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It'll get postponed I think

Yep. I expect Son and Maddison on at HT, they'll have a real go. Weather that storm and we're just about there

Anyone know if Spurs have any injuries or are missing any players? Hardly been mentioned yet

Once we get Spurs out of the way we'll have 10 at Home and only 8 Away left to play. 32 points at halfway means 64 at the end of the season but given the extra homes there's no reason we can't aim for 70ish

Looks like a Rolls Royce atm, he's got the lot - touch, technique, range of passing, awareness, vision, quick and can break forward and get involved in the final third, got a decent shot on him and more than capable of playing that killer pass, decision making looks superb too. He also looks motivated and is a talker too, other players respond to him and he'll raise their games as a result. He's top fucking class

Can he play CM?

She's certainly informed and knows her stuff. Voice/accent is a bit irritating but I say exactly the same thing about Jamie Redknapp tbh, I'd much rather listen to her than him

I don't think he'll move. He's got every right to see his contract out whilst not playing but I'd like to think that he'd be more interested in playing rather than sitting on a bench watching others play. We'll see

Still trying to absorb this result and the way we started the game, we were flying from the first whistle. We clicked straight into a rhythm they couldn't cope with and we just blew them away so quickly and so easily that it's a good a start to the game as the first 25 mins of Spurs H 2 years back. Hell of a lot of focus being placed on how shit Man U were, and they 100% were, but not enough credit given to us for essentially ragdolling them about for half an hour to the extent that he had to sub one of them and change his team around before it got really out of hand. Can't remember going to a huge club/ground away from home and just dominating them like that. Humiliating stuff As soon as they did change it they looked a little better but the early goals dictated the pattern and tempo of the last hour. We had 2, didn't need any more and could sit back and allow them to come out and we could then hit them on the counter. I think it was a conscious decision and even then, we got hold of the ball with about 65 mins on the clock and kept it beautifully for basically 10 or 15 mins and that spell killed them off completely. They huffed and puffed but created barely anything of note. Teams have done that to us many times but the roles were reversed and it was fantastic to watch Spurs A next and even a point here would be canny. To get 3 from Vila and 3 from Man U in a week is a boost, another win away at Spurs would make it a perfect run but realistically we might drop a level and that would probably be expected. No reason why we can't go there and go toe to toe with them but stringing PL wins together past 4, 5, 6 off the spin is extremely tough. The fixtures get a little nicer after Spurs, we look full of confidence and we'll give anyone in the league a good game atm

Tonali needs to be in the middle though

Taking Zirkzee off within 30 minutes was like seeing a doctor making an open heart transplant in real life time. Majestic stuff

I need to sleep on it before I post in here tbh. I need to soak it up, let it simmer and settle in my mind before ejaculate my (extensive) post on here

These are fucked. Amorim send like a decent bloke tbh and a small part of me wants him to succeed. That said I think the squad he's inherited is completely unsuited to what he's trying to get them to do. He's probably a good manager, there's probably a lot of talent in the squad but the connecting simply isn't there. It'll cost a billion+ to sort it out or change the manager yet again

+0.04 on the xG. Get directly. The fuck. In

Hate playing these cunts down there, we never seem to get the rub. No reason why we can't beat them, the form both are in etc. Just can't shake this nagging feeling we're about to be stitched up, robbed or lose despite playing really well. Or maybe all of the above. Can't fault the team he's picked, just won the CM battle and that's half the battle. Come on, do these cunts please gentlemen

Sherwood virtually crying as Wolves are doing the very thing most teams do each time to kill a game off. Soft cunt "dark arts" klaxon now. "game management" from the top 6, "dark arts" from every other team. Wankers

An "economic lever" They're just fucking cheating man, amazing how some clubs 'exploit financial loopholes' or 'benefitting from intra-group transfers' or shit like that but when it's us it's cheating and financial doping etc. The double standards in play are absurd man

So, just a Lee Ryder article then?

I can understand the need to minimise waste and if there's savings that can be made then he's somewhat justified in doing it. Problem is where you look to save the money and is the negative PR it attracts worth the (relatively) small amount you save. It's like trying to lose weight by chopping your leg off

Don't understand the fact it's even seen as controversial tbh. It looked really dodgy and obvious at full speed and the slow mo makes it look even worse. He's clearly started tumbling, seen Schar fall in front of him and you can pinpoint the exact moment where he's instinctively thought 'I can do him here, I can stand/stamp/land on him here. I just need to make it look like it's an accident'. Problem being he didn't make it look like an accident. He made it look like he meant it because that's exactly what it was. Red mist, adrenaline, heat of the moment stuff but he tried to do him and rightly got the red. Not even up for debate imo. Not quite as obvious as when Shearer kicked Lennon in the face, that was far worse like, but it's in the same ballpark

Statement win that today, I know villa have slipped off recently away from home but they're still a quality team. That's as impressive a 3-0 as you'll see, the red helped obviously but we carved them open again and again. We looked sharp and switching Bruno and Tonali had benefited us going in both directions, we're creating and simultaneously look solid and we've kept teams to potshots really. Dubravka had barely had a shot to save fur hours now. I absolutely had doubts a month back but he's flipped it around, we look excellent again and he deserves the credit, can't wait for Monday night now

Must admit I agree, who gives a fuck. It's like the press are playing a game of Buckaroo and just piling on tiny, insignificant stories in the hope that one more (little thing in isolation) is the trigger that fucks the whole job completely. and I'm right here for it

Basically I'm saying the number that you put at the end of this sentence should be the size of the new ground: "If everything goes according to plan then we might need a ground big enough to hold ................" Whatever that number is, that's the new capacity imo

The way I see it we're only going to do this once so think as big a capacity as possible and build it that size. No point going 65k if it means we're still locking people out every week, we need a much money into the club as possible. If we need to grow into it then fine. If we're pulling in, say, 71k a week at first then that's fine. No point in going smaller then having to expand in 10 years time. Do it right, go big and make it superb. Please

Probably being a bit bullish here but I think we sell out 80k against virtually any opponent right now. The demand is there right now imo, people want to see this team and as we improve it'll only get a more and more desirable ticket to have. Bromley at home in the cup went to ballot. How many missed out? How many didn't apply because they knew they'd probably miss out? Confident we'd fill 80k virtually every game