Charlie Wayman

So was my younger son. Small world.

I think what he was saying is you only need to make a point once. Brevity is to be admired.

What a thoroughly depressing post, why do you bother to support such a hopelessly lost cause of a club?

Les Reed of course, who else?

At least tonight we don't have to agonise over our MotM.

Seems very unlikely, he will want to keep momentum and sharpen automatism for the Leicester match. Massive folly to change things around now and he won't!

He was also MotM. Ralph must be monitoring his progress closely and surely will want to take a good look at him during the summer. I agree he has become a key player at Celtic and no doubt they will want to hang onto him. Could be interesting. Main question is would he want to come back here after all the abuse he has suffered at the hands of many fans?

Wonderful memories of Sadio as a free scoring Saint and the heady days of Top 4 life under Ronald Koeman. Looking back, what a team we had then. If only... and remarkably there is our one and only James strutting his stuff amongst the elite. Nice one OS, really enjoyed watching that again, stirring memories of how elated we felt in those halcyon days.

Presumably these shirts in kids sizes will be sold without the shirt sponsor's logo. Model racing cars were never allowed to be sold with alcohol or tobacco logos.

He is certainly not the finished article by any means; if he has any common sense he will stay with Ralph for a couple more years before chancing his arm on a big move. My personal view is that he won't be going anywhere this summer.

If that was true it wouldn't say much for Hasenhüttl's appeal to players as a progressive and development coach. For that reason alone it is all bullish*t.

Disgraceful

He does exactly what it says on the tin, no more, no less. Of course we could do better with memories of Lambert still strongly in mind. Lambert may not have been the brightest striker on the planet but my goodness he had a lightning fast football brain. Che for all his qualities strikes me as a bull in a china shop.

Don't waste your breath, he hates the very thought of Theo and puts him down in every thread

Like a good many on here then.

Agree and Bertrand the other most likely. Whereas Ings can earn the club a decent transfer fee, Bertie probably can't, we need the sort of money that would pay for an adequate replacement if we sell. On the other hand Dan Sheldon doesn't come across to me as an insider so all of that guff from The Athletic needs to be taken with huge pinch of salt.

Automatism is so much part of our game that Ralph will not change a winning team unless forced to do so. The manager's view of the FA Cup SF will be quite different to a player's. Ralph will want to re-build the momentum and automatism that we had at the start of the season so that he has a good chance of winning and reaching the FACup Final; individual players to a certain extent will be expendable in pursuit of his aim whereas each individual player will desperately want to start at Wembley and will do his level best to avoid injury against WBA. For them it's a catch 22, if they play flat out against WBA they could risk injury but if they play half-heartedly to avoid injury they could well be dropped for the SF. AS Ralph said yesterday, he has now for the first time in ages a quite strong bench to call upon. The message from him could not be clearer. For these reasons I expect yesterday's team to start again against WBA and Leicester and do well against both. All being well we should coast to a 3-0 victory at the Hawthorns.

A bit harsh, he played a lot of minutes for Poland and was clearly a bit leggy today. Maybe Ralph should have considered resting him but probably didn't trust Salisu enough to risk leaving Jan out.

Get off his bloody case you repetitive loon, he's been out for eleven weeks and needs time to recover match fitnes.

What an excellent performance. Ok, one or two players were leggy and took time to get into their stride but once we got our act together there was never any doubt about the outcome. Class above Burnley who seemingly only have long balls into the box as their main armament. All of our goals were brilliantly executed from open play so well done to our front four who created a myriad of chances and were clinical in their finishing. Jimmy WP deserved a goal from his superb shot. Theo needs a couple of matches to sharpen up his fitness but he was as usual a bloody nuisance to the Burnley defence and capped it with a sublime assist for Redmond's winner. MotM has to be Ings, playing for his transfer I guess but that was a £60m goal if ever there was one. Good change of tactics by Ralph late on to ensure our victory. 👋👋👋

Come on chaps think positively. We have nearly everyone back from injury, Ralph has had a couple of weeks to work with most of his players, one or two back from international duty where they performed well will aim to push on and impress, we may be in for a surprise. This is one that we should anticipate with relish. Despite the stubbornness and pedestrianism of Burnley that often frustrates more accomplished sides, I think we will come out of the blocks with pace and determination and overwhelm them early on. We could be 3-0 up at half time. Bring it on!

No doubt there was a prior arrangement between the club and the England set up that JWP would play only two matches from three at most even if selected. As it turned out he played so well against San Marino that that possibly he would have been an automatic starter against Poland, so the vague story was concocted to explain his absence. As for team selection, would it be too risky to start with Theo & Ings up top?

Not for Scottish fisherman who are moaning about Brexit because they can't sell their catches to the French it isn't and they voted for bloody Brexit.

Cheer up lad, lockdown will soon be easing and you'll be able to go outside to play tennis, golf or five-a-side or whatever keeps you sane normally. Think, no more keyboards or endless worrying about things beyond your control.

OR None of the above. 🤨