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Yes I don’t think we should go on rumour. I certainly believe we were in for him in Jan, but I see no evidence that it was as a Grimes replacement. I don’t think a deal for LOB could be done that quickly on deadline day, that was obviously in the works for days before. I think it’s clear we...

Definitely remember us being interested in January. I am just questioning the assumption it was as a Grimes replacement. Looks like December and January that season he played almost exclusively at RB for Orient.

You make just as many comments on it than I do, but largely ones that are criticising the other view as opposed to backing your own.

Do you have any links that say the club saw Galbraith as a Grimes replacement? Or was that assumed due to us being interested around the time when Grimes left? I seem to remember it was LOB that was the Grimes replacement and Galbraith interest came after that. I don’t recall the club making...

Except the managers that play him RB for half his career that is…

How doesn’t that help? That shows that no matter the level, manager or team, he has 50 games+ in each position and his teams are more successful when he plays RB, by some distance. He was definitely better in CM than RB last night, but that’s a sample size of 45 mins in a game state where...

Our sample size would be even bigger by 2057 and probably still show the same thing.

I can do it for Leyton Orient if you want? Galbraith at RB Played: 31 Win: 23 Draw: 1 Loss: 7 (70 points from 31) Galbraith in CM (6/8/10 combined) Played: 35 Win: 13 Draw: 9 Loss: 13 (48 points from 35) His teams are more successful with him as a RB and adding an extra positional 6 when in...

That’s just 1 game each though. This is a third of a season in each position. Given that sample size, you would imagine that the opposition faced would be largely similar quality overall in comparison.

Of course, but the clear trend is that we are more successful with Galbraith adding another CM body via his RB starting spot. The team is clearly stronger with him there despite the frantic noise by those who refuse to see what we miss when he doesn’t.

Galbraith at RB 15 games: 7 wins 6 losses 2 draws (23 points from 15) Galbraith in CM (6/8/10 combined) 16 games: 4 wins 7 losses 5 draws (17 points from 16)

It’s nothing to do with positional sense, it’s what he’s being asked to do. It’s the Trent role which is essentially to be a RB that acts as another midfielder. Straight out of the Klopp playbook. He’s one of the few players in the championship that could do it. It’s defensively risky when...

Yalcouye is absolutely brilliant, joy to watch

Still for me RB. He won’t displace Stamenic, then where do you play him? He can’t play the 10, he’s nowhere near a 10 and we have Walta there. He’s probably too small to play alongside Walta in the 8 as our central midfield will be tiny. What he may do is selectively play in the middle against...

Yesterday I would have played him in the 6 though as he’s a better 6 than Fulton so you measure the delta between each option. But that’s the beauty behind his signing and ability to play multiple roles.

Stamenic is a better 6 than Galbraith Galbraith is a better RB than Key That’s all there is to it and I agree with Vitor Matos.

I always find it funny when we have a proper goalscoring CF, the club get criticised for the CF scoring the majority of the goals. When we have a CF that provides but not scores a tonne, the club get criticised for not having a proper goalscorer.

Fulton was excellent I thought, as was Burgess and Melker. Their striker was not easy to deal with but both CB’s handled him so well. Vipotnik of course with his usual clinical finish. Walta also looked excellent when he came on, we are cooking at the moment in fairness. We are a few players...

Badly worded on my part. I’m sure they will already be having conversations regarding how to tackle the summer together. But I don’t think he will have any sort of power over who we sign specifically as the club need to try and think beyond Matos, he may not be here in 6 months, who knows. I’d...

But I mean specific players. I don’t think he will be signing players for us, those days have long gone because management is so short term. There may be the odd one of course but when managers do get that sort of wholesale power it doesn’t tend to end well for incoming players long term. But I...