Burnley (A) next Saturday - POSTPONED

[Ricey]

17 minutes ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

If he was fine on Saturday he's in the squad.

He’s only play 45 minutes and been out for nearly a year. He won’t be risked yet, even on the bench.

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

10 minutes ago, Ricey said:

He’s only play 45 minutes and been out for nearly a year. He won’t be risked yet, even on the bench.

You think so do you?.....

[Ric Flair]

41 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

the covid cases now will be available for next weekend (if they’re jabbed)

 

so another postponement may be more difficult with a few due back in any case 

Who's got covid? Soumare and Thomas? 

[Micky]

22 minutes ago, Ricey said:

He’s only play 45 minutes and been out for nearly a year. He won’t be risked yet, even on the bench.

He's been training for afew months.

[moore_94]

7 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Who's got covid? Soumare and Thomas? 

I think it might only possibly be Soumare, who was out with "illness"

 

Pretty sure someone who knows him/his family on here has said Thomas is a calf/thigh strain

Edited 9 January 2022 by moore_94

[Paninistickers]

26 minutes ago, Ricey said:

He’s only play 45 minutes and been out for nearly a year. He won’t be risked yet, even on the bench.

There's a reason we played a tall, youth team midfielder at left back on Saturday - because JJ is not yet ready to play

[Jimothy]

Thinking about it surely this is on unless we get more injuries or covid.

 

There's potentially 1 with Covid, they'll be back. KDH and Thomas were slight muscle injuries weren't they, surely they'll be fine. Castagne was touch and go for Watford, so surely he'll be fine in a week. Also possible Daka and Soyuncu might be fit. There's also the small chance, but still a small chance Justin will be in the squad.

 

So we could name potentially in the best case

 

Schmeichel 

Castagne

Soyuncu 

Vestergaard/Choudhury 

Thomas

KDH

Tielemans 

Maddison 

Barnes

Daka

Lookman

 

And worst case only left back is a struggle, but we might have to bring in youth again.

 

Schmeichel 

Albrighton 

Choudhury 

Vestergaard 

???????

Soumare 

Tielemans 

Maddison

Barnes

Perez

Lookman

Edited 9 January 2022 by Facecloth

[Corky]

Hope it goes ahead and we have some more players back.

 

Will be tough as always at Burnley.

[weller54]

7 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

There's a reason we played a tall, youth team midfielder at left back on Saturday - because JJ is not yet ready to play

There's no way he'd be risked in a F A Cup game against Watford reserves ...a PL match is totally different.

[gw_leics772]

2 hours ago, RowlattsFox said:

No matter how shit Burnley are, I never look forward to playing them. Somehow managed to draw their last season. 

 

We either have a makeshift side or a fair few players coming straight back in which doesn't usually end well.

Plus they always have a purple patch to stay up relatively comfortably. I've not checked but it also always feels like it starts against us. That my negatives beacuse it is ****ing Burnley 

 

On the positives,  last few matches give reason for optimism, plus Choudhury at the back and those bloody kids.  😍

[Koke]

Burnley are terrible. I know it's still a Sean Dyche coached team so they can still shit house a win via Ashley Barnes elbow, but if we are a serious team we should win this. 

 

Edited 9 January 2022 by Koke

[KrefelderFox666]

Unless the situation worsens, this will go ahead.

[moore_94]

Chris Wood came off in Burnleys FA Cup game with a groin issue, might not be fit for our game

[HybridFox]

2 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Chris Wood came off in Burnleys FA Cup game with a groin issue, might not be fit for our game

Good because he always nets against us 

[oadby.fox]

3 hours ago, weller54 said:

There's no way he'd be risked in a F A Cup game against Watford reserves ...a PL match is totally different.

Not being a dick but wasn’t he originally injured in a game against Brighton’s reserves which he definitely didn’t m need to play in order for us to win? I remember being distinctly annoyed that he was picked for that as I felt like he was being run ragged and then of course picked up the injury. Very different circumstances now of course though, I just hope he isn’t rushed back. 

[Tuna]

18 minutes ago, oadby.fox said:

Not being a dick but wasn’t he originally injured in a game against Brighton’s reserves which he definitely didn’t m need to play in order for us to win? I remember being distinctly annoyed that he was picked for that as I felt like he was being run ragged and then of course picked up the injury. Very different circumstances now of course though, I just hope he isn’t rushed back. 

We went on to win the FA Cup by beating Brighton's reserves!

[Fox92]

11 hours ago, Facecloth said:

Vestergaards height wasn't beneficial in the home game, he was beaten with ease in the air by Wood, and in a race Vydra left him looking like he was pulling a bus.

Vestergaard made Vydra look like Drogba in that game.

 

I've never seen Vydra out pace, out muscle and just generally just beat any PL defender like it.

[SemperEadem]

Got two busses going to this, really hoping it goes ahead.

[oadby.fox]

7 hours ago, Tuna said:

We went on to win the FA Cup by beating Brighton's reserves!

I know but I just felt at the time that we could’ve won without him. I suppose Fuchs only had to play part of the second half though if memory serves me correct. 
 

Either way here’s to hoping he will be back to his best soon 

[Matt]

Anyone broke a finger nail? Give it time.

[Ric Flair]

Will be interesting to see if we'd try and get the game binned if we only had 12 outfield senior players available rather than 13. I'd like to know what our appetite for actually playing football is, surely there comes a point where we realise we're going to be in a load of bother trying to get these games in and will scupper any notion of us trying to win the Conference League or FA Cup again in the process.

 

The league is done, we're not getting top 7, nor are we going down. Play the games, we're actually better at the minute anyway.

[weller54]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

Got two busses going to this, really hoping it goes ahead.

 

[adejo92]

Most of the first team being unavailable is what people have called for most of the season to give youth a game as they 'can't be any worse'...

 

Now people begging for games to be called off!

[Whys it always me]

12 hours ago, moore_94 said:

I think it might only possibly be Soumare, who was out with "illness"

 

Pretty sure someone who knows him/his family on here has said Thomas is a calf/thigh strain

Luke doesn’t have covid. It’s been reported in the papers what his injury is now and obviously I have to be careful what I say but I don’t want some fans to think he has covid as he went to the darts as this simply isn’t true 

[KrefelderFox666]

We can comfortably play a game a week as it stands and I am sure the club will do that. If any game gets canned it's the rearranged Spurs game. Only if we suffer more injuries (hopefully not).

 

We should have the 8 senior outfield players plus 3-5 more back for this one.

 

All eyes on Thursday's press conference.