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Ivan Toney if we’re going to dip into the Championship

This is really good hahaha

Caleb Watts the only one i’ve not heard of before and he’s been the best so far!

Haha was just thinking this - I remember seeing someone got him a first touch practice board for Secret Santa, I can see why!

I like the look of the lineup. I can’t say the FA Cup ever interests me at this stage but i’ve been looking forward to this fame, excited to see Chauke in particular and for N’Lundulu to get a start. Come on boys!

People keep saying we have a really small squad because of lack of investment. Aren’t we currently missing 9 first team players? Think most teams would struggle to field a strong bench in that scenario. We’re still starting almost every game with 11 senior starters. Not sure how big our squad is supposed to be!

It’s always felt like Spurs would be the one. Kane surely won’t be there forever, and Ings would be a good replacement and has shown he’s more than happy to do the defensive work that Mourinho requires.

Didn’t realise Steve Cotterill had ended up in intensive care with Covid and thankfully has just come out, but obviously won’t be there tomorrow night.

Love Hummel, great training kit and have had a few kits with Saturday league teams and they’re always a good fit. Really happy with it, they’ve got to re-do that Draper Tools kit at some point haven’t they. Maybe we’ll just get an ‘authentic’ retro version to buy instead, like with our own brand kits where we can still use the proper badge and sponsor due to having the rights.

Bednarek made two absolute clangers last night, and luckily for him Leicester wasted the chances. Then i’m seeing people saying he was absolutely superb last night. Both players made two mistakes, one of them had his punished both times and one didn’t. They’re the first goals he’s conceded in 4 games..

Ref cost us, simple as that. Chasing a game for 45 minutes when we were in control first half.

The last time Demarai Gray moved clubs it was during the January transfer window. That club then ended the season as Premier League champions... 😉

Brilliant, thanks, hadn’t seen that. Didn’t realise Djenepo came back out to watch, nice to see him smiling with Ralph at the end. What a team.

Completely agree - great fee at the time for a player we didn’t even really need bar a short term injury for Clyne which got him in the team in the first place. Most people probably don’t even remember he played for us, has done next to nothing for any club he’s played for since. Think his only decent period was playing holding midfield for Fulham after being poor for them at CB, they seemed to like him when he moved further forward.

I want the game to go ahead for footballing reasons, but a bit worried about the thought of us ending in a situation of missing anyone important the week after if their outbreak hasn’t been contained as well as they hoped! But i’m probably not clued up enough to know if that’s a likely scenario or not.

I love Romeu to bits, what I liked about Diallo last night was that he’s not the same as Romeu. That means we have 3 quality CM’s that all play differently from each other, finally giving us genuine options in that position. Really exciting.

Sky were wanking off Thiago beforehand like he was the second coming, and then Diallo walked all over him for 90 minutes, Thiago was treading a thin line fouling twice whilst on a yellow. What a performance.

There’s been a lot of re-writing of history about Stephens this season. He was brilliant from the Aston Villa away game at the end of 2019 onwards, and a huge part of our upturn in form. He had a bad couple of games at the start of this season and people went back to slaughtering him. Pleased for him that he’s stepped into Vestergaard’s shoes brilliantly.

It was really sad to see. You can see his frustration, he seems like a really lively, bubbly character so to see him like that was actually really hard to watch. Really hope he can shake them, as there’s a lot of talent in there and I think he’s got a lot to offer.

Am I right in saying that Stephens hasn’t conceded a goal since he came back into the team? 3 clean sheets on the bounce.

I’ve always liked Demarai Gray, but yeah he’s probably not shown his quality regularly enough at Leicester. They have been a good team for almost all of his time there though, and he’s had good spells. I’ll be really happy if we can get him in, if it’s as well as fullback cover (Brandon Williams would be nice) then I think we’d have a really strong squad for the second half of the season.

If Antonio is out i’ll be much more confident. Glad we’ve got Romeu back for this one, Rice makes them tick, we’ll need to win it in midfield to have a chance of getting 3 points. Without Antonio they don’t have a great deal of pace, which is good for us, but they’re a big threat from set pieces with Soucek particularly. Would love to banish some demons and finally beat West Ham for once!

We played shit, but we still scored twice, had a blatant penalty turned down (yet again), hit the bar and missed an open goal from 2 yards out. We definitely deserved to win. Not bad for a team missing its three best players this season.

That’s not true to be honest. Aston Villa away last year around this time was the first game where he looked real quality, and had a pretty solid season from that point onwards. He had a poor start to the season and hasn’t been back in since, which is just football.

Got to sign him up imo. I haven’t seen any decline in his performances. KWP is more eye catching going forwards, but not as solid defensively. Bertrand still overlaps and his delivery is superb. I think he’s the sort of player who could shift into more than one position if needed, just a technically brilliant footballer. I’m also not surprised he mentions a future at the club beyond playing, he’s the sort of player I could imagine taking up a director of footballer role at a club in the future (be it ours or another). Very intelligent guy with a business mind.