Save the best for Saturday. In some ways the worst thing would be for us to beat them in the cup on the basis that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice.

I might be typically late to the party on this but as an FYI we’re on Sky Sports Tuesday night for those unaware. If anyone is going may well be worth bringing your boots…

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Similar to Plymouth. ManUre have a lot of injuries but looking at their bench against Burnley they still have the likes of Eriksen, Amrabat, Garnacho and Varane. Think both teams will put out scratch sides to begin with a few heavy hitters on the bench. It will all depend how the game progresses whether they are needed. Unfortunately with such a wafer thin squad and lack of firepower I cannot see us hurting them enough at the start.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Won't bother them, quick flight from Gatwick to Manchester & then a short ride to Salford.

I'm a blind man, i'm a blind man, now my room is cold,
When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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Was just about to post this quote. Quite a difference from his comments after transfer deadline day about how if he was a Palace fan he'd be delighted with our team etc.

Honestly, we all knew we needed more players. We all asked for more players. We didn't get them. This is the natural consequence of that.

As someone above said, I'm baffled that we didn't try to get some loan players in at a minimum.

We really do shoot ourselves in the foot, so close to being good enough to progress and just don't quite do enough. Obviously we know we need to sell before we can buy so I can only assume the plan is to muddle through another year and then sell a couple of players next summer in order to fund more investment.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

In truth we only have Reidewald on the bench that could play central midfield which is the troublesome position for which we have no cover presently. I assume Roy H doesn’t feel he is good enough for midfield? Shame we loaned Killian Phillips out as he would have been on the bench for central midfield and would have played tomorrow. I expect it will be the bench players in the back four with Reidewald at left back and Henderson in goal. As for central midfield it will have to be Doucoure and Hughes again unless we bring in a youngster but that could be dangerous and a Sheffield Utd v Newcastle result if we aren’t careful?