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The physicality bit as well. He's still only 19. He's gonna get even stronger over the next few years.

Two ballot failures, and a partridge in a pear tree.

i liked how he was notionally playing right back but was in his usual central midfield position whenever we had the ball. tino was doing the same from LB, to lesser effect. miley was a lot more cultured on the ball. other positives - i didn't think he was the quickest but he tracked his full back well yesterday and rarely got done for pace. he's also strong on for such a young lad and used his physicality well to bully some of their players off the ball. he looks good cover at right back. only negative on a superb performance was trying to overplay it from the back in a tight position on the odd occasion, which could have got us in trouble, where he might have been better off putting his laces through it. but that's stuff he'll learn with experience.

He’s 100% a mackem

if he isn't a mackem he is a blatant wind up merchant who bumps loads of threads trolling about howe and other players right after a poor result

I don't think he's a mackem, he's been a member for years.

He types really quickly because of his 6 fingers.

honestly man.... why's it been decided that beatty's a mackem?

According to Waugh, they had to hold a special training session yesterday morning to take Miley through all the tactical stuff and patterns for playing RB. He's clearly not daft.

Not only can Tino's injury be traced back to the decisions of Bunce who has given him too many minutes, it can be tracked back to Bunce's eighteenth century ancestor who was interrupted right on the cusp of copulation by Bunce's great-great-great-great-grandmother asking if said ancestor had forgotten to wind the clock. This confusing incident involving time experienced in the passionate throes of Bunce's great-great-great-grandfather being conceived has caused untold misery down the years. Tino is merely the most recent victim. But at least we've now all learned that everything is connected in a long long sequence of events that can be reconstructed by pure logic. For instance, we also know that Beatty's problems can be traced back to centuries of rampant inbreeding.

the ginger Pirlo at number 10

It'd be a nice touch to roll out the red carpet and welcome back the heroes of 2014 at HT at SJP. What a side it was we put out that afternoon.

One thing too last night. We made 6 changes including a make shift RB and tbh I didn't feel once we were under the cosh like we have been at times in some games. I think that shows Eddie has read the riot act and it shows the lads coming in want to stay in. Yeh we weren't magnificent or dominated, but we were a lot better.

You're suggesting gross incompetence by the way, which is a long way from not being infallible.

It's the human body that's not infallible. Not everything needs that goes wrong needs someone to blame.

They clearly aren't infallible.

There's no way the medical staff or the coaches sent him out to play with a knee that was about to go pop.

I used to love watching that show. In retrospect it’s funny how it was meant to be hundreds of years in the future. It couldn’t have looked more 70s if it tried

He doesn't seem to be making the runs like he did at Forest, so that has to be by design. Eddie wants him to play a certain way and so far that's not working with our system.

Aye Sandro looked full of energy and fight. We need players to use their heads. Run it into the corners etc when we need to and kill the time.

Do you reckon there should have been 4, like last year?

Big upgrade on what Woltemade currently offers. But he was still very isolated and not getting given the ball in dangerous areas. Don't think that's on him, think that's more an issue with how Howe sets up the midfield 3. We never get players close enough to our striker in a timely way to create space.

Thing is, they’ve stuck with the same (failing) batting line up because there’s no one else. I don’t mean literally but in the sense that the top 7 has been a closed shop for so long, permitted (or rather instructed) to play with wanton abandon. If you’re a good player on the county circuit you can be getting runs but it doesn’t matter because, barring injury, you’ve got no chance of a call up. McCullum had painted himself into a corner with this strategy of picking these players. Bar the initial bounce when he took over we haven’t been that successful at home let alone away. And in the place where you need to bat long to have a chance of winning it’s all unravelling in spectacular style. With a different approach we might still have lost but you’d have to think we’d have had a chance with the likes of Root, Brook and Duckett in the side. It’s actually ruining players’ careers at this point. Pope is more than good enough but he’ll never be a number 3 as long as he’s got a hole in his arse. Smith is an excellent prospect but he’s knackered because he’s not used to keeping wicket and lacks the skill set needed to be a top wicketkeeper anyway imo. He’s keeping arguably the best keeper in the world out of the side. Foakes averages nearly 40 in first class cricket as well but isn’t regarded as being a destructive batsman. He’d be the perfect glue in the lower middle order with his solid technique and obdurate attitude. McCullum should’ve been binned when this cost us the Ashes at home instead of being indulged a further two years.

I think the signs were there for a couple of games that something wasn't quite right with his knee. He'd been playing well below his normal high standards. I spent yesterday first half wondering what was wrong with him. I thought maybe it was this man city transfer talk playing on his mind or maybe he was struggling to follow the inverted fullback instructions ans play fluently. But now I think he's been playing with a knee about to go pop and it has just limited him. Does feel like we have not given him anywhere near enough rest and recovery in recent weeks. Not surprised he's injured again.

Get him on the plane to the USA.