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With a 8 days before and 6 days after this match no need to rest players unless have a niggle. It's nice to have a nearly injury free squad at the moment, could have done with this a month or so ago when the games were coming thick and fast and some resting and rotation would have been beneficial.

I have just remembered that once Bill Maynard the actor (Selwyn Froggit from the 70s series) was with him, of all people.

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He seemed to frequent The Otter at Otterbourne in the day, I presume that he lived locally at that time.

No excuses today, strong team line up against a weakened bottom of the table club.

I watched the Burnley match, did Sheff Utd have to work hard with 10 men? Hopefully will not have recovered in under 3 days time! Any more injuries for them?

Exactly. If ever there was a case of hand to ball and not hit at speed from close distance.

We played right into Leeds hands, 2 of their goals were typical Leeds breakaway goals and the free kick goal was from a similar break away. I think that we should have played in a similar way as against Chelsea, less gung ho and more compact. The problem is that when the 'easier' matches come along our confidence will be shot and we could struggle even in those games.

7 points from the last 13 matches, 23 from the first 12. With the way we are going at the moment it could easily be 7 from 16.

OK thanks. All I remember seeing on the BBC match text and SW match thread was that KWP had come off and Salisu came on, I didn't realise that there had been a change of shape.

I didn't watch the match yesterday. How did Salisu get on a RB yesterday once KWP had gone off? Better than Stephens when he stepped in a RB?

Watching WBA v MU, a month ago I'd be wanting a WBA win now looking for a MU win. I know that we will not lose all of our remaining games but I do struggle to see where the next points are going to come from. Even when we play the bottom 3 they'll either be fighting to make up the points deficit or be nice and relaxed having accepted their relegation fate if not mathematically possible to avoid relegation.

Get a point at least to get us off the 29 points that we are stuck on. Hope KWP injury isn't too bad. Chelsea and Leeds next!!

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This.

Wow 4 league loses in 11 days, has there ever been such a rapid loss of league games for us? It is madness though, over 10% of the league games played in only 11 days.

IIRC he has been coming on as a sub about half way through the 2nd half for their last few matches not sure of he is ready to start a match yet though.

I thought that previously it was seen that a penalty and a yellow card was sufficient for denying a goal scoring opportunity not a red card? And as for slightly brushing the leg of an attacker who hangs out a leg and goes down too easily, it's farcical.

It wasn't 10 or more!!

Can only assume that but seems strange that a week ago Vokins and Valery were OK as stand ins and now both have gone out on loan, after Ralph has assessed them for many months in training. I think that it is a mistake letting them go out on loan when a week ago they were seen as 1st choice replacements. In contradiction to many on here I don't think that we're playing too badly in the last 3 league games IMO we were the equal of Leicester, slightly inferior to Arsenal with 2 (3) replacement defenders and better than Aston Villa, converting chances has been our downfall but that doesn't make all of our play or players rubbish. Players and manager were mostly lauded on here a month or so ago and now most of our players are apparently not good enough, as a ex-manager used to say 'not too high when you win , not too low when you lose'.

I remember them playing We are the champions by Queen in the late 70s, it seemed to be their default record at the time when they didn't have a record requested to be played for some ones birthday etc. I also remember that some records jumped as if a number of them were warped and the crowd cheered when it happened.

When I played for 2nd Southampton Cubs team in the early 70s our formation was: 1 - GK 2- RD, 3 CD, 4 CD, 5 LD 5 - Lone midfielder (I can't remember what we called the position) 7- Right Wing, 8 Inside Right, 9 Centre Forward, 10 Inside Left, 11 Left Wing So a 4, 1, 5 formation and we won the league!

Injury update from Ralph: “Not on Tuesday, definitely not, but maybe on Saturday,” he said of potential return dates. “The earliest return will be Ingsy, then Moussa maybe, with Ori and Reddy also in this group.“Then maybe Jannik, but that can be in February, and Salisu is still longer out with a muscle injury.“We have some problems at the moment with muscle injuries and there are some reasons I think that are responsible for this.“We are in a fantastic building here but we cannot use anything (due to Covid-19). We cannot use our cryo chamber, the sauna, the pool, nothing, and we have still the same games with the same intensity.

Info from Ralph: “It will be a mixed group tomorrow – some guys who have to play, because there are not a lot of alternatives, and some young guys will have to step in and show what they have shown in the sessions: that they are developing their game and deserve to get a chance to play.”

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