And said something about him earning his MoM by punching it out...think he confused him with Pears that time.

It was though. We had quite a few semi finals and fairly strong cup runs in that period. Until Mowbray showed up and we lost every FA Cup game since 2017 or 2018? And out first or second time of asking in the League Cup. He really was just utterly awful at managing us in the cup.

I've no idea what that means, sorry. Ash Phillips bafflingly been given MoM. Barely been tested apparently. Meanwhile we've notched 4. Most of the times I heard his name, it wasn't even his name.

No, you didn't have some special foresight about us beating a League Two side. People doubted your general predictive ability due to your awful track record of predicting us to win on here. More like we were worried you were giving the usual Mercer kiss of death on a game we expected to win.

Ah no, Batty coming on for him instead, that makes more sense!

Edun not looking good injury wise. Maybe time for Annersley to come on and Pickering back to LB.

And it just happened again.

One of them just called Phillips Ashley Williams. The other didn't correct it. Markanday, 4 nil.

If he looks slow it's because he's slow, not because he hasn't had every bit as much match time this summer as he should have.

Pickering shouldn't have any less fitness than anyone else. He has been playing.

Aye, although I'd have put a CB on personally, Pickering is a first teamer too. Annesley perhaps, although might have been premature at 1 up, makes sense now though.

3-0, Dolan

Pickering on for Scott Wharton it seems...

You say that as though everybody has been jizzing up the walls about it. We haven't.

Markanday hits the post

Yeh they don't play it online for some pointless and annoying reason. I was hoping for an online version. I've had to dig out an old radio and listen to all the scratching from the poor frequency.

One up!!! Scott Wharton header from a Morton corner it sounds like. The Radio Lancs commentator had just complained we were trying to walk it into the net.

Anybody know where radio coverage can be listened to without paying?

That was what I thought, that's why I said two LBs on the bench. But Rigger seems to disagree. LT pre-match comments are calling him a LB too. This better not be some inane LB/LWB pedantry....

Nah, hopefully they're both brill, and we get promoted and never need to sell them 😁 They're not identical twins like the Olssons anyway so the joke wouldn't land the same. Just seen Martin Olsson actually joined Malmo in 2021 and is still there as far as I can tell. JDT signed him.

Am I getting mixed up with my youth team LBs and RBs again? If Batty is a RB, I'd probably start him ahead of JRC, who simply isn't good enough and unlikely to ever be so.

It's already been clarified, they did. There were even jokes about selling them the worse twin when Norwich came in for Martin.

This team is strong enough on paper to see off a League Two side who have started with a draw and a defeat, at our own ground. If we balls it up, it won't reflect well on the character of some of these second stringers. I wouldn't want to see it face a Championship team though. Mostly as the defence and keeper look a bit frail.

It's pretty much what I and seemingly most others on here would have picked. The only real question mark was over whether it would be Morton plus Wharton, Morton plus Garrett, or (least likely) Wharton and Garrett. Rest of the team practically picked itself. Think S. Wharton would have been rested too if we had a reasonably experienced CB to replace him (or even just Barnes). Personally I think I'd have swerved Pears too (just like he swerves the ball). At least Kaminski is on the bench in case Pears starts playing dodgeball. That attack is plenty good enough to dispatch Hartlepool, and should be hungry enough to pull it off. Haven't seen Morton or Wharton much but they're rated. JRC is dogshit unfortunately, not really any getting around that (unlike JRC, who there is plenty of getting around) as I think resting as many of Saturday's players as possible was the right call. Phillips, well hopefully his inexperience won't be a problem and we see the beast we've been hearing about. Not that I'll see it, sadly. 4 defenders on the bench, 2 of them LBs I believe, is a bit odd.

We've played two matches 😂