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Not a must win says our esteemed manager. I rather think it is. Anyway, perhaps this time he won't pick a formation he knows is wrong. I actually don't care who you put in goal, they're all shit. --------------------------Johnstone--------------------...

You'd think we'll stick with the three CHs, for all that it's an imperfect solution. You'd hope we'd stick with Sa, because it's the right thing to do. However, as I said yesterday - the City game can't really be a template for anything. They're a special case, we can't have many (if any) other...

Oh boy. This one could hurt. I've quite enjoyed the international week for a change as it's meant I haven't had to watch us defend like an U8s team. I've gone on record as saying that I don't think moving to three CHs will change anything, but it seems an inevitability (and we'll lose here, but...

Simple premise: 5 things you'd do to get us actually earning some points because if we don't soon, it'll be too late. For me: 1) Play a standard midfield three. No players charging about everywhere or weird #10 roles that make no sense. André, and two of Joao Gomes, Mario Lemina and Tommy...

Let's go round again... I can confidently predict three things ahead of Saturday. 1) We WILL concede at least once 2) At least one tactical/selection decision that Gary O'Neil makes will baffle me 3) Brentford will absolutely boil my piss with their incessant shithousing and taking an age over...

Nice easy one to be going on with while we're bottom of the league... We're going to have to work on the basis that Yerson is injured. And really hope Toti is fit because can you imagine how slow a Dawson/Santi partnership would be. And hope a lot of things go in our favour. And hope our...

Lots of parallels to the City game last season. Off the back of a poor league start and a League Cup exit shipping three goals, with further tough fixtures on the horizon and us in desperate need of points... We performed that alchemy last season but I'm less sure we can repeat the trick. We...

This was always a horrible draw. Anyone's guess how strong we'll go or who's fit. -------------------------Sa----------------------------- Lima-----------Mosquera-------Bueno---------Meupiyou --------------Rawlings----Doyle----Cundle----------------- --------------Forbs------Guedes------R...

Hoping that everyone comes back from the internationals unscathed. With tough fixtures to come away at Villa and home to City, again this represents one of our better chances of getting some early points on the board. Newcastle doesn't seem to have been a very happy camp of late, with them...

Lee Carsley's first squad announced at 2pm. Can't see too many surprises being rolled out. Trippier has retired from England duty.

Are we in "must not lose" territory already? Because September looks pretty grim... Forest are no great shakes at all having failed to beat us in either encounter at the City Ground since they came up and also contriving to lose to a team managed by Steve Davis - we haven't actually lost at...

I don't actually know how you construct a team I'd actually be confident in AND protect the first XI ahead of a huge game at Forest. -----------------------Benjamin--------------------- Lima------------Dawson--------S Bueno------Lembikisa...

We all know that the start to the season is a tough one; this is actually one of the games where we genuinely should be targeting points. They're in all kinds of flux with an unmanageable squad, the style of football is divisive at absolute best and we beat them twice last season. I'm told...

Back to the real stuff. With a fixture that's got to be close to the bottom of who we'd rather play to kick things off. Clearly it's going to be an incredibly tough task with the squad not yet finalised, Neto gone, Cunha unlikely to start (or perhaps even feature at all) and Semedo out. This...

Tangent from the General thread. Hate is a very strong word, but we'll all have multiple players we had a strong dislike for. Ignore the obvious like Roger Johnson or Steve Claridge who everyone can't stand, who are yours? Give reasons if you like, but you don't have to. I'll go with 10 to...

Sat 27th July: West Ham, Jacksonville W 3-1 (Cunha, R Gomes 2) Wed 31st July: Crystal Palace, Annapolis L 1-3 (S Bueno) Sat 3rd August: RB Leipzig, Miami W 3-0 (Sarabia 2, R Gomes) Sat 10th August: Rayo Vallecano, Molineux, 3pm

Shouldn't be anything in here for a while - Copa America perhaps in a few weeks - as all the Euros stuff has its own thread. But setting it up anyway.

All change, all change. Any and all general crap in here.

New thread day. How exciting. As mentioned on the old thread, looks like Barkley to Villa is a thing. Not sure how their fans will feel about it as he was pretty rubbish for them on loan a few years back, and he won't stand out like he did in Luton's team.

Domestic season all done so new threads. Kick it off with Enzo Smugresca inexplicably officially confirmed at Chelsea.