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Tyreke Johnson was on BT Sport with Woking against Hartlepool last night in a 1-1 draw. Didn't really stand out. I also didn't realise Woking were a part-time club until it was mentioned last night, making the decision to loan him there all the stranger. Maybe he's being educated on the other side of football, as it's so easy to end up there and Hassenhuttl stated that he didn't want the younger players to think that they've made it after a few appearances? I don't know.

A young 21-year-old centre-back, Ben White, who's on loan from Brighton has been named Leeds' player of the month as they sit in third place in the Championship. What does it have to do with us? Well, he was released by Saints just five years a go at 16.

Credit to Gunn after today too. I was his critic after Burnley, but he won us that point as much as any of the outfield players today. Really good.

Get Cedric on the free-kicks again.

Well, Sky did pick Newport Vs West Ham and Lincoln Vs Everton over Nottingham Forest Vs Derby this week...

Really weird statistics, I can accept our 91% when only 83% of Sheffield United fans believe Sheffield Wednesday to be their main rivals, likewise with Bristol City's 83% for Bristol Rovers. Tottenham's 83% for Arsenal, Newcastle's 72% for Sunderland (Middlesbrough are a nothing club) and Manchester City's top rivals being Liverpool also seems strange. It all seems a bit knee jerk, which probably explains Man City, as Liverpool are their competitive rivals and why Brighton and Reading are high up for us, as we were competing with one of them in our League One/Championship seasons. I disliked both at the time, but don't really care about Reading anymore, they seem a nice club and we take good numbers there. However, there's still a dislike for Brighton following Poyet, El-Abd and Tarrico that I still hold against them.

Jack Cork would walk into this midfield.

Only Premier League side to keep a clean sheet today. What a defence.

Great win. Need to start Djenepo and Boufal next week, they've got that individual quality up the pitch.

****e team selection again. Danso, understandably looking out of sorts at left-back and not offering a lot going forward, even with those poor long throws. Still don't understand Vestergaard over Yoshida. Yoshida's a better defender and even gets on the end of attacking set pieces, which I've never seen Vestergaard do despite his height. And, I know Ward-Prowse improved measurably last season and was one of out better performers in the second half of the campaign, but he doesn't fit this formation at all. Get him off for Boufal or Djenepo at half time, as he's not giving the Brighton defenders anything to think about. I also don't think the Ings/Adams experiment is working. But, hey. It's 0-0 and we're playing against 10 men.

That is terrible. Potential leg breaker.

Charlie Austin struggling to get into the West Brom starting eleven.

Excellent news. McCarthy's as good a number two as a club our size can hope for. Forster is simply hopeless at this level now following his decline, but was above McCarthy in the goalkeeper pecking order for what I can imagine only being monetary reasons. Hopefully we can now keep hold of McCarthy as the adequate backup to Gunn.

Battling relegation in the Premier League to... Battling relegation in Ligue 1 in a stadium of 18,000. Not quite the sporting step-up I imagine his ego was thinking of.

The entire backline in all it's glory.

Credit to Oxlade-Chamberlain to be the only to remember that he came from Southampton.

Lonergan should be hopeless in the Premier League. There couldn't be a better chance to beat this Liverpool side, it's all been set up for us.

This is only the third time they've made the second round since 2010. Let's have them.

The only thing giving me an inch of confidence is that Adrian is a massive drop in quality compared to Alisson.

Wasn't the rule under Koeman that we would play four at the back against one forward and three at the back against two forwards, and that generally worked.

Billy Sharp was a massive reason as to why we came back up. Those 9 league goals in 15 appearances in the second half of the season meant that we weren't solely relying on Lambert, who bagged 27 in the league (wow). We knew Sharp would bring goals in the Championship when we signed him and he delivered. Those were the days when we signed the better players for the league we were competing in.

We had one new player in the team from last season's shambles of an eleven. No wonder Lemina wants to get out.

Another reason we needed a new centre-back is that when Gunn is tested he's a solid, yet unspectacular goalkeeper. We need someone between the posts who can pull off some unbelievable saves with this defence, like we've seen Pope and Heaton pull off for Burnley in the past, but with Gunn he's just going to get beaten once the defence is inevitably breached.

At least the fans forum should go well. No questions about if you could sign any player in the world, who would you sign? Please. We haven't strengthened the squad at all.

Is this why we leave our transfer business until the last minute, so that they can't play in what was a winnable fixture?