Blondest Goat

Here's a dog with laser eyes chasing a spontaneously combusting cat...

Are you being held captive, tap once for yes.

Something to really look forward to then. 😐

Something to really look forward to then. 😐

Something to really look forward to then. 😐

Something to really look forward to then. 😐

Oh no, does this mean I'll not be able to watch live games now?
Very Probably Not.

Not sure it's made a lot of difference....but Nelson seems a better choice of captain regardless. 

It sends the message that you're in charge and players get picked on form not reputation.

It sends the message that you're in charge and players get picked on form not reputation.

It sends the message that you're in charge and players get picked on form not reputation.

Would imagine that he will just try and recruit the players he thinks will suit playing 3 / 5 at the back.  If he thinks that system works best I think he will always gravitate back to it.

Rooney is gone now, safe to let her out

I'd have Ward further up the pitch than Wilson. His crossing is better and his defending is worse.

A little bit of Daniel at Pride Park forever ❤️ Give him a wave when you pass the east stand 🐏

If a graph, a pie chart and a venn diagram had a drunken threesome, I think I now know what their illegitimate love-sprog might look like.

Great shout! I liked him in Hook too! It’s a yes from Smee! 

It needs a rule change that I've mentioned many times. When the ref blows the whistle for a corner, play becomes active and not when the kick is taken. 
It would stop all the wrestling very quickly.
 

It's pretty hard to keep up with the plethora of injuries and the estimates on how long said players will take to return. Suffice to say it's pretty grim reading in any case and I see some are saying Ebou is now out too. If that's the case, then we're bang in the doodoo I'm afraid, as opposed to our current status which I'd describe as mildly decimated. That said, there's a match to be played, so based on what has been confirmed to date, but is equally subject to daily change, I'd go with the following:
A hopefully more mobile and solid looking 4 at the back, let's start from a solid foundation, at least. I'd have Wilson and Elder either side of the two who pick themselves, Cash and Nelson.
Before the Sibley fan club get irate, he still in my starting 11, I'd just push him right up the field to play off / behind Waghorn and look to make hay with Wilson and Ward paired on the right flank.
CBT remains an unknown to me but he looks the only sensible option we have right now to provide some sort of threat on the left. Lord knows I'd love to see the lad step up, as if ever there was a time to make a name for himself, it's now. He does show promise, but we need something rather more tangible come Friday night.
Elsewhere, Smith comes in for Hourihane. We must front up early and I think we'll be more able to do so without sacrificing too much passing ability, with Korey in a 3 and Conor an option later in the game as legs tire.  Waggy completes the line up, but is only marginally favoured over Washington. I might even be tempted to start the latter as I believe he will stretch defences more than a strangely subdued looking Waghorn. Waggy gets the nod by a  cat's whisker.

 
The starters aside, I'll wait to see who we have available and remotely fit, but even just for the psychological lift, it'd be grand to see Collo tamping at the bit in the dugout. Likewise, could young Jake Rooney figure? Robinson and Weston, along with the skipper and Thommo, seem likely candidates for the bench too.
I do think it's all about this game now. Win and with players perhaps returning the following week (or with another week under their belts at least), we could be back on track. Conversely, slide to another defeat and all momentum will be lost. With Pompey sat in wait, that's a fairly grim prospect, least it is for yours truly.
Suffice to say it's a huge weekend for club and fans and on that note, the first time we've actually had something to play for in a few seasons now, something I've overlooked if truth be told, so that's some small silver lining, at least!
COYR

Fully deserves criticism of course.  But now he's made out to be far worse than he is and the "never play in a derby shirt again" comments are laughable.   

Oh god.  The inevitable sanctimonious pile-on.  And here's me thinking this forum couldn't get any more tedious.

Fully deserves criticism of course.  But now he's made out to be far worse than he is and the "never play in a derby shirt again" comments are laughable.   

Fully deserves criticism of course.  But now he's made out to be far worse than he is and the "never play in a derby shirt again" comments are laughable.   

We will bottle it but the other teams might do too meaning we still go up in 2nd.  Two more years of watching crap football either way.  Little to be excited about for me right now.

We will bottle it but the other teams might do too meaning we still go up in 2nd.  Two more years of watching crap football either way.  Little to be excited about for me right now.