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10 goals + assists in such few games is also impressive. If he can become more robust and avoid injuries could be a real player next season.

No chance of him and Oggy working together.

Yeah, exactly! I'm more bitter about this than the pens themselves and almost as much as the VAR decision. It shouldn't be possible to have both. I read it somewhere as more like 80% when you have both, but either way...shows pens isn't the 50/50 lottery everyone says it is. I have some comfort...

It feels very different. Last time it just felt so unlikely we would get past Middlesbrough, and we were lucky just to have made the playoffs at all. That Middlesbrough away leg is the most nervous I've ever felt at a football game, and the most I've ever celebrated a goal, I went mental because...

We have struggled recently with our injuries. During the 9 wins in 10 we beat Swansea, Preston, Bristol - teams we usually struggle against. We've also ground out wins in particularly ugly games against QPR and Portsmouth. We used to struggle in these types of games. Sunderland, Baggies and...

The tl;dr version of what I put was: Lampard was good at consistently grinding out results (a weakness of Robins). Robins was good at getting us up for big games and getting unlikely results against teams who are better than us. Not that one is overall better than the other. But from what...

We were in a worse position at the point he was sacked when he got us to finish 5th 2 seasons ago... We were in an even worse position last season when he turned it around and got us averaging top 2 form for 4 months until we tailed off in the league after the Wolves game and the cup run killed...

We won't truly know until October next season (assuming we don't go up). Lampard needs to have a full summer and transfer window to fully implement his philosophies, and if he can start a season well too, then it will 100% prove the appointment was the right thing to do. If we do go up in the...

Yes, of course. Because I think Robins isn't a shit manager, I can't possibly think Lampard is good also 😅

Yeah, we have had a tough time more recently with the injuries racking up. But under Lampard we won 9 in 10 against teams like Preston, Swansea, Bristol, who we normally never beat. We ground out particularly ugly wins against QPR and Portsmouth in the sort of game we never used to win. Under...

I think if you put on the biggest Mark Robins' hat, he could have turned it around like he always did, and got us to finish 5th. I don't think he would have got the consistency against mediocre teams to get the 9 wins out of 10 that Lampard got. But he also wouldn't have had the poor 5/6 games...

Agreed, can add Middlesbrough away to that list though. We've won a lot of the other games either ugly or luckily.

Ah yeah, I think you're right. Think it was after the playoff final. He'll be on decent money then. Unless relegated side or newly promoted sign him as back up, he'll unlikely get a better offer elsewhere after the season he's had.

Yeah, I think that could be the worst case scenario - we try and sell him but he doesn't want to go, so he runs his contract down. Although I think he might still be on his original contract with us, so maybe not on the sort of wage he should now be on. But I guess if he really wants to stay...

Did not know about the option, that changes the dynamic slightly in our favour. But still, with his age and injury record, if we can get a reasonable sum we should probably offload him - with the benefit of hindsight, we should have sold him last summer, we won't be able to get anywhere near...

Yeah, he's definitely gone down in value since last summer. But it may still be the last chance age-wise to get a reasonable return for him. Last summer we would have been holding out for between the 8m - 12m - if there's any truth in the rumours. This summer we'd probably be hoping to get...

Sheaf is almost certainly going to be sold. He'll be in the last year of his contract, and was rumoured to be wanting to leave last summer. With his injury record this season, we probably can't even afford to offer him a decent contract, he's 27, so we'll try to get as much as we can for him.

Wasn't it Waghorn? I only know because he scored so few goals for us I can remember them all 😅 Edited - my mistake, I'm thinking of the penalty and win Vs Sheffield United

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Thomas did go down and look like he was struggling at times against Pompey...