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I agree, Man Utd and Chelsea literally had millions of pounds worth of options on the bench and we were limited due to injuries. I mean I love Conor and I think he would walk into a couple of teams lower in the league and he does provide an option, but not against the top sides. The flip side is I dont think we are quite ready to pay 70K a week for a bench warmer.

Yeah I thought he probably should have finished it but probably the only one over the last few games and that as you say is probably being hyper-critical. He is already a top player and will get better, we do need options off the bench, the 3 current injuries to Trez, Wes and Ross basically remove all of our options currently

I still think we will be in the mix, we were superb last night, despite the result this is the first time since the opening day of the premier league that we have dominated a United side for large periods of the game. I've seen us work hard and win points against them but this is a side now fighting for the league with top top players and we more than matched up. The future is bright for us and hopefully some of the luck/matching xG will start to come our way. Next up is Spurs and I hate them more than Man Utd (due to friends) and if they play like they did last weekend we will run over them.

I don't think his finishing is poor, one bad one against Palace but otherwise some of the saves have been very very good. I think he look tired at the end last night but played reasonably well against two expensive and in form defenders in Wan-Bissaka and Bailly (who probably had one of his best ever games in a Utd shirt)

No worries I’ve just put Fernandes into mine and made him captain today to help level it out.

I’m pretty sure I saw him do a beautiful drag back at one point today

Yeah, actually I couldn’t decide if him or Traoré has been our best player.

Me too, gone from a normal run being 8-10 miles to struggling to run a couple of miles - injuries when they hit and not treated properly can takes months and months to sort...

Yup, yup, yup

Yeah this exactly. I would of take a lost to saints next week for this not to have happened...

Yes exactly this, too much out there to just change it all. Fortunately they are now on IE11, I was supporting IE8 until quite recently and nothing written in javascript would ever work properly.

So I don’t want to go into too much detail as it’s my work, but I have to make the web apps used for them support IE which is a bit of a nightmare.

Good delivery from corners I thought too

Anyone else catch Souness talking about the length of the grass? WTAF?!? Anyway I agree they have never watched Jack before, always hard working

Agree, unlike Lansbury who we will find difficult to move on, other clubs would snap our hands off for Conor, solid prem quality player, needs to be squad player long term but think he is fine in the first team. Also he is a master of the tactical foul....

Well that was incredible!!!

No, Thursday

Ha, I know the guy Richard who posted the “world record” on that article. He smashed me at a Parkrun on New Year’s Day a couple of years back and we had a brief chat. As for Barkley’s 5k, I could beat that (using his style) and I’m in my 40s

Wow rapid, I mean could be a good player to change a game, in that it offers a different problem to the opposition - think we would get frustrated by the amount of times he gives the ball away though....

I guess we will find out how injured Rog really is, looked strong yesterday

I wouldnt say under the radar... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/12312545/aston-villa-beat-liverpool-and-chelsea-to-transfer-of-exeter-wonderkid-ben-chrisene-16/

A lot of the time knee pain can actually be something else, the two key ones where the pain comes from the knee is hamstrings or ITB as both being tight can pull on the knees. I don't think anyone would believe how many pairs of trainers I have tried over the years and what makes it worse is sometime companies totally change the shoe, so for example I wore Mizuno Wave Rider for about 3 years and then they changed the shoe and I couldn't wear them anymore. Most of my running is in Adidas Solarboost currently as due to my injuries I'm just doing short easy runs but they are great for long easy runs too. I used a pair of Inov-8 X-Talon 200 for my XC half marathon at the weekend but because I haven't done much of this sort of running for a while they have left my legs in tatters as they are an aggressive XC shoe used for short XC races in the winter (very grippy for all kinds of terrain when you cant wear spikes). Previously I did all my faster workouts in (a number of) pairs of New Balance 1400s, even ran a few marathons in them (including my PB) and they are fast and aggressive but the sort of shoe you bring in slowly as batter the calves. More recently (when I can actually run semi okay) I have been using a pair of nike Fly knits (and have a pair of zoom fly 3 that I got in the sale too) which truly are comfortable fast shoes for harder workouts. I do have a pair of vaporfly as well which I got last year and are basically cheating, I ran a 35:45 10K while injured and a bit unfit in them which is like my 3rd or 4th fastest 10K time.

Tommy Hughes - 59 and a 2:27 marathon last year - shows whats possible

I ran a virtual (very hilly) half marathon yesterday on the same course as the race that it replaced. Last time I ran the Course I won the race, yesterday I was an hour longer which kind of says where I am at the moment. I can run a bit now (Had a bad injury since last July) and cycling pretty well but the extra 15-20lbs is limiting me a little.

Just be careful with them trying to “fix” your gait, a lot of people are prescribed these shoes and up with bad calf and Achilles injuries 3-6 months later. Can’t go far wrong with a quality neutral shoe like Nike Pegasus (which I don’t use as they are a bit narrow for me but a decent pair of shoes), Brooks Ghost, Adidas Solarboost etc I think it’s convenience of a watch to be able to stop start easily when racing. Usually a bit more accurate for me than an app on my iPhone.