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Juric knows that he hasn't got many opportunities to make an impact but the Cup is definitely one of them. So, he'll be putting out a full strength team, Burnley are resting some of their first team players - what could go wrong? 2-0 Saints.

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  On 07/02/2025 at 21:52, Vancouver Saint said:

I'm interested to see if there's a gap in quality between bottom of the Premier (by a mile) and top of the Championship...

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Burnley will not be full strength and 

  On 07/02/2025 at 22:09, sfc4prem said:

But we're not Premier League quality, as evidence by our points total. We are clearly a championship side.

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but there is the Coventry v Ipswich match. 

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  On 07/02/2025 at 22:09, sfc4prem said:

But we're not Premier League quality, as evidence by our points total. We are clearly a championship side.

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Yes it's essentially a clash between two very good championship sides. As they've seemingly left behind a number of their better players that should swing it in our favour. 

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Hoping we can get another victory today and progress to the 5th round of the FA Cup. 2-0 to us Onuachu and Dibling to score - COYR 😊

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  On 08/02/2025 at 10:20, Harry_SFC said:

Yes it's essentially a clash between two very good championship sides. As they've seemingly left behind a number of their better players that should swing it in our favour. 

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Honestly Harry, if we took this current Saints team to the championship we would blow it apart. The trouble is we won’t have this team in the championship.

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  On 08/02/2025 at 12:48, Saint In Cornwall said:

I'd love us to win, but the FA will rig it so we get a top prem side away in the next round......

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A good narrative, but in the next round there’s a very good chance only Prem sides will be left in the compo so it’s somewhat inevitable. You’ve usually got to beat the best to win anything. It does make you realise what an incredible victory Laurie’s Saints achieved over Utd in 1976.

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  On 08/02/2025 at 12:40, Toussaint said:

Honestly Harry, if we took this current Saints team to the championship we would blow it apart. The trouble is we won’t have this team in the championship.

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Agreed on both fronts. I'm almost certain it won't happen but if there's any way we could convince Fernandes to give us one season in the Championship then that would be huge. 

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  On 08/02/2025 at 13:26, Harry_SFC said:

It's being shown on a number of channels worldwide (you've got to ask yourself why) so there will be a few streams available I'd imagine.

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Yeah it's on ESPN+ in the US so there will definitely be streams available.

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What’s the point in ABK being in the squad if you’re going to start Manning and Bree ahead of him at CB? So weird 

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  On 08/02/2025 at 14:06, Ken Tone said:

Surprised to see manning at centre back (presumably) rather than Wood

Otherwise much as expected.

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I thought this but he’s just coming back from injury so maybe that. Would’ve rather seen 4 at the back rather than starting with 4 full backs in a 5

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  On 08/02/2025 at 14:13, Sheaf Saint said:

McCarthy starting? Ramsdale is on the bench so he's obviously fit to play, so what's the thinking behind that?

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Match practice in case Ramsdale gets injured again? 

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  On 08/02/2025 at 14:13, Sheaf Saint said:

McCarthy starting? Ramsdale is on the bench so he's obviously fit to play, so what's the thinking behind that?

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I’d be flogging every game possible out of Ramsdale, on the basis he will be gone in the summer anyway. Might as well get our moneys worth.

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The Downes thing is interesting, maybe Juric just prefers Les and Aribo? They've done pretty well, but it's weird that Downes isn't even on the bench. Maybe there was more to that Ipswich story than first thought.

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They’re second in the championship, not expecting them to be pushovers.

Plus they’ve started Jonjo Shelvey who for some reason it feels always plays well against us

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For me, this would have been the perfect opportunity to play 2 CBs and put a striker up with Tyler and Supermana. But that's just me. Lack of CBs maybe put paid to that. 

Enough to win in attack perhaps. 

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  On 08/02/2025 at 15:00, SNSUN said:

For me, this would have been the perfect opportunity to play 2 CBs and put a striker up with Tyler and Supermana. But that's just me. Lack of CBs maybe put paid to that. 

Enough to win in attack perhaps. 

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Surely anyone with a brain would have done this. 
 

They have conceded NINE goals this season. We need as many going forward as possible. 

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  On 08/02/2025 at 15:06, RedArmy said:

 

They have conceded NINE goals this season. We need as many going forward as possible. 

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I get what you're saying, but they've been playing against strikers who are worse than Adam Armstrong, so that record sounds less impressive....

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