That's fucking inexcusable from ACD. Pathetic.

Two "Premium" loans (almost certainly) guarantees you a ticket to the dance - top 6 - maybe more. January 2019: Aston Villa add Tyrone Mings and Kourtney Hause to a loan contingent of Tammy Abraham, Anwar El Ghazi, Axel Tuanzabe and Yannick Bolasie. Same season, Derby make the Playoff final with Mason Mount, Harry Wilson and Fikayo Tomori as key loans. The correct CF and LW (CB, RB or GK?) - whoever they are, could actually do it. Cozier-Duberry and Beck are a promising two, let's double it! Who those players are... I ain't the foggiest.

Gueye has turned into prime Paulo Wanchope!

That's as clear a pen as you'll see, and the ref (and his linesman) have absolutely had a shocker.

Another standard Tuesday away performance (and result) looking nailed on after 33 minutes.

Conditions are woeful for football, yet one team is at least trying, and are playing and spreading the ball wide with pace. Kasey Palmer running the show in 2024 was not on my season Bingo card. Living by a prayer that half, and trying to play like it's a glorious sunny August day. If there ever was a set of weather conditions for Makhtar Gueye.

Kwarme Poku, James Hill and Louie Barry. Yes to any, yes to all. A proper #9 is or course the priority, and another player to slot in front of McFadzean on the depth chart. I'm sure Southampton are already planning for life back in the Championship, seems nailed on that Brereton-Diaz will get a head start on them by a window, wonder if there would be any mutual interest? Pears, Brittain, Batth, Hyam, Beck, Travis, Tronstad, Poku, Cantwell, Brereton-Diaz *New* Squad: Toth, Hill, JRC, Pickering, Carter (start when fit), Baker, Dolan, Hedges, Ohashi, Barry, Weimann. That's playoff level. Absolutely none of it happening.

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Hyam well offside... oh well.

Fucking Dolan. Take longer next time you weapon!

VAR and that's a red. Looked "orange" on first viewing, so you know the home team in the 12th minute get away with it.

Yup, at least 2. And my William Hill bet reflects that confidence. You can usually tell within 15 minutes how these midweek games go... and that's typically because we lose 80% of them over the past dozen years without scoring. Prove me wrong!!

Win, lose or draw, this substitute cameo form JRC is a 0/10.

Rovers just lost to maybe the worst team I've seen at Ewood Park in a decade. Embarrassing performance.

You could write a book called "The art of promising attacking football and fucking it up", and just show that half. Delaying passes, taking FOREVER to attempt a shot, wrong decision after wrong decision, oh, and some downright shite technique. If Stoke would have rocked up at Leeds or Burnley with that performance, it'd be 3-0, at least. Stoke should also be embarrassed by what they've shown that half, time wasting from kick-off. 1 minute of added time could have easily been 8. Of course, if/when they win 0-1 they'll call it masterful. What a waste of a first half of promise.