Greenridge

The marking of Kane for the second was even worse than I thought at the time.

Ralph seems to have somewhat of a Jose M approach to man-management in some respects....

Ralph is starting to worry me a tad..

I’m a big Ralph fan but he seems to be trying to be too ‘clever’ with some of his teams selections which remind of the Burley days of square pegs in round holes and Puel team tombola.

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And Arsenals’ Elneny is seemingly on his way to Besiktas so that option might be gone too.

Just raising whether there’s more to his absence than any form of hissy fit.

September 2nd transfer deadline....?

Now that would be weird. It’s coming from Blackmore so he’s either been drinking or got some inside info.

Just Jan and Danso at CB, no Bertrand or Adams in the squad.

Did I read somewhere that Ralph said Danso was going to start at left back at Brighton even before Bertrand's 'injury' or am I just imagining that in the summer heat haze?

Blackmore is saying there are two other club options in addition to Monaco for Lemina.

‘In talks with’ is stretching it somewhat it would seem.

Worryingly I’m taking an LFC season ticket holding mate as a guest. He’s promised to keep his celebrations low key but I’m now fearful he’s going to give his true allegiance away! I might superglue him to his seat.

It will be interesting to hear what Ralph has to say about that in his post-match interview

That’s what the Burnley forwards will be doing.

No PEH but Stephens in. In Ralph we trust

Adam Blackmore confirming it’s effectively done and will be confirmed in the morning.

‘Suothampton’

There was a feature on SkySports today whereby they talked about the whole system being electronic now, and has been for some time. Definitely no fax machines involved!

If it's Kevin Danso then we'll have to get behind the 'in Ralph we trust' line.

It’s been mentioned many times that we are operating a one out one in strategy. On the assumption the Austin deal goes through then we should expect someone through our door.

Is he injured yet?

It's going to be a tumbleweed day. No one else is joining the train. Shame as the PR Dept went to a lot of effort on that.

Can he play at CB?