Lighthouse

We have, as evidence by the three players who are in it. Without Baz, Lav and Aribo we’d mostly likely be playing a different formation with Forster, Moi and Redmond. Djenepo is only playing because we have injuries to two first choice fullbacks, Valery is clearly preferred to ABK and Lyanco today but that’s not to say this will be permanent. We just have better options. All that said, we’ve still got three weeks to go and are apparently still in the hunt for a decent striker.

Interesting team. Clearly Ralph feels three young debutants in one team is the limit for a trip to Spurs, which is fair enough. Really hoping Armstrong can catch a break this season and step up.

Not saying they’ll be in trouble as such but first game of the season, at home to a big but not fantastic team and a London rival, I’d expect them to look up for it. A 0-2 defeat is hardly a decent result, all things considered.

At 38/5 I was getting annoyed that I wouldn’t get time to drink more beer but the Rapids middle order stand of 120ish helped me out. It always looked comfortable after the three early wickets.

When you consider where we were over the last couple of years, I think life is generally a bit better for most people. As for the winter variant, who knows but Covid seems to have become endemic to the point that it’ll just be like any other winter flu. Everyone who wants a vaccine has he one and the at risk will get their boosters. For everyone else it’ll be unpleasant but not life threatening.

At the risk of being unpopular I’m going to say that Valero and Djenepo looked at worst competent in preseason in those positions. Everyone who’s seen the new lads play before reckons they’re the mutts, which is more than anyone an say about Long or Forster last season. Am I expecting big things this year? No, but I wouldn’t have us odds on for the drop either.

Been saying this for ages, can’t stand GSTQ on any level.

I’m just waiting for Lyanco to post something like, “just not our day today, we regroup and go again,” two days early on instagram.

If I had to put my money on one player at the club doing something like this, it’d be Lyanco.

It’s a step ahead of the other two simply by virtue of the hollow circle on the sponsors logo. Why they couldn’t do that on the other shirts I don’t know.

He never said ‘unique’, you just assumed. He actually meant ‘uncommon’.

Was that the one like Kenwyne’s almost hat trick against Birmingham, except it actually went in?

Cypress Hill?

At the risk of going all Godwin, this is like the Germans still, in 1970, saying, "no, we didn’t do anything wrong there." I’ll have a look around Clinton’s, see if they’ve got any ‘Sorry we interrupted your genocide’ cards.

Sheff Utd concede a goal straight from their own corner, must be a red and white thing. On a separate note, it was a good metre offside with no VAR.

I thought that was the Pointer Sisters?

F**k me, who died and made you Dalai Lama?

Fairly straight forward; you said we’d need a bit of luck to lose 3-0, so what happens if we don’t get it and luck is generally neutral in this game? What score would you expect then? Also I’m quite obviously talking about after the game.

It almost feels like some of these comparisons are being done for bait, knowing that they’ll attract ridicule from some and therefore generating the negative comments which they need to fight against. It’s a shame that women’s football seems to attract this kind of thing and both sides are as bad as each other. For every troll saying, “get back in the kitchen,” there’s some other idiot comparing Doris Bennett to Dennis Bergkamp. It never happens in other sports. If a woman wins gold in the commonwealth games 800m, nobody will be saying, “she’ll be very disappointed with that performance, 20 seconds behind the slowest mens time.”

Mollie King. She’s f**king gorgeous.

We’re short by a decent striker and possibly cover at FB but I can’t see much else happening for players in.

So what's a 'bog standard' result then, 6-0? People often say things like this but then never seem to throw out the bunting when we miraculously salvage a 2-1 defeat.

I would personally go with something like Baz Lyanco ABK Salisu KWP JWP Lavia Djenepo Aribo S Armstrong Adams Having said that I expect it to be Rom and Bednarek in for Lyanco and Lavia.

Most enjoyable with a woman who has a strong Germanic accent. So I’m told.

I jokingly said that it would get chalked off when VAR brought play back to give Monaco a penalty. It did look a bit theatrical from the Kingsland.