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Would be shocked if Romeu doesn't come straight back in, unless his injury is not completely cleared. One of our best players this season, and best in the PL according to some metrics. Ralph likes to keep partnerships together (Romeu/JWP) as much as possible, and while he also doesn't like changing a winning team, he does when someone has dropped out through injury. Diallo looks good (I don't quite go with some of the rave reviews of the Liverpool game, second half especially I really wish we had OR in there), and actually think he suits the JWP position more than the Romeu one (but can't see JWP being dropped).

This would be the rules announced on 1 December, which were presented to the Government by the governing bodies in November.

We should rest KWP and Bertrand to make sure they don't pick up a suspension 😉

Will McCarthy be available, and fit to play?

... although we have more points now than we did then

How many subs can be named on the bench? I believe 6 subs can be used (5 during normal time and one in extra time, hopefully won't apply). Play the strongest team but with Forster in goal and maybe Diallo for Romeu given the latter was not fit enough for last night. Use subs as soon as comfortable or after 60 mins or so. Resting players is not an issue, we have a week after this before next game. Starting XI: Forster, KWP, Bednarek, Stephens, Bertrand, Diallo, JWP, Armstrong, Walcott, Adams, Ings.

Romeu out, where did that come from?

They don't need to wait for Parliament to debate, the coronavirus bill passed back in March allows the government special legislative powers. I suspect elite sport will not be affected, but who knows.

They can demand what they want, but if no-one is willing to pay it they are unemployed.

There were urinals at The Dell? In the Milton End? Blimey, wish someone had told me at the time 😂

I would suggest this was why Matt Crocker was brought in. I don't think the Burnley comments are too wide of the mark, though a little harsh. The last 5 or 6 years the Academy, at the top end at least has been really disappointing. Think there are signs of good talent coming through now at the U18s level, but many of our better young players recently have been recruited from other clubs, not home grown (or Bath satellite, if it still exists). Players we have developed also don't necessarily fit Ralph's style, and that is difficult to solve in the short term.

I think maybe you are over analysing and completely missing the point.

Most, and doesn't even include Bill Shankly or even Matt Busby who were huge personalities, especially Shanks. Reason you didn't get managers in your face during TV coverage in the 60s was because of the limited number of cameras in use, BBC and ITV basically showed the action because they didn't have access to much else, nowt to do with not showing personality managers.

I didn't say he did anything wrong, far from it. But he isn't a touchline coach, very important, underappreciated assistant to Ralph, who doesn't appear to welcome the limelight. At least he kept Dave Watson out of the picture.

Richard Kitzbichler will be relieved. Great guy but he was out of his comfort zone the other night.

Sad day, an important part of our greatest day. Like others have said never had a bad word about us winning in 76. One of the huge manager characters of the 70s/80s. RIP Tommy Doc.

They've been sussed. Hopefully Klopp won't come up with a Plan B before Ralph. 🤔

Doesn't work like that nowadays, only applies to the competition that you pick up the cards in (unless I have missed something, this was introduced in 18/19 and continued in 19/20). It would be better if he just avoids a yellow card in the next 3 PL games.

One position, LB, simple. Ralph obviously thinks so too, hence our only probable transfer target. Bertrand has lost his dynamism going forward, and he is so slow that defensively he now gets caught out regularly. Coupled with average left sided AM, we have become ineffective on the left side.

Pretty sure Clin'on Morris'n was going to make him MOM until he was embarrassed making up for Bertie's mistake right at the end. No-one played well, but Stephens was easily our best player (hmm maybe Romeu and KWP were just behind in retrospect. Played a lot of balls that if Jannik had played them everyone would have been drooling. The ball he played through for Walcott early in the first half was an absolute peach, shame Theo could not deal with it. Theo worked hard again, but his touch keeps letting him down (as it has throughout his career to be fair).

Likely to be out for Liverpool as well then, and for all the training between games. Bad news.

To be fair they have only had a couple of games since Salisu was considered fit enough for match action and they haven't got another game scheduled until 17th January. What if he had got injured in the B team game against Leicester when Ralph clearly knew that Jannik was already nursing an injury. Can see your point but I can see it from the other point of view as well.

Some people don't know how to express an opinion without being derogatory or downright offensive.

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No, you're not right. Yellow cards never get wiped. The number accumulated before a suspension increases from 5 to 10 after 19 Premier League matches (and from 10 to 15 after 32 matches). JWP and KWP need to avoid picking up 2 yellows in our next 4 PL games (that means up to and including Leeds on 20 Jan) to avoid a one-match suspension.