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There isn’t really a debate to be had here about what formation to use. Robins has mainly played 4-4-2 in the league, and has only really played 4-2-3-1 if we have unavailabilities i.e. Portsmouth. At the start of the season we were trying to figure things out and results have generally...

The optimistic side of me think we’d have been ok had we failed to get promoted. My comparison was mainly relating to the form of Notts County, where they were comfortably in the top 2 for most of the season and ended up finishing 5th. Whilst that’s not a disaster, you could certainly say that...

His was an MCL, which is the ‘easiest’ knee ligament to recover from. That’s still a few months recovery.

What subs would you have made for the Walsall game? We bought on Chaplin, Bayliss and Jones — Brown, Grimmer and Bakayoko were unused. The subs didn’t work, but cut the manager for making positive substitutions. Context is everything too, we would’ve played totally differently had we brought it...

Disagreed somewhat. As someone mentioned earlier, Notts County overspent massively last season chasing promotion. Whereas, we’ve mostly sorted out our finances to the point where we’re breaking-even. You’d think we could’ve kept most of the team together (McNulty and Bayliss would’ve left...

It’s pretty clear Robins doesn’t value the Checkatrade trophy. That’s twice we’ve been knocked out in the group stage since he’s been back. A win tonight would’ve seen us go through and he’s picked an U23s team with first team players who need to build up their match fitness. Looking at the...

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m not Mark Robins so my interpretation of his decision making is not really valid. Certainly not a valid criticism of MR because I said ‘you bring on your main/best striker.’ That’s also a dumbing down my argument. Clearly Robins thinks Chaplin is a better striker...

A few memorable moments as a Cov fan! - Hughes’ GK after Bennett’s red card - winning the last game at Highfield Road, gutted I missed that game - Winning at Old Trafford - Dann’s last minute equaliser v Newcastle - Chelsea in the FA Cup - Westwood’s last min penalty save v Wolves - watching...

This is riddled with generalisations and sweeping statements. Firstly, you’ve made the assumption that Robins ‘pre-planned’ to bring on Chaplin, which is probably not true because he brought him on in response to going 3-2 down. Suggesting MR thought Chaplin to be the best option to get a goal...

Look, this discussion is going around in circles because you’re not answering my fundamental questions. What would you have done differently? Your master plan appears to have been to bring on Bakayoko. How uninspiring. I don’t know when Bakayoko last made an appearance, but it’s irrelevant...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and football fans are very good at saying what they wouldn’t have done. At least two posters wouldn’t have changed anything of substance, yet criticise the subs Robins made. Hiwula was our most lively player on the left, so keeping him there was a sound idea...

It’s unlikely for most players to score in less than 30 minutes. Chaplin was brought on had one opportunity to get the ball in the box and put in a great ball into a dangerous area — just no one was near it! The consensus we’ve come to is that we lost in the last 20m, so it’s pretty obvious that...

It’s unlikely that Bakayoko would’ve scored, he’s not even performing at U23 level at the minute. If anything, it would’ve made more sense sticking Hiwula up front and having Thomas and Jones outwide. You can imagine the stick Robins would’ve got had he left his main striker on the bench when...

Again, you’ve not said what you would’ve done differently. You would’ve taken Shipley off for Bakayoko, that’s all I’ve got so far. In short, you wouldn’t have changed anything.

The substitutions didn't work, that's football. What changes would have made then? Jone has been effective coming off the bench most of the time, it was only last week his shot led to the goal. If you're saying you wouldn't bring him on, you're being reactionary. Bayliss is our most attacking...

Context is everything and this was a difficult Cup game for us. About 4-5 games ago Walsall were above us in the league so this was as an even game you could get in the 1st round. At 2-0, you fear there could’ve been a capitulation, had that happened, the ridiculously low scores would be...

Doyle and Ogogo wasn’t the problem, in fact, the midfield performed worse when Bayliss came on. Which you wouldn’t expect because Bayliss is one of our best players. Against Stanley, they didn’t perform well, together which is why I was pleasantly surprised with their performance yesterday...

Exactly. Ask anyone what they would’ve done, they probably would’ve done the same. We had it all last season... What would you have done differently then?

I’m going to keep a level head here, with a lot of these scores, you’d have thought we’d lost 4-0. Burge, 6 - made a good save, confusion between him and Thompson led to their first Thompson, 5 - looks awkward going forward, and was involved in two defensive mixups. He bounced back from that...

Fair enough, you caught me out haha! I got caught in two minds how my point was going to be made and made the sloppy error of not checking. For what it’s worth, I think JCH is our best striker at this moment. Despite my amateurish error, the pertinent point is that Chaplin is a 1st choice and...