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I think we need to start a solid first XI, with attacking options off the bench later on. I’d put AA back out wide and start Mara. Hopefully it’s: Bazunu, KWP, THB, Bednarek, Manning, Downes, Smallbone, S. Armstrong, Edozie, Mara, A. Armstrong. Possibly with Fraser starting over Edozie.

This looks good but surely if Fraser isn’t playing then Edozie deserves to start over Sulemana?

Rothwell I think.

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I’m pretty sure Bayer Leverkusen are unbeaten all season, including in the Europa league. Must be getting on for 30 games.

The new Northam Kop looks quite steep!

Be interesting to see how Swansea set up for this one. They tried to go toe-to-toe with us on Boxing Day and got smashed. Hopefully the fact they’re at home will mean they go for it again and don’t do a Norwich.

Ideally we want to be top 2 by the end of these 10 games because then we have to go to Leicester, Ipswich and Leeds in the remaining 10. Don’t really want to be going into those games needing 3 points to keep up with the teams above us.

Fuck Sunak. He doesn’t give a shit about Saints, just trying his hardest to look like a normal bloke before an election year. Well done Martin for not buying it.

Plymouth won the league last year tbf.

We’re not going to get £15m for Che when his contract is up in the summer. We’d be lucky to get a third of that and he may well be happy to wait until the summer to leave on a free and assess his options. We are also not going to be spending £30m, or anything near it, on one player. We’re in the Championship. Firstly, that amount of money is way too much for us, secondly why would a player worth that much choose to come to us and not the prem teams who are interested in him?

At least we have the distraction of lots of football in January, unlike the summer when it’s nothing but stupid rumours.

I think KWP is both the best right back and the best left back in the league. Whichever side he plays on, we completely dominate. Think RM got it right playing him left today, and Bree was solid on the right.

Ha, true. Maybe we could use the money from his wages for a decent loan from a Prem team. Think we’re allowed 1 more loan player?

Best case scenario would be sell him in January and get a small amount for him before his contract is up. Reinvest any money (and saved wages) for someone who can help us in the second half of the season.

Leaving the ground was a joke too. I get that the station was shut so we had to go another way but forcing 3000 fans to squeeze between all of the coaches was just dangerous.

Agree but we’d surely be playing Charles if we were going to set up like that? I look forward to seeing them break with 4 players through on goal from one of our own attacks.

Watch him for the first goal. Jogging back as Edozie gets beaten at the back stick.

I always think with Djenepo that although he’s not a great player, at least he seems to invest a lot of his money back into his community in Mali. So the wages aren’t being completely squandered.

Or has the medical abroad.

We haven’t managed to get rid of Lyanco yet…

He looked like he’d done something when he overstretched trying to keep the ball in against Reading- you can see it on the behind the scenes video.

Got 3 spare tickets for today as they haven’t been picked up. Face value and can meet at the ground.

Before Chelsea, Selles takes about how the best teams have a core of 7/8 players that play all the time, usually through the spine of the team. I think we could do that and make a couple of tweaks. Would like to see: Bazunu KWP, ABK, Salisu, Perraud JWP Lavia Stu Sulemana Adams Onuachu Not sure if Sulemana is disciplined enough defensively but feel we’d offer more threat, especially on the counter, than if Moi is in there. If Moi needs to play just take our Adams and play same front 4 as Chelsea but with that defence.

Hmm, not what I would’ve selected by any stretch but let’s see what system they play and how they perform before we write Selles off completely. If we get to half time still in it, there’s scope to change it up.