He'll defo miss 3 big big games around March/April
Hopefully the whole team will miss the last 3 games of the season . . . . .
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Dunk
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Hopefully the whole team will miss the last 3 games of the season . . . . .
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Tomori is also an option if it gets desperate at centre back
Hughton
Hughton
BFG just needs some game time he has come back from a very lengthy injury and thrown into a league where everyone if up to full speed he wont let us down if and when called upon
JonnyComeEarly
UTA!!
Asking dunk not to get more than a yellow card every 4 games WILL NOT HAPPEN. Not a chance. He will get a 3 game ban just hope its not costly
Wouldnt change him though
Wouldnt change him though
BensGrandad
New member
Is it not more 5 in the next 13 games to miss the last 3 games and go on holiday early, which is not so difficult. If he can clear March we should be ok as April fixtures dont look too difficult other than perhaps Norwich away and Wolves which we can get a draw in both irrespective.
Gazwag
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Not sure what we can do about it so its pointless worrying - if we are winning by a goal and he stops a very dangerous attach in the 90th minute and takes a yellow card then so be it 3 points is better than 1. As long as he gets his yellows in matches we win then that's 15 points in the bag and 14 to go - what he doesn't want to do is like he did on Thursday, get a silly yellow in a game that we had already lost.
Whose side are you on? If we wanted him to miss the last 3, it would be 5 more in the next 14 games (we've got 17 left). I'm saying he can get 4 more in the next 16, and he won't get the 3 game ban.
That's not being debated, of course we'd take that. Some yellows are necessary.
It obviously doesn't work like that. If we're 1 down or level we'd still want him to stop us conceding another, even if it mean a yellow.
Mostly it's the yellows he gets when the ball isn't in play I'd like to stop. Yellows for kicking the ball away are expensive.
BensGrandad
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We have all virtuallyaccepted that he will get the cards so it is 5 before he gets another ban so it is the 5th at home to Wigan on Easter Monday
He won't play youngsters in such an important run in. No chance of that - I know him too well. He will go with as much experience as he can till the end of the season now
Dolph Ins
Well-known member
If he gets fifteenth in last game does that mean he misses 1st 3 of next season?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Suspensions are carried over to the next season.
Nixonator
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Bruno has already played there against Derby this season
He hasn't (effectively) been booked since, so as it stands it can't be seen as a bad decision. Only if/when it happens can we assess that.
I suspect others might be laughing at you if the ban comes at a convenient time such as early April, or after we have already sealed promotion or not at all.
Is that your guess as to when he gets his 15th, or are you hoping he makes it that far or what?
If that's the case and he makes it to the last day on 14, I imagine he'll only be in danger of picking up another if we need the points. Might as well have him on the bench.
Machiavelli
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Some of us quite forcefully argued that he shouldn't deliberately get booked at Fulham (or any other game), citing precisely the 15 card three-match ban. [MENTION=29900]Exile[/MENTION] was certainly one, but we were in a minority. Those who thought it was a good idea then can always come forward now and indicate that it was right then, and remains right now.
Pavilionaire
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Simple maths. He averages one yellow every three matches so is likely to he'll get his 15th in Match 44 and miss the last 2 matches.
Unless that was also deliberate in that he'd miss one game for the red (two yellows) but take his tally back down from 11 to 10, thereby reducing the chance of reaching 15.....
We all know that dunk is quality but people feel it is inevitable he will be booked as a defender. I seem to recall that rio Ferdinand went a whole season without a yellow at Man U. He was a phenomenal defender who very very rarely left his feet. Dunk is good but not top class.
GloryDays
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I was in neither camp to be honest but I'm also one to shrug when a defender gets booked most of the time. It comes with the territory of being a defensive player, unless it's dissent which is quite annoying (acknowledging Dunk vs Fulham here).
I do agree that he does pick up quite a lot more than other players but he's not alone on 11, joint with 3 other players including Janson from Leeds.
What can't be argued though is that we would miss him like a limb but still, it hasn't happened yet. Might go the rest of the season without an offense....might.