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This board declaring an all hands on deck emergency because Maidstone somehow managed to beat Ipswich in a game where they also faced 38 shots:

Counterpoint: it’s Maidstone United

It’s a mid-90s song isn’t it?

I wouldn’t play more than one or maybe two maximum. Rus has played at the same level as Maidstone more than a dozen times over the past couple of seasons - if he can give us 90 minutes and it means we get to play O’Hare or Sakamoto in both of our league games that week as a result then I’d do it.

Realistically our second choice XI with a handful of first teamers beats them handily. You could replay that Ipswich game 10 times and not get another Maidstone win, it was a total fluke.

I’d expect this to feature heavily in Leveson II

If we approach the game the exact same way Ipswich did then we will almost certainly win. People are getting freaked out by a true fluke result. We’ve been handed a golden opportunity to both progress into the quarterfinals AND rest key players as we enter the end of a long and gruelling season...

Well you’ve said you want Sakamoto, O’Hare, MVE, Wright and Eccles all starting against Maidstone - if that’s the case then either they have to play three games in seven days (bad) or we have to rest them in a league game (also bad) It’s Maidstone ffs

Who are you resting against Preston and WBA to allow us to play a more or less full strength team against Maidstone United? Or are most of our first XI just going to have to play three games in seven days?

No. I’m not expecting him to work wonders, I’m expecting him to play at a National League N/S level and give Callum O’Hare the day off.

He’s started several games this season already in the equivalent National League North? We are gearing up for what could be an extremely long season, it’s vital we rest players when given a golden opportunity like this one.

He’s playing in a mask! Edit: Just seen the latest ITK update….switch him out for Torp, we win by five goals instead

GK Wilson RB Latibeaudiere RCB Thomas LCB Binks LB DaSilva CM Kelly CM Allen CAM Rus RW Tavares LW Simms ST Godden If we’re not winning after 60 minutes then bring on Torp, Wright and Palmer to murder them and tell Tavares he works in the club shop now. O’Hare, MVE and Sakamoto get the night...

We’re at home against a side in the sixth tier, four divisions below us - the Wrexham or Worcester games were more evenly matched, by comparison. We will easily win, 99 times out of 100, even with a seriously weakened side, and we shouldn’t be running our key players into the ground just in case...

There is a world of difference between Oxford United and Maidstone though. It was ridiculously unlucky for Ipswich to lose that game and it would be foolish to change our gameplan based on a total freak result like that. We need to be resting as many players as we feasibly can, it would be...

That’s not what he said either! Bit slow on the uptake today, big night last night?

Is that really what Starmer said?

Point of order

And? Starmer didn’t say anything about the murder today except to pay tribute to Esther Ghey’s bravery - that’s really worse in your eyes?

Seems odd to pretend there isn’t a political dimension to the murder when the victim’s mother is sitting in parliament and has asked to meet with the leader of the opposition.