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Robins had final sign off on all signings and supposedly interviews each prospective signing too. By that logic, if you believe we should sack Dr Roberts, you must support sacking Robins.

This is irrational Malc. Perhaps look at coaches and players involved in the match on the day versus a performance director. Unless, you believe it was her fault for the late goals we’ve scored and won the game? Does she deserve credit for the wins v Luton, Oxford and the draw v Sunderland and...

Yes and her involvement is phycological evaluations and reviewing fitness levels of prospective signings, what’s so insidious about this?

10 goals in the last stages of the match this season speaks for itself. You know better than that Malc, yesterday we were outthought and outplayed. No, head coach/manager and assistant manager/assistant head coach have the same basic functions. At the conference King confirmed he wanted Robins...

We spent close to £45m under Robins. We’re already in the boom and bust cycle!

By that definition, any manager is a risk. Even hiring a manager who wanted to bring in no staff even though King thought there was a lack of elite coaches in the setup.

I really don’t understand why people are getting hung up on the ‘Performance’ part of her job title. People are just frustrated at things and wanted to point fingers at anyone but Robins. In no particular order, it was AV being pushed out, the flat coaching setup, then Dr Roberts and DK...

Did you listen to King at the conference? Her remit is not related to the on-pitch performance. It’s all about the team’s strength and conditioning, nutrition, sleep hygiene and so on. Apparently the team is as ‘fit’ as it’s ever been and performing higher on these metrics than before she came...

Nope. See the whole reaction to sacking Robins and the indignation of not having lined someone up simultaneously. On this forum, you see people commented on things they have no clue about. 2.5 weeks to conduct interviews and hire a manager is a rapid turnaround in just about any other industry...

Works for both parties in my view in terms of flexibility. 2 years works for Lampard if he does well at the club and keep his options open to progress. In parallel, it won’t be as expensive for King if this does not go well and needs to sack FL. FL and his staff won’t be cheap so the relatively...

Robins had a lot of control and imo, the manager needs to have as much ‘power’ as possible in terms of recruitment (i.e. sign-off) and coaching structure. This logic applied to Robins as much as his successor. Give Lampard everything he needs to have success in the role and then there’s no...

Exactly, the xG for that match was 1.63 to 0.73 which suggests at face value we were by far the better team. We missed 1 ‘massive’ chance, 1 ‘great’ and 2-3 ‘good’ chances. In reality, we chasing the game and couldn’t breakdown a resolute Swansea team. See here...

True, it’s a weak position us and think Binks or Kitching should have a go there until an adequate replacement is signed.

Agreed. At least at the top end of the Championship and above. We’ve got a good squad, he’ll have all the resources needed to succeed and as a club we represent a great opportunity for him to restore his reputation as a good young manager.

I don’t think it’s a write off yet. Looking at the turnaround we had in 22/23 and even Cooper taking Forest from bottom to 3rd the year before… a good run of form will correct course. Get January back and we could be ‘so back’.

In fairness, our xG per shot is above average. The issue is that people are taking the stats at face value. Game state is an important factor that tends to go unnoticed here. We spend so much time in losing positions we’re going to trend towards more possession, more shot taking and conversely...

Why would last night have given him a kick? 😂 Negotiations don’t just happen 😭

Looking at the drop off in certain individuals really points the finger at the coaching of the players. The organisation is just not there defensively and in attack there are times we just look devoid of ideas. It’s something that not many Cov fans would consider, but it’s possible that sacking...

Agree with that. Despite doing well on xG metrics, the eye test shows that we struggle to break teams down. It is a bit slow and we rarely take advantage of the pace we have in the team with Wright, EMC, Sakamoto, Bassette, BTA and even Simms to be fair. It’s all a bit slow and predictable...

We need to look at why he isn’t in the same vain of form as last season? We’re just not playing to the strengths of any of our strikers. BTA and Simms haven’t become shit players overnight. As for Bassette, he was naive last night but because he’s energetic, his inefficiency is let off the...