Travis with his customary yellow card. Typical that he didn't get one in the Preston derby with cards flying everywhere when I had a small bet on it at what I'd thought was a very generous 3.5 to 1 (has been booked in more than half his games).

Superb ball to Ohashi there. I was urging him not to play it, thought he'd never pull it off but it was inch perfect. With hindsight Yuki should've hit it first time.

Just like he was against Preston. Surprised we have gone with the same approach, especially at home.

He didn't though. Arsenal attempted to keep him, but he was out of contract and chose to go to Brighton. I believe no money has changed hands yet but it's going to tribunal.

Great, but such a shame when I see something like this my first thought is now 'great, another one we will lose for bugger all'. Hope we can reverse this recent trend again.

Basically an open admission that they don't give a fuck about us in the scheme of things. So just sell the fucking club!

And then lost him for nothing, enabling a team who took almost no risk on him to make the same amount we paid for him inside 1 season. I think the fact he scored 6 in 14 in the Prem says he is Premiership quality when confident. But yes, useless when he isn't.

Agree with this (apart from it was 6 in 14) until the last sentence. Due to his being massively a confidence player, his career could certainly fizzle out if things go against him at the wrong times.

Mad it's taken him this long to get his debut, or has their season only just started?

Yeh that was it really. Other than that he was just passing it around at the back a bit under no real pressure. Carlisle didn't have a shot on or off target I believe.

That sounds like more than enough to me without bringing Michalski back. One of the first team squad keepers should be dipping into the u21s from time to time to keep sharp. Think it would have been best to let Michalski keep tasting first team football.

Don't we already have tons of keepers still at the club to rotate though?

What do you mean by that? He's a goalie, 11 games so far shouldn't have been too much. And we could always ask them to rest him if it was. Seems an odd one to me, this.

If he hasn't convinced you after scoring a hat trick, I doubt he'll ever convince you.

I don't think ACD is a stretch. He'll be a regular starter for us very soon I reckon. Whereas Toth is unproven here, McFadz is ageing and on the way out, JRC is highly unfit at the moment, and Buckley is more inconsistent than English weather.

There isn't really any separating discussion of the two players. If Pears doesn't get dropped, it won't matter what Toth is like. You'll just have to accept that discussion involving Pears is an inevitable outcome of discussing Toth, especially whilst he is in Toth's pathway. It's a bit like how discussion of club finances inevitably comes up in the transfer window thread.

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Yeh I had to miss most of it due to a bit of an emergency I had going on. Caught ACD's second and Duru's though. I've rewound to the start to watch it properly, just before I read your post. Handy feature that. You'd think the club would be advertising this could be watched for free, but as ever, nope. I got a random youtube notification, otherwise several of us would've had no idea.

Game is available to watch on youtube: (Not sure what time it starts?)

Aye...Pears wasn't actually in form anymore shortly after Kaminski was ready again. That drop should have happened. Right now, Pears is in form, and whilst I'm no fan in general, you can't drop him whilst he's in form. I hope Eustace will have the balls to drop him as soon as he isn't though.

Tbf to Mike, whilst for a while after his career he definitely made a mess of things, eventually he got his act together and seems happier and more stable now than at most points of his career, to me.

But they are doing. You just said yourself, he's injured and needs pain meds.

No. It was a foul but it was never a yellow.

That last part is categorically untrue.

That was last season. Hopefully our current sponsors don't result in a ram's bottom being thrown onto the pitch...