Sunday kick off 14:00 Well that was a horrible season , not Many memorable results , no wins against the bigger boys , not many good goals . Thrashed home and away and knocked out of both cups by Liverpool. So on to West Ham at home who are currently sitting in 7th place and enjoyed some European heroics. Dean Smith needs to dump anyone that isn't in his plans next season and give opportunities to players that didn't get many minutes . I would even let Gunn play the remaining games . None of the loanees covered themselves in glory , perhaps Williams on occasion, Gilmore has been overhyped guff , Normann I suspect has been playing with pain for most of the season but looked good in glimpses , Ozan Kabak **** me we dodged a bullet not signing him permanently he's terrible . Webber has been hiding most of the season and he's climbing Mount Everest soon to escape the criticism rightly aimed at his recruitment. Delia looked thoroughly miserable for most of the season. There are glimpses of hope for next season Omobamidele and Idah will be back, Tzolis will enjoy more game time , Rashica will probably be one of the best players in the division and our old war horse Pukki has an excellent record at Championship level . Max will be off he deserves his pay day move and will no doubt go on to great things with our blessing. Nothing has inspired me since Smith arrived but unfortunately Farke failed miserably at Prem level , and if we aspire to get back there we needed to try something new . Well at least my Saturday won't be ruined this week .
Just shut up Dean you are embarrassing yourself now https://www.skysports.com/watch/vid...that-could-be-positive-going-into-next-season That's a low bar Dean Smith: We could still finish 19th, that could be positive going into next season!
Is this going to be his excuse for not experimenting with Sorensen, Tzolis, Rowe, but sticking with Gilmour and Normann instead? We might get 19th! Wow, I can barely contain my excitement!
The club shop should print off some 19th place finish T shirts and dust off the open top bus . We are ridiculous
Kenny McLean (toe) out for the season. Josh Sargent (ankle) out for the season. Dean Smith confirmed no surgery required. Christoph Zimmermann (groin) out this weekend. Smith corrects inaccurate diagnosis from him last week when he said hip flexor. Andrew Omobamidele (back) out for the season. Adam Idah (knee) out for the season. Ozan Kabak (hamstring) out for the season.
Rowe should start along with Sorenson. Happy Gilmore should be sent back to Chelski or whoever owns them now.
Sorensen almost forced to start by the lack of other options, but hope he has a big game and impresses. A shame he's alongside Gilmour and not McLean. Byram continuing at CB over Gibson is interesting, feels like Gibson is very out of favour. Be interesting to see if that's where Smith sees Byram playing next year. Giannoulis not starting in favour of a loan player is also weird. Can't help but wonder if Giannoulis is off this summer.
To be fair, looking at what's available on the bench, I'm not sure he has many choices to make. CB and LB really his only choices.
I'm hearing that Normann has a thigh injury. Otherwise almost for sure he'd be in the team and Sorensen would be on the bench.