Mike E

I thought you meant 'highly rated' Connor McBride!

Worked well for us tbf: Travis, Buckley, JRC were castoffs from other academies.

Not my bag I'm afraid. Not keen on using animals for sport.

Not forgetting he had us 5 places clear at one point before (you guessed it) a death spiral...

Keep one of them (ideally Ketchup), sell the other, and challenge u23 keepers to step up to the bench. Wage bill reduced again. Plus hopefully some fee for Raya's sale.

Serves him right. Slagged off Solksjaer's coaching staff; 'He's got Michael Carrick, no experience'. He's just battered you 5-0 mate.

Todd Kane Tom Cairney Corry Evans

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Undone by three things so far: Luck against the run of play. Our inability to finish. Their goalkeeper.

Can't afford to give it away do easily as that!

I think he was booked saying 'Fuck off ref! Fuck off! Fuck off!'

Ballsy move... If it doesn't work, I'm at least impressed he's trying it.

He's been a very good defender from Jan until the most recent international break.

That looks interesting although I'd possibly view it as Trav at the back of the diamond, with Wharton and Morton (hopefully) given freedom to roam forward. What I DO like is we could bring Dack into this formation if necessary (not today due to injury).

Looks good to me? It's either 4-3-1-2 with Sammie behind Breo and Dolan or 4-3-3 with Sammie in the middle, Breo left, Dolan right?

I genuinely think (for all of JDTs faults) we're in a much better position than I expected last July. We haven't yet (but still could) taken advantage of our position, but I can accept that given the limitations of our squad. We have been exceptionally lucky that we have a superb academy backing up and assimilating into our first team. Thomas, a goalscorer, a bruiser up front, a proper midfielder, a LB, a GK (assuming one of Pears/Kaminski leaves) is my wishlist for the summer.

Changed the game far too late. Next game needs to be: Pears JRC Carter Hyam Pickering Travis A.Wharton Thomas Hedges Dolan Szmodics

It's buzzing in the JW Lower. Club have really put the effort in for the kids on a bank holiday. Great to see and they get credit from me. Just hope they keep doing it.

(Follow up with less good Ray Charles joke)

Everyone if Wharton knuckles down.

Ideally: Rovers win Swansea beat Cov Luton beat/draw Millwall QPR beat PNE Rotherham beat West Brom Warnock works his magic against Watford Sunderland balls up vs Hull.

I wonder how Szmodics would do as a runner in front of Dack?

My interpretation also.

I feel like if he had already signed, it would've been announced from Villarreal's end.

Dack is well worth keeping IF we're intending on getting a brute striker that knocks balls down (as well as scoring) for players like Dack/Szmodics/Dolan to latch on to.