Watch our league form pick up now and we can focus on the league cup.
What a great way to start the revival than on my birthday, at home to a tough Boro side.
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Well it will be 0- something as we aren’t going to score, Puel will play for 0-0 and a high resure tempo game with 3 minutes left, the man is a cock.
Fonte and Yosh at the back. Van Dyke attacking midfield please
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The return of Gaston … I can see the headlines now 
They are already in print, at least a £20 comfort bet double will defo be on.
Lineup:
VVD
VVD VVD VVD VVD
Romeu
VVD VVD
VVD VVD VVD
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I don’t think they will beat us. I feel there maybe even a backlash, but the best they can hope for at SMS would be draw. We have a pretty handy home record.
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I’d drop Redmond. He deserves some time off to spend with his family. Is Boufant in Fitness? I think Middlebro like to sit deep, so we might need both him and Susan to break them down.
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I’d def drop Redmond, if only to temporarily spare him from the crowd getting on his back. Plus he doesn’t have an obvious ‘Bearsy Nickname’ so his days are numbered.
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I’d just drop Redmond - no explanation needed.
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Sorry, I’d rest him.
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I am down on Redmond at moment srs. Occasional he skins a player, that is on plus side, but everything Redmond does seems to end with him stopping, staring glumly at his feet for a few minutes, and then either giving the ball away or passing it backwards.
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What I have found is that he skins a player, runs away from them, gets to the corner of the 18 yard box, then he slows down and allows said player to recover and get goal side, then passes it backwards or off of the pitch depending on his mood at the time.
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You’re being ridiculous… Upfront please. 
Two words for Redmond to digest - end product.
That’s all we want - forget the clever flicks, the dip of a shoulder, and the annoyed shouting at team mates - just deliver end product, and all will be well.
I’d go 4-2-3-1
Lurch, Cedric, Fonte, VVD, Bertrand, Romeu, Clasie*, Davis, Tadic, Boufal, Long** (assuming Austin can’t run off his arm disconnecting from his torso)
Fuck resting anyone who played last night. They are athletes and can almost certainly handle playing two games in this space of time. Crazy folk run marathons back to back over prolonged periods of time so I’m sure these lads can stroll about for an hour and a half.
* he did a goal recently and he plays in midfield so HAS to play because that shit is just unheard of.
** he can’t shoot for shit but what he will do is run his little socks off and press. Even if Claude’s tactics seemingly prohibit such things.
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I’d quite like us to win this today…I still feel bad about the 2-2 debacle of 2004 - that was the launch event for our relegation and collapse.
In defence of Redmond I reckon he does what Puel asks.
He doesn’t lose the ball too often and tracks back.
I believe that Claude believes that you keep possession and things will happen.
No end product stems from a desire to find a pass that retains possession rather than make a cross or a risky pass that will likely lose possession.
This sounds like I’m defending what Redmond does, I’m not, but I’m more critical of Claude not loosening the possession at all costs restriction.
Just to add a bit of extra seasonal good cheer, it appears that VVD has signed for the same agent as The Cowman. No doubt he will be linked with Everton until the end of of the transfer window.
I am predicting that we will either win, lose or draw… But if we fail to win then there will be lots of whinging led by Barry. In the clip below, substitute ‘naming of swords’ with ‘whinging about football results’ and you have my match summary in advance.
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