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He maybe did when we had Maxi playing but when he wasn't and he and Joe held down the left hand, side they were a lot more fluid, interchanging loads to the point where you couldn't really say who was wide and who was more central. Don't expect it to happen when Barnes plays though.

Sure it's not a cough?

Did Villa play that high a line in other games this pre-season ?

I dont think he considered Joe a winger either.

When it was him and Joe on the left they dovetailed, read each other really well which made them a bugger to get close to.

I'm not keen on him either.

Is Schar doubtful ? I thought his omission from last weekend was precautionary.

Because we have the midfielder, wide forward and right back we were after.

You'd think in this day and age you'd be able to choose your own narrator, like you could change the sat nav voice.

Deserves to be megged off a toddler then.

Close. I'd have gone for Sammy Johnson's Sid the sexist. From beyond the grave obvs.

One of our lot has family there. Lovely people, he was NUFC through and through but with the thickest, I'm guessing Smethwickian, accent ever. Put us up and put up with us, cracking and unexpected Sunday dinner as well. But I'd never seen so many Ford Cortina's, even passing a car with a cover on, lifted the cover what are the odds.....a Mk IV fucking Cortina !

We stayed in Smethwick. Cortinaville.

Been linked with the West Brom keeper I think.

So that leaves just one chance to play them this season

And Sunderland won a cup. So I'd rather they just do what they did for Le Tour after the Armstrong years and just enter "no winner" in the history books.

You really think he has a clue what Pease pudding is ? He's told what to say for the sake of the piece.

Just passed a coach on Stamfordham Road with a "Queens Park Football Club" sign in the front window. Behind closed doors friendly ? Can't think where else it would be going.

Also strange the bits that are in quotes and those that aren't.

The only bit that sounds iffy, and it may be nuance, is that the fans may not be excited by these signings (or that's how it reads).

Salah and Mane were weren't they ?

I really don't think Rafa could have created this Murphy.

To be fair "team sheet" now is squad.

and he's loving it.

Come on man, look at the Joelinton thread, Gordon's, ASM's, Burn's etc