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My gut feeling following Sheaf’s brief 20m cameo, is that both Torp and Eccles will play better alongside him. On the games so far, midfield looks like our weakest position without Sheaf. Which is a potential concern because it would mean neither our 2nd or 3rd choice CM (at the time of writing)...

Tottenham calling anyone or anything ‘banter’ is rich. They are the original banter club. The football community will loving it if we dump them out of the cup.

He’s a good player but his end product can be frustrating. That ‘cross’ at 1-0 that went to no one should have been a shot - a great example of overplaying!

No, I only got into away games after I moved away from Coventry a year ago, probably because I got used to travelling nearly 2 hours for every home game. Before then, I’d typically do a handful away days in a season.

On the flip side, we’re more likely to get a draw against a European team. Which is what I’d be wanting. For my closest game and to tick off a ground I haven’t done, Wycombe away please!

FA Cup, would love a random away trip to Barrow or Carlisle or something. Midweek though?! Terrible draw! I spared a thought for those Derby fans who travelled that far.

In fairness, it’s quite a flight from Bangkok for you! 😂 Don’t get me wrong, I’m trying to build my points so these games become important. What I’m trying to is that if people really want to go, the cost is only a secondary concern. Separate point now: These cup games are the most efficient...

I understand that there's an economic argument, but if this fixture was Leicester or Birmingham in the cup, people would find the £30 for a ticket if it was home or away. There's next to zero interest in the EFL Cup and as well as being an inconvenience being midweek, as it's early in the...

We don’t need a holding midfielder when we have Sheaf, we need a someone who can operate between being a box-to-box midfielder as well as a deep-lying midfielder. Watching Torp today, he immediately looked more lively alongside Sheaf and I assume the same would be true for Eccles. Which is a...

Not 100% on JDS but Kitching absolutely. Thomas can consider himself unlucky because for all his bad distribution v Stoke, defensively I thought he was better than Binks. Binks is our youngest defender and feel he could develop into a top Championship / decent Prem CB. Atm, I feel like he’s our...

Unless it’s a big draw, I don’t think anyone cares about that competition until the latter stages. The games being midweek and so early in the season doesn’t help because If they kept it, they should trim it down to Championship and Premiership clubs because the L1 & L2 have the JPT (whatever...

I know the contexts are different and it’s not a 100% fair comparison… it is interesting that we kept 2 clean sheets with Thomas and Kitching in the same fixtures Lati and Binks conceded 3 goals. It must certainly be food for thought with Robins.

From an attendance POV, drawing Oxford at home was possibly the worst possible draw. Complete lack of interest in the fixture because we’d just played. Oxford away I reckon would’ve been a good crowd, although I was shocked at how bad Oxford’s away following was tonight. Personally, I’d scrap...

We look twice the team with Sheaf on the pitch. Another player on that level and we’re strong contenders. EMC looks a lot more involved now and even Torp has been a bit better too.

I don't get the hate for this person, if someone wants to lift rumours from this forum and copy & paste it on Twitter, who cares? My annoyance with this tweet is that is meaningless and stating the obvious. I have no intel at the club (even if I did, wouldn't spout it on forums or social...

In fairness with Torp, his induction to English football could’ve been better. January was his preseason and he kept getting injured. Fast forward to this preseason, again, gets injured for most of it. Not ideal but doesn’t excuse the disappointing start. Either way, last season I felt you...

His position is CM so he hasn’t got that excuse. This idea that he’s an AM is a projection of where fans think he should be playing. Even the AV quote said ‘he’s between a 6 and an 8’. For the last 3-4 seasons, he’s played CM/DM more than AM. He needs to start performing and it hasn’t been a...

The numbers don’t like on this one and come the end of the season I’m certain we won’t renew his contract. Agreed on that. Getting that next number 6/8 type player will really lift our team and I just can’t see us not getting someone in before the window. The midfield has looked below par in...

The point here is that we haven’t recruited in midfield - that was my point last year. In 22/23 we had Hamer and all his goal contributions and we’ve still not replaced that. So far, I’be not been impressed with Allen, Torp or Eccles. We’ve looked open in every game and frankly, we need more...

No, they obviously do but I’m sceptical that he’ll maintain his form. In fact, I don’t think we’ll renew his contract this summer.