Good news for us I think with Fulham, Wigan and QPR involved in hopefully long tiring replays. Personally I'd like to see Bournemouth go through against Wigan. Wigan's squad is quite light already so a couple of red cards would not go amiss!
Interesting games....red cards and injuries please and I don't care if that is unsporting...this season is WAR.
Kone is already out for a while for Wigan... So if bournemouth could kindly put a strong challenge in on Di Santo it would be much appreciated...
Oh and speaking of Wigan, Ramis is out for the season. I know I shouldn't be happy that a player has picked up a bad injury but that can only be good for Saints.
If only it happened February 1st! Hopefully they won't have the funds to bring in anyone decent as cover, anyway.
We may have done better with Lallana fit, but we didn't do badly without him. A journalist pointed out at the pre-match interview with Adkins that Saints have got only 1 fewer point than Chelsea in the last 10 (?) games. Not daft enough to think that means we are as good as Chelsea, but does show how we are being consistent at the moment. Chelsea have a good squad of quality players...doubt a few injuries will affect them either.
My wife is not so impressed with the fist pumping that my son and i did when Sky announced Ramis out for season... also be cheering The Cherries on tonight, much to her Wigan, pie-eating distress!!
Dreadful coverage of the matches tonight, I wanted to see the palace match to cement my view that Zaha is the most overhyped footballer of the last 10 years.
In the unlikely event that a Wigan player is sent-off today, and receives a three man ban, we would obviously require Wigan to be knocked out this evening for that ban to affect our game against them.
Oh, and Jalal better be awake in the Bmouth goal. After all, that McManaman has a superb long shot on him...
It feels like quite a few clubs really do not want to progress tonight. Very uninspired first halfs from the prem lot.
If we were in WBA's position, I'd like to think we would have had a go at a cup run this year. After such a strong start in the League they have fallen away a bit, but its such a good oppotunity to progress against weakened rival. Strange.com
