honeybradger

Time to promote Hutchinson or Otchere? Or give Mukasa a run at striker?

He's our player, just on a 6 month contract.

In Wout Faes's last 2 games for the club we were down 3-0 at half time. It should have been obvious to Faes why he was dropped but somehow it never is. He was playing like sh*t. As bad as Nelson and Okoli have been they are not as bad as Faes.

Faes has had that realisation multiple times sadly. Must have been over a year ago when his agent announced he would be leaving.

Games where Winks started: 0.95 PPG Games where Winks didn't start: 1.35 PPG Yet you still adore Winks. It feels to me that you are picking and choosing which players you consider to be at fault for our downfall. Our low points per game without Vestergaard is massively weighted by the games that King was in charge and where we looked rudderless. As @Chelmofox just mentioned Vestergaard's injury also aligns with Jordan James being injured. You can't just conclude the cause of our woes when there are so many variables.

Okoli and Nelson was a semi regular centre back pairing before Cifuentes got sacked and they were fine at averaging over a point per game. For comparison cifuentes's last 9 games: With vestergaard: Played 4 Won 1 drawn 1 lost 2 PPG 1 Nelson and Okoli: Played 5 Won 2 lost 3 PPG 1.2 Vestergaard being out isn't the problem, it's the terrible way the club approached sacking and replacing Cifuentes. We should have either had someone ready to come in immediately or kept him.

Vestergaard's points total benefits from him getting injured around the time Cifuentes was sacked. Our form has collapsed since then, only 6 points in 9 games!

This was Iversen earlier this week. Stolarczyk wouldn't hear the end of it if he palmed the ball in to trouble like Iversen did and also fumbled the corner. It's just the case of the grass being greener, there's not much between them.

Parachute payments cover the various loans we have accrued, our playing squad is worth very little. We will likely have to sell the training ground at the very least

I'm not referring to the happy clappers here although they are bizarre themselves. I'm referring to the fans that are harsher on young players than they are on older ones, despite the younger ones still learning their trade and being on significantly lower wages. If BCDR and Mukasa are equally not up to standard then I would still rather give leeway to Mukasa who is still learning his trade at this level than persist with BCDR who is supposedly "prem proven" but has shown very little of that even in the Championship and won't get better. We seem to have more fans like this than other clubs for some reason.

BCDR is not the answer either, 5 wins in 18 starts. Not much difference between the senior pros and youngsters in terms of quality, just when the youngsters have a bad game they are written off completely whereas the senior pros are always one good game away from being labelled too good for this league. Bizarre fan base really.

You have 2 wins in your last 5, we have 2 wins in our last 10. You are still heavy favourites.

It's been inevitable since the Southampton 3-4 game. Just accept it and enjoy Jordan James whilst he's still here.

Good pass from Nelson between the lines as well.

Braybrooke today 5 tackles 1 interception 1 assist 1 dribble 94 passes 91% success rate He's becoming a complete and dominant midfielder at Chesterfield.

Brighton fans still seem to like him.

He may do but he is currently struggling in league 2 as a 24 year old. It may be because he's struggling t to return from injury and he manages to turn it around with enough game time but in my opinion he's not worth the gamble and we should cut loose.

More likely to get a decent sell on from selling to Stuttgart? Crystal Palace and Newcastle might price him out of a move in the future and screw us over.

We're actually playing well, hopefully not a repeat of the Southampton game.

Thought that was in

Our luck with loans is so incredibly bad.

Natural goal scorer, once he's gotten enough minutes in his legs he's going to be scoring loads with all the chances he gets.

Why does this narrative that Winks has been hard done by persist? Over the last 2 years he has done nothing to differentiate himself from those bad players and managers so why is he treated differently? It's almost like you're allowed to pick on players like Daka, Okoli etc or managers like Cifuentes because they can't play or manage better if they tried, but Winks is allowed to sulk and play terribly because he can be a good player if he chose to be. It should be the reverse, he should be maligned more because he is actively not applying himself.

Conspiracy theory: The club want to re-sign Winks Winks has realised he is not going to earn as much elsewhere after looking around in January. The club has released a story that Winks was extended automatically in 2023 to avoid backlash from fans when he's still here next season.

We have played Jordan Ayew regularly this season. Popov can only prove himself at the level he's playing at and can't be worse than Ayew.