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He will have a huge role to play for us but it's a bit hard to it him in at the moment. Bissouma and Lallana are ahead of him and we needed to get White in there as a defensive midfielder as we were getting hit on the break over and over again - that had become glaringly obvious. We play...

I am, yes

No, but if you're leaving out our top scorer and best striker to give him a kick up the backside, you play his understudy in his place. You don't switch to no striker and leave Connolly out of the squad altogether. He may not have set the Premier league alight but equally he doesn't deserve to...

Surely Connolly would have played if that was the case

Connolly would have played if that was the case. I'm perhaps more interested why he wasn't in the squad either. I think they've been two naughty boys and the club has put them in the sin bin for a week.

You missed one: 6 - disciplinary. I reckon he might have done something daft eg broke covid rules, and he was left out for disciplinary reasons, but the club is keeping it in-house and saying its tactical. We'll see him Friday.

Obviously rumours will start. I'll just say that if Potter couldn't drop him or pick the team he wants something would be more wrong