Dark Munster

Fourpast, Bale ....

Terrible defending for the second goal, and the 2 or 3 close calls. Give credit to Villa though, they’ve been excellent.

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As an Albanian his English is excellent, almost flawless.

https://youtu.be/pbMAKr6s08Q

Yes, but Ralph's reasoning for making 9 changes was to give others, some who played in the earlier rounds, game time that he felt they deserved. An international break won't affect that mindset.

Well, I suppose effectively going down to 10 men if he comes on is game changing.

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/topic/54858-claude-puel

Isn’t he suspended?

Balls 3 and 4 are going to be sizzling hot to the touch.

I thought Saggy was going to be a good replacement for Wigley. Beat that!

If we get Boreham Wood at home I dread to think what our starting line up will be.

As soon as I saw the starting line up I knew we'd wrap it up in 97 minutes.

Even if he had thought Moyes would pick a weakened team, it's no excuse for this joke of a line up. He should've gone with the strongest, regardless. Congratulations Ralph, you've outdone Poch. I didn't think that was possible. Wanker.

Yes, but what if someone then gets injured? We'll be down to 10 men. And don't forget it could go to e.t.

I thought this was a new thread about today's f**king line up!

But the owners don't pick the team. Ralph has a good wage, does he also have a bonus for each position in the league? If not, there's nothing stopping him prioritising the Cup. And it's not like our finishing position is going to change much, barring an almighty collapse it's going to be close to where we are now.

Maybe, but $19m for Saints is like $190m for Chelsea!

I reckon FF would've saved one or two of the Liverpool penalties. Yes, many were very good, but some were nothing special. The "specialty penalty saver" keeper moved too soon, especially against the lower order penalty takers. And his penalty was laughable.

Good job, thanks. The H2H is really impressive. It's sobering to think that if we had the same H2H we'd currently be on 19 points, 19th and below Watford on GD!

Good points well made. You've convinced me on no changes from the Norwich starting line up.

Against Villa, for sure. For West Ham, which is an infinitely more important match, the only change I would make is Perraud for Tino, and move KWP to the right. Possibly Stephens for Bednarek if push comes to shove.