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I think we have a pro which actually can be a con. We have that much attacking choice that it’s stopping Robins sticking to who he thinks is best. Of course the biggest con is our ridiculously naive defending.

He always lets himself down with 4-5 absolutely terrible short passes. He’ll never be a top level midfielder until that’s ironed out.

No he’s not. Second half he made the right decisions. Not his fault we can’t find the net from 3 yards or make a 5 yard pass.

Still here

Don’t think anyone was hiding. Lacking intensity and know how - maybe.

To be fair he did link play quite well a few times and made some intelligent lay offs. But overall I agree - running about a lot is good but doesn’t generally win games at this level. Wright is the class forward - just a shame he’s away so much which makes selection difficult.

We’ll stay up very very comfortably. It’s not even a debate.

Maybe that is a point too high. A real quality centre forward scores that header first half. His style is laconic but that doesn’t go down well when the goals aren’t flowing.

He didn’t go missing. We made a very obvious change to get it forward quicker second half so that our non footballing centre halves didn’t have as much ball and we could pressurise theirs. That took him out of the game a bit.

He was on the touch line heading balls. He was just as passionate at the end. He’s no Di Canio but we shouldn’t confuse that with a lack of passion.

Thought Robins got the system right today. But was let down by Van Ewijk in particular - which is rare. All three of their centre halves you’d describe as bang average - but we desperately need some defensive nous of that ilk.

Just saying what I saw.

Second half we were clearly the better team. We missed 4-5 good chances.

Singing one Mark Robins twenty minutes earlier.

7’s all round apart from Van Ewijk 5 and Dasilva and Lati 8.

Here we go. Robins set the team up for today and we should have won. Second half really looked like they were playing for him. Just needed one to go in. Time to get behind Robins. It will turn.

Largely eventless first half. Second half we were much better when we pressurised their back three. Wrights goal was fine. We’re far too easy to score against but we had more than enough chances to win - we just weren’t clinical enough. Some of our short range passing, especially Sheaf and...

Decent half. Just missing a bit of composure final third. Dasilva has been excellent. Bassette is an absolute pest and I’m still trying to work out why Dovin was ever dropped.

How long are we going to persist with this playing out from the back.

Be interesting to see how this goes. Maybe Bassetes energy rubs off on Simms. A clean sheet would be nice