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Good move. They play nice football and are going well. Hopefully he'll do well and get a permanent move.

I don't think Hoj will play there. It'll be Danso LB in a 4 I reckon but f he does play wing back I'd expect him on the right with Cedric LB.

No idea of how we compare, but that was a young team out tonight. Barnes is 22, Slattery and O'Driscoll 20, and the rest 16-19, including a 16 year old debutant and 17 year old keeper. Was a strange line up too - 6 defenders and only 4 on the bench. It's a bit of a mess.

Behave. JWP is disliked by fans who want cruyff turns, hard tackles or running around like a headless chicken. He's a decent footballer who's played well this season.

Who says he's refusing to play?! I get that he wants a move, but that's completely different to going on strike. If you're suggesting that because you believe he's on strike that we should just bin him off, that's ridiculous.

You're comparing a peach with a cabbage mate. Vvd was massively in demand and sulked until he got the move he had lined up. Lemina seemingly has nothing lined up so has to put himself on display.

He's not a sufficiently big player to do a VVD and sit back pending the next window, he needs to put himself in the window. Whether his ego allows him to understand that is another matter though.

Yep, no brainer. He needs to be in the shop window, we need quality in midfield.

Yep, completely agree. Bigger / more successful businesses have no responsibility towards smaller /mismanaged businesses. Its a bit like saying that Amazon and Ebay should help out smaller online businesses in trouble, or that McDonald's and Greggs should have a whip round to save smaller ailing take away businesses. The bottom line is that businesses fail, its a sad fact of life.

BBC article says "League One will comprise of 23 clubs for the rest of the season, with only three teams to be relegated". Suggests Bolton live to fight on.

Matt Targett off injured in the 1st half for Villa. That lad has no luck.

Agreed. Crazy thing to do, there was no need to risk anyone . Obafemi and Long up front all day long in this tournament.

Was said in the build up thread that Hoj filling in at LB.

I'm not sure it's all over yet, still offers on the table.

He can but I'm guessing he's at right back if we have someone else filling in on the left. Sensible choice would have been Vokins if he was felt good enough.

Interesting. Vokins playing last night perhaps means that RH doesn't fancy him to step up yet.

He missed the Derby game too but if fit I think he'll play, probably DM. I think will also see a random youngster or two, perhaps Hansen on the bench. Impossible to predict but it could be something as random as.... McCarthy Stephens Hoedt Yoshida Cedric O'Connor Armstrong Boufal Djenepo Obafemi Long

He didn't compare Boufal to MLT. He made the point that they're both flair payers, and then highlighted some of the differences. To a large extent I agree with Useful Idiot. Boufal is the most talented player in our squad by a distance. However, he's not our best player because he doesn't seem able to translate that talent to being an effective team player over 90 mins. If he could be then we've got one hell of a player.

Behave. It was a pass, put it on a plate for him

We're not that good. Shocking performance. So disjointed.

Not wanting to take certain moves is very different to not wanting to play. He may have refused moves for all sorts of good reasons. Not sure how you lurch from that to assuming the fella didn't want to play.

Get to a game sometime, you'll hopefully get to see you what actually happens.

It's not as simple as that as I'm sure you appreciate. If/where he plays depends who we're playing and form of other players. We could go with 3 up top and he'd go out wide with 2 of Adams, Redmond or Ings. If we set up like we did today its hard to find a place for him.

1. That's not what was said. 2. An "investment" is not sinking personal monies into a football club. Dumping cash into a footy club for it to sign players ain't an investment.

Better perhaps, but we need pace against Liverpool so Long is much better suited than Ings imo.