Ric Flair

I'm presuming he's out as he was before this international break.

This is exactly the sort of occasion where a horrid team with catastrophic injuries and a pony manager would get a comfortable 1-0 home win vs us and off we go with a string of bog roll hanging out our cheeks. Can't even work out how on earth we set up for this with who's out injured, likewise for the foreseeable. This probably helps Cooper though in surviving as there's genuine excuses if his team keeps losing. Hermansen Justin Faes Vestergaard Okoli Kristiansen McAteer Winks El Khannouss Ndidi/Skipp Mavididi (it'll be Reid 😂) Edouard

Planning on running from Canary Wharf to Wembley(ish) tonight after work and forgot to pack any gels with me. Any advice on some supermarket available alternatives to get me through the last few kms?

I'd lined this up to do this year but had something on, glad I've read this as I'll chalk it off next years plan an'all 😂😂 That's a decent time though pal given what you've described so well done!!!

Yeah he looks obscene

Get this lad and loan out to Europe until he can join us at 18.

Overrated IMO. I've not watched a full game all season 😂

Will check with the lads, think we'll only do an episode if we've got a guest lined up...

It's the way transfer fees are now amortised for PSR though. He's on a 2 year deal that's up to £8m, so £4m per season. That's the same as what we've paid for Skipp on a 5 year deal. That said, it's the Reid deal that looks mingin' business currently and as most of us said at the time, we didn't need them both. We're saddled.

That's horrid, I was set a few of those type runs a while back and it was hell. I've landed on a more suitable one for me which was described above as the full throttle running for 400 metres is about 1 min 35-40 per lap so a fair bit easier going!!

How class are these international breaks. Just waltzing about without a care in the world. I reckon domestic teams should meet up just 3-4 times a year and the rest be internationals. Country before club - the Steve Cooper effect.

1st run in a few weeks where I've not risked a code brown by carrying on. A decent 9-10km distance run that doesn't feel like one in terms of the normal mundaneness of running is a fartlek (excuse the pun). Just did the following and whilst the 400m runs got pretty horrible towards the end, time wise it flew by. 2km warm up X 8 400 metre runs at 4-4.30 min per km pace X 8 90 second recoveries in between 2km cool down 48 mins on the nose

His spell at Doncaster was very good, he played a lot and only missed the final few games of the season. Their manager raved about him at the time. There's a quote about him being so good with both feet you wouldn't know what his favoured foot was or something like that.

Haha he was another I was championing after what he did at Strasbourg and Rennes the first time around. He's been pony at Rennes this time though to be fair.

Was one of my picks in the summer and when we should have been looking at replacing Brendan. Frustrating.

I cannot for the life of me work out how Knutsen hasn't left Bodo/Glimt yet.

Hope that's not his season over. Fingers crossed he makes a full recovery. That's our 3 best academy players in the last 2 years with serious injuries.

I remember that and yet all players in the squad that day were over the age of 16, so is it U18's? Plenty of 17-18 year olds break through so I'm sure the club can accommodate such a prospect over the next year.

Nwaneri a few years back

Correct

Plenty of positives and you can see the evolution of our academy over the last 3-4 years. Monga and Evans at 15 and 16 respectively getting 90 minutes is excellent to see. Both look at this stage like they have every chance of making it to a very high level. We have to harness that. Our 3 jewels of our academy up to this season have all either had major long term injuries or may well have one now (Nelson 👀). Fingers crossed this next wave coming through don't get their development disrupted. Was impressed with Golding's ability to take players on tonight. Cartwright looked strong too and Ewing when he got on the ball was positive. Alves was mediocre 1st half but much much better in the 2nd but I much prefer him playing wide left where he has the licence to get more space and 1 v 1 with the defence.

He's all good mate, I still regularly speak to him.

Some very impressive patterns of play but there's no aggression at creating dangerous attacks. I know this is the modern game to make players comfortable on the ball but it's no surprise how possession for possession sake is one of the major problems currently in football. The team needs a striker on the pitch and Evans out wide. Incidentally I prefer Alves wide left than as a 10.

Alves to bag a brace and end up at Notts County on loan in Jan.

I've had nothing to do with that image used for this week's episode FYI. It's had me an'all when I went on insta. FFS 😂😂😂