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Frankly, they’re amateurs with amateurish opinions. Management on FM24 or managing the Dog & Duck 2s is not real experience! 😂

Our 2 best chances v Stoke were in the second half, Binks and Simms, both from corners: https://www.sportinglife.com/football/live/190305/stoke-city-vs-coventry-city/xg-shot-maps As for Swansea, you’re right - I thought both Bassette and Rudoni’s big chances were from set pieces.

Which is a result of slow and risk averse build up play. We seen what happened with England this summer, despite having world class talent available.

Again, he and the rest of the forwards are being scapegoated when the problem is so obviously our lack of chance creation. Of all the players taking the easy options, it isn’t the likes of Simms, Wright, BTA and so on. Watford away is the only game we can point at the forwards failing to deliver...

It’s convenient scapegoating when we’ve have had several games. BTA played upfront for most of Saturday and we still lost, despite the ‘effort’ he put in. EMC and Wright have missed a few chances, Watford (A) springs to mind because we should’ve been out of sight before the equaliser/should’ve...

Simms doesn’t necessarily work on confidence or high energy running - he’s a convenient scapegoat when things aren’t going well. People instinctively like BTA and Bassette because they run more but their output is less than Simms. If we’re only going to create 0.6 xG a game at 0.05 xG per shot...

Wright and Simms scored more goals than Gyokeres and Godden did in 22/23. We’ve added BTA and Bassette to the mix so our forward department is overall in a stronger position. Vik has become an elite striker (or thereabouts) in his own right. Defence is a difficult one to judge, I’m convinced an...

Exactly, which is why my ire is directed at our midfield. We had about 0.6 xG on Saturday over 13 shots so we didn’t create any big chances at all. This was a trend last season against the top half teams, the Norwiches, WBAs, PNEs and Hull’s of the league.

Agreed with both of you, which is why I was in favour of signing him. I just understand why DK would push back to Robins that the team should be good enough to perform at a certain level until a big money signing can be made. Leadership gives intangible benefits to a group of players, stuff...

The only option on the bench for CM was Lati or Torp. Recruitment wise, CM has to be the top priority because it’s the only area on the pitch that is actually worse than when DK took over the club. Until that area is addressed, a new manager will only have so much impact in the short term.

9 games in, having 2 polls on this topic in such a short period of time is ridiculous. Robins in, he has enough credit in the bank to lead us for the whole season providing that we’re not seriously in danger of relegation.

That’s not true though is it? The money was fronted for Stamenic in a deal worth £4 million or so and that deal cost us signing Alan Browne because he felt jilted. What good would a stopgap signing like Matty James do for us? By the time he’s 100% match fit, it’ll probably be close to January...

That would be valid if he didn’t have good depth at ST. The front 3 on Saturday after EMC came off had a combined total of 46 goals last season. The primary issue we have is that we did not fashion one clear cut chance for one of them. It’s not so bad calling out strikers if they’re missing big...

He shares similarities with Gyokeres and has a lot of energy on the ball with appeals to many fans. He played v well against Spurs but in his league appearances, has looked raw and not quite ready to be a regular starter. It’s a bit much when you have people claiming he should be starting ahead...

If the choice was between a 2nd booking and conceding a stoppage time goal to lose the game… it’s an absolute non-starter, you take the red card.

We’ve spent all this money, but haven’t actually addressed the essential ‘needs’ for this squad. Signing Bassette for 2.5m was great. But was signing a striker to be 4th choice a good idea when we missed out on our top 2 CM and CB targets? The midfield has actually had little investment in it...

It’s early days, MR is probably putting the young GK in his place to get him to work harder. On the Collins point, it seems that he is on too much money to easily shift and apparently v distant from the first teamers personally. Wilson was going into this season firmly as the number 2 option.

I think they lack guidance, all of our CBs are 25 and under. McFadz finished the season strongly last season and moved into a player-coaching role. I recall Kitching and/or Thomas talking about their relationship with McFadz early last season and how he guided them in training and so on -...

I wasn’t given specifics (nor did I ask) but was told he doesn’t take training as seriously as the others and as a principle, MR expects players to train as they play. Seems odd to me too but considering he hadn’t made any mistakes, it passes the sense check. The same person told me at...

I don’t believe Dovin has been dropped bc he’s seen as inferior to Wilson - he’s done nothing wrong in the games he’s played. I’m not claiming to be ITK, but a friend of mine was supposedly told that Dovin was dropped for having a poor attitude. After the matter, I was shown a text to him dated...