International Break Thread

As much as I dislike the IBs it's coming at a good time for us to get Ballard, Mayenda Connolly & Samed fit for 1st team duty. Alese should be back after the next one. Be nice to be able to freshen up the team and have a strong bench

 

Subs bench should be a lot stronger against Hull, thankfully

 

I'd imagine there will be a few names left out that might surprise.
Assuming all but the long term lot are back for Hull (and we don't change a winning team) then the bench is picking from

Moore, Ballard, Hjelde, Samed, Browne, Connolly, Mayenda, Rusyn, Watson, Aleksic, Ba

Some decent options there. Not to mention Alese and Abdullahi when they get back and further down the line Seelt& Huggins

 

Ballard called up for Northern Ireland FFS

 

Surely he will withdraw?! I get he’ll need the minutes but we absolutely can’t be risking him being out long term

 

No Browne in the Republic squad

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Hume in the NI squad, as always

 

Quite a few unirish names there.

 

Fella on twitter who usually gets good info reckons the club aren’t happy with the Ballard call up. Understandable too

 

He always seems to get a knock when he goes away too, club have to come first in my not so humble and massively biased opinion

 

RLB's plans for training during the international break

https://www.newspanda.com.ng/2154-2/

 

Bored already.

 

Jobe has withdrawn from the England Elite squad

https://www.englandfootball.com/art...-sUKGHAa8tazLQdRVA_aem_N0qSbJGgbTlzQtwcpNQl2Q

And thank god Dan Ballard has withdrawn from the N.I. squad

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8el5en1z8po

 

Jobe due to injury I’ve seen on Twitter

 

Likely withdrawn to rest him, he walked off the pitch perfectly well on Friday

 

Good news. Hopefully he’s back training here soon and can return to the matchday squad.

 

The final Sky Bet Championship table, as predicted by OPTA's probability mode

 

At least it's better than their first one.

 

Never saw that one

 

They predicted that we finish 4th bottom berfore the season started.