Rich

Dummett lets nowt past him like.

Some good defending on show here.

Got to justify him being our third(?) highest paid player somehow!

Why’s he not putting that in the stand man?

Sanchez on the take here like.

We’re out tic-tacing them here so far. Looks like Mou wasn’t ready for a Bruce 5-3-2.

Why is Almiron on the right of the three?

Match thread auto unlocks at kickoff? My word.

Well, it’s different. Where da fook are Fernandez and Fraser??

Tommy Wright must be one?

Dalglish? Gullit? Souness?

At least he’d have plenty of pace around him with this. There’s no way Miggy can offer less than Hayden does on the left of the three. While it’s not ideal, Fraser surely has to start while he appears to have found a bit of form/confidence and if the other two are back they’re the first names on the team sheet.

Time to let our hair down. Dubravka Manquillo Lascelles Fernandez Dummett Willock Shelvey Almiron Saint-Maximin Wilson Fraser

Ah for the days when Alan Pardew and Danny Simpson were my two biggest gripes.

Monsieur Bruce, with zis return you are really spoiling us!

Seems likely for both him and ASM last I read, both been training for a little while now.

Regardless of the idiocy of his comments, love one of the chunkiest keepers of the modern era giving it large about "running".

Heartbreaking reading stuff like this. I was buzzing to be able to take the bairn (now two-and-a-half) to the match with his Uncle @HUGZ when he got a bit older, but there's nee chance of that as it currently stands. Suppose he might be better off in the long run, like, I still carry anger around with me every day due to the state we're in and it can't be healthy.

He's an absolute chud that Alex Hurst kid like. Fucking embarrassment.

Brilliant that, what a bloke.

Dat ambition, on both sides.

How apt that this is the largest football thread aside from the ones that have had sequels. I’m at a 6, but only because Fulham are gash.

34 yes, 80 no as it stands. Not what I was expecting to see, but there've been some great posts that have made me reconsider my own stance. Will reset after the Spurs game if I remember, as it’ll be interesting to see if anything changes.

He was on my train to London when I was a kid, about 10 or 11, no idea how I knew who he was. In a rare brave moment I got him to sign a paperback I’d bought at the station called “Dancing With Death” and can still vividly remember him looking at the title and saying “Dancing With Death? Bloody ‘ell!” and his wife telling him off for it. Will definitely be watching that tomorrow as well, cheers for the reminder chaps.

Was surely someone, or a collective of people, off here. Genuinely no clue but have my suspicions. Massive miss, even though it got a bit wrapped up in itself by the end.