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Same team v Boro to start v Derby unless SIMM’s foot has healed.

Defensively, definitely. In attack, it was a more fluid shape where Rudoni and MVE were providing the width - like a 3-5-2 shape. It’s a tactical triumph from Robins and his staff.

Eccles really thrived in his role today, it was quite interesting to see us defend in a 4-4-2 shape at times and Eccles take up something close to a RM. Great cross for the Thomas’ goal, supported MVE defensively and brilliantly broke forward for his goal. More of that please! Make no mistake...

Before the Playoff semi-final 2nd leg, the last time we won away at Boro was 1993. We’ve now won 3 on the bounce and seem to be kryptonite for Carrick.

It’s only the armchair managers who seem to disregard xG. All xG is a barometer of performance. When people were calling for Robins to be sacked, the underlying data showed our performances weren’t as bad as the league table showed. The last 2 performances have shown that and you take Haji’s...

32 goal contributions from the wing is not a risky deal. We’re writing off a player who just needs to find his feet, the same was said about Wright and Simms this time last year. They turned good and I believe EMC will too.

It’s 0 this year and last year it was 2 clean sheets in all competitions.

If only the OBR agreed…

Yeah, but that isn’t happening is it? The government isn’t redistributing wealth directly from ‘x’ group to ‘y’. The resources are distributed via public services. So it relies on the tax revenues raised by the government. Now, the assumption is that tax increases lead to more tax receipts...

Thomas and Kitching looked like a top end championship partnership when we first played 4-2-3-1 last season. The drop in clean sheets and increase in ‘unforced’ goals conceded seemed to coincide with McFadz leaving. It could be a coincidence and of course correlation does not equal causation. My...

Binks looks a lot better in a back 3 versus a back 4.

No, you made the claim that putting money into the public sector grows the private sector. If that was true, with government spending and the number of public sector workers at its highest… where is the growth? Why is our tax burden the highest it’s been? The current environment undermines that...

Labour promised 'growth' to be on the top of their agenda. How is that being achieved exactly? I'm not a Labour voter myself, but if I was, I’d be disappointed as many Labour voters are saying to pollsters. How does that work out in your mind? The public sector has been growing significantly...

Robins felt he had a decent job. If we weren’t 2-0 down he wouldn’t have got subbed.

Well, the OBR has worked out low income migration (legal migrant who earns 50% less than median salary) will cost the taxpayer £150,000 by retirement age (calculated from age 25). As you mention, Labour isn’t interested in that. The ‘smash the gangs’ rhetoric remains rhetoric and meanwhile, the...

In any case, I don’t understand how people think the government will magically make inequality disappear by investing in the public services. To use a rather simplistic view of economics, you raise living standard by growing the size of the pie rather than divvying up more equally. The same...

Robins pointed out the experience of when we got battered 5-0 against Luton away and how they targeted that gap between Maatsen and the LCB (probably JCS). Kitching looked alright at LWB. It’s probably given us food for thought should we choose to play 4-2-3-1 again.

The real life consequences of such policies, however, is important and worthy of discussions. In which, the chancellor has conceded there will be an impact on private sector workers. The Resolution Foundation has predicted two decades of zero wage growth. This was supposed to be a pro-growth...

If you think any tax that isn’t VAT, IC or NI does not impact ‘working people’, good for you. Businesses aren’t stupid, they account for these taxes by either reducing pay for workers, freezing hires, relocating or passing increased costs to consumers. Therefore, if you raise a new tax levy...

Do you think it was an honest way to present their taxation policies to the electorate? I, no. Which they proceeded to increase NI. In theory, it is a tax raise on employers. In practice, and Rachel Reeves herself has admitted, will reduce private sector pay rises. Therefore, it’s essentially...