Wolfcastle

Used to play for Derby too - so in every way

Never won at Wimbledon have we? Suppose its interesting enough, better all round if it were a home tie mind

Beyond parody. (*literally as I just made a remark above not knowing this was actually already the case) Almost worth taking the hit on ever winning it to mercy kill this miserable cup off. Will be City again, like coming through against Blackburn last year and feeling it was all for nowt.

Just made a remark about that in the cup draw thread and about how it will become a rule before long - had no idea it already was, ffs its literally beyond parody. Wouldn't piss on this sport if I was starting over.

Got a feeling the teams in Europe will get home draws to save travel, by chance, it'll be the rule before long though

Been like Blackburn in the FA Cup last year this *last time we had a pen shoot out too for those asking

Fingers crossed eh?

Isak's our best pen taker, a factor to consider

Vicki still a tidy bit of tackle though

Remember when games used to be more often than not fun at this stage of this competition. Used to really look forward to them for us and generally. Feel like resented inconvenient obligations to fulfil and get over with now.

Old school number. Followed traditionally by "you're shit aggh" most fun you could get at some games in those days

PSR is working just as intended. Fine and challenge free for first dibs for some, hands tied behind their backs for others, would-be challengers especially.

Perfect game to start him in really and to ease him back in generally - a league cup game. Typically it would be in a stroll against some lower league side but a lower Premier League side is as good as it gets for us in this cup so what they hey.

They've got more money. If it wasn't for FFP/PSR we'd be the fastest least fussiest signers of all

Just checked out the scores, what a plethora of uninteresting fixtures. Last thing this competition needed was seeding teams in the next round too.

Any manager would still have to play the players Howe has to play. That's our biggest problem by far. Don't think anybody can move us forward until we see the back of regularly using some of the names we all know

For squad, alternating, impact subs ,resting we have to play those players regularly - its more that they're just not good and not being replaced than the managers playing them, otherwise were stuck with the same 11 every game.

I still fancy us more against Spurs than these but that means no change from last season which had to be improved on

Its identical to the performance there last season without all those behind the scenes things

Dyche reminds me of Emile off Robocop, looks and sounds like and will be staggering around going "help me man!" in no time

Unfortunately its boringly predictable that Everton will rally at some point, possibly under new manager, and not go down, ever.

Think they based it on their crowds-except-when-it-comes-to-Newcastle-in-which-case-crowds-is-the-last-parameter-to-base-club-size-on method

They couldn't withstand a few months of Hodgson having them in midtable without struggling to sell out a 44k capacity Anfield and getting nowhere close to selling out for cup/European games.

Wouldn't even loan Sterling with Chelsea picking up 50% of those wages and with an ability to terminate the loan at any point and send him back there. He's not worth the hassle he'd cause. Maybe, maybe having a point to prove would get a dozen good games out of him. Hope he's the first of many problems they're stuck with

Was more forceful than what pole-axed him from Schar, as was the shrug from Schar, as was the initial fould on Schar by the cunt.