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If you feel something very strange and new @Gemmill don't worry it's just you finally getting the hang of this predicting and inflicting suffering on other teams lark.

Is it bad that I initially thought the grim reaper was grimly reaping himself enthusiastically because you posted it?

At least when he came out of the box this time he had the presence of mind to head the ball rather than handle it!

Talk about unnecessarily giving it away for the last 10 minutes. Job done though and no injuries.

It's a 7AM kick off, but also have to get the kids ready and off to school and head into the office myself.

Monday games are terrible, struggling to be motivated enough to watch it given our current predicament.

It should have been a yellow. Ref should have given it as a yellow and then relied on the VAR to let them know if it should have been a red. Buy as far as appealing it goes we'd have found out that we had no chance. Massive fuck up by Gordon at the end of the day. Their player is a cunt also for the overacting, absolutely hate that shit.

Forgetting this guy Wykiki?

If I was Howe I'd be resting Schär against West Ham and starting Krafth with Burn. Gives a break to Schär who has looked off it defensively and some minutes to Krafth ahead of the Cup final where it's looking likely that we'll play 3 CBs (with Livramento and Trippier as wing backs).

Anderson still wouldn't be playing much for us though IMO, he's behind Bruno, Tonali and Joelinton. Minteh would be playing loads though. People quickly forget that despite his limited minutes due to multiple injuries Barnes still has 10 goals (many of them key ones) and 4 assists. Hopefully one day we get to see his consistent best.

A suspicious character in a Wham! hoodie was seen loitering around the kitchen....

There's been no confirmation that Isak is out yet, wait for that and for Joelinton to have a setback and why not throw in another Tonali betting scandal.

How is he only seeing a specialist this late? We realised that our previous specialist was looking at the wrong knee? At this rate it will be a 90 min award ceremony for Liverpool.

Can a mod please change @LondonBlue's avatar to the above image. TIA.

Redundant. Also reported.

Very versatile players, I like it.

It's a load of crap. PSR is a joke that is ultimately not in the interest of the league as it stifles competition. The only reason we can't do what Man City and Chelsea and Man U and Liverpool and Arsenal do is because we got rich owners at a later time. And even worse the PSR rules haven't been appropriately scaled with inflation or with the increase in player prices and wages, making them progressively tougher. We should further align with other clubs facing similar limitations and coordinate the transfer of promising young players to facilitate the headroom required to drive up results and revenue. We'd be technically compliant which is the best type of compliant. There's no guarantee that that money would be well spent.

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I agree, even when he's not at his best his pace troubles defenders and causes them to make mistakes. We don't have anyone with the same combination of acceleration, speed and fast feet. I feel like Osula will be more of a nuisance than Barnes, though Barnes is capable of a great shot and can also stand up a good cross. From everything we've seen Howe is more likely to use Willock and Barnes there than Osula, I'd be leaning toward Barnes and Osula (at least give him some minutes to throw everything he can at the defense). Willock has just frustrated me too much, getting into good positions and then being wasteful. It's not through a lack of effort though which is at least one positive.

Yeah that's precisely why I specified in attack.

Tino looked good on the left in attack in particular but Trippier doesn't have 90 minutes in him these days. If Hall wasn't available that's what Howe would go with (as he did here).

@GrahamTaylor5 yes that's a better way of putting it. The amount of times over the years where we've managed to self-inflict a worse outcome than a loss...

The amount of times over the years where we've managed to invent a worse outcome than a loss; often red cards, sometimes injuries, always disappointing. This feeling is sadly not uncommon.

At least Joelinton is back.