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Where has this come from? Not seen any mention of it.

I think we should go on the strong side for this game. The players will have had a fortnight of not being on the pitch together competitively so inevitably some ring rust will have developed as always after an international break. Use this game to bed the players back in so they are up to speed ready to face Wrexham who will already have played away to West Brom on the Friday. We can't afford to risk resting most of the team against Arsenal and then finding they are not at the races when we face Wrexham. It's a tricky one but Tonda normally gets things right. Would love to beat Arsenal but the Wrexham game is more important in the grand scheme of things.

I think the opposite. Having lost a final today they will want to make amends in their next game which is against us so will probably now go stronger than if they'd won today.

2.5 per game from last 12 is amazing and has propelled us into a play off spot.

He's put some serious bend on that.

What sort of game did Fellows have?

Only once or twice 🙂

30 points out of possible 36. Take a bow Tonda!

Another clean sheet for the back four and Peretz.

They'd won 3 and drawn 1 in last 4. We despatched them comfortably and could have won by more. Brilliant way to go into the international break.

He needs to up his game for me. Think Bragg is unlucky not to get a start.

Be interesting to see the formation. I'm scratching my head because we've only named one winger.

Fellows needs to shake off the wing back mentality and start playing further forward as an out and out winger. He's receiving the ball far too deep and always having to weave through traffic to get on the offensive. He needs to let go of the defensive mindset and concentrate on being a proper winger. It'll help get him to the byline to get crosses in or to duck inside and cause havoc. The wingback role has blunted his effectiveness as a winger. Go for it Tom and throw caution to the wind.

Think Leo and Ross will be wrapped in cotton wool on the bench and only unwrapped if desperately needed. Tonda will hope to win this one without risking them and then they get more time to fully recover during the international break.

Yet, as if by an unseen force, his shirt clearly stretched as though it had been pulled - maybe he did it himself. Seen them given for less.

We actually have the easier set of fixtures left.

A stronger referee would have clamped down on the Norwich thuggery much earlier with yellow cards and warnings of reds if they didn't cut it out. They were allowed to get away with it for way too long and it stopped us getting into a good rhythm and frankly wasn't conducive to a good game of football. Ok it's a physical game but there are boundaries which Norwich players regularly crossed but went largely unpunished for doing so. Glad Leo didn't play because they'd have kicked him all over the pitch. It was good to beat them and send them home with nothing especially after their cheated goal at home with the blatant handball.

Absolute slander.

Right on cue!

Got to thanks Turkish for that 🙂

If he'd come on tonight Norwich would have kicked the shit out of him. He was in the best place tonight.

Yeah he is getting all the luck poor old Bazunu never did. Also worth mentioning he understands all about positioning, he opens his gob to his defenders, makes worldy saves, punches the ball and is half decent with his feet too so yeah agree, he's quite lucky.

I'll not judge us on tonight which was always going to be tough after a huge win at Coventry and because Norwich are the form team. They were desperate for the 3 points as well to keep them in with a feint chance of the play-offs. We'll play better than that and have big players coming back. Tonight was more about getting the 3 points than a performance to drool over. It must have been nervy out there and that saps the energy especially after Coventry. Big win in my book.

To think we paid £12million for Bazunu 🙂

Try looking at the bigger picture rather than squinting down your nose at the result. We won!