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Would be surprised if Marcus Barnes doesn't at least make the bench. Pretty sure he would have played by now if he had been named in the PL squad. No restrictions for this game. Might see Sims and Hesketh as well.

That was for a one finger gesture, Charlie will get a 2 match ban probably.

except Burnley

In his last season with us he only got 1 straight red. He previously got 2 double yellows which cost him 1 match suspensions. The straight red was his 3rd suspension so was for 5 games. Missed 7 league games in total due to suspensions.

It is, but beatlesaint asked what he had won with England or Spuds, inferring he had won nothing. He has actually won quite a lot. England and Spuds have won **** all.

Golden Boot at the WC and a gong from the Queen for England. PFA Young Player of the Year, PL Golden Boot twice, numerous other awards for Spuds.

Are you suggesting that the blood emanating from Bernardo Silva's right eyebrow was not real? Thought fake blood capsules was an egg chaser problem. Injury looked pretty real, indeed suggestion was he would need a stitch or two, though that didn't seem to happen. Being a head injury ref had no option but to stop the game, but he should have dealt with the situation better, he could have got Silva off the pitch for treatment once he had ascertained that there was no danger, and that would probably have meant City wouldn't have had time for the 3rd goal, but don't think you can claim that one was cynical on City's part (several other things were).

Why do you assume its Ralph freezing them out, more likely they didn't buy into the plans and have moves lined up so have frozen themselves out. Bertrand is still recovering from injury, nevertheless my understanding is that he is on his way as well, but could be wrong. Really wouldn't be surprised to see one or two early moves once the window opens, both directions, to make places available in the squad, e.g. Barnes.

Need to remove someone from the squad list first.

The FA site is ambiguous, but think its after 31 December, not 19 games. Don'think the site would say one away for 4 if the cut off had already passed. Suggest Bednarek won't be available for Chelsea, shame as he had a decent game today.

Whether or not it was a penalty, the problem was that the officials then gave a goal kick whi h should have been a corner, and that lead to City scoring. Happen to think it was a pen, but offi ials are very poor and it's costing us. Lemina has been awful. What does Moi do, absolute waste of space. Target was terrible first 10 minutes but got better.

Would have been slower if Vestegaard had been selected.

Although the rule clearly states handball has to be deliberate, PL referees have been given clear direction this season that no goal should be awarded where the ball has hit an arm. The ref should have therefore disallowed the goal against West Ham according to the PL. The IFAB is discussing changing the Law in 2019, but the PL is not thought to be incorporated, and it has been suggested that the FA was completely wrong to issue this directive.

Absolute rubbish, one of the worst defenders ever and not just at Saints. Just about cut it going forward. WGS saw through him swiftly for Scotland, imagine someone not even considered good enough to get in the Scotland team. Absolute fraud of a footballer and his pathetic stance hands on hips watching the ball head for the net after one of his cockups. He may have been part of a good team but we were good despite having to carry him. Destroyed Hooiveld's career as well. For anyone to compare Targett to Fox is disgraceful. Targett was actually OK last night, not great but OK, only made one mistake if you're being picky, got away with a.ouple of badd errors in previous games. Shame really that we loaned out Sam MCQuuen, would have better suited the wing back position that RH is employing Targett in, but hey that's down to our then crap management.

He was injured according to Sky. Also clear Ralph is trying to play a settled team, Valery did OK against Hudds so no need to change.

BUPA?

Used to be Nottm Forest in the 70/80s, including 2 Cup finals.

Think you'll find he will be added. He would probably have played already if the Club had registered him, scores more than Obafemi and is a better all round player. Very bad management that he was omitted from the squad originally. In theory the squad can be changed as soon as the transfer window opens.

Which one?

Still looked pretty dodgy on occasions on Saturday. Vestegaard is still an accident waiting to happen very slowly, and Bednarek didn't exactly cover himself in glory when they scored. Hojbjerg's defensive duties were also comedic, Thankfully Mccarthy saved his bacon. Will be interesting to see what Ralph does when Yoshida is away for the Asian Cup and if he reverts to his favoured 4.

Jimmy Case (via Brighton). Possibly Bruce Grobbelaar (depending whether you tthink he was good or not)

I thought he had previously been considered, perhaps back in the summer, but the club obviously ultimately felt Hughes should be given the job after "keeping us up". I imagine recruting him now was just a question of seeing who we had been looking at before and resurrecting our interest, made easier of course by the fact Ralph was between jobs. So yes, it was probably down to Reed, hard to believe Krueger came up with the idea on his own. The Red Bull link may have played a part (going back to Markus' involvement with RB before he purchased us), Red Bull can be quite a tight knit sporting community.

Most of them anyway, still Krueger and a couple of others to go yet.

Can't we just send him down the road to his spiritual home, could probably do some good in the Champ next year.

It wasn't empty. It was a storm in a plastic bottle, not a tea up. Many places actually insist on water bottle tops being removed before you enter a stadium, for just this reason, think we had to for Europa games. Guess banning bottle tops and bananas will be the result.