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That may be the case for some, but it's not what I'm advocating. He should 100% be back for the Southampton game and beyond, in my opinion. My worry is that Bournemouth have a very specific, pace-driven style that may be a problem for someone returning from a calf injury, whereas Southampton are...

Well, he isn't being "dropped" is he? We'd be dropping Igor. That said, I suspect it'll depend almost entirely on the available fullbacks. Sounds like Ferdi may not make it, Hinsh is touch and go and Pervis had a long flight back from a mid-week international. Knowing how ridiculously fast and...

Agree on all these points. I'd also add on your first one, I think the younger players also learn a lot going on loan and NOT getting in the team. You learn can more from perceived failures. Ayari is a player who went on loan to Coventry and did "okay", then came back due to lack of meaningful...

Did you know he's only 31?

He got neither of his preferred two assistants, we'd sold our star striker for £8m and replaced him with Baldock (decent) and O'Grady (not decent) plus an absolute raft of crap loans (not you, João). He wasn't the right manager for that squad. Trying to play exciting progressive football with a...

Super goal. One we've seen he's well capable of repeating. I just wish he'd occasionally take the sensible option and play the pass more often (like he did vs. Crawley). You'd never want him to lose that element of his game though, because so few of our players have a crack from range and it's a...

In all likelihood, he, his kids and his grandkids will all pass away before that stand is built. Still, keep the faith. If you build it they will come etc etc

I remember us signing Trinidad and Tobago international Chris Birchall and being excited... So weird to think we had a player who played less than 10 times for us then leave for LA Galaxy!

He hosted them between 1967 and 1973, so a good ten years after their last title win and, during that interim period, they were in between Division 1 and 2. The biggest clubs, success-wise during that period were Liverpool (by some margin), Manchester and Everton. So although they're...

Saw a post online about the next host of MotD and it prompted me to check something I thought was interesting (although no-one else might!). None of the previous full-time hosts support "traditional" big clubs. Kenneth Wolstenholme: Bolton Wanderers David Coleman: Wolverhampton Wanderers Jimmy...

It reminds me of the point I made a year or so ago when people complain about women's football being reported about on SSN. I don't start a thread complaining that they have darts or boxing coverage on SSN because, for those segments, I'm not their audience but somebody will be. It's all part...

I'd completely for forgotten about Amario. He's only had 71 minutes across 5 games for Blackburn so far, so not sure how much of a route to the first team he'll get after a) this loan and b) we get back up to full strength on the wings.

Up there with Drury as one of the worst commentators out there. Their inability to just call the action without filling space with either meaningless stats or hyperbolic hogwash makes me long for the more understated commentators of yesteryear.

I suspect you may be right, although I do expect Mitoma to start this one with Estupinan on the bench. I suppose it depends on Ferdi's fitness too though

I suspect my Dad likes him for different reasons, but glad he has a burgeoning fan club

I'll be honest, I always felt the Igor bashing started when people began turning on RDZ's near constant moaning about our transfer strategy, so people pointed out that the 3 signings he specifically made (Fati, Dahoud and Igor) weren't up to snuff. That then seemed to evolve into "Igor is...

Ferguson will get plenty of game time over the coming months. I don't see the need to rush to be honest, or why a player's perceived value should guarantee anyone a place in the starting line up.

I don't believe he's anywhere near that at Chelsea. They have started bringing players on lower wages but long contracts. Having a quick scan, he's on about £80k-£100k per week on a six-year deal, plus bonuses. That's well within Villa's wage range, so he may even get a pay rise

There's WAY too much punctuation and nowhere near enough spelling errors for those to be real quotes

Yeah, what sort of idiot club repeated plays Groß out of position like that so often? 😂