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The first mistake anyone can make is to put their trust or faith in any politician. The whole Labour ‘donor-gate’ wouldn’t be as big issue had they not played ‘holier than thou’ in Opposition. Specifically, just how hard Starmer went in on Boris Johnson for ‘wallpaper-gate’.

It’s been a pretty shambolic start for the government to be honest. Even Rachel Reeves has had to dial down some of the rhetoric about the state of public finances because it’s almost talking the country into recession by decreasing confidence. Sir John Curtice (an expert pollster) has already...

It’s a nice take on the away shirt and seeing a lot of the rainbow clobber being worn to games so seems to be popular and a money spinner. On the design, not really a fan of the multicoloured kits - the last one I bought (but barely worn) was the 3rd kit from 2022/23. Commercially, the club...

I have my own opinion that we’re better playing direct, counterattacking football but again, we’re 6 games in. When we hit some good form I genuinely get the impression we’ll go for decent run. It’s a cliche for a reason, but momentum is so important in this league. We’re also not the only...

If we’re fighting relegation in March/April, then fair enough, the mob will be right… we’ve had 9 games this season and our record is 3-2-4. It’s not quite a disaster yet. The league is obviously not going to plan, 9 points is playoff pace after 6 games which is turning two draws into 2 wins.

I’ve been happy with Dovin, personally. Likewise, neutral fans have been complementary of him. Agree that there is something lacking in defence and midfield.

It was a fluid formation, MVE and Lati were shifting around. Numerous times our shape had 3 CBs and a flat 5 when defending resembling a 3-4-2-1. There were times where MVE was higher up the pitch than a typical RWB and it resembled a 4-2-3-1. It can be both simultaneously. Formations are...

A few people could do with taking back some comments on this thread! 😂

We actually don’t know apart from the things we see on the pitch. Even so, in any team environment, morale fluctuates based on results, all it takes is a momentum shift and things will be ok. The lack of any senior players is concerning, particularly in difficult times like this. This is where...

I like that about Kitching too, after our dip in form in March/April, Binks probably deserved a run in the side. The average goals conceded with him and/or Lati playing CB should worry anyone. With the team lacking in leaders on the field, you’d think ex-Barnsley captain Kitching would be more...

A part of me thinks that Binks is in the team for his range of passing because we’re missing that in midfield. His left to right diagonals are really good. Defensively, I do think he’s soft compared to Kitching and the amount of goals we concede with him in the team atm is concerning. Against...

Robins will figure out if that’s what he actually needs. 2 months into a season you’re not going to know for sure. Any neutral observer would feel that it is ridiculous to even have this conversation this early into a season in relation to a manager who’s been head and shoulders above the rest...

It’s 6 league games into the campaign, it’s too early to judge on anything. The underlying data metrics show we’ve played better than our results suggest. A lot of the we have spent is on players who will develop too, players like Rudoni and EMC probably just need a good run in the side and hit...

I said to my group that after that bad performance, watch us get a result at Leeds. Safe to say that was treated with a lot of scepticism. We just tend to play better against better teams because we’re not as open. We’re actually trying to be closed defensively and move the ball directly in...

We’ve spent a lot of money but given the scale of money required to challenge at the top of the table, it’s not that much. Especially when you look at the state of the team in 2022/23. The team after the loans, Vik and Hamer leaving would have struggled in the Championship.

Equally, you have to give things time and 6 games, it isn’t enough time to figure out if things need to change. Looking back to AV’s first season, would anyone have looked at our early performances and felt we’d be playing for Premiership football 5-6 season later. The circumstances are...

Funnily enough, they do measure xG on game state (i.e. when winning or losing) too now. Looking at the Man City v Arsenal match, Man City’s xG was only 1.5-1.6 in the 2nd half v Arsenal. That’s accumulated because they had 29 shots in that half. Back to that Norwich game, we didn’t fashion a...

Gyokeres wasn’t even playing for Swansea when we picked him up. I’d sure people would have preferred us to sign a top end L1 striker at the time we signed Vik. COH’s experience before us was Carlisle in L2, Sheaf on the back of L1 performances with DRFC. Hamer was signed from a lower end...

Luton are only 2 points better off than us and their team should be better than ours. The knives shouldn’t be put for Robins at this stage of the season, it’s silly talk. It’s a different conversation if we’re 20 games in and around 19th still. For arguments sake, if we win the next 3 games...

He did say that about the midfield last season, numerous times and particularly raised it against quality opposition. Going into the season, the squad felt incomplete and nothing changed as the window closed. Defensively, and in midfield we look weak. I feel like we’ve allowed expectations to...