Sheaf Saint

It's been suggested in the past that the 'seeded' teams have their balls warmed up so the person doing the draw can feel which ones they are. No idea if there is any truth to it (probably not), but it's theoretically possible.

Perhaps this should go in the bad takes amnesty thread, but after this game I genuinely thought Tadanari Lee would be amazing for us. That cushioned header to tee up SRL was sublime.

If Lawro's predictions always came true we'd be bottom of the league. Happy for him to call it wrong - again.

Yep. Hot ones.

Of the 3 of them I would most fancy our chances against Chelsea right now.

I also remember Saggy chops won it for March in 2005, and everyone was convinced we had turned the corner and would stay up. We then went and got one point out of a possible 15 in April, and we all know how it ended.

I believe so, cos one of them was trying to congratulate JWP after he had scored the pen.

My Villa supporting work colleague is dreading it. Reckons they will have to perform better than they have shown so far under Stevie G to stop us in our current form. We should be full of confidence that we can go there and win.

A bit limp for their goal, and there were a couple of balls he just swung at, but he stood firm a few times and dealt with a money shot quite well when required.

I said it in the Norwich reaction thread and I'll say it again... Never underestimate a Ralph team that is in this kind of form.

So much better than what we saw from Bertrand in his last couple of seasons with us.

Well he Ballsed that up tonight didn't he!

Or not 😉

Who wants to revise their comments before KO then? Got to admit I didn't foresee this performance. Quite exquisite.

Took one for the team

Tomorrow before the Everton v Boreham Wood game

Wake up Diallo!

Oh Moussa!

And like that, he's gone.

He'd be able to whip you up a nice spag bol.

Hmmm. A quick look down this guy's timeline shows he has an extreme pro-Russian / anti-western bias. I'm not so stupid as to believe that all western news reporting is fair and accurate and that everything from Russia isn't, but to claim that this is all the fault of the west is just absurd. He also seems to like sharing stuff showing a very one-sided view of Ukrainian 'atocities' in Donbas over the last 8 years, without acknowledging Russia's involvement in the instigation of that campaign. I understand that Putin doesn't like the idea of Ukraine joining NATO/EU, but the reason for them desiring that is because they felt there was a threat to them from Russia that they needed protecting from, given Putin's previous form for aggression towards their neighbours. All Putin has done is prove them to be absolutely correct in that belief.

Actually you typed it, I assume with your mouth shut. Does that make you feel better?

Think he was unsighted for the first one and just couldn't react in time, but the second one was very poor. No semi-competent keeper should be letting that in. We can definitely find better.

Russian ambassador to the UN laying the blame on Ukraine for amassing 20K troops on the border and provoking Russia. We're fully through the looking glass here.