Is it 9 subs in carabao?

Pears/Kaminski JRC Phillips Wharton Edun Garrett Morton Markanday Dack Dolan Vale Hilton/Pears Ayala Pickering Wharton Szmodics Diaz Gallagher

Far from true

Just got home, not been on today, all I've got to say is that was an excellent team performance, everyone played well.

Once again think Pickering played fine today.

Regarding the JPVH rumours, could it perhaps have something to do with Brighton playing at Old Trafford on Saturday?

Smallwood was absolutely woeful in the championship

Says a lot he was the best RWB at the club last season (Barring the ever present zeefuik)

I gave an opinion on the two players mentioned.

I think he can operate as a wing back depending on what he has in front of and behind him

Where’s this stat from?

The issue mainly being there weren’t anyone in front of him most of the time, he’d be better in the 343 when he’s got a LWF closer to him and more defensive cover.

The scapegoat craic is a response to people under exaggerating a players performance levels because of previous performances… I.e. suggesting Pickering was poor against QPR when he was far from it, all because he’s previously performed poorly, creating a subconscious bias, nothing personal.

I think given that we’ve spent over a million on left backs in the past 18 months we’ll be sticking with Pickering, unless a versatile Hungarian from Bury can play there

I think it’s shown in people criticising his performance against QPR, thought he was solid tbh, but struggled more in the last 10/15 of the game so perhaps it’s a bit of recency bias on show.

Batty far from ready at this level and Gent will never make it here

I don’t think the system creates more issues for him than any other really, he’s just generally slow and thus a defensive weakness, personally think he’s better suited to the 343 than the 4231.

I agree it’s our weakest starting position, but I think he’s more than capable, with time, of being a top half championship LB, certainly not high on recruitment priorities for me

He’s an average championship LB

Can’t help but feel Harry Pickering is being scapegoated slightly, nowhere near as bad as some people make out.

Not sure when Buckley has ever been operated as a holding midfielder?

Maybe we don’t need those anymore, because we’re not playing that system reliant on quick breaks.

I think the reason for 99% of Buckley’s poor performances last season were him being played up front. No surprise he was our best performer when he moved back into midfield.

Buckley is our best player.

Rothwell has been replaced by our switch from a midfield 3 to a midfield 2