That's possibly true, but further to Upside Down's point, they're tactically clueless. We have a wide range of ages in our group (it's 7 a side, drawn from a large pool of players). Invariably the older lads (in their 30s) hold their positions whereas the younger lads can dribble, but have no idea about positional play and are frustrating to play with.

What a backwards country. Delayed for another 4 months. Ridiculous.

Latvia should be livid Bellingham wasn't sent off.

Exactly.

Rogers looks lost - why is he allowed a free role when Foden was under strict instructions to stay on his wing?

We're desperate for out and out wingers, especially in this formation. Also is Harry Kane playing?

Everyone knows why, but nobody in authority is doing anything about it...

It's all irrelevant - we won't see a penny of it. It's just helped the owners (and by the sounds of it will continue to help them) keep their strangle hold on the club without investing any money. I'm resigned to that fact now - they're determined to kill us. The biggest travesty is that we only got to see him play for Rovers for 12 months.

A brave manager would drop Kane. Obviously easier said than done considering the amount of goals he's scored. He's zero threat to run in behind - partly because he's now a lumbering oaf and partly because he seems to want to play as a #10. That reduces the way you can attack teams - and why most of our play is pretty 5 yard passes in-front of a settled defence. I'd give Watkin and Solanke a go. I wouldn't be opposed to throwing Delap into the mix too. We need a physical presence upfront.

Rice is a DM. As much as people want to call him a CM / Box-to-Box Midfielder, he's at his best firefighting. Big lad, good engine and reads the game well. He simply doesn't have the range of passing to be played further forward - he's clearly most comfortable playing 5-10 yard passes to more technically proficient players.

It was their PR move to head off Eustace's talking point about there not being a long-term plan. It looks to have spectacularly backfired.

To a degree. I play on a Wednesday night with someone similar to Bellingham - plays as a False 9 / 10 / 8 (it's quite hard to get him to stick to one position, he just wanders around!) and demands the ball. It completely disrupts the shape and rhythm of the team - even though technically he's one of the better players there. Bellingham's performance last night reminded me massively of that - he was allowed to show up wherever he wanted and demand the ball. Meanwhile Foden and Rashford were clearly under strict instructions to stay to their wings to open up as much space as possible for Bellingham to operate in in the middle.

Probably, but he doesn't need to touch the ball as much as he does. He DEMANDS it from teammates rather than complementing them.

Want to bet on PNE not winning the FA cup?

He's not a winger, that's why. He was shoved out wide to accommodate Jamie Tartt - sorry Jude Bellingham.