Dark Munster

Yes, just like 1974 and 1978 were miserable for England fans.

One of Portugal and Italy were going out anyway.

🤣 On yesterday's BBC predictor thing they asked which of Italy, Portugal, Turkey or N. Macedonia would quality, so I voted for N. Macedonia for a laugh!

How about 30,000 thumbs up?

Yes, they along with Wigley and Gray are worthy candidates too, but Saggy trumps all of them. A total conman, and a semi-decent manager would've kept us up. And as for that thumbs up to Mad Milan after the Krapp Nottarf humiliation .....

Worst. Saints. Manager. Ever. Even worse than Br*nf**t. Quite an achievement that.

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He didn't wait until we were losing. Broja/Adams were about to come on before Salisu gave Jesus the opportunity to throw himself to the ground (which Mike F. Dean was all over like a bulldog on a pork chop fallen on the floor).

Seven changes for Liverpool, with Mane and Salah not even on the bench. Rather arrogant from Klopp, with no big matches coming up soon. Forest are no mugs, as Arsenal and Leicester can testify.

He completely scuffed it. If it had gone in it would've been lucky.

Yes, but the game would've been completely different, so he wouldn't have had those chances. He may have had different chances, but we'll never know. If City had been 4-0 up at half time I could understand criticising the starting front two, but as it was we were at 1-1 with Broja/Adams about to come on.

We'll never know of course, but I very much doubt it.

Easy to say in hindsight. It was 1-1 at half time, and it was Salisu who did that stupid little shove to give Jesus the opportunity to dive for Mike Dean. At that point Adams and Broja were warming up, to about to come on.

But they gave one of the best teams on the planet a decent game until handing a penalty decision on a plate to Mike Dean. Even after that, Adams had a good chance to equalise. At the end of the day class players won it, so I have no complaints with how Ralph handled it.

Dive + Mike F Dean = penalty

That should be 2 yellows

Mike Dean winning the midfield battle for City.

Ralph is wearing a snazzy Waistcoat. So he clearly is taking this game seriously.

I think that’s exactly it. It may not work but with FF in goal, a decent back line and midfield, it’s not a bad idea. Try to keep it level by half time, then bring on the “big” guns in the second half. Also the starting front 2 are pacy so may cause problems on the break.

Yep. After Long scores in 7 seconds he’s replaced by Adams. Then Broja comes on at half time

Willy is a decent back up, given our circumstances. But clearly FF is the better goalie, so it makes zero sense to drop him for an inferior backup against City. Not as bad as dropping Stu Armstrong for Walcott, but that's not the point. Anything less than the best (fit) 11 is mental, except maybe a decent starting 11 with a strong backup to bring on in the second half (for example, save Broja for the second half/extra time). The starting 11 we had for West Ham would be suicidal against one of the best teams in the world.

Worryingly, Ralph does have a weird sense of humour.

Depends who's doing it.

As I've said before, keep it at 3 (outfield) subs, but also allow a goalie sub for injuries even if the three outfield subs have been used.

Haaland would be much better.