Play offs are not even a question this season. In fact the league this year is much stronger than last with the 3 teams that came down and the likes of Ipswich doing their madness.
King won’t sack Robins in the middle of the season. Assessment will be made at the end of the season.
We need a couple of midfield players and another CB I think in Jan. However, languishing near relegation won’t be attractive to new players. Plus we need to see if DK will be cautious to give big money to Robins now.
Wouldnt that likely cost the club £3m to do that to pay up his contract…..not that I’m advocating they do that at allI think king would sack him if he thought we won’t improve and we need to win in our next 3 - if we lost to stoke and didn’t beat millwall or Plymouth the heat is turned up considerably
There’s no chance of us offloading Wright, I don’t see why some seem to think it’s even a possibility.We will muddle through til January. Maybe offload Wright,maybe OHare if hes not re signing and bring in the midfielder we should have got in the summer along with another striker. Then we’ll kick on and push for a play off place.
No chanceI just have a horrible feeling Robins won’t be here come the end of November.
Nothing to substantiate that claim just think a couple of more defeats will trigger a decision from either party and give the incoming manager time in January.
We wouldn’t be in this position if the recruitment had been better. I don’t see any improvement in the overall squad than last season and I don't see any spirit in this side from the last few years. To many incoming to soon.
I tend to agree. I think the only issue for OHare and his agent is his recent injury. If he decides not to sign for us or anyone else in Jan and then his knee goes in April he will have zero income for 12 months and 2 bad injuries in 3 years will put many off when he goes return …..O’Hare can start talking to other clubs from Jan to leave on a free next summer. We won’t be getting any transfer fee for him.
Along with other Cure songs - Disintegration, Lost, The Walk and Boys Don't Cry. I'd add Friday I'm In Love but it's evidently gonna be more a case of Sunday or Monday evening that we'll have to embrace as of next season.We do a Forest
Fadz does well with quick “kids” along sideI wouldn't wish to see us completely get rid of McFadzean. I think he would be great to still have around the club if possible.
Doyle was a very good player but he did not have any pace. Thomas is nowhere near the same quality but is quicker.Fadz does well with quick “kids” along side
him who have faster reaction times and do as they are told. Fadz airy Doyle last year was constantly guiding him and Doyle had the pace to cover.
Thomas is bit more of a bruiser, slow to jockey and cannot turn as quick and is probably a bit less likely to take instruction. Kitching I’m unsure of.
Lati is more nimble and Binks reads the game well. Fadz with Thomas doesn’t work - they seem too similar.
Lati Fadz Binks with Thomas back up for Fadz and Kitching and even Bidwell for Lati/Binks is the best back 3 IMO.
If he had his way Zain Westbrooke and Jodi Jones in the box behind Kyle HudlinThis is mental. Wright needs to be playing regular games here in a settled team.
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And why would anyone want rid of our top scorer? Madness.There’s no chance of us offloading Wright, I don’t see why some seem to think it’s even a possibility.
Yep, I got thatIt was a joke.
People yesterday kept sarcastically mentioning the "we need to give them time gel" angle to mock the more positive posters on the match thread, while we were losing, so I was just being sarcastic back this morning.
That's pretty impressive considering he has been in and out of the team. Simms was far better yesterday but I don't get why people keep saying they are happy with him but so vitriolic about Wright. Simms has made 16 appearances for us now and has scored in only one of them.And why would anyone want rid of our top scorer? Madness.
Will keep pointing out the fact he has already done way better in his first season in the championship than Vik
Wright has 718 on field mins so far this season, that is just under 8 games total. 4 goals and 1 assist isn't too bad.
Doyle was incredibly slowFadz does well with quick “kids” along side
him who have faster reaction times and do as they are told. Fadz airy Doyle last year was constantly guiding him and Doyle had the pace to cover.
Thomas is bit more of a bruiser, slow to jockey and cannot turn as quick and is probably a bit less likely to take instruction. Kitching I’m unsure of.
Lati is more nimble and Binks reads the game well. Fadz with Thomas doesn’t work - they seem too similar.
Lati Fadz Binks with Thomas back up for Fadz and Kitching and even Bidwell for Lati/Binks is the best back 3 IMO.
Indeed, Doyle was arguably even slower than Fadz in a foot raceDoyle was incredibly slow
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I recollect differently and thought he was on his toes and quick to react, Thomas is a lot more physical so maybe I’m deceived. Either way, most teams only play one big physical player up front and a Fadz type player is often needed for that duel. Doyle and McNally seemed more adept with the quicker players. Just my view.Doyle was incredibly slow
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It's up to the management team to have a plan. Not taking £15 million for a player out of contract next summer would have been incredibly irresponsible.King has to take some blame for not having a plan to replace Hamer having took the cash and no replacement lined up. Its glaringly obvious that the team is lacking as a result of that loss and all the fiddling around with formations is a desperate measure to patch it up and failing. I also think it was a mistake not to have signed McNally, regardless of the price. I believe in MR but he can only work with what he's got.
King has to take some blame for not having a plan to replace Hamer having took the cash and no replacement lined up. Its glaringly obvious that the team is lacking as a result of that loss and all the fiddling around with formations is a desperate measure to patch it up and failing. I also think it was a mistake not to have signed McNally, regardless of the price. I believe in MR but he can only work with what he's got.
You keep saying Simms needs a run in the team. He has featured in every single match and until the last two had started in five ir six on the trot I think.It clicks. I’ve seen enough to think that and I think one or two signings in Jan even if it hasn’t clicked by then would make a huge difference.
We’re 15 games in and don’t know our best formation let alone our best XI. Second half yesterday had the feel of one of those watershed moments where Robins is forced into something that works. Hopefully they’re all at Ryton this week honing that, particular a back four.
The GK situation is hopeless. Utterly hopeless, but the rest of the team I can see a way forwards.
Defence we just need to find out CB pairing and stick to it. Fullbacks can be changed according to need/form. Can’t make out the Barnsley Boys, but they all look pretty crap, but I think whoever gels as a pairing we keep. Fadz to move to coaching
Midfield we looked OK second half, obviously missing a CM who hopefully will come in in Jan. Personally I’d flog O’Hare then if we can and bring in another AM and send Ayari back. But if not Allen, Saka, Palmer and O’Hare are OK for that 10 spot/3rd CM. Even if they don’t have a final ball between them.
Strikers we’ll be OK. Wright now has the Godden mantle of “scores goals so fuck it” with the advantage of not being able to be beaten by me in a foot race. Simms is looking better and better TBH and I think just needs a run. Ideally we’d get one more in Jan, even if just a loan.
No idea when it’ll break but it will. We are in the games far far more than first season up, and have far better players, over a season this isn’t close to a relegation team.
I actually wonder a little bit if a clean break from the “old guard” might be best for everyone long term and this is just a messy transition period.
You keep saying Simms needs a run in the team. He has featured in every single match and until the last two had started in five ir six on the trot I think.
And yet we still have no idea if he should be a lone striker, or partnered with Godden, or partnered with Wright, or out wide…You keep saying Simms needs a run in the team. He has featured in every single match and until the last two had started in five ir six on the trot I think.
We didn't. We put wright central and played van ewijk and simms as wider forwardslove robins but that was a weird game yesterday, lati was getting murdered down our right by their pace and we had van Ewijk sat on the bench, we went 3 up front got the 2nd goal and took a forward off and went back to 2 up front when we needed another goal, if robins tactic is just confuse the shit out of teams then it’s working, we actually looked decent with 3 upfront, maybe Way to go ? We can’t defend so we’ll just try and score more than them
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