He would have come in instead of Conway, for example, or Armstrong on numerous occasions. I don’t doubt it. Oh well, soon to be Gallagher so fear not!..

Bet your bottom dollar Samuel will be ahead of him for the ‘wing’ berth when fit - in the meantime Gallagher will play there when he’s brought in.

TM talking about Conway like he’s been peak Arjen Roben when called upon, or justifying playing Reed out of position. Yeah they’ve all been so good in our 1 win in 7 run that a young ‘wonderkid’ couldn’t break into our all-conquering side. That interview adds further fuel to him not being a TM signing, IMO.

Cue our only January signing being some lummax from the ‘famed’ Cov 15-16 side.

Whilst that’s not a bad side quality wise it really does highlight what pitiful options we have out wide given neither are widemen. How the heck has Tony left us so bereft of wingers?!

Last second Leeds winner. Will stick by my 3 or 4 goal thumping for Boxing Day! What a match.

Leeds have been cutting Villa to bits - just lacking the killer touch or they’d be ahead. Our back 4 will need a huge repeat of the previous encounter with them on Boxing Day.

4 wins in 12 at home is a terrible return - regardless of us losing just the twice. We’ve also only scored in the first half in 3 of those too. Largely turgid stuff you would have to say.

Likened our match as them playing against a PL team in the cup. What a t*sser. At least our team talk is ready made for the return fixture.

Can see a bit of a mini pasting in this one with confidence at rock bottom and injuries piling up. I’ll go for 3-1 which would make it 1 win in 8. That being said I’d go for the following side - I wouldn’t risk Reed - if he gets done long term then we’re screwed. Not really a fan of 3-5-2 but something’s got to give with this winger sh*te which plainly isn’t working as we don’t have any bar an injury prone/34 year old Craig Conway. Raya Lenihan Mulgrew Williams Nyambe Rodwell Evans Bell Dack Graham Armstrong

Just been asking him about it on Twitter. If true (and I definitely feel something smells fishy) it’s bloody extremely worrying that we’re back to the days of the V’s listening to agent/advisor muppets like Anderson again.

You sound surprised Exiled?! Every single one of our defenders has a rick in them over 90 minutes.

The Gallagher chat seems to be getting stronger. I wouldn’t have a problem with him coming in as competition for Graham but you can bet your bottom dollar he’ll be starting out wide. I recall TM doing it with him in our relegation season. Another square peg.

1 win in 7 now. We need 3 points asap but I fear it promises to be one miserable Christmas.

He’s been getting away with it big time from the media regarding Brereton and to a lesser extent, my huge gripe of him playing CF’s and CM’s out wide. Hopefully we can buck the form book but if as expected it’s 1 win in 10 come mid Jan then I can imagine he’ll have to start explaining to blingy if not the media!

Huddersfield and Derby fans both rated him and they were teams fighting for promotion from this league at the time. TM can’t seem to get a tune out of him. One thing I would say in his defence is every time he’s had a half decent performance he’s been benched the next week. Best if he moves on in January. Perhaps Tony may get an actual winger in, but I won’t hold my breathe.

Said it in the match thread but this CF/CM turned winger sh*te that TM keeps persisting with has to end. Yes Armstrong and Brereton (as an example) are performing very poorly but it can’t be helping being played out of position week in week out. Get some bloody wingers in to play the role of a winger. TM does worry me - not rocket science is it.

Didn’t realise quite how bad our form is - 1 win in 7. With Leeds, Sheff Utd and West Brom to come that could well be 1 in 10. TM could be getting a call from blingy come mid-Jan at this rate.

Whenever we’ve gone on a bad run, TM tends to throw in a curveball. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them both randomly starting against Leeds along with a farewell performance from Palmer.

Hello old friend.

Another late goal conceded btw...

The pressure will start to build big time if as expected we don’t get anything until then. Lambert will have his boys pumped for that one too.

1-0 FT. Getting sick and fecking tired of this inside forward sh!t TM persists with. Armstrong, Brereton, Reed etc aren’t the bloody answer there Tony. Our home form really is gash despite the lack of losses. Where will our next win come from? Answers on a postcard.

FFS. Have a feeling we could be having a little look over our shoulder come mid-January. Just not got enough about us as an attacking threat and always susceptible to conceding.

The Smallwood/Evans axis really does need breaking up in January. So bloody boring and not even effective at keeping us tight defensively which is their only job. Palmer has to be off in Jan - hasn’t started for yonks. I’ll still plump for 2-1 Norwich.