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Very harsh. Doyle and Kelly have proven to be good signings. Nazon is a good signing and McNulty is coming a long quite well now - he's on 7 goals compared to Nazon's 9 and both averaging 1 in 3 (Nazon slightly higher). I think Andreu was signed to be a main player for us, so we've been...

There’s nothing wrong with the personnel. Clearly got the foundation of a team good enough to win promotion from this league. However, there are some glaringly obvious tactical flaws in this team because we keep getting undone by the same kind of teams. That comes from the management I’m afraid...

Typical performance from us this year. Clearly haven’t learnt how to play against the lower teams in this division. Another struggling team have beat us... again. Some sort of personnel or tactical change is clearly needed in this type of fixture. The sense of deja vu is so frustrating.

What’s the point you’re trying to make? It sounds as if you’re agreeing - or at least not disagreeing - with the premise that the problems we’re having are tactical?

That doesn’t go to explain the disparity between being able to score against ‘competent’ defences, but struggling against seemingly ‘incompetent’ defences. The issues are there to see. To argue the problem is personnel can only go so far and here, it doesn’t go very far. If personnel was a...

I think people are missing the point. Clearly there isn’t a fundamental problem with creating and scoring goals. Here me out now. A team that has beaten the top 3, 3-0 (twice) and 2-0, and beating the teams around us, clearly doesn’t have problems scoring. To me, the problem is tactical. Robins...

4 goals and 8 assists this season is hardly ‘doing nothing’...

The best defence in this league is a good predictor of a top 3 finish. Having a 20 goal a season striker does not. Portsmouth had the best defence, won the league, Plymouth and Blackpool with the joint 3 defence also got promoted. Whilst Luton, with the 2nd best defence came 4th. Crawley...

You’d be up for selling Willis?! We’ve got the best defence in the football league, why on earth would you want to break that up?! Even if it was for a good striker.

Well, considering we’ve beaten all the above us, bar one, and we’ve got the best defence in the (football) league, I think automatic promotion is a realistic target, playoffs the absolute minimum. The evidence has been laid out to you pal. We need tinker tactically against lower league teams as...

That could be a key point in the season, but there’s always a few important phases in the season. I do think beating Luton 3-0 will be a turning point. Barnsley won the playoffs and were bottom over Xmas the year we bottled it. All it takes is a positive run to build momentum - it’s been a bit...

Again, kudos for digging up the statistics! As frustrating as it is, I’d rather be dropping points to lower table teams at this point in the season. Firstly, because we there’s time to make tactical adjustments. Secondly, we’re beating potential rivals - this is promising. I looked at...

We’re in November, usually 1 team in the top 3 last has a ‘20 goal a season striker’. The best strikers in any league score 20-25 goals, without taking into account of braces and hat tricks, that’s still 20+ games they’re not going to score. When you take it into account, they score in what...

Spot on with the analysis. I think one of the main reasons we have difficulties with the lower league teams is that we don’t score enough early goals. Robins earlier in the season spoke about the need to ‘win the battle first’ - whatever this means - provides an insight to our tactics. But...

I think this has more to do with tactics than with personnel. We’ve hammered the likes of Notts County, Luton and Exeter who have all been top. Yet we’ve struggled against the likes of Barnet, Forest Green, Chesterfield and Newport County. In particular, we tend to struggle when we concede...

Very, very sarcastic...

Picket the ground, achieve a 0 attendance... #NOPM and all that...

Agreed. But going into Jan in MR’s 1st season, and Mowbray’s first full season, we had an opportunity to be successful season. Both seasons ended in failure, but going into January it looked like we’d do something...

I personally think McNulty will do well this year. He’s got a good ratio at this level. Even the best strikers in any league will score 1 in 2 games. So without taking braces or hat tricks into account, half the games you’re left without goals. Therefore, it becomes evident that not having a...

This is the most important statistic for us if we're going to be successful this season. As we saw last weekend, the best defence trumped the best attack. The results prior to Luton were obviously frustrating, but, I think for some strikers it only takes a goal before they really crack on, and I...