• 20 Oct 2025, 7:41 p.m.

    The Ginger Prince will work his magic and have the Porto-geezers in knots. I suspect the team won't be too different from the one that started against Chelsea with Luiz, MGW and Anderson. Chris or Jesus will start. Depends on Woody's fitness because Dyche knows him more than any of the other players.

    Neco on the left? Bakwa or Savona on the right? Zinchenko might get a run out as I wouldn't risk him for Bournmouth. Can you imagine him against Semenyo? NIGHTMARES!!!!!

    CHO and DAN DAN DOY ON THE WINGS.

    Second half when we grab the lead we go full on kick the fuck out of them with Yatesy and Dom.

    2-0 and a positive attitude going into our yearly dicking at the hands of the Muff.

    Started early because i believe Dyche, Woany and Stone will be on the touchline at the WFCG and the crowd will be bouncing.

    Or I am a deluded saddo who has no grounds in reality and nothing will have changed. NAAAAAHHHHH we are going to Fuck them!

    Chicago: Feeling more at home.

  • 20 Oct 2025, 7:58 p.m.

    Sels - Williams, Milenkovic, Morato, Murillo - Yates, Luiz - Anderson, MGW, CHO - Wood.

  • 20 Oct 2025, 7:59 p.m.

    Don’t deny biology!

    Chicago: Orgasmic.

  • 20 Oct 2025, 8:03 p.m.

    I am decidedly not enjoying the ongoing formation experimentation. Constantly binning systems because they failed once is rubbish, and we also keep picking teams which are unbalanced, especially given the squad make-up.
    We've finally got winger options, so keep MGW fresh, or let Anderson rest or something.

  • 21 Oct 2025, 9:11 a.m.

    Quite looking forward to Thursday now.

  • 21 Oct 2025, 9:15 a.m.

    Yeah, me too. Last time we ate in the WB restaurant we've booked for prematch dinner, Dyche was in there with his family. That's an omen if ever there was one.

  • 21 Oct 2025, 9:28 a.m.

    Looking forward to the pre-match press conference, so I can get a lengthy breakdown of how the press treated Dyche when he was manager of Everton and Burnley.

  • 22 Oct 2025, 5:53 p.m.

    Bakwa? Has he ever been in?

  • 22 Oct 2025, 7:31 p.m.

    I really enjoyed the pre match press conference with Yatesy and Sean. It was funny and natural. Everything that Ange wasn’t. Dyche is even joking around with Ryan when he trying to answer some questions. If they can take that attitude into the game tomorrow then we will cruise to victory. Sean knows his onions and is totally at ease telling everyone where he thinks it went wrong.

    Great stuff.

    I am assuming Jesus is playing. I am also surprised because of the jovial nature of the presser than no-one asked Ryan if he was expecting to start tomorrow to see a reaction. Dyche was waiting for it but the question didn’t come.

    Chicago: Buoyed.

  • 22 Oct 2025, 9 p.m.

    Not going to be easy

  • 23 Oct 2025, 7:08 a.m.

    The best things in life are never easy Loaf, which is unfortunate where your mum is concerned.

  • 23 Oct 2025, 11:09 a.m.

    As often happens, I end up organising my mates for various things. Four of us wanted to go to the Porto game, so I said I'd sort it out, and I bought the tickets when they went on sale a few weeks ago. Guys all sent me the money. Fast forward to today, and I think ah yeah, I'd better send the tickets to the guys. After 5-10 minutes of searching it dawns on me that something went wrong, and I never bought them. The money hadn't left my account. I had no confirmation email. FUCK. Had to send some awkward messages to the WhatsApp group. Went on the exchange and managed to grab one ticket. Well this is going to be awkward .... but then an absolute miracle I managed to pick-up 3 more over the next 20 minutes. Phew.

  • 23 Oct 2025, 11:29 a.m.

    Very apt match thread title then.

  • 23 Oct 2025, noon

    Right guys, here’s your tickets. Ones in the Trent End, ones in the Main Stand…… erm see you after?