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Find out when the funeral is next weekend and have the fixtures either side of it. Saturday and Monday or Friday and Saturday or Sunday and Monday. Absolutely no need to cancel. Her funeral should be a celebration of her life, after the funerally bit.

Mick Lowes was always an arrogant cunt. Had him and Alan Green to listen to on match days. Both cunts.

Funny looking bottle.

Yes but we will have only played 6 games. Most against good sides. We need players back.

We know mate, you've said.

@Heronwor Flags going to prepare something in tribute to madge?

If Karius is deemed good enough they will extend this to the end of the season. Bringing back Dubravka would be a last resort IMO. There's no ruling out that Karius might impress enough in training to get a long term deal as our number 2.

Better not be. Have a minutes silence FFS.

Don't think we have yet and either way you can normally get away with bringing in a keeper.

See how Benfica get on in the CL and go all out for that mint winger... rafa was it?

Still undecided on Arteta. I can't help but feel his bubble will burst. On the other hand I could see him managing Barca. He's an annoying little "fookin" bollock though.

I'm not a fan of making defensive choices based on the opposition. We should play what we think is our best defence and plan to implement our game on them. If we keep the ball, if we make the runs, if we put in the tackles, we should beat them, without having to change players to suit them.

Yes but do you completely disregard what happened in between? That's why it's so tricky. I like Moyes, he's actually grown on me as a bloke and I've seen some of his coaching videos online, which are decent. I do think there is a ceiling to his style of football though.

It's incredibly difficult to list them because you could look at it in a few ways. Trophies? Current club? Previous jobs? Potential? There's two things I'm sure about... Howe is mint and Gerrard is complete shit. The exact polar opposites in what I would want in a manager.

Guardiola Klopp Conte Eddie (haters gonna hate) Potter ETH Tuchel Rodgers Moyes Arteta Frank Viera Cooper Silva Hassenhutl Marsch Lage Lampard Parker (gone) Gerrard

Don't for a second think Tuchel is behind their recruitment.

It's the lack of preparation and training time between matches that causes the issues.

I think you have to take into account the first half battering they had for about 20 minutes. Miggy hit post, Botman twice, Longstaff header, Isak chance. This is where they get their metrics from. Even in the second half Willock could have had a couple.

Pretty pleased with my take from page 3.

Yeah, I'm totally with that. The issue is that other sides do exactly that, and we end up getting battered from time to time. Getting a heavy defeat is tough for the kids, they lose confidence and it gets them down. The key is to try and make games competitive, that way they learn regardless of results. It's challenging though.

1 good one in January would be nice. If they are anything like Bruno, Botman, Isak, Pope, Trippier, they will elevate us again. Someone exciting in the AM/RW would be sweet.

My personal favourite is when anyone and everyone is a "championship player", Longstaff gets it alot. Alot of these players are doing awfully well for championship players, since they are sitting mid table in the PL. Someone said the same about McTominay, who just helped Man Utd win 3-1 against Arsenal. Disclaimer: I'm not saying anyone is above criticism, it's just the way some go straight to the red button.

My U10s played a tournament today, 3 games, lost 2 and drew 1 but in reality we should have won two, we played really well. It's incredibly hard as a coach trying to balance wanting a competitive team, by playing your strongest players and not wanting to leave kids out or disappointing parents.

Won't happen but: Pope Trippier Schar Botman Targett Bruno Joelinton Anderson Miggy ASM Isak West Ham are fragile IMO. Get into them early. 0-2

Wonder how Scott Parker is feeling this morning? Fucking idiot. Also, if Bournemouth hire O'Neil off the back of a couple of decent results they deserve to go down. Would be nice to see them have some forward planning rather than just reacting to a result or two.