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There's still a lot of football to be played. We've still got as good a shout as any for a playoff spot. The worry is that teams will look at the Charlton and WBA games and change their tactics. Before, you just needed to press us near our goal. Now you just need to sit back and hit us on the break. This is a good chance for Eckert to show he's able to adapt again. Though my fear is it requires us being able to step up our intensity in games. Something we've really struggled with for the last several years.

It still feels like Eckert doesn't rate him enough to start him. This smacks of the back five intransigence all over again. We've got Scienza injured, Fellows out of form and confidence and Matsuki pretty anonymous last night. Edozie should be getting more than a cameo.

It's more the lack of enthusiasm for anyone Sport Republic is likely to replace him with. He hasn't turned my opinion (yet) but he's done some positive things like adapting when stuff obviously wasn't working. Then again he was slow to adapt to what everyone else could see. His next challenge with be teams like Charlton who come to park the bus and how our increasingly passive possession game against them falters. If (and it's a big if) he continues learning and adapting he'll be one of the good ones.

If it's a split tendon he's not playing any time soon or at anywhere near his full potential. If he goes back to playing with it split he's risking a full rupture. The Wrexham boss said they'd know more in a couple of weeks as the injury has to settle down first but healing is in the order of 6-12 weeks minimum.

The best time to play Arsenal is always the tail end of the season. When their hopes and dreams fade from the confidence of how this time is going to be different to a slightly less Tottenham version of Tottenham.

Don't jinx it now

Rather this match than the FA Cup final.

There's some kind of data problem here.

I'm not sure that bemoaning your life for living in Vancouver is getting you the sympathy you think it is 😉

Poor bugger. He always seemed like a decent bloke but he was pushed into a job he wasn't ready for and then kept getting hired off the back of that. Another victim of the Sport Republic Peter Principle school of leadership recruitment.

They're saving it for Netflix for either the triumph over adversity story arc or the tragic and unfair failure story arc.

If we'd backed Ralph the same way we've back his successors in the transfer market then Saints would still be in the Premier League and competing for European places.

Ramsdale is overrated as a keeper. Arsenal were right to replace him as quickly as they did.

Archer, BBD and Downs are the kind of strike force other Championship teams will be envious of.