Hoping for the best. Roberts is a big loss. I had thought Styles might be rested. Lads who haven't been away have had some good time on the training ground, so I hope that pays off.
Styles not in the squad is poor management. He should be starting. It's not like he had an home game for Australia for crying out loud.
Not been impressed with what I’ve seen of Killip so far. Seems to have very little presence in his area. A worry if Roberts is likely to be out for a month or so.
Presuming Styles is fit, and hasn't been left out due to injury, I'd imagine we've been working on how we're going to play Leyton Orient for the past 2 weeks. I'd imagine it's much easier to do that planning with the players who are actually in training rather than away on international duty. Collins might feel that the players he has at his disposal are more than capable of doing the job, allowing Styles that extra days break. I imagine he wasn't even back in training until at least Thursday. Both Pep Guardiola and Wayne Rooney have just said in interviews in Sky Sports News that they've left players out today for the same reason.
Can't be easy though being played so sparingly. If he gets a bit of a run in the side, he might come into his own a bit.
Pep has left his keeper out due to it - its just how the modern game is. Yet numpties on here know better.
He is an international Football player playing low down in division 3. He shouldn't need to be in training to know what to do on matchday. Higher league clubs than us will be starting their guys today who have been out on international duty.