Pez1974

Let it go guys. Remember Oliveira? That was an accident.

He was seemingly booked for his part in the scuffle, so my guess is that the EFL would be limited as to what they can do to Conor unless there is absolute proof that he did something which would warrant a red that the ref (or the linesman who seems to make stuff up and miss offsides) didn't see. I haven't seen a video that proves a punch. If Bamford was booked for the melee, again he might get away with that - but he's in the shit over his acting, as that must have been what fooled the linesman and therefore directly led to a El Ghazi's sending off. That is one of the reasons listed for why the retrospective rules are there - Dwight Gayle got a 2x match ban earlier this season for diving to get a penalty, so suspect he'll get the same.

Alioski is out for the season/playoffs for Leeds. Would prefer it if Janssen was out - he loves playing against us - but it certainly won't hurt!

Don't get the debate about selection, and kicking the shit out of each other. A straight red would mean a suspension for both legs of the semis, so I reckon it could be an even more cautious game than normal. Deano will probably be smart over the next 2 games and make sure we've got as fully fit a squad as possible, so a bit of rotation should be in order. We saw the benefit SJM got from his 2x game suspension. But if in doubt - play the fringe players and beat them 3-0 anyway.

I hope that you can fit 15 doors into that graphic. and I really hope you have to.

Mystic Meg time... Win the next 2 - we're on 75 points, with Leeds (A) and Norwich (H) to come. Leeds will be very hard as they will need to win to stay in the automatic promotion picture but Norwich will likely be Champs by the last game, which will probably help. This would mean that only Bristol, Derby and Boro can finish ahead of us out of the chasing pack. Bristol are on 65 points and have to play Reading (H); Sheff Wed (A); Derby (H); Millwall (A); Hull (A) - WDWWW - 78 points? But could easily be quite a few less. Derby are on 65 points and have to play SHA (A - hope they've had their inoculations); QPR (H); Bristol (A); Swansea (A); WBA (H) - WWLDW - 75 points? Boro are on 64 points and have to play Stoke (H); Forest (A); Reading (H); Rotherham (A) - even if they win all of those, it's only 76 points, and I'm sure they'll cock up. If we win the next 2 - we might already have enough to secure the play-offs. We have to play our best team and win these games - it will raise the pressure on the other sides massively and anything other than a win might mean having to beat Leeds and/or Norwich. I also think tomorrow is the opportunity to put our goal difference out of reach of the others - we're +19 at present; the other are either +8 or +9.

Wow. Some of the comments on here! The guy is 21 - but the modern marketplace demands £25m-odd for someone like this. If he becomes a big success, we'd be asking £100m+ in a couple of years. And I reckon Maupay would cost us £15m+ if we went up, that's the stupid money in the Premier League. He does things that you can't coach - movement, size, strength, work rate. Yes, he needs to improve his conversion rate, but experience, confidence and coaching can do that. Shit - our coaches taught Gabby to score goals!

FFP is too complicated for clever people not to work around, and too crude to actually protect clubs, except in extreme situations. For example - youth development is not part of FFP as I understand it. I don't know the ins and outs, but does this mean for example that any player 23 and under is exempt? So Jack, Keinan, Green, Bree, McGinn (until October '18), Tshibola (until January '19)? Same with Tammy, Axel and Kortney? All the U23s and U18s obviously. There is a lot of salary costs amongst that lot, and if we can exclude it, we're surely laughing. I'm using 23 as that's the development squad age, and the Bosman age at which compensation for out of contract players still exists - and in law, these things tend to be consistent. Could we claim Richards is an U23 coach? He does **** all else. Personally, I think FFP is more focused on protecting the elite from new invaders (like Man City) than on saving clubs. If our owners want to gift us £100m, what's the problem? There would be no debt, no interest, etc. They would be doing it to try and grow their assets value. But FFP prevents it, which for my (limited) money shows its a sack of shit. But the most surprising thing - McGinn was on 23 when we bought him? Tough paper round.

He's the same age as Tuanzebe - it's fair to say winning a load of youth caps isn't a great barometer of future success. He loans haven't worked out at all, so suspect he'll be gone soon. Hope I'm wrong.

Play McGinn. We need points, and it should be easier to get 6 points from the next 2, than from the last 2 (although Norwich will likely be Champs by the time we play them, which might help). Other teams will drop points, so lets try and make the last 2 games irrelevant from a play-off qualification perspective.

Not on the box; Bolton aren't even filming it apparently so Sky can't show it!

I know that. You know that. But don't ruin the surprise for the others.

He didn't really. He managed to stay fit at the same time as he went on a scoring run - as strikers do - scoring 13 goals in 18 games (according to Wiki, which is all I could be arsed to check). 18 games doesn't constitute enough of a run to judge a player who does nothing else. There could have been 5 penalties in that run (Wiki didn't specify). We should not have spent this much money and paid this much wages for someone with his record of goals and injuries.

He's got a few things wrong this season, but mostly he's done well in my opinion. Last night was a great night for him - sensible rotation of players, good positive subs in very difficult circumstances, good tactically, and 3 points. Plus a great yellow card for getting angry with the officials.

He's been good since Hutton got injured. When Bruce went to Wednesday, I was hoping he'd take this guy with him again. If we don't go up, I'm thinking we don't let him as he's very good cover for RB and RW next season. Delighted to be proved wrong.

After Jack and SJM, thought he was our best player last night. Surprised he wasn't getting more love. Deserves the keepers jersey right now, even with the odd mistake.

So.….this didn't happen!

I think the standard opposition tactic is to hoof him early. If the ref books the player (like vs SHA) then it free's Jack up a bit as the player can't keep doing it. If the ref is weak (like against Wednesday) he takes a load more hits which have to have an effect. We need our players overreacting to these tackles, getting into the ref's ear from before kick-off.

The club paid heavily for a 30 year old on a 4 year contract who was known to be a difficult person to deal with. We should not have given him such a long contract, and we should have made a great proportion of his earning dependant upon actually performing. The club is mostly to blame. Bruce didn't handle it in the best interests of the club, and he should have been controlled. I don't know if he handled it in the best interests of the team because the players had the decency to not discuss it. McCormack has pretty much ended his career in football - he's done as a player, and is unlikely to get work as a manager or a pundit. For that he deserves our disdain. Fans work hard for decades to pay his wages; he seemingly can't be arsed to work much at all. He's made his bed; he'll have to lie in it - and when his grandkids asked him what he did, he knows he didn't fulfil his potential.

Steer's contract was extended by a year - this was confirmed a couple of weeks ago. Of the others we can control, and excluded the U23s as I don't know enough to judge, I would only consider Elphick and Whelan - and only if we don't go up and they take a big old pay cut against rumoured salaries. Whelan might look at player/coach.

More than good enough for this level on recent evidence. If we went up, I think he could do a decent job at LB - a bit like Bouma did. Not sure he's anything other than an emergency CB in the Premier League though.

If he isn't going to get a lot of games, get him out on loan. I think we need to decide is he's a RB or CB long term; if he can play in that position for half a season, it would be bloody useful.

If this is who Deano wants, I'm really happy

Wish him no ill-will. Suspect he had one good spell at Brentford, when the whole squad played exactly to his strengths and it coincided with him being in form. We have Tammy banging them in, and physically they couldn't be much more different. I just hope we're getting his wages paid, and a loan fee or an obligation to buy. Thanks and good bye.

Sensible move. We did well with the u23s at the end of last season, but can't help but feel the first team would be in better shape now if some of them had got some proper football under their belts.