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Covil was described by Forest Green as a winger. Whilst Vaughan played more midfield before joining us, Rosenior said he is very comfortable playing wide left and that where he played for us last season.

We currently have five wingers in Ally, Longman, Sinik, Vaughan and Covil. We only need one more if we keep all of these. I don’t think the value of budget last year was terrible. We finished 10th/11th from the date Rosie came in and this was despite not having a striker for many weeks. If we...

I have talked with Richard Branson on a plane and Michael Portillo on a train. Had a pint with Robbie Coltrane in a pub in London and been in a hotel lift with Sophie Raworth. Steve Morrow, who scored the winner in the 1993 League Cup Final and then fell off Tony Adams shoulders so couldn’t...

The third option doesn’t exist without creating space. If we have eleven players facing us then all the players in front of our back four will be marked. Playing out from the back allows you to draw players on to you to create space further up the field.

I completely agree that if there is a better pass on then play it forward but if there isn’t then there is nothing wrong with going back to the keeper to start again. People are criticising the policy of playing out from the back not just when it goes back to the keeper. In my view the tactic is...

We have rarely lost the ball in our own penalty area when playing out from the back. We have lost two goals when our goalkeeper passed the ball to the wrong side of a player who was closely marked. There are plenty of people criticising playing out from the back. We were getting cheers from...

The policy of playing it out from the back has been evolving since Rosenior came. Like any skill, you have to start with the basics which, in this case is being comfortable in possession. Once that has been mastered then you can progress to moving the ball more quickly with purpose. Rosie said...

Because he is a target signing. The club have been working on the deal all window so a minor injury shouldn’t change the strategy.

Williams is playing as a forward. Why should he be expected to be defending deep in own penalty area? To be fair to him, he did work hard at getting back when their fullbacks were overlapping but he can’t be expected to create chances and also help our defence a few seconds later. A lot of the...

He was holding it after running through to take the shot but carried on until he was involved in the heavy challenge. Hopefully didn't aggrevate it too much by not getting immediate attention.

We should have cleared the ball a long time before it got to Furlong.

How can you say he is out of his depth? He improved our position last season to mean we survived with plenty of room to spare. We are now in the Top 6 after two games with a makeshift team because of injuries. There is undoubtedly a lot of work to do but we seem to have lost the feel good factor...

Allahyar Seri Tufan

Really enjoyed it today.The penalty was a bit odd but we fully deserved to win. As has already been said we looked so much better going forward than last season. Seri was given a lot of time to orchestrate things which I think other teams will look to stop so we will need the defence to be...

Tufan was playing regularly for Fenerbache before he was suspended by them at the end of March. It’s not surprising that his fitness has suffered since then because he wouldn’t have been training with the first team and probably had no access to fitness/dietary facilities. Watch the highlights...