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I was thinking against teams like Morecambe, Cambridge and other teams with big strikers, that we should partner Davies and McDonald because I think they'll cope with them in a more efficient manner than with Willis. I still think Willis and McDonald is the best partnership we've got. However...

I was very annoyed when we sold Maddison to Norwich, for what I believe to be £3m up front + add-ons to make it worth £9m, because I thought we should've demanded a larger fee, between £5-10m would've satisfied me. However, in hindsight, if he does have a sell-on clause, this could actually be a...

Any top 6 premiership team or other big-money game at home and get knocked out in an honourable fashion. Worst case is a difficult away tie against a scrappy L1 or L2 team I feel. Hopefully this win against Stoke is a real momentum builder for our league campaign, it's now three wins on the...

Funny that, because in May Mark Robins said the following: “we are building a club, not just a team – for now and for the future”. We signed all our young players to new contracts and we’ve signed a lot of players this season - up to about 14-16 now (if we’re counting Pearson). As well as this...

All anyone had to do was look at the stats of Doyle’s appearances since he’s left us, he’s averaged 42 appearances a season (lowest 38 at Sheffield United, 46 last season at Pompey). In his 1st spell with us, the only games he’d really miss was when he was suspended. A durable player, fair play...

I think it’s a premature judgement. The adjustment to professional football cannot be underestimated. He’s on one goal, and that’s obvious room for improvement. But, he seems to bring out the best in McNulty and Nazon because they have been at their most productive playing alongside him. To me...

This may sound counterintuitive, but I think it’s actually better we have a tough run of games coming up. Our record against the best teams would probably have us top of the league, our record against the top 9 is 7-1-1 (however, losses to 10th, 11th and 12th). Frustratingly, we’ve mainly...

I have no context, but this season he’s got 1 goal in 10 appearances. Perhaps Donny might be willing to go - but probably won’t let him go on a free. Also, hardly a ‘big bad target man’ at 5”10, even I’m taller than that. He’s obviously not someone who will score a lot of goals, but I think...

If Biamou is so bad, why have both our top scorers, McNulty and Nazon, been at their most productive playing alongside Biamou? People were bickering whether or not he got an assist v Chesterfield - to me, he didn’t get a direct assist, but if that defender has a free header, it doesn’t fall to...

The other striker have who’s on 8 goals, Nazon? We have matchwinners because McNulty is joint top on ‘matches won’ with his goals (4) and Nazon has ‘won’ 3 matches for us. Interestingly, both of their best runs of form have come playing alongside Biamou (could be coincidence). Not many teams...

You mean the striker we already have on 12 goals? His name is McNulty

For me, he’s the first player who’s got to go - it’s nothing personal, but he’s not proved himself on loan - and we’ve got 4-5 strikers already. Free up his wages.

I think we were right to keep hold of Stevenson because I don’t think he’s become a bad player overnight (I could be wrong, but people would’ve been critical had we sold him). Last season, I suspect, has probably dented his confidence a bit because I don’t think it’s easy being a young player in...

Last year year they were, particularly Stevenson, perhaps I didn’t make it clear, but the pertinent point was that we could’ve sold them as part of a ‘great Sisu sell-off’, but didn’t...

You can only blame the owners for so much. In League 1, there were two season where we built a squad capable of playoffs or better. Forget the (moot) point of whether our budget was ‘top 6 or 8’ in the league at any given time, we’ve had teams that were good enough to get playoffs or better in...

Come off it! The squad is not thin at all. We've got multiple options in each position and our young players are adding to that, and clearly they're good enough as they have worked their way into the team. Ponticelli, to take an example, has worked his way into the matcday squad and we have 5...

Don’t know what you mean by MR overcoming the ‘negativity of our owners’ in this season. We’ve signed 14-15 players this season? Most of which are experienced pros in this division. On top of that, we retained key player and the only key player to leave went to Leicester City. I don’t think...

Do people still wanna stand by their suggestion we should get rid of McNulty?

I did think that too, especially because I thought there'd be no chance of keeping Jones, however, his injury could potentially be a blessing in disguise as a team like Leeds isn't going to take a punt on him after coming back from a bad injury. He's the one player I think we need to keep at all...

I personally think we did really well with recruitment in the summer. We had to build a team around a younger, core players and unfortunately, we lost George Thomas too. We've got the best defence in the league, Kelly and Doyle have both been good signings and I think Nazon and McNulty have been...