A house move in September with a 1 month old sounds like a handful. Hope all is well with mum and baby now.

To add to the good news, my little girl arrived via click and collect c-section this afternoon.

Saw that last night and must have watched it about 6 or 7 times. Ultimate shithousery, I love it 🤣

I'd like to see Phillips start, with ayala wrapped up in cotton wool at home. Then one of Wharton or garret next to morton with Markandy and Dack getting some minutes. Not that we need rotation but good to get some minutes into the legs and see what the fringe players can do.

Congratulations! And a huge sigh of relief I imagine, given all that has come before.

Annoyingly I dismantled an old wardrobe about 6months ago and I'm fairly sure those hinges used the screws I needed. Alas I only have a small shed and no garage so I need to be conservative with the things I hoard. I envy my dad's huge garage where, much to mums annoyance, he hasn't chucked anything out of for years but he always has the exact screw, nut, bolt, wire, plug, piece of wood etc that you need. A trait passed down from my grandad - he died last November and my dad is still clearing out his garage. Not to fear though, as always amazon has what I need on next day delivery. I would have raided my dad's stockpile of stuff but they're away this week and I, perhaps unwisely, decided to start ripping the kitchen apart when my wife could go into labour at any point. I'm on strict instructions to get it finished ASAP.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/zinc-plated-hinge-screws-m6-x-10-5mm-100-pack/67259?tc=CB8&ds_kid=92700048793290424&ds_rl=1249413&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxb2XBhDBARIsAOjDZ36SkqNZXT8w2CYccMWr2IpY_1WB4VifjOYakdI7JXqdvYMUcS2_BisaAkjcEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds Them but M5. Short and stubby for a kitchen cabinet I'm putting up. It's got predrilled 5mm holes for the hinges. I seem to have a million different screws of various lengths and thickness but all my 5mm ones are longer than the 20mm side of the cabinet.

Not a disaster, more of an annoyance. I've been to 3 DIY shops and can't find a pack of 5mm hinge screws. 4mm and 6mm but not 5mm. To those far better at DIY than me, I'm not trying to find something stupid like tartan paint am I?

As an aside, morton on at 89 mins I assume is to avoid some sort of penalty for not playing him?

Only 2 games in but we're already the only team to have played 2 games and not dropped a point. Watford haven't but have only played the one.

Nunez looks a player. Gonna be interesting to watch him vs haaland for golden boot

Duffy linked with a move to Fulham - not ideal Brighton getting rid of CBs that aren't JPVH. Be a good move for Duffy and should help Fulham get promotion next season.

I get your point but a few things 1. Wenger didn't replace Vieira, true. We're looking to replace Davenport / Johnson not quite the same gap that needs filling. Where there is a gap - Nyambe and Rothwell, we've spent money. Windows not over so just see what happens in replacing our departing centre backs. 2. What's the issue with focusing on young talent and selling for big bucks. We have a cat 1 Academy and there's no way we're going to build a decent war chest through ticket sales. We need to get into a cycle of buy low / promote youth and sell high and reinvest in the squad. The R number and % Academy minutes is to be fair a lot of overkill but to me I took it as he's just come fresh out of the job interview process and this is the usual BS they spout there. Many of us would have been happy if he'd just said "we need a realy focus on youth" without all the technical S behind it. 3. "You can't win anything with kids" was used as a stick to beat him with when Man Utd went on to win a lot of stuff with kids.

Yeah neither in anyway good. I've used some pre-school logic with edun. He was bought in as a LB and to cover CM CM + LB = CB 🤣🤣🤣🤣 shows how desperate my scan of the squad for cover at CB got.

So we're down to Wharton Ayala and Phillips? So essentially, we're down to Wharton and Phillips Genuinely what other centre back options do we have? We don't have any midfielders that we could repurpose for a couple of games do we? Unless Edun could do a shift there?

Like the saddo i am I just flicked through all the results from last season and I think we'd have 13 fewer points if you toom away his goals. He often scored in losing games and games where we won by 3 or 4 rather than 1 or 2. That would gave put us about 17th / 18th roughly

Something weird is going on at Man Utd. The dressing room didn't feel happy last season and comments from Shaw and Lingard backed this up. Players looked broken and not united in any way. Ronaldo and others leaving a preseason game at half time as well. Ten hag just needs to gut the club of the rotten apples and build a team. They'd be better off without Ronaldo from that respect.

I think scrapping the reserve teams is one issue. Now you just get kids playing kids rather than the best kids getting kicked about by some grumpy brick shit house who is deemed not good enough for the 1st team any more.

Free to air sports is key. If I can pick the remote up and flick to a sport I'll watch it. I'll only go hunting down streams for footy matches. If they put womens football on BBC and one Sunday afternoon I flick over to Blackburn Ladies playing, I'll watch it. If its entertaining I might make a conscious effort to watch who ever is playing the next week if im free and it grows from there. Then all of a sudden you've got an afternoon earmarked for a big derby game. More sports should be shown on accessible TV. It not only promotes that sport but would encourage youngsters to give different sports a try if the traditional sports don't spoke your interest. I'm thinking some of the more niche Olympic sports for example.

If he has that power I want it too! If it helps I've done tons of clicking around and can't see any option to delete threads in that section so if it's a permissions thing it doesn't seem to be affecting everyone.

I'll be optimistic when a centre back lands but positive signs after today

C'mon it's jokes from both sides. 3 irons on the shirt - women doing what men can't. Or does banter stop cos it's womens football?

5 players filling 2 positions in a busy season is not going to deprive anyone of the minutes they need.

He plays for Peterborough