Lighthouse

I’d say he had his Vestergaard moment of being decent for 7 or 8 games and now has reverted to being the player he was for two years before that. Looked like a passenger in the last three games.

Two yellows in three minutes by the looks of it.

Liverpool, MK Dons, Millwall…

Redmond and Armstrong for Smallbone and Moi IMO.

Newcastle fans singing, "Mike Ashley, he’s coming for you!" At Chelsea. 😆

Anyone would think we were a mid-table team who have periods of good form and periods of bad form.

What in the name of f**king f**Kerry was that!?

Free kick there just because it’s the keeper.

Like the back four. One striker is an interesting move.

Anybody going to take in a refugee?

I'd have Perraud and Redmond in for Moi and Liv but persevere with Broja for now.

If Ukraine did pull off the unthinkable and drive them out, we should offer Russia a fast track NATO membership. For their own protection.

And then there were five. I think it’ll come down to Burnley or Leeds, probably the latter. They need three goals just to get a point these days.

The Man With The Golden Wig

Ten hour round trip, early kick off, 6am start, not much to play for, for a championship game that’s one tele. Don’t think it’s that bad.

In terms of what the Ukrainians and Russians deserve and what’s fair, you’re absolutely right, I can’t argue. As a strategy for the greater good however, I think we’re better off staying out as much as possible, whilst supporting the resistance in Ukraine. As far as Russia are concerned, the less this war is about NATO the more infighting will begin to fester, as we’re starting to see. We don’t want to give in to temptation and become the distraction Putin craves. if Putin starts firing nerve agents at Russian speakers in Mariupol or Kharkiv, there’s an outside chance it might just be the end of him.

The Ukrainians could have played blinder there, preying on Putin’s paranoia, sewing the seeds of doubt that his own FSB may have betrayed his wishes. Whatever the case, he’s now reaping the rewards of an empire built on fear and yes men. If nobody dares tell you when you’re making grave errors, you’re never going to know. By all accounts his generals and spies have just told him the things he wanted to hear.

He’s really gone all in on the whole Hitler thing, you’ve got to give him that. I just hope someone puts the briefcase on the left side of the table leg this time.

That's one hell of an assumption to draw from a 20 year old having some mixed performances. The likes of Sims and Tella have been far more up and down and they were/are a couple of years older.

Last I saw he was getting involved in some 'stop the war' social media campaign which was basically laying the blame squarely at NATO's door. Then again, this is the same bloke that said he's a pacifist, wants to get rid of the nuclear deterrent and was pretty much the only person in Britain who believed Putin when he said those two assassins in Salisbury just happened to be there on holiday at that exact time. He still has supporters, who largely spend their days calling Starmer 'Keith' for having the audacity to be somewhat electable. In other news, I don't know what to make of these Syrian mercenaries. Surely Russian forces aren't that thinly spread and depleted already...

This doesn't seem to be leading to anything interesting or constructive. If you really must discuss gays, there's a thread in the lounge.

There’re a few rules I’d change about football. One of them is that if a player needs a physio on, the game carries on with them on the pitch. If that’s not possible, the ‘injured’ player has to leave the field for 5 minutes minimum whilst the game continues.

This pretty much sums it up for me. Apart from five minutes around their second goal they were nothing special but we rarely troubled them either. I think we should have gone Perraud for Livramento second half and swapped KWP across. Moi was too narrow and slow, he didn’t really offer much and the strikers didn’t have much to go on. I really want a better CB than Bednarek too.

I think we should supply the Russian peacekeepers with ammo. Ammo travelling at 700mph.

I want Mbappe for Theo Walcott.