Dan

It's early days but he's been decent. Remember him catching my eye when we played Rennes a couple of years ago and he was one of the best players on the pitch, very good one v one. Can't really knock his numbers either - 2 goals and 5 assists in under 8 nineties in the league.The others have been the problem really, they've gone downhill defensively this season. 2 clean sheets in their last 15 games in the league. I'm saying this without watching them all that much in detail though. Something very flat about them this season.

They had a bad summer. Doku looks like the only really good one so far. Gvardiol's not really been all that yet has he? Kovacic and Nunes just bizarre signings, complete downgrades.

Yeah but Burnley have moved on from those dark ages!

I'm leaving this one here. Everton was a good move for him - they had a lot of players well suited to his football as well.

It's pretty likely. I do think Monday is a bit of a banana skin but Rotherham at home, surely, surely we win?

Bloody hell what a brilliant day for us. Leeds and Ipswich both dropping home games they were expected to win. They play each other next week as well while we have Rotherham at home. Fantastic chance to build up a gap.

definitely gonna start doing this to basically seal Leicester's promotion.

Ipswich to beat Norwich and BTTS @ 2/1 - first pick. It's paid out in 7/10 Ipswich home games and it just feels totally inevitable for me.

That's next weeks! Can have that for then though if you wish.

WEEK 19 - GOOD GRIEF WEEK 19 STATS Winning bets: 0/7 Winning selections: 3/12 Weekly forum position: -£70.00 (Ranked 18/19) --- OVERALL STATS Winning bets: 35/137 Winning selections: 120/260 Total forum position: -£311.48 I'm a bit pushed for time this week but let the table do the talking. Absolute disaster throughout. @CaaC (John) probably the main winner of the week having not predicted! Better luck next time out.

They were dreadful about a decade ago when they came out. No idea how they've made a resurgence. If they can make it back anyone can.

I did think as soon as we had three of their back four on bookings within 20 minutes that they would eventually end up caving in. They couldn't deal with Fatawu at all. Referee was appalling. I do wonder what the score would've been if we'd gotten that penalty - that would've been likely 1-1 against 10 men in the first half. I'm mates with a Birmingham fan who has been very down on them under Rooney, unsurprisingly, but said last night he went back to a more pragmatic system and it paid off. The irony there of course being that Rooney was brought in to move away from that supposedly.

Scoreline flattered Millwall. No idea how it's they of all sides who've managed to break the 2 goal barrier against us as they offered very little, seemed to basically get 2 chances and score both. 7 goals in 2 games is more like it even if the opposition was pretty tame. 13 points from 15 again, think we've gotten through the blip.

How Ipswich are doing this. I say it every week but it's just incredible. Every single week they seem to go 1-0 down quite early and then come back. Totally unprecedented form for any team let alone a newly promoted side. We've come down into the league from as strong a position as a team has come down from in probably the last decade, arguably longer, we aren't underperforming, and they're still above us. When you look at the next fortnight... Ipswich have Norwich at home, naturally a banana skin with it being a derby, Leeds away, and then Leicester at home. We on the flip side play Millwall at home later on, Birmingham away on Monday and Rotherham at home before the boxing day game at Ipswich. In other words we have as kind a run as we could probably ask for and really should be taking 9/9 points, while they have two tricky fixtures before playing us. If they come out of boxing day top of the league I think we have to concede they are probably better than us and they would be favourites to win the league for me. I thought they would drop points in one of these games at Middlesbrough and Watford. Two tricky away games and no mistakes made. They're completely relentless and when you look through their side, you see no obvious stars, no obvious players carrying them, it's a collective effort that tells me it's totally sustainable even if they were to lose a couple. McKenna's ceiling is extremely high. Also thankyou Sunderland. Leeds yet again have their 4 gamely clanger. We have a fantastic opportunity to widen that gap tonight. I think we've caught Millwall at a quite good time. I think the traditionally robust Millwall have always given us problems, but this very much seems like a different version where they are trying to play a more open and attacking way whilst being built on the foundations of a more direct, defensive side. This for me should make them a great opposition for us. They've always been a traditional banana skin, they love a surprise 0-1 victory and they've done it here a few times. But I think we'll be too much.

Regarding draws honestly I don't think it should change. I don't think you should rob the opportunity for say, Barnet to go and play at Old Trafford or Anfield. It's financially a better deal for them too if the ticket revenue is being split between the two clubs. I think it's just the nature of cup draws. Maidstone getting Stevenage at home is a real shame for them but that's the way the cookie crumbles. I don't think they should be handed the dream tie just for making it there. If I was to change anything about the FA Cup it's that I would get rid of replays in the instance that the two clubs are in the same division. Perfect case in point is our draw. Literally nobody at Leicester or Millwall is going to want to play another game against each other in a midweek in January, the third time in a month, the second trip Millwall will have made here in a month. I think replays should be retained but if the teams are in the same league I really don't see the point. But then I also don't mind them staying either - it's just the way the cookie crumbles. It's not something I'd kick off about them not introducing.

I think it's entirely a logistical thing. Crystal Palace, Millwall, West Ham, Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham, Brentford and QPR all got drawn at home which is remarkable. Even a bit further out, Luton and Watford did too. Ours at Millwall ended up half 12. Can't stand early away games when they aren't local.

It's quite damning how much was being made of the fact Bayern had a shocking result at the weekend and how this is going to give them a kick up the arse for what was essentially a dead rubber, yet Manchester United, at home, who needed a result, weren't getting this rhetoric despite having an even more embarrassing result themselves at the weekend. The apathy about that club is the baffling thing to me. Muted boos. It's completely soulless. I can't imagine another club of that size where this would bring about so little reaction in the stands.

And not just a Championship job - basically now the Championship Everton (and that is probably harsh on Everton). What is the upside of the Stoke job? Nobody goes there and goes a good job. It isn't like Sunderland where you can see a route to the Premier League in the next year or two. Stoke is a club where players and managers go to die these days.

Surely Potter can't drop to Stoke. I know his stock has fallen but that would be an absolutely ridiculous move. They seem to be one of these clubs now who are stuffed whoever they get in charge. It's far too big a risk for what isn't going to be that big an upside. That move could finish him.

Yeah, a quick skim through looks like not a single winner

It'll be Steve Cooper. Marinakis keeps bottling it because the fans love Cooper, although that apparently pisses him off that Cooper gets all the plaudits. It'll go ugly there.

Long overdue that we've given someone a good beating and I've been saying to people a while I thought Plymouth of all teams were probably a good contender to be on the end of that, as they genuinely really do only know one way and that's to attack. They actually gave us a good game for a lot of the first half and they were probably a bit unfortunate to go in behind at half time, but we just hammered them after the restart and it became a procession. My one criticism of Maresca has been that I think he overcomplicates and keeps things a bit too tight against sides we're a lot better than. Can't accuse him of that at the weekend. We were looking for other ways. Not totally stubborn. Good from him.

Currently in a lodge in what feels like the middle of nowhere and my internet is extremely on and off, so the table may be a bit delayed.

Said when they appointed him Dyche would fix Everton. They're a comfortable midtable team under him. No threat at all of the drop.