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At least part of the issue will be our march up the EFL. It’s a lot easier to blood academy players in League 1 and 2. Our infrastructure hasn’t really had the chance to catch up. Frustratingly, being Cat 2 status has meant we’ve not been able to keep our most promising young players in any case!

Just look at Sunderland’s turnaround to demonstrate this. Leadership makes all the difference. The team is good enough for Top 10 comfortably, they did it last season and we have strengthened our forward areas - we’re scoring enough goals! The issues are in midfield and the defence. We’ve...

They are incompetent and Bidwell is probably not 100% yet too.

Compared to who though? Chelsea and Everton have had some of the world’s best managers there. Both clubs have been on a downward spiral too. Sean Dyche has a 5% better win record than Lampard and yet if there was a chance of getting Dyche, no one would bat an eyelid. Lampard’s second spell at...

RIP Tom 🩵

We got a great deal getting £750k for him in his contract year.

He deserves that, I genuinely doubt he’s capable of replicating our success of 22/23.

There’s good players in the squad and which ever way you cut it, we’re underperforming and have been Feb/Mar this year. Which Robins is ultimately accountable for and the first person to fall on his sword. We’re not Man U or another team that is churning through managers to know something is...

So if things were going better this season you’d be singing the praises of the performance director? That is rubbish. The manager/head coach is the person principally responsible for the match results. They sign the players, train the squad, pick the team, the tactics and make in-game changes...

No evidence? We've scored the joint most late goals in the EFL (10)... King at his conference clear has scrutinised things which is why he's defended Dr Roberts and publicly praised her work using data metrics on fitness. The wider fanbase would rather scrutinise everyone and everything...

It’s shoehorning Lati in the team too. Aside from being steady in possession, I don’t particularly see what he brings to the table. We look better playing 4-2-3-1.

Head coach and manager are just job titles. They mean the same thing in effect. If what King said is true about the relationship with AV and the coaching structure… Robins will probably look back and identify that was his undoing. The inexperienced/under qualified staff seemed to be the main...

M40 to Coventry isn’t too bad, it’s just 60-70 miles on the same road!

Clean sheets is a team stat, of course. The players this season and last are the same, barring forward players. Therefore, the only variables that is changing is the CBs. Thomas and Kitching have played mostly as a pair and they have the most clean sheets. There have been enough games that...

Do the research man. Lati and Binks have played over 30 games at CB and you can count their CS on one hand individually.

You’re a professional nit picker. Both Oxford and Bristol City are Championship teams and both teams rotated their teams slightly. It’s not Barrow or Bromley. Besides, there’s enough data from this season and last to establish that we keep more clean sheets with Thomas and Kitching at CB...

My lineup will be: Dovin MVE Thomas Kitching Binks Eccles Sheaf Torp Sakamoto Simms EMC We need to be winning this game and fancy us for a 2-0 win!

Kitching has played 7 games and we’ve kept 3 clean sheets. Binks has kept 1 clean sheet and Lati has kept 2 at CB in 17 games. We’ve conceded 25 goals which is joint 18th in the league. That is clearly a priority to address immediately. Comparatively, we’ve scored the 7th most goals in the league.

Our two best CBs are Kitching and Thomas by quite a distance and FL and his coaching staff need to pick up on this. Let’s delve into some clean sheet data: Latibeaudiere has only kept 4 clean sheets as a CB in 31 matches (CB only). Binks too, 3 clean sheets in 37. Compared with: Thomas - 17...

Doug King made clear that he is happy with Dr Roberts impact in her role and has defended her publicly. Pertinently, what he also articulated at the conference, is that he wasn’t happy MR broke up the relationship with AV, felt that Robins would get exposed without AV/suitable replacement and...