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Hughes: "Hoedt a doubt for the weekend (sore foot)"

Voted 'Yes' in the poll. I usually sit on the fence for such polls as it's impossible to answer an "Is the club right?" question until the dust has settled and enough time has passed to make a judgement. However, on this occasion I've gone for the gut feel answer.

I wonder if we could prise Cortese away from AC Milan and bring him back 'home'...? © CB Fry

Might be time to renew my membership on here....

That encapsulates a lot of my thoughts... so a starting line-up looking something like.... --------------------------- Gunn ------------------------------- Cedric ----------- CB --------------- CB ------------- Targett ------------ Hojbjerg --- Lemina --- Armstrong -------------- --- Redmond ------------- Ings --------------------- Long --- I can't see Hughes ditching Bertrand though, even though he needs a wake up call IMO

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Fair point, but it's one too many straws that ends up breaking a camel's back and Bertrand's poor captaincy (IMO) is a relatively easy straw to deal with, so no reason/excuse why we shouldn't do something about it just because there happens to be an abundance of bigger straws. (That's a horribly long-winded sentence but can't be arsed to reword it)

Can't quite decide if that's Leo Sayer or Art Garfunkel

P.s. apologies for the sonewhat poor taste post. 3 and out...

Damn, missed off the photo. Doh. And can't edit now I'm not a member... Well that worked well. Back to the beer it is then...

Ok, I give up. Which one is Gao?

In the 'A day with Danny Ings' video the club published during the week, Ings said that he often has a load of mates around his gaff on a Saturday evening to wind down after a game and then looks forward to a 'massive roast' at a local pub on the Sunday. Did strike me as not being the best post match routine when I watched it.

# Devil's advocate klaxon # Most of those goals were down to p1ss poor play by Sunderland. Can't remember the last time we played a team in recent times that were anywhere as inept as Sunderland were on that day. Transport today's squad into that game and I still reckon we'd have won comfortably.

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5 years ago today...

He hasn't "conveniently forgotten". He does it to get bites and succeeds every time.

Thanks for the offer sir, however, it's far more amusing sitting back and watching people chomping on your surreptitious bait whilst the mods are seemingly oblivious to it. Textbook

A nicely set-up "told you so" there Batman if I may say so sir. Be sure to resurrect this post in 12 months time if you turn out to be right, but keep shtum if things turn out differently of course...

How recent is "recent"? And why is he still being picked by Hughes for every league game if there's been a falling out? Cheers

No, I was going to Google a random hotel in Milan and pretend they had sponsored me instead

"Everyone"?? Everton FFS... Which cretin invented auto-correct? P.s. looks like my membership's run out as can't edit my posts anymore. Every cloud...

A chance to blood 1 or 2 of the U23 squad, if only on the bench, goes begging? Have not seen the Everyone squad for this game yet, but one assumes they've got some of their U23s in there somewhere (?)

North of the island. The Ravenala hotel, Balaclava. Nice indeed. Will be getting my match updates on here so looking forward to weeding out the wrist slitters from the happy clappers

Greetings from Mauritius. Stock photos of hotel to follow. Shame there's not a golf course in the vicinity. COYR!

Quite possibly the best post I've read on here in 12 years (and, yes, I include my own in that )