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HT. Started quite positively but tailed off quite badly and lucky not to be behind. Elyounoussi has contributed absolutely nothing, yet again. He joins in the pressing, but does nothing when in possession. Swap him for Redmond at HT, and if Long can't continue then get Gallagher on.

How the holy hell did Long manage to injure himself there?

Oh stop bleating on about clear and obvious Danny. He was offside so the decision was correct. Are you wearing a Derby shirt tonight FFS?

Nicely worked from Derby but sloppy defending to give them the chance. Haha! VAR gives it offside. A fag paper's width in it but it's right.

Sloppy from Armstrong. But I don't like the attitude and the muttering from Cedric there.

With Liverpool's feeder club?

I would sub him for Redmond at HT.

That was a very good move from Derby. We've been by far the better team so far but we need to keep our concentration at the back still. Derby are no mugs.

Our pressing is forcing their keeper into a lot of mistakes.

How did that stay out!? Oh, it was Long.

Yeah he went and did that the very instant after I posted that!

I'm very impressed with Johnson so far.

Will have to be mostly our U23 side then, because the first eleven almost picks itself at the moment with the amount of absentees we have.

So apparently Leicester are lining up Brendan Rodgers to replace Puel… https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/8203519/leicester-brendan-rodgers-replace-claude-puel/

Apologies if already posted, but I see the Mirror have us linked with Jack Clarke - 18yo winger from Leeds. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united-respond-growing-premier-13858970

Nah. He would have been absolutely fine if only he hadn't tried to eat a bacon sandwich.

Not sure about Bertrand. When in peak form he is arguably the best LB we have had this century.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11607375/southamptons-ralph-hasenhuttl-keen-on-january-trasnfer-window-business

The circumstances are somewhat different though aren't they. Potentially two referendums should always have been the way to approach it from the beginning. Even arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg said so in a speech to parliament a number of years ago. Had remain won by a landslide (as I presume Cameron expected) then that would have been the end of it, at least for a few years anyway. A win for leave, or a marginal result either way (like 52v48 in favour of remain, for instance) should have then lead to a consultation period where all the options are assessed, and when the actual implications of leaving were as well understood as possible, take it back to another referendum so that people could vote based on much more solid information. If we had followed this process, and the end result was leave, I would have no problems accepting that result. Brexiteers can perhaps rightly point to the moaning and complaining about remainers not respecting the result, but in many cases the desperate attempts to cling on to this very small majority that was achieved in an extremely flawed process are just as nauseating as the protests from the remain side. If it goes to a second referendum, and the result is still leave, then that's it - we leave. I won't be happy, of course, because I still stand by my decision to vote remain, but I will fully accept that this is truly the will of the people. If the result is a marginal win for remain, then it's important that we acknowledge there are still a lot of people in the UK who are unhappy about our EU membership, and we need to find a way to work together to overcome the deep division that this issue has caused. FWIW, I think the result of a 2nd referendum would be very different. Last time, it was the leave side who had everything to gain and had more motivation to vote. I know a few people who didn't bother voting because they were so complacent and sure that remain would win, they didn't think it was even worth it. That won't happen again. We also have to consider the average ages of people on each side and that a lot of people who voted leave in 2016 will have since died, and a lot of teenagers who were prevented from voting last time will now be old enough to vote.

Who are the three suspended players then? Hojbjerg, Valery and ..????? Edit: Of course, it's Austin isn't it.

Theresa so desperate to garner support for her atrocious deal that she is preparing to tell blatant, outright porkies in her Stoke speech today. Is anybody surprised? https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/1084602078419476482

It wasn't obvious, even on the replay, but it looked to me like there was the slightest clip of Valery's foot as well as the shoulder contact. Anybody going full pelt and caught on their standing foot is going to lose their balance and go over. So I don't think he dived, but I can also see why the officials didn't think it was worth a penalty either.

The sight of those oh-so-brave Derby fans flooding onto the pitch to goad us from behind the safety of a line of coppers in the 07 playoffs still irks me. Would be good to exorcise that at SMS on Wednesday.

That's my understanding. He isn't cup tied as such, and would be available to play against Accrington if we beat Derby, but because he wasn't registered as part of our squad when the original tie was played he's not eligible for the replay.

Alright, fair enough everyone. It just looked a little odd on the face of it, and I'm sure Alex himself would tell you he is disappointed to have let it in.