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Gordon Banks would look poor behind our back four.

Surely Kitching, Dovin and Bidwell have to start.

Cowardice. Wow. Unfounded, unknowable and inflammatory. He’s just not comfortable on the ball. And we keep giving it to him………

A fair bit of this thread is quite bizarre because a) we have general criticism of lots of players followed by b) a fair few of them will be targeted and “be off”.

Ridiculous thread really. Why do we need to like any of them? I just want them to get results on the pitch. That is the only relationship fans have with players. And by the way if they string 2-3 wins together they’ll all be favourites again.

I’d say it’s lack of aggression rather than arrogance. I know it’s a non contact sport in essence now but we don’t have any aggression. From the back you’d say Binks, mve, Dasilva, Eccles, Sheaf, Wright, Simms, mason-Clark, Saka are all very laid back players. It’s too many.

We have no idea what Lampard thinks of Austin. That will be the key. Our recent recruitment has been odd. I was amazed we pursued Binks and personality wise I’d have gone for different to Dovin. But the real issue is we haven’t recruited based on a firm game plan. The squad is very unbalanced...

I think we will be fine in that we’ll be mid table. There is no balance to the squad but we have enough quality in it. We need to add personality as much as positions. Need a couple of nasty individuals in the footballing sense.

I don’t think we’ll be relegation fodder. When Wright comes back we have enough firepower. But we really need to spend the next two windows reconstructing our defence. Binks, Dasilva and Thomas don’t have clean sheets in them. And we need to just play Dovin.

It has to be Dovin. He has potential the others don’t.

Well they need to start by targeting two centre halves and a left back. And we desperately miss an Alan Browne “type”.

We’ve created a laid back squad. There’s very little aggression. It’s why Bassette stands out even though he’s really just running about. Need some “dog” in Jan

Defence = hapless Midfield = average Forwards = busy but ineffective We need some aggression and old fashioned nous.

Aggression is what we really lack. The defence as a unit is incredibly bad.

We simply won’t keep many clean sheets with Binks and Dasilva in.

Looks ok. Four at the back - excellent

It’s one of the things that worries me at the moment. Can’t think of a home grown player seriously pushing for a starting place since Eccles. Andrews and Dausch thereabouts but it’s a real dearth of talent at the moment.

Just before the weekend game? Just pure bad planning.

He is and always will be a bit part luxury player.

I see this through the lens of a new car scenario hopefully. The brand new model was put on the road by Derby getting rid of those initial gremlins. Everton and Chelsea have increased reliability and handling and now we take ownership of a reliable, smooth running machine.