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Get in!!!! 0-0 all day long

It'll be 0-0. Mark my words

This

My guess would be a reoccurrence of his recent hamstring injury. Perhaps it just felt tight and he came off as a precaution

This is inevitable I would venture

Analysing it a bit more = fan bias ? If you say so squire.... FWIW, I still think it was a penalty, on balance, but I can see why the ref didn't give it

Having initially thought it was a stonewall pen, I'm now thinking that Barnes engineered it rather than it being a simple case of McCarthy bringing him down. Could well be the right decision in hindsight

Assume so. Probably one of those mandatory can't play for X days on medical advice cases

Head injury on Wednesday

The only reason I can think that the ref didn't give it is that Barnes pokes the ball right and then moves left to ensure he makes contact with the goalkeeper. I still think it's a penalty but maybe if Barnes had moved in the same direction as the ball the outcome would have been different. Clutching at straws but hey ho

Defo penalty. Now watch the ref give them a 'dodgy' decision later in the game to make amends...

Pompey 0 Doncaster 1

This has got 0-0 written all over it

Ref letting Slattery off a booking there

Burnley started well

I'm surprised that people are surprised that people are surprised that Austin is on the bench over Gallagher

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But credit where credit's due... he gets plenty of bites on his bait so he's very good at what he does. Probably wouldn't get away with it on a forum with moderators though.... (He'll now play his: "why don't you post an opinion?" card... )

Isn't McQueen likely to be omitted because he had a season ending ruptured ACL rather than him still being on Middlesbrough's books? (same difference I guess)

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2-1

Hi Guan.... I'm trying to read between the lines here a bit (first time for everything...!)... By "fresh" budgets, do you mean that there will be 'new' money made available rather than having to solely rely on player trading? Could our apparent reticence to spend in January be perhaps linked to needing to balance the books for this current football financial year (which ends in June?) but that those financial restrictions (self imposed or otherwise) are lifted once the new financial year starts? Just thinking out loud.

Probably still best to have one of each card up your sleeve though....