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That's a nice touch. Make it a double!

It's started going a bit Sunday league. Players need to rise above it and focus on the football. Not tested the keeper enough but it's going to open up more as the game goes on.

Anything less than 4 or 5-0 would be a poor result tonight. Half expecting more.

Hopefully setting sail. Worse things happen at sea as they say.

Newport County the nearest, highest standard i can think of playing in orange.

Blokes been on the snus. It's all rambling bollocks.

You'd think he would of got that call up if he hadn't been injured recently. His form can't of gone unnoticed. I don't know how big the talent pool is at U21 level but Lyon alone consistently produce good young players. Add to that Clairefontaine and the other federation academies, it's no surpise they have been a very competetive team over a long period. As above, he must be on their radar though, particularly having played at other youth levels. Do they want/need his type of player? Selections certainly become more narrow as you move up through the youth teams, U21s essentially being groomed for the senior team.

Probably not that close in reality. All their players are at top flight clubs. Would be fantastic if he could though. Current midfielders for France U21:

Not been able to find a match report I'm afraid, assume no injury. Nothing mentioned on the OS where I got the above from.

Played the full 90 as England lost 3-1 v France.

Add in Jimmy Bullard, a z list guest and some cheap gags and it's basically Soccer AM.

About 10 mins in @Davefevs if you want the money shot

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/fitter-faster-stronger-the-city-way/ Really interesting watch. Goes into some detail regarding fitness programs, loading and injury prevention. Some interesting graphs showing improvement on last season in there as well. Certainly inspires confidence that the players fitness and performance is in good hands. Worth 15 mins of your time.

Put a different head on those shoulders and he'd probably of had a top flight career. Brilliant footballer but something clearly holding him back on the professional bit.

Yeh i've used the editors, work really well. South West Red is not a very catchy name is it? I do like to see us sporting the Purple and Lime 2nd strip as well, rarely does it clash with anything!

Was always a PES person from way back in the day when it was called International Superstar Soccer on the SNES. There were a couple of good versions on PS2/3 era but it's been in steady decline really every since. The latest one, the now free to play model eFootball is a disaster from launch. Konami even posted an appology. Might be worth another look in month or so once they've patched it a bit but i think this could be the end of what once was the better of the two games, at least in how it played, the lack of real player names, teams etc never really bothered me.

See me after the game Ben, I'll tell you where you went wrong, says the bloke who had half a season to turn it around himself before sticking a relegation on his CV. So glad he's at Rovers. Such a ****.

Do they come in red and white? ?

He's being rested apparently.

Ball watches too much out of possesion for me, he just doesn't seem swtiched on enough. Pedestrian attitude. Lovely one touch natural game but lacking too much to be first pick in this team under NP now. Here's hoping HNM is back soon.

Hate losing to sides like that but it was only an average performance in patches. It had draw written all over it at best. Thought the pen was soft but maybe something to learn for Atkinson who i thought was possibly man of the match for us.

Classic Messi. That's what they are paying him for. Good play by Mbappe in the build up as well.

We won't play like Fulham, that's not us. NP brings a different approach. There are values being instilled though that will allow us to compete with the likes of Fulham, without spending huge. Fulham are a good side but they didn't dominate us, despite their obvious riches. Likewise, onwards and upwards.

Yet Barton said on RB that the "thousands" that came were the 12th man today. Why does everyone associated with them perpetuate this myth? #pathologicalliars

Outclassed overall, simple as that.