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Using the Rotherham game as an example, Dasilva delivered 4 crosses into dangerous areas that we won first contact on: 54: Simms’ headed chance 85: Sakamoto glanced wide 95: O’Hare glanced wide 96: Thomas put header wide I don’t think his delivery has been particularly lacking in many games.

One other thing actually. Plenty saying Eccles is too samey to Sheaf. I don’t think that’s the case at all. Eccles is playing far too advanced for large portions of games and we’re losing structure and control due to this. He seems to be underlapping MvE a lot in games which means reduced...

Play the box midfield. Work the ball into the lone striker’s feet far earlier in the move and allow him to pop off to one of the AMs. Wing backs higher up and attacking the space behind opposition full backs. We need to be more direct. The amount of times a ball was on to Godden or Simms last...

I’ll qualify this by saying I haven’t listened to it (yet), but 80%+ of fans are absolutely clueless and make Andy Turner look like Jeremy Paxman.

Keep the back 3/back 5/however you wish to define it. What I want to see, though, is the ball played between opposition CB and FB for either MvE or Dasilva to run onto. Should do it from far deeper before the opposition defence has time to set.

Been mulling this over (not the Q of re-appointing him, more the general scenario). Badlan came in with a track record of focussing on European scouting for a team at a higher level. We now have Dean Austin (who seems to have spent just 4 of the last 20 years focussing on recruitment!) and Jamie...

One could argue we’ve never had the squad/resources to. Having gone out and spent big on strikers as well as bringing in far more attacking wing-backs, that no longer applies.

But his job is to make the difficult decisions. Shouldn’t give a toss about criticism - the basis of a 1-up-top system being inherently defensive is bollocks. My fear is we’ve backed ourselves into a corner of playing 2 up top having spent half the summer budget on 2 strikers. Hindsight and all...

It runs deeper than that. We don’t play in a way that delivers many goals. To me, it’s the system, not the players.

Something which accentuates how naff the recruitment was over the summer is that he’s by far our best option in AM at present (I’ll exclude Sakamoto as the sample size is far too small to make a judgement).

Think this is it. We seem to have changed playing style to something more ‘attractive’ but not thought about whether that works for the players at our disposal. Countless times we slow-play it so much to the edge of the opposition box that it’d take a miracle pass for Simms/Godden/Wright to have...

Why is Thomas getting such bad marks? Thought he was ok today.

I’m only getting you back at your own game. I too think he works in both.

Ready to accept he’s not a wing back?

What, you mean the pulling of HS2 was to fund tax cuts? Colour me shocked.

Probably some flat earthers on here as well. So I’ve decided you’re one.

Learnt from the best, sunshine.

Aren’t you the chemtrails fella?

Correct. The fact this is backward looking, though, negates the immediate effect of what we’ve seen the last week. This is the argument politicians need to use for the Net Zero drive, it’d be far more effective as a means of convincing people to opt for renewables and goods powered by renewables.

Inflation still stubborn primarily due to rising petrol prices. Cheers OPEC.