MrRaspberryJam

Early KO is always the coupon buster. And for that reason alone, we'll not lose.

Even if we go down we'll buy our way back up. Nee biggy.

The fact we're only 5 adrift after having won a game in 12 shows the teams above us aren't anything special.

Typical Man Utd will probably have a new manager by the time we play them. Or OGS will turn it around against us.

Still 5pts adrift then. Only 1 defeat since Bruce left. We can't be that open next weekend. Positives being we didn't tire, went behind twice and came back both times. That was a stinker from Darlow mind. Really set the tone for the rest of the game.

Lascelles was flat footed for it.

Was Ashley that spunked that. We can replace him with Verratti if we wanted.

Very good.

Nervy feeling about 2nd half. Our poor fitness levels, poor run of form, must win home game plus the fact we've given up so much energy in the first half. Hope I'm wrong but I can see it being very nervous 2nd half where we sit back and Brentford sneak it.

I've just watched that Pearson vid and my hangover has immediately got 10x worse.

The lineup? I think so too. Maybe one or two changes but nothing drastic. Regardless of the XI picked, the main difference will be in the performance and gameplan.

Whilst they were making love?

Imagine how much of downer you'll be then come 5pm tomorrow!

There's a belting clip of Batty playing Sampdoria at Elland Road in a pre-season friendly, kicking players in the stands, jumping in late and grabbing others by the neck.

He's buttering him up before he benches him man.

The squad Souness inherited wasn't perfect, and no doubt the players needed a kick up the arse discipline wise. But he came in like a bull in a china shop, fell out with Robert & Bellamy, flogged the majority and replaced them with dogshit.

I can't imagine the DoF role being the same at every club. As we've had some baldy speccy fella called Lee running the whole of the club on a shoestring budget for the last 8 years or so I'd imagine our next DoF will have his work cut out a lot more than if he was to go to Southampton for example.

£1m quid to Villa and replaced with that pisshead Craig Moore. What an absolute disaster Souness was. IIRC, Robson was earmarking Hughes up to be a potential captain at us. Hughes was such a good, solid footballer for us.

Think ASM would be better suited wide left personally, out on the flank where he can't be crowded out & he can really run at people. I'd have Willock in number 10. But then again I'm not a football manager so who gives a shit what I think.

Any decent snippets from last night?

It's none of his bees wax what Tindall was asking for anyone the nebby bastard.

Shearer, Beardsley, Gazza etc. are the obvious ones. Hamann, Wijnaldum & Woodgate or summit like that.

Do FootballInsider get anything right? Genuine question. I've always taken them with a pinch of salt.

Carl Serrant for Ritchie. Garry Brady for Longstaff. Lamine Diatta for Lascelles.