I take it 3 of our strikers must be injured

Why the fuck are we risking our first teamers on this shit when we’re struggling for form? I know the answer is the bizarre rules for this trophy.

Swansea have a league game tonight so for a change it really should be their kids against us

Interesting line up in the game no one is talking about v Swansea's kids tonight (who lost 5-0 to Stevenage in their last Check-out Trophy game): Reserve back four (sorry Will) with Pinnock, Soares, Hartigan and Wagstaff supplying Piggott and Tommy Wood on his competitive debut. Presumably Hanson, Wordsworth, Jervis and Appiah are all carrying knocks made of glass as none of them are involved?

Could be an ‘entertaining’ one with that defence

Alfie Egan on the bench.

Tommy Wood starting tonight.

Could be Kyle - but while England pin their hopes on Phil Foden eventually turning into such a talent that he can single-handedly win the World Cup for England, France have Mbappe sporting a winner’s medal.

That’s the thing. Everything seems to be organised now and that costs. It may well be kids play ‘better’ football but less football than in days of yore.

Of course kids these days can go and have a kickabout. As long as they can afford £80 per hour to rent a pitch at Goals.

Inter v Spurs makes our first half v Scunthorpe appear entertaining

Ooh as if by magic, I appeared

Yeah TF I think you’ve over egged the pudding there

Snozzle, Andreas sends his regards, and hopes to see you next year

TF - to be fair, I saw a couple of different instances of young lads having a kickabout around Southwark/Bermondsey on Sunday

Apart from the thousands and thousands of kids who train during the week and play football for their teams on Sunday from u7 to u16 up and down the country .

Lurker - it breaks my heart to see all the park pitches and open areas of our country completely deserted these days. “When I were a lad” we’d be out playing football til it was too dark to see the ball. You just don’t see kids having a kick about anymore - they’re all indoors playing FIFA, COD, Fortnite or Minecraft. I wonder what date it’ll be when someone realises the entire Premier League fixture list includes starting line ups without a single English player in it.

Yes definite booing from around the Chemflow but was difficult to tell what they were about. The ref had been atrocious, we’d been atrocious (defensively at least) and there was a frannie on the pitch.

Or what OI said

Sure the designated away end will be the stand nearest the Corner Pin

North Stand to provide a segregated route out, I guess home fans wanting to head to Earlsfield may have to go round to the south.

Oh really? Do we know the intentions of where the away fans will be seated? Will it be in a similar position as to now or behind a goal?

Agree with you Lee.

Is the away fan allocation going to be limited to something like 1500 initially otherwise we could end up with a 50-50 crowd for some games.

Happy birthday sunny SwinDon and WDON