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Perhaps Hughes has been instructed to start including some of the young players

I've just got a feeling about today... don't know why, but something in the air tells me we're going to get something today.

Sounds like Watford were all over them, missed loads of chances. No doubt that they won't be so generous next weekend...

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True, Fulham took many teams apart last season. But under Pellegrino we beat them fairly comfortably in the cup.

I said this last season and I'll say it again - defensively we're too good to go down. Our problem at the moment is scoring goals but we're not leaking goals at the moment and historically it's teams who can't defend that go down. And there are three worse teams than us in the league, we haven't been in the relegation zone at any point.

MLG - Why is Martin Hunter unemployed on the game? He still works for us

On Football Manager, I just played Man City away. We drew 2-2 with them, Shane Long scoring twice, including a goal after 30 seconds.

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We only lost on aggregate to them 3-1 last season, it was 4-1 the previous season (even though we did get a point up there, Redmond scored a goal!) I'm afraid though that it really is a case of how many they will score. I just hope that we make some sort of a game of it, because we simply rolled over against Liverpool and Chelsea.

Oh I hope so, this thread needs a boost of some kind. I remember when we got through multiple pages in one day, now it's one page every couple of months.

I think Palace, Everton and Leicester spend more than us. Palace gave Zaha a bumper new deal which pushed them higher. West Ham on that chart seem a bit too low as well.

Seen a few posts on twitter of Saints fans laying shirts and scarves at the stadium. Nice to see, and certainly the gestures were very much appreciate by Leicester supporters.

Good to see. I really do think he can be a big player for us in the future, a bit of Lallana to him. Hopefully without flipping like a burger.

Managed by a certain H. Redknapp?

Early prediction, but I'm not sure we have much of a chance on Sunday...

It's definitely time to stop persisting with Austin, that much is certain. We lack a creative number 10 IMO. Boufal should've been that player but barely turned up.

Not a chance, Hughes isn't that stupid. Austin will be dropped for a centre back, Ings up top.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/46008881?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5bd5afee0f6a310667f54e86%26Decision%20to%20be%20made%20on%20cup%20tie%262018-10-28T12%3A47%3A42%2B00%3A00&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:c24083a7-e1ce-4059-8215-a02aaefec454&pinned_post_asset_id=5bd5afee0f6a310667f54e86&pinned_post_type=share Apparently Leicester have already requested to the EFL to postpone the game, so I imagine it's just a case of us agreeing to it. Given that we asked for a game to be postponed when Markus passed away, I can't imagine any reason why we would object.

We kept Bournemouth out, many teams this season have failed there, defensively we’re actually doing OK. Obviously Man City will be a different story

Bring back Gordon Strachan I say. At least the fans will be on board with him and he won't take any sh!t from these primadonna players.

https://twitter.com/News_Executive/status/1056289562148913155 Normally a very reliable source.

Behave. Ludicrous statement.

Stoke would've stayed up had Hughes still been in charge, they only won what was it once after he left? If someone like Jardim is available and he wants to come here, then we should make a move for him immediately. Or someone who can coach an attack.

No idea what team will be named for this one, Gunn in goal one assumes, does Hughes chop and change or try and name a settled team? Given we play on the Sunday next week anyway I'd be tempted to at least stick with the same defence.