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Morris is going to be a handful. They look for him every time they have the ball.

I think Derby are going to be horrible to play against. Have disliked them since they beat us in the playoffs and goaded us on the pitch instead of celebrating their own win. Their fans actually seem to be proud of their shit football. Here's a few quotes from their forum: 'Dark arts, slow it all down, long balls in to channels behind their full backs.' 'If you're right then Travis or whoever needs to go down after 5 minutes and then ROD needs to have ankle problems a few minutes later. Try and suck the energy out of the match.' 'Can't wait for the "view from outside" post after this one. I'm dreaming of: "Beat Arsenal but cant score against Derby County". "They are the worst team I've seen at St Mary's this season. Their Captain is the king of $hithousery". "Morris bullied us from minute 1". "Hope we dodge them if we are both in the play offs. They've got some units". ' Hope we smash them.

But shit that it’s digital tickets- nice to have a physical one to hang on to for games like this.

You reckon? I would’ve thought we would.

On the Saturday you also have the following London teams at home: Fulham V Villa; West Ham V Everton; Arsenal v Newcastle; Charlton v Hull; QPR v Derby; Barnet v Gillingham; plus Luton v Barnsley.

After the Fulham game, Scienza played v West Brom and got injured in the first half. Happy to protect him if it means he can play on Saturday.

Had a quick look at the Wrexham forum and it’s fair to say a lot of them are fearful of us after watching the Arsenal game. Amazingly, one of them pointed out that our starting lineup v Arsenal didn’t contain a single player who also started v Wrexham in the first game of the season.

Funnily enough we were discussing where this ranked in terms of St Mary’s games. General consensus was top 3 was: West Brom Playoff semi, Inter Milan and this game. Quite a few honourable mentions though.

Biggest variable of which division are we in next season. If we some how go up, we can let him go on a free.

Any streams?

Win this and we’ll also be 3 points behind Hull, who don’t have a midweek game. I actually think we are just as likely to catch them as we are Wrexham.

We still would've been shit under Still. Don't forget he played a back four for almost all of preseason then switched to an untested formation when the season started. Awful management.

Need to really go for it in the second half. Hope Tonda can change the game like he did at Leicester. Agree Fellows could come off- really not offering much.

There's also been quite a few times when Stewart has run across the line and got himself into a good position and the player on the ball hasn't looked up or has passed sideways instead.

Peretz might’ve done better with the first goal but he saw it late and it came through Stephen’s legs. No way he can be blamed for either of the other 2.

Charlton coming to keep it tight I think. Might take a set piece or a bit of magic to get a goal and open the game up.

Interesting that Tonda mentioned that Jelert can play at left back unprompted in his press conference. Wonder if we’ll see him there today.

Assume Tonda’s presser is today at some point?

Thought his hold up play was good today. All we need is someone to make the ball stick and bring others into play and he looks like he can do that.

He would’ve been well off but the flick on was by a Leicester player.

Was going to ask the same. Not sure if those abroad are able to watch via the website?

Sounded like it was fitness as Tonda mentioned that our CMs have been running over 12km a game recently and that’s needed to play that position in this formation.

Get the fuck in. What a second half. Ross Stewart outstanding I thought.

One Azaz contribution that’s perhaps gone unnoticed is that when Peretz gave the ball straight to the Watford player on the edge of our box, it was Azaz who sprinted back to apply pressure and actually got his foot on the shot to take the sting out of it.

Was going to say this too. Think we need to switch it up a bit and play over the top/in the channels a bit. Get Stewart up against their CBs and players around him. Then stick Larin on to do the same.