Ayatollah Hermione

I definitely recommend that Forgotten Voices of The Somme. Lent it off my lecturer once and he pissed off to another job without asking for it back. Result.

Mintaz.

Or he's just shit and he knows this because he sees him every day. Perch being poor does not automatically make other defenders better players

This recent Kadar revival is odd like. He's probably better than Smith though.

This forum the last couple of days, man. I think he should consider a transfer request for not playing one game in a league he's still unfamiliar with despite just coming back from a broken leg which had a few setbacks in pre-season. He's not a fucking winger either, man.

nevertheless, Paul Lambert is a good manager, he's put his team together and they are playing for him. Def one to watch. What would he do at a club with more resources. Change the playing style ? The style they play, like Stoke etc, is limited but pays dividends with the right type of player, up to a point. Aye, thought they were tactically spot on tbf to them (I thought we were as well actually but the defence was always going to be our undoing). I've seen them get the ball down and actually play it as well this season so they have that in their locker too. I don't blame him for playing direct yesterday and focusing on set-pieces, it got them the points. I was surprised at how they played yesterday, with all the media wanking themselves off about how well they play the ball about. Horses for courses though as you say, Morrison & Holt v Perch and Simpson is no contest, as predicted by many on here in the week. Shola did ok defending the set pieces, but relying on him when he's got a job to do at the other end as well is asking a bit much of most players, let alone Shola. As an aside, I thought Shola was very good yesterday. For all the bleating on about not starting Ben Arfa, I thought Ba and Shola up top were giving them some real bother at times. Few times, their lack of understanding with each other showed but between the two of them, they caused some trouble. Lovely midfield play as well for Ba's second. Can't believe I'm saying that

£25 million

Thought Barca/Madrid was embarrassing last night tbh. These lot are grown fucking men ffs.

Many gifts are squandered to those who apply themselves. Yeah cause Pards knows the territory doesn't he like when he refused to play tevez and masch... Like mancini is you mean. If we had Aguero, Balotelli and Silva starting though, it would be a different story

If Stoke lost 3 of that four, who would the "other" replacement be, and would they be as succesfull, not that they've been very good this year so far anyway. (Huth wanted away btw, which is the other problem of having "quality" back-ups). I'm not disputing we should upgrade Perch, however, I am disputing we could realistically upgrade those ahead of him. Theyd still have had one out of the 4 to head the ball away when it came in though...theyre all leaders, take charge in the box etc etc. And if all 4 of them were injured I'd suggest playing Danny Higginbottom there, another centre back by trade. Its called building a squad. Pulis has had more time to build his, granted. But going on the evidence of his tenure here I think Ashley is just content to say to Pardew "Graham will find you this, this and this and thats it, get on with it" We need a bit more thought and investment than that, and the short termism and naivety of Ashley's policy will become more and more apparent as the season goes on. And its January in 3 weeks. Ho-hum. I'd honestly take us buying a canny centre-half and striker if it meant getting some loan deals in to bolster the squad for 6 month. That would be my suggestion anyway if I had to deal with Ashley.

I thought Gosling was alright until his baffling mistake at the back and then his frustration obviously boiled over. He doesn't particularly look the greatest player but I get the sense he'd do a job in the future ala Guthrie. I hope this sending off doesn't turn some fans against him early though.

nevertheless, Paul Lambert is a good manager, he's put his team together and they are playing for him. Def one to watch. What would he do at a club with more resources. Change the playing style ? The style they play, like Stoke etc, is limited but pays dividends with the right type of player, up to a point. Aye, thought they were tactically spot on tbf to them (I thought we were as well actually but the defence was always going to be our undoing). I've seen them get the ball down and actually play it as well this season so they have that in their locker too. I don't blame him for playing direct yesterday and focusing on set-pieces, it got them the points.

Not one to scapegoat like but fuck me, he's shit, bless him. Never seen a winger so scared to take his man on, in fact, I don't even think he's a winger. As said, Sammy looks a canny player every time he plays, a bit raw atm but the potential to improve is clearly there with a run of games. We could play Obertan every week until 2014 and I don't think he'd improve. The groans at the match don't help like. Still got to get behind the kid.

I get the sense that if Perch was at full-back, people would have complained about him playing there as well. The fury over this game is ridiculous; CB depth is a weakness, we all know it, so why be surprised and angry when a team full of big tall bastards up front exploits it? We're not the best team in the world but up until now, have performed well building on strong defensive foundations. When the foundations go, we'll struggle, it's not the end of the world. If even Williamson was on the pitch yesterday, we'd have been a lot more comfortable IMO, just needed some sort of aerial presence.

Funny how these mediocre players have us 7th like.

You're an idiot. Look at the league position and be quiet. He played a full back at CB because we have no fit centre backs.

Kadar is definitely a lot shitter than we give him credit for. Obviously.

Gosling will start. He's clearly above Smith in the pecking order. Also, the pub I usually go to gets them all on foreign Sky broadcasts so I hope they can find a dodgy Greek version of it on their satellite.

I kna what you're getting at though

My new one worked? It was in a Christmas shoot so it counts.

I was once Santa in a Xmas play at primary school. Needless to say, this carry on didn't happen because all eyes were on my captivating performance as they waited, on the edge of their small plastic seats, to see if Christmas, would indeed, be saved.

If they were given the cane at school, this would have never have happened.

Gosling or Abeid, I imagine, in CM. Perch and Simpson at CB (if Colo doesn't make it) and Santon at RB.

I'd have paid 20 quid for some sexy photos of me developed for you. You'd be powerless to resist.

What did she get you?