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Well, that was a bit of a disaster. Three, maybe four injuries (hoping Clayton was a precaution), no points and no shots on target. Hope Khan isn't too bad.

Erm... MoM anyone?

Fucking shit, not voting for any of the cunts

Can we vote for Jonny Williams?

This is the closest I've got to adding that option, to be honest.

This. They can all fuck right off.

Three did OK for me today - Clayton, Brennan and FBT.

Clayton snuffed most stuff out early. He made one mistake in the first half, but apart from that, was very good. Brennan seem to be in the right position to complement Clayton and made a very good block from a shot in the first half. FBT was our attacking threat on the left.

Out of the 3, the fact we fell apart when he went off, means I'd give it to Clayton. (But that could be that they could push up more from the back as Adeloye got nowhere near the ball and didnt track back like Wakeling).

Clayton then FBT for me.

I went for FBT because he played in two positions.  Granted only at a 6/7 level in both, but he was the only threat on the left going forward, which is a big ask for a centre half.

Somebody voted for Ellis, nuff said 🤔🤦‍♀️

Somebody voted for Reed, nuff said

Three. 🤣

The agreed "protest votes" when we've had a stinker tend to be whoever came on as a substitute for the shortest period of time and whoever people have been most scathing about (whether that's to wind them up or as a sort of reflex defensive thing, who knows).

Standout thing of recent times for me is 9 votes in 15 games for Luke Jephcott. For our big end of window signing, he's been an absolute bust. I don't think it's really his fault, stylistically we've not played to his strengths, but he's not made anything like the impact we'd hoped.

I don’t know the money or potential money involved but don’t think we are getting anything out of him we wouldn’t be getting out of Josh Davison (if we’d signed him obviously)

Perhaps on hindsight we should have tried to sign him?

…and on the subject of last seasons #9s is Simpson fit yet?

i was a fan of davison. missed chances but also scored/created chances.

The problem with jephcott is that he isn't scoring or missing chances. he isn't getting any chances. is that him (previous goal scoring record suggests may be not) or is that the team/set up

Probably a fair bit to do with the way the team set up but I feel Davison would still be putting himself about a lot more.

Whilst I don’t think it would make a massive positive difference to our attacking play. I think defenders would have more to deal with Davison even if it was just his work rate and pressure.

I mean, yes Jephcott isn’t getting chances and yes that’s majorly on the team but if he isn’t getting chances he literally adds no value. Davison would at least add work rate.

Davison is not the player you want as your primary striker if chasing top 3.  He would improve us if we were to have him, says a lot.

we did have the same issue with simpson though. there was a huge period of games when we didnt have good results and he didnt touch the ball. i dont feel like swindon has been good for strikers for years now. they can be very isolated.

i think mckirdy was the exception because we was buzzing round the whole of the front line and forcing mistakes and chances. not a true striker/ no.9

By years you mean a couple, right?  Doyle.

Fair but feel Simpson (on what I’ve seen) had more to his game than Jephcott.

Like Simpson could bully defenders, he could run past them & he could hit them from distance. Thus far Jephcott really feels like a ‘goals inside the penalty area on a plate’ or nothing striker.

I feel if you were a defender up against Simpson (or even Davison) you’d have to do something where as if you’re a defender up against Jephcott (and we aren’t creating) you wouldn’t have to do much.

Jephcott may look a good player if he had someone like Simpson next to him.  May also make Hutton more effective.

i guess so. genuinely feels like a lifetime! covid era.

I think if you take the strikers in this discussion (Simpson, Davison, Jephcott) + Wakeling I think all the combinations look pretty handy apart from Jephcott & Wakeling - ironically the one we actually have…

Agree, we have an incoherent squad. Jephcott and Wakeling are similar, both look like they'd rather play with a bigger man next to eachother. Hutton is there to get crosses in to that player, who isn't in the squad (presumably Adeloye was meant to be this figure, but even then, one punt for a key position?). As it is, FBT is by some distance our best attacking header of a ball.

So, we are all agreed we should go with FBT up front next game?

would be an added bonus if some defenders popped up with some goals and get the team ticking

For once it looks like I picked the 'correct' MOTM. Went for Blake-Tracy. Always wanted the ball and got into dangerous positions down the left. Worked hard for no reward.

Fuck the lot of em. Shite.