Ian M

Very much depends on the style (or intent, as Dave put it above) of that 3/5. A Cotts' style 352 was pretty attacking and wasn't too dissimilar to Venables' 352 in Euro96.

…and then the 4th place team is Villa who are arrogant nobheads when they come down to our level.

He’s young and spending half the week training with us though.

According to their forum he’s deservedly been dropped for poor performances.

If Liam tells Max to make multiple incredible saves before each game and instructs Anis to score, we only need them to follow ‘the plan’ and we’ll soon be flying up that table. All those detailed opposition plans have got him a 33% win rate, exactly matching the statistical probability of any given football match.

Transfermarkt also allows you to create a form table for any time period in the Championship>>>Stats section

Someone who beats their man as often as Mehmeti does but then makes better decisions plays in the Prem. You either accept someone who beats their man less often with that better decision making when he occasionally does or you work with / pray that Mehmeti’s decision making can improve (not impossible at his age / with confidence of other good decisions)

If this was Manningball I’d be a fan.

We were on a high because it was an exception to the norm as much as anything. Tins, if you’re reading the attached image, that isn’t 7 wins for Manning…

I can blame the FA for the way they are currently ostracising addicts rather than getting them the help they need. They might even learn better ways to prevent/solve the issue in future as a by-product.

He's clearly an addict that needs help. Instead our FA will throw the book at him and refuse him access to his colleagues, pushing him further down a hole.

....and should we feature in a penalty shoot-out, he'd likely put his house on scoring his pen! #confidence

Maybe we're embarrassed it's only 1?

Trundle wanted to be inspired by his manager not to go on a bender in Magaluf 4 days before the season began. The largest pay contract of his career wasn't enough inspiration to be professional. Although, I suppose to his credit, he seems to now accept his attitude was wrong.

GJ was definitely a bully though… I heard he made the then Chairman of the Supporters Club soil his pants in his office too.

I don’t watch huge amounts of Man Utd. Maybe I should

We may be losing but I’m enjoying fanboying Mainoo

Mainoo is so good!

Is that before this game?

Only reason Toney isn’t at one of the teams fight for CL places is his ban and determination to stay at Brentford after it expired. Watkins at Villa is his level.

I can’t believe Mainoo has only played around 20 pro games!

England unfortunately. Manning’s Tommy probably does go to Glasgow. Nigel’s Tommy probably was Prem bound.

He won't be free if he stays in England at the end of his contract (and technically not if he goes to a UEFA club either but far less compensation). If we keep him, it's in our interests to play to his strengths and get a goalscoring season out of him. I know people hate Pearson vs Manning comparisons, but it's not really in doubt that Pearson created value in our players and I argue that Manning is actually devaluing them.

I don't care how we do, I just want Ayman to emerge unscathed, it will do wonders for his confidence/mental state.

But certainly isn't "tightened us up defensively" by any metric.