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Not a chance they'd even contemplate gambling on Tonda although I'm sure he could do a job for them.

Don't envisage many changes as I think Tonda will go strong for what is the tougher of the 2 away games. Depending on the result tomorrow will influence his team selection against Preston. He'll want another 6 points of course but have a feeling he may have to settle for 4.

Some have alluded that Azaz maybe didn't have his best game which may be fair but he still exudes absolute quality. Just watched back the 4th goal and his driving run, even in the final seconds with us leading 3-1, is testament to his fitness and he still has the composure to pick out a very difficult slide rule pass to Mubama which leads to the goal scored by Wellington. Brilliant player for us.

Tough game but I trust Tonda to have been working on things which will give us the best chance of getting at least a point and hopefully three. He really is very astute in terms of identifying where and how we can exploit opposition weaknesses.

It's all about opinions but I think Manning is a great passer of the ball and is always looking to supply our forward players in positions that hurt the opposition. I'd put him second behind Azaz in having the ability to play these difficult passes to help us unlock stubborn defences. He's also very good at dead ball situations whether corners or free kicks into the box or having a shot. Not everything he tries come off because of the nature of what he's looking to achieve. I get that defensively he has his faults but overall he's a great guy to have in the side and I've noticed opposition fans often say how good he is.

What a signing Big Kev has been and he scored another thumping header yesterday giving him 2 goals from 11 games. I reckon he might end up getting double figures for goals by the end of the season.

I suspect West Ham let him go for 800k to get his wages off their books. The low transfer fee allowed us to pay JWP a very high wage so I think we cut a deal that we'd only take him for the 800k. If they'd asked for what he's really worth in today's market coupled with his high wage we'd have walked away.

Another good weekend for Fatty Corben.

Wow, that is blatant. How did the officials miss that!

We're proving we can score goals without Larin who has contributed 25% of our goals. Contrast with Boro for who Lankshear has around 44% of their goals so they must be hoping to keep him fit because that's a huge chunk of their goals.

He's not interfering.

So presumably there was no flag, the referee signalled a goal and then told the lino to raise his flag for offside. You couldn't make it up. It's either total incompetence or downright cheating. Either way these clowns should be made to explain their actions.

Just watched it back and he didn't, he just stood there with his flag by his side so all very suspicious.

Did the lino actually put his flag up for offside?

But he didn't score the goal nor interfere in any way.