West Ham gone all Spursy.

i.e. I rate Hyppolite way above Smith

I can't understand what Smith brings to the game that Hyppolite can't

What Silk said x 100

I think next game he will play wing backs again with Tilley on the right, Seddon on the left and the old 3 trusted centre backs - Lewis, Johnson and ogs

I think when you are not playing well you go back to basics - 442. I would have Bugiel and Stevens up front. Hipplolyte, Browne, Smith and Asiimwe in midfield; Seddon, Johnson, Lewis and Ogundere. Old style get it wide and in the box with Browne playing the Earle role.

A4E - that’s good news

From OI’s post earlier. If JJ gets the sack he’ll pick up a L2 promotion hopeful role in the summer given what he did with us last season. If he stays and we stay up I’d expect him to look for another L1 role if he can get one. If the budget or JJ rumours are true then facing L1 or L2 next season won’t be an attractive prospect for him.

Mark L - Lewis should be back, yes (assuming he’s fit after his ban…) 👍

For me Assimiwee is more a winger, or at least an attacking wingback, not a defender. Chris Hutton comes to mind. We could be very exciting with two wingers tearing down both sides. I hope we develop our own youngsters, keep as many of the loanees as possible and attract more yoof.

Nice article Rob btw - agree with your point about luck but as per Keefy earlier I saw far too many 50:50 tackles going their way for it to be just luck. Especially when you look at how many times Nkeng either won his battles or drew the foul. Some of our players need to dial up their desire for the ball.

Just plugged the current league table and the last 10 form table into Gemini and asked it to extrapolate who ends up in the bottom four if the next 20 games repeats the last 10. Happily it has Vale, Northampton, Wigan and Rotherham for the drop.

Remember the 80's and 90's? The fashion at corners was to have a player between the near post and the 6 yard box line who'd be the corner takers target and they'd glance the ball making it really difficult to defend when its done well. It was one of those trends, like long throws are really effective. Too many corners get dropped into the keepers hand, particularly when the keeper is 6'4"+, would definitely like that too go away from our game. Free-kicks is another, shooting from them yield around 5-10% success. Great when it happens, absolutely pants most of the time.

Unless we get a player or two in, including a big lump up front, I fear we are doomed. Just not good enough

If we do stay up(massive if obviously)we could be playing both Sheff Weds and Leicester as the latter are about to be deducted points

I think we’re not far off Mark. I feel once one goes in…

Earlier on…. Yes but been found out I think. Now diesnt get firward, rarely crosses and definitively gets caught out. His positioning reminds me of Guinness walker ie gets caught with a ball on the inside. Making Ogs not look so good too

Asiimwe is good coming forward although not brilliant defensively, he created a number of goals through superb crosses earlier in the season

Jeffed - can’t see us scoring. Is Lewis available for port vale ?

Good to see DLAG collecting both outside the ground and at Surbiton Waitrose. Nice to have one Dons related organisation that seems to be functioning properly and well managed!

Thought today was good. Best I’ve seen us play for a while. My wonderful hindsight change would have been to yank Browne rather than Hackford, as we lost pace up front once Matty came on. But all in all, I agree with JJ- play like that and we’ll start picking up points expect us to win next Saturday.

Besides their player, Browne's dive in the area was pretty pathetic and could have got him a card.

Not sure at all about Asiimwe - not good enough

We are in block 102 and were convinced the goal should have been ruled out. We were wrong. Saw the Sky replay at HT and the guy who crossed was not offside. So felt sorry for the lino for the abuse he got. We're not too bad in defence but just cannot score now. Matty looks unfit, increasingly looking Josh Davisonesque. The good news is we seem to have a few exciting youngsters coming through, could be exciting in L2 next sesson. Would like to keep Assimwe - not sure why he is not getting much game time.

Farnham - Exeter at home but it is a rarity as a rule, especially as we always want to change away from home.