Shak

Trippier been useless like.

Aye had that thought but the downgrade from Bruno to Longstaff is frightening. There's such little quality in the ball in our CM now. Wonder if we really go after Neves now.

Longstaff man, such an utter clogger

Be not shocking at all if he had a badly injured calf and had to come off straight away

Hope Mudryk is a massive flop.

Isak on, stick him on the left?

Christ, Maxi is such a crock

Really not a fan of this 11, there's just such a lack of quality in the final third. I guess the idea is that we're so defensively solid with it that we're hoping to nick games but we don't really look like creating anything at all when we have possession in the final third. It's all going to be predicated on winning the ball high up the field and catching a team out with the press. We've got two CMs sharing one CM role and the left sided attacker role and our most advanced CM is a hard working but incredibly limited player who offers nothing on the ball. Now that the one midfielder with some quality on the ball is injured we desperately need to change. Howe is going to have to start trusting ASM, hopefully he's the one who comes on.

Yeah once he was past Mitro it looked primed for him to take another touch and have a shot, was weird he seemed desperate to get rid of it.

Weirdly shite on the ball from Trippier twice in quick succession there, had plenty of time and just played rush balls that looked like they weren't to anyone in particular.

Aye, but the comprehensive streaming platform would be in addition to all the other deals they have. You'd still be selling games to Sky, BT and the rest because not everyone is going to want to fork out a couple of hundred quid for a yearly PL subscription but millions would. Maybe those deals would get a little smaller but they'd still be getting monstrous viewing numbers. Not like sports fans are going to ditch those channels either, unless they've no interest in any of the other sports on there. I'm not seeing it as a way to streamline things for fans like, moreso to gouge diehards for even more money

I wonder how far away we are from a Premier League streaming platform where you can just pay a yearly fee and watch any game you want, either live or on a delay.

And just to add to that, we won't be too heavily disadvantaged in terms of prep time for the West Ham game on February 4th. Our second leg semi will be on the Tuesday before while West Ham are the Monday night game in the FA Cup 4th round so only an extra 24 hours for them.

Couple of nice little scheduling breaks for us coming up. Fulham this weekend we'll have had two days extra rest and prep going onto it and then Saturday week we'll be going to Palace with a full week to get ready while they'll have had Man U the Wednesday before. Such a huge opportunity coming up with Man U and Liverpool entering tough runs of fixtures while we have four very winnable games. Obviously there are no easy fixtures but 9 or 10 points from our next four fixtures is very doable and would likely have us in a very nice spot with no European football (and only one potential cup game... which we'd manage to pay some attention to I'm sure) to distract in the run-in. Feels fucking nostalgic being excited about the future, haven't been this excited since the peak Bobby years.

I'll have to turn my phone off for weeks if we lose a final to Man U. That's about half my friends just getting cut out completely, the gloryhunting cunts

Forest like us will also have no game in between the two legs which will help them. Still fancy Man Utd over the two legs.

Be great if we played Wednesday first week then Tuesday second week. Makes it even tighter for Southampton with the game in between. Gives us an extra day before West Ham in the league too.

Are both of the games on Wednesday? Southampton having the FA Cup fixture in the middle is nice, they'll rest players you'd assume but it'll take focus off the 2nd leg.

What time is the draw?

Not sure what I want in the draw. Think there's definitely a case to be made that Man U over two legs might be better than a one off game.

Not sure there's enough quality on the ball between Willock and Joelinton to be a long term pairing in LCM and LW. Not where we're hoping to go, anyway. I think we'd struggle to break teams down. Maybe if we were to get someone like Maddison in alongside Bruno in CM it could work.

Maybe Joelinton is actually left footed? Such a cool finish.

Would be such an incredible upgrade

Almiron is on it today.

If the ref knew it was a head injury why did he wait until Leicester lost the ball?