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I'd like to see Simms and Wright together, but at the same time I think it would be silly to drop Godden while he's scoring. I think what would be ideal is to bring Simms on for Godden if we're comfortably ahead, but the chances of that are slim. Another option is to bring him on for Godden if...

Trialists were apparently: Ben Williams and Ayodele Ojo starting Darryl Powell and Ibrahim Bangura on the bench

Wilson Thomas Fadz Kitching MVE Eccles Sheaf Dasilva Sakamoto Wright Godden Collins, Bidwell, *Lati, Binks, Howley, Kelly, Ayari, *Palmer, Simms,

But then you have the argument that removing it gives Russia a chance to regroup and regain an initiative and we end up back where we started.

I'm sure it did, but if it were my team I'd be saying the first opportunity go down with a head injury and we'll spend 4-5 minutes 'treating it' and reduce the amount of time they have the advantage. Do you really think that isn't what professional club s would do?

I'm looking forward to singing "You're going home in a f****** ambulance"

Was that Elliott or Danny?

But as I say how would you prevent the other team wasting as much of that 8-10mins? We already have the ball out of play enough as it is. Having teams deliberately try to time waste even more isn't going to help. That's why it works in things like ice hockey.

I spent ages trying to work out the cryptic message. At first I thought is was some short of wry comment that what I'd said had no relevance to the conversation.

I think as long as it's balanced and doesn't tip over into thinking we are exceptional just because of the country we're from. That way leads to dangerous nationalist lunatics and can prevent you from improving as you will not even consider another country'd way of life in superior is one...

A week of high twenties compared to a few weeks well into the 30's and touching 40 last year. Yeah, we've got away with it cos the gulf stream kept the hot air above Europe until we were naturally starting to cool down due to shorter days. If it acts like normal next year this summer is going to...

We pretty much have. It's been hot the last few days but with the days getting shorter it's nowhere near as bad as it could've been had it been a month ago. Imagine living on the continent during this summer!

I like the idea in principle but I'd need to know how it would be applied. If it's for a set amount of time, then all that will happen is teams will try and time waste as much as possible until the time is up, so I think it'd only really be viable with a stopped clock format.

I noticed that but somehow managed to hold my tongue, though hoping someone else would point it out.

Seeing the picture put up by nigfatronssba, I was wondering if that segregation was possible because of the small number of fans they'd brought and so there would be sufficient exits/toilets etc/ for the number of people. But your pic blows that idea out of the water.

It's not, but it's arguably worse to hammer home that your country is amazing and always right. Otherwise you end up like America.

Roll Over Lay Down

Could they have not waited a couple of months?

To be fair I think he's just relating it to this country because that's where we are. I'm sure he feels every other country, like Spain, France, Dutch etc should also offer a rounded view on their past and show both the good and bad. I also think that it is worthwhile showing what other...

It's not really Wright keeping hm out of the team, it's Godden. Simms style is far closer to that of Godden's, and should Godden have two/three games without a goal (or more likely get injured) we'll see Wright and Simms together. I'm confident that the intention was to play them together.