Silk - Slot may or may not believe Salah should defend but the teams that play Liverpool love that he doesn't, [Link]

Forest 3-0 up away to Fenerbache too

Palace lead in Bosnia

Papers, what did you make the away crowd on Tuesday? Thought it was 600 and not the rather larger number reported

Team Hallsberg was where you climbed into the bowels of the wooden stand to try and get a diferent colour programme cover?

Message to Bert/Historical Don - have unearthed the 1993 Swedish tour programmes / teamsheets. Toreboda IK 4 August, Team Hallsbergs 6 August, Koping FF 7 August, FC Jonkoping 9 August. Sorry to everyone else - email not working ATM

There’s that term again “…share our values…”

OI - Arne Slot has confirmed that Salah is not expected to defend. That is in the same way that players like Messi or Ronaldo was never expected to defend. Of course, Nkeng's attacking input is not good enough for him to to command a starting berth every game and he is probably a last twenty man - especially in away games but a shift from wing-back to one of the front two could be the way to go for him and us. That is where he is less defensively important. Have Tilley on the left. The real question is not whether he can defend but can he win us matches.

The tree preservation society.

Brilliant stuff, Pete.

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Even john Gayle, Robbie Turner and Aiden Newhouse were talented and somehow played for a team in the top division :-)

Lurker - everyone who plays for a professional team is talented. I have never seen anything from Sasu to suggest his natural level is better than National League/NLS. That is still very talented. Nkeng on the other hand looks to me someone who could comfortably play at League 1 level or even above but he still has a lot of development needed, which will only come through experience. He isn't someone who you build a team around at the moment and if Salah is expected to defend and gets dropped if he doesn't do the job well enough, Nkeng is definitely not excused defending.

OI Sasu is talented. Just not sure how he fits in for us and why he hasn’t kicked on. Although I’d wonder if not getting loans previous seasons was an issue. I don’t think he’s ever had a run like Nkeng has had in the first team.

I think our issue is we do have to work hard to compete with a lot of the sides. It’s draining * and is probably going to catch us out regularly. Resting players could be very important.

Thought we'd get something from Barnsley and feel the same way about Bradford, provided we can keep up the intensity of the last two games. We'll run out of puff sooner or later.

Good to see the OTD caption has been updated so I know what it refers to. I wonder how much television archive footage of old WFC games exists? I've seen very little. Aside from the Leeds games and, I think, something from the 1963 FA Amateur Cup Final, I've seen not much else. It wasn't until the 1980s that WFC started getting televised. I remember seeing some clips on the news in May 1979 when we drew 1-1 with Barnsley to clinch promotion to the 3rd Division but never saw them again or much else. Apparently, footage from the FA Cup games with Middlesbrough in 1977 exist but I've never seen them.

That Hendon side were pretty useful in 1955 - they reached the Amateur Cup final, and “their attack included Swiss international Erwin Bahler who had flown in from Berne for both the semi final and the final, and Norwegian international Rajnar Hvidsten”. 100,000 at Wembley for that game… [Link]

Trigg - if we play well, we have a chance, especially given Bradford’s record since New Year. In all honesty, I’d take a draw, but as usual, it could go either way…. 😬

Hard to predict a result for Saturday clearly Bradford are going to be a decent side they're 4th in the table to our 16th. But their away form isn't great - only 1 win in their last 6 away games and they lost all the others. BUT... those away losses include Luton, Lincoln, Huddersfield and Mansfield which are all tough away games - the only doozy one was losing 2-1 at Leyton Orient just before Christmas. So I think they'll be coming looking to put on a strong performance and take all the points. I'm worried that playing Sat/Tues will affect us more than it affects them given our thin squad.

Berts Ai photos have gone rogue .

There seems to be an ongoing issue with the OTD captions not lining up with the pictures. Today's picture was definitely not taken in 2019.

Hope the cctv cameras are working in whatever jail they’ve got Andrew.

Postie - how’s that happened, is it windy…?