' feeling had he not been appointed. With hindsight, Eric Black should've 100% got a...

Do you mean a dozen and a half because if you meant ‘half a dozen’, 6 goals is not a big ask at all — I’d expect that fro Biamou and Bakayoko!

Career-wise, it’s certainly a mistake because it looks like he won’t be playing much football for a while. Short-term financial gains don’t put weigh long-term career development. At this rate (things could, and I hope, get better), he’ll be back in L2, or at best, a middling L1 club on those...

You have ridiculously high expectations. We have 4 players who are roughly scoring 1 in 4 (Hiwula slightly under that, Bakayoko over it, with Chaplin and JCH striking in 4).You’re judging players on a very small time scale, as you cannot judge a player over 15-20 games. 1 in 4 goals translates...

The likelihood of McNulty scoring 20+ goals this season for us was unlikely. There’s a few examples of players having stormers in L2 then following it up with a comparatively ‘average’ season, such as Marquis of Doncaster, went from 26 in the league 16/17 to about 14 last season. This said, he...

Chaplin has 3 goals and 2 assists in 11 games, so far, he’s a 1 in 4 striker which is not bad at all. He’s doing quite well and still 21 so he’s absolutely worth the money. Comparatively, McNulty scored 4 in first 21 games and apparently wasn’t a ‘natural goalscorer’ until about January last...

In fairness to Robins, you can’t argue against the reasoning of his substitutions in this game. We were clearly trying to get the winner and Bayliss in particular struggled to get up to speed on the ball and was caught out a few times — that’s on him. It’s probably safe to assume that we...

To think a substantial amount of our ‘in-house’ experts were suggesting it was a waste to sign JCH. He’s improved leaps and bounds this season and Robins deserves a lot of credit for that. Even if he’s not scoring, he’s involved in a lot of our play and he could well end up with about 10+ goals...

Everyone would’ve made at least 2 of the 3 subs Robins made that game. Some would’ve brought on Bakayoko... ... I’ll leave it the professionals who actually know what they’re doing.

Thankfully, we don’t have to think about it because we got promoted and we’re doing well in L1 right now! Last season we were consistent under Robins, in fact, we’ve always been consistent in both this spells here. Robins is a switched on manager and things just seem to click with him at the...