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Looks good, apart from how left-footed the midfield is - 4-4-2 with Reach cutting in from the right ?

For anyone in S6 already, how's the river looking? This week's deluges do feel a bit like June 2007...

I'd be tempted to try Reach or Aarons as a No 10 behind Fletcher. What are Slothroyd and Jeffers doing this week?

It's steadily downhill - and the calls (including Wednesdayites) feel more witless in turn. Jonathan Buchan was a downgrade on Paul Walker and Seth Bennett*, (although Staton was decent til he scooted off to Hull) and the current lot (Gidding, Oxley, etc) are worse again... *What happened to Seth? I know he left RS for a shot at a national radio job but I haven't heard him in years...

Exactly. The whole point of the OP is that his Wednesday form increasingly looks like an aberration rather than a long-term trend. We didn't have the right sort of set-up play for Rhodes to thrive. We pumped long-balls from midfield at him, often surrounded by a couple of defenders, rather than counter-attacking and getting horizontal crosses in. He should have been treated tactically like a poor man's Carroll rather than a Sheringham \ Heskey style link-up player.

"Bumfacedsaviour" is one word, isn't it?

Garlic bread and Rola-Cola all round!

I do not want to know what goes into Fat Leon's chilli sauce...

Did they all come in through a glory hole?

There was a good Bielsa profile on the Grauniad today, suggesting that his teams often fall apart in the second half of the season...

If Joao's lining up to shoot, I think I'd rather have the free kick...

It's not like we've got injury problems up top. Dry gangrene again? (was that COG or Akpo, originally?)

See? NOW you can spaff all over the thread...

It does sound like he's been drinking in The Nun's Chuff again...

Has Bruce definitely signed his contract? If I were him, I might be having second thoughts in Barbados...