The BBC has the formation as a back 3 with Brittan on the left, and Hedges on the right. I'd prefer Brittan in his natural position but I guess Pickering is not fancied today.

Maguire, Dier and Rashford are the three I would not have picked. The rest I have no opinion really. 

They're going to love it in the new year and they win about 2 games in 15!

He's probably going to strip out the company, make it a very lean operation, then pocket as much money as he can before selling it on to someone like Tencent or an Arab led consortium. The whole 'freedom of speech' talk is nonsense as Musk s balls deep in with the Chinese government with his massive factories and other interests there.

It would be mad if he was the owner. as mad as all his Hyperloop type projects that are absolute garbage but look cool. He has some very good ideas, but also his eccentric personality would mean we'd probably be a bit like Watford, with managers coming and going, and/or saying stuff on social media about other teams and figures within the game.

It wouldn't be boring, that's for sure. We may even get a visit from his mate Xi Xingping.

Enough with the weedy rap or lemon squash indie nonsense, we need some hard hitting music like these:

https://youtu.be/z8ZqFlw6hYg

I was wondering what would happen to City since Wasps went into administration. If artificial pitches are allowed in the football league then there's the Butts Park Arena. However, that is a hell of a lot smaller, and they'd have to fit it around Coventry RFU's schedule. Otherwise it'll be back to Northampton or Birmingham City short term. 

Saudi Arabia has a chance then. They want to market themselves as a player in the sport/entertainment arena, and not just an exporter of religious terrorism and oil, hence Anthony Joshua fighting there in the past. We all know how persuasive they will be if they're serious in the bid 😉.

That's......highly unlikely. The league team would give away so many penalties, and since League doesn't really punish high tackles, crossing etc. they'd probably get at least two yellow cards if we were playing union rules. Oh, and they'd give away penalties in almost any scrum. Then you have mauls, rucks, no 6th tackle rule.

I wish I could watch the NRL, as the quality of play is great, but the last time I watched our domestic game, it was dire. All they did was drive up the middle with a big ox until the 4th tackle, then try and do something different. There were 2 games between the top teams in each code in the 90s (possibly Bath vs. Wigan when Offiah and Edwards were playing), and both teams won the game in their respective codes. And that was when union was either amateur, or just had turned professional.

Put me down as a don't care'. Wrong time of the year, being held in a non entity country that owns slaves and has no sporting history and we will probably go out in the first knock out round.

France, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa are better in Union (in the men's game). 

5 hours ago, Gav said:

Just on the Reece James stuff, it looks like Mowbray sentiment was spot on, the guys obviously London ponce:

 

Maybe he was inspired by the Daily Star's lettuce.

Crowd trouble at Sunderland vs. Burnley. Missiles being thrown from the top tier to the bottom tier in one of the stands according to the BBC. I don't know whose fans are misbehaving.

I still have a PS 2, and changed the Birmingham City kit on ISS Pro soccer 5 to have a shirt sponsor that says BIG CLUB. 

I'll have to check, but I don't think they actually won anything.

At least we can be a bit more hopeful about not tanking in the new year.

We won on Saturday, so we will lose this one.

BBC say it's a Gallagher goal, but if it's Lenihan then hahaha.

My prediction is it won't be a draw, that's all I can be sure of.

We lost, so I'm guessing JDT is now as bad as Coyle, until we next win. Then he will be good again.

Thing is, if he was to be sacked now, who will step in and suddenly be brilliant? 

Whichever team is the comedy act that season, bottom of the league, with 3 points by December, they will get a result against us.

Yes, Virgil has been very average this season, and nowhere near his all dominating best. 

The old Wembley stadium was a worn out crap pile by then, with terrible transport links if you're coming from outside London. I remember when people were getting all misty eyed about the Twin Towers (no not those towers) and all that when t was being knocked down. I was happy to see it demolished, and thought the new stadium should have been in the Midlands, but the over priced new Wembley is good.

The worst Rovers games I had been to were the 5-0 loss to Coventry in the 1995/96 season, a dull 0-0 draw also against Coventry (I think we were in a yellow kit with CIS as the sponsor), and the godawful loss in the Charity Shield in 1995.

Trent Alexander-Arnold has been sussed out big time. The better teams know that if he's putting in a cross, you can use the left flank to counter attack all the time. On current form it's like having Stuart Ripley at right back. Liverpool need a big rebuild this summer, with quite a few players shipped out, and replacements brought in. If Salah is kept out so far to the right, he's not effective, and a lot of the players like Oxlade-Chamberlain, Henderson and Keita are replaceable.

New faces and ideas are needed.

It's all getting a bit silly now, with the queues, the arrests, Morrison's silencing the tills etc. As for cancelling operations on the day of the funeral, that's disgusting. It shows how we are all little more than street rats in the eyes of the leaders of the country, and that if we die, as my uncle did from asbestosis a month ago, it does not matter. 

As a country we've gone mental, just because a really old woman died. That's the thing about hereditary rule, someone else is there to assume the role by virtue of birth. Don't worry.