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Yes I am shaking with rage here How come you and everyone’s favourite chemtrails expert each came out with the same rumour about the backroom staff within five minutes of each other last night? Just a coincidence, or are you both dancing to the same fiddle?

Personally I’d rather have Latibeaudiere here next season than Kelly, for example. He’s a very useful player to have as a way to plug holes where needed, which is not to say I want him starting every week in a different part of the pitch.

You say this every time but you know full well you’re going to keep doing it, spare us the fake martyr stuff

We did! But they’re either injured (Sheaf), loaned out (Burroughs) or cast out (McFadzean).

A jack of all trades is usually pretty useful to have in a squad. Latibeaudiere is a perfectly capable utility player who can fill in or be subbed on when needed, but I’m not surprised to see him struggle when he’s being asked to start in a different key position in every game. He’s started at...

There’s zero upside for the team if MR’s plans are leaked early, only downside. It’s fun for us on here to get inside info and clearly you enjoy being the one to share it, but you can’t try and pretend it’s of no consequence.

He had a choice about all of it. He should have given players the night off entirely. For whatever reason he felt compelled to start a side that was arguably stronger than the one we started with tonight - people on here were delighted.

Well apparently playing kids was always asking for trouble and Maidstone would have punished us like they punished Ipswich - maybe Robins felt like he didn’t have a choice? It was a golden chance to rest players and we willingly turned it down so we could run up the score against a sixth tier...

Shipping out McFadzean made sense if we were making a full pivot to the 433, but we didn’t sign any other players who could play in that formation, and now we’re back to the system where McFadzean looks pretty good. I don’t see what we gained by moving him on.

Playing a team that strong against Maidstone when the fixtures are piling up like this was ridiculous. Robins shouldn’t have let King, Ipswich or the bedwetters on here convince him that resting key players would be a mistake against such poor opposition.

All things being equal I think you’d rather have started Bidwell, Kitching and Wright in tonight’s game rather than on Monday night, but apparently it was imperative that we play full strength against Maidstone no matter what.

When I show the wife my new plans for remodelling the downstairs:

Well Palmer has started out wide recently to enable us to keep playing 433 and we literally don’t have any natural wide players to replace Sakamoto, so maybe Robins figured it may as well just be O’Hare out wide too? But yeah, it could well just be the box.

I’m not sure, but as I mentioned above, whichever formation it is I think we’re starting Dasilva to offer us some width in a starting XI without any natural wide players. But I’d be very worried about Dasilva getting enough defensive protection if we’re playing with a back 4.

So Palmer and O’Hare on either flank? Not a lot of natural width in that first XI, except from MVE and Dasilva.

Well if we were going to insist on starting Bidwell against Maidstone then it was always more likely he would have to start tonight. Playing 3ATB, where Robins seems to prefer Dasilva, is another factor too.

Ironically I thought he performed better for us in L1 and sometimes even in the Championship than he did in L2. There were times in that first season where he looked like one of the worst strikers we’ve ever had.

They did in my experience. Maybe she just wasn’t that into you?

There is no comparison to be made. It makes the notion that Godden is somehow frustrated with City fans’ admiration for Biamou even more ludicrous.