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He’s from Dartford, which is big West ‘aaaam territory

Thought Latibeaudiere generally played well at the beginning of the season. In a team that was struggling to find its feet in the 3ATB formation he got comfortable more quickly than most of the new signings iirc.

I’m confused, are we looking for arguments, or refusing to debate? The argument that perceptions of Sheaf’s importance are over-inflated are at least somewhat challenged by the fact that his teammates also see him as the squad’s best player, aren’t they? Or are the players guilty of making the...

His teammates have, by majority, made the case that he’s been the best player in the squad this season - what do you say to them?

The laughing emoji here, “essentially being used as a diversion to avoid making any consessions or sensible debate on the points I've made”

If we do invest a sizeable sum in a keeper it will have to come at the cost of strengthening elsewhere - I don’t think we have a big war chest this summer, we will have to pick and choose.

Well as I said, it’s very easy to quantify how many more points we would have without Collins’ mistakes - it’s a lot harder to quantify the direct impact of say, Latibeaudiere and Dasilva starting ~80 games. But there’s zero doubt there was an impact, and I’m willing to bet over the course of...

I haven’t seen the Ferguson quote - when/where did he say it? Pretty awful - maybe even as bad as he gets his entire first team career - but still nowhere near as bad as people are suggesting.

Can we really attribute 15 points solely to Collins, even over this insanely bad run? As horrible as he’s been the past few weeks, he still isn’t even close to gifting the opposition a goal every game.

For every outfield position you’ve mentioned, I would choose to invest £2 million in even a backup option over a keeper every time. If you can replace the likes of Latibeaudiere, Dasilva, Tavares, Kelly etc with a Torp/Saka/Thomas-quality player, just imagine how much better the side looks over...

How much would they cost, and which new signing from the squad do you drop to find the money for them?

I think it’s very easy to make that argument, because anyone in the stadium can spot an obvious error from a keeper. So it stands to reason that better keeper = better results, that’s an obvious observation (and one I agree with). My problem is in making it a transfer priority, given that: a)...

The fact there are two spelling mistakes in the first two paragraphs of this job posting is driving me absolutely mental.

Him winning Player’s Player Award should end any debate as to whether he’s been valuable to us this season.

Quite obviously, yes. How often is the best team in the division the one with the best keeper? Put it another way - we just finished 9th with a keeper who most seem to think is barely L1 standard. How did we manage that?

They spent millions on a goalkeeper

Global media hammered us? Did the New York Times write a scathing op-ed on Jonathan Panzo?

If we don’t invest in our threadbare defence that’s been leaking goals for months, it doesn’t matter who we have in goal. Signing more and more keepers doesn’t improve the team if they have to watch Joel Latibeaudiere play 40 times a season in four different positions.

We had two CBs and three keepers available today. And one of the CBs is leaving!

From Liam Kelly after the game: The gaslighting powers of Mark Robins, ladies and gentlemen!