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Does Eddie trust Tino and Lewis when it's tight like this? Is he protecting them in case they have a shitter? You don't pay good money then keep them on the bench

Bench full of fullbacks and goalies. Hopefully we score early then we can just pack defence on top of each other.

I'm sat on a sunbed in Cape Verde, knowing there's a sizeable contingent from Wolverhampton who have arrived on the Birmingham flight. I hope we polish them off so I can see their miserable faces at the dinner hall later this evening. I'll be watching.

He's a pro athlete, he trains every day for years and he has the best coaches and nutritionalists. That's a physically natural attainable body given what he has access to. He's not pouching takeaways and 10 pints of lager every weekend.

What gear is he on?

Yeah I'm not a fan of Ronaldo and his lack of leadership as a senior pro seems to have had some bearing on Man Utds plight. He could have done with a leaf out of Trippier book. His otherwise professional approach to keep himself in such shape at his age is an example to the kids just starting out.

It'll be 3 - 1 to us. Sandro told me.

Well we can't say we didn't give them a game. They had the rub first half, we deserved to get something from it. Wilson short of opportunities. I'd have liked to have seen us test the keeper a bit more but credit to their defence. Hopefully get a better referee and turn them over at their place.

That you Peter?

Id have given Miggys slot to Murphy on current form.

I had him down as a complete flop, couldn't make a good decision and generally had no faith in him. He's completely changed my opinion of him in 12 months. It's testament to the coaching but more so it's full credit to him for backing himself, digging in against the criticism and working hard.

In hindsight, you could say it looks that way. Both Lyon and Sociedad are very good clubs but they're not great clubs like AC is. Neither Bruno or Isak were boyhood fans who came through their system either.

Ridiculously quick. Unless they've had all the evidence to go and he's just played supergrass to blow the lid on the wider problem to get a lesser sentence.

FFS. If guilty, hopefully it's whilst he was in Milan and has nothing to do with any of our games or other players. Wonder if there is a concerted effort across football to try and clamp down on this. Seems odd that there are a few high profile cases at the same time.

Just seen Steve Harper stood on the platform at Newcastle so it must be positive news in terms of his recovery.

Id love to think that this squad have years playing together and hopefully by having a settled and well drilled unit, we can have more success this and next season (in that I mean qualifying for the Champions League yearly) but great sides lose big players and then go on and continue their success. If Bruno decides he wants to go to Spain next summer or the one after, then we've got to have the personnel in place to take over that position. Until then, we enjoy the football.

I think it was remarked that we were a younger bunch! Given that the majority of us must be over 40, some 50 or 60 (or older RIP Noelie) then maybe they were just a more respectful group of olds. I see Taco keeps dropping in and Dazzler (if he came from there) seems to have found his feet pretty quickly. I've been on here so long, I can't quite remember what happened back in the late 90s early 2000s. Wasn't TT resurrected when some jumped ship from NO?

Exactly this. He's young, he's got a lot of talent and he is not the finished article. Hes strong, has a decent passing range and doesn't seem phased by anything. He looks like an attacking midfielder but I could see him box to box as he is athletic. Id like to see him get a few more scoring opportunities or attempting them from the edge of the area.

As much as I want us always to win, I don't think we've necessarily been the better side. They've been dangerous on the break and have taken their chances well. We've passed it about a lot without much end product. A draw is probably the right result.

I'm miles behind, haven't even score yet!

Our game really doesn't involve anyone picking up the ball outside the box and having a pop at goal. We seem to be intent on passing it through even when theres 10 men in front of the box.

Think Longstaff has been pushing up on that right hand side and he's ended up swapping over with Miggy. Time and again I keep seeing Almiron trying to make the run or make himself available in good space and the player with the ball chooses to go elsewhere. Isak has been much more involved on the left. Anderson would probably be better tucked up behind someone up top for which we haven't got the luxury of.

I don't think we've been that bad. We seem to be lacking a ball carrier though, we're trying to pass it through and getting caught out on the turn over.

Dominating before that as well..