Park Life

You can say this and it's a fair point, but it is necessary for the intelligence services to do it, it is where modern communcations take place now. They don't put parcels and notes in holes in trees anymore. You know this Parky ?

If we keep losing at home, he's going to have to drop Nolan.

Think all the new laws which allow phone and internet spying as well as bank details in the U.S. are pretty shocking like seen as they drone on about freedom all day long.

The first ep clearly a scene setter and laying to rest the memories and whatnot. Thought the scene with the kids was handled badly. But....Dex is back and there will be really gripping ep to come I'm sure of that.

Are you intimating Hughton is hiding behind Nolans skirt?

Bafra isn't at his most dangerous out on the left, often picking the ball up near the half way line. Needs to be central and behind the striker.

451 at home will be the death of us, against average/poor sides we really have to have 2 forwards on the park.

Yeah, he doesn't understand positioning at all and at one point he just ran out of play with the ball under no pressure! And i agree with you Hughton deserves the chance to learn from mistakes, realise who has to be dropped, but he has to get more out of us at home to poor opposition. So far its early days but it appears Hughton can pull out some cracking singings like Tiote and Ben Arfa, but that when he goes for a bargain we get Perch and Best! KNowing that Stoke sit back and counter and are a farly conservative side (only 6 away wins in 2 seasons) we should have gone Shola/Carroll upfront and dropped Nolan.

Especilly a mobile one that can defences on the back foot worried about the space behind them. As with Blackpool, Stoke held their shape and soaked up the first half hour and then started to go about their business. Franky we looked hesitant and scared in the second half and one Bafra and Tiote came off we lost our two best players. With Bafra a case could be made that he for the first time didn't perform miracles, but even a 70% Bafra keeps other sides from moving up the pitch without fear.

I agree about Routledge, i do like him but he has been shit of late. Got to be Gutierrez and Ben Arfa next. This guys a clown if he was even remotely serious with that comment....Tiote looks quality! Stumbled around if pressured and was lucky to get away with a few loose balls. lack of actual tackles - didn't see much quality tbh. He did look good last week so I hope it was an off day - which it has to be said applies to Barton compared with last well as well. Have to say i seem to have been watching a completely different player to you. Tiote was everywhere, stoppign there attacks and whenever he got the ball he used it and got us moving, he looked a top aquisition to me. And it was quite clear once him and Ben Arfa were off we lost the plot. With them we have control of possesion and were knocking it about, unfortunately in their half we created jack shit, but we did keep the ball! Once they were both gone we were seriously struggling. Unless he was injured i have no idea what Hughton was doing with Ben Arfa, yes he wasn't storming it, but he was moving it round simply and accurately and there was always the chance he'd pull something out. And simply put Perch looks every bit the player Forest fans all said wasn't good enough even for the championship, he is way out of his depth. Before his goal he'd twice fucked up leading to them getting chances in the box which hit the woodwork/were missed. I reckon he must have been with the Pakistan cricketers and had a bet on Stoke because when they didn't take advantage of his gifts he thought fuck it, i'll do it myself and burried the header. So far he's achieved 5 yellows, a pen against Wolves he got away with and the winner for stoke today, Raylor is looking like a world beater now! Taking Tiote off was the cardinal error. His industry and power helps keep big phusical sides like Stoke in check. Once he came off they ran through the middle at will. Need to stop playing Perch as soon as possinle he isn't a PL player basically and not in a Routledge kind of way who can have good moments. Perch is rarely in the right positon and shouldn't really be marking Huth on a set piece, Carroll should. I don't want to lay into CH as he's got a lot right over the last couple of weeks.

Why Perch on Huth???

Ricku is being a little too casual.

need to get a goal while we're domiating.

Chck PM's.

It's different at SJP though, first nasty tackle will be the test if they target Bafra which they will, has to be carded.

Cars being taken away normally means accident/incident. Taking prints and dna whatnot. With all those cars one would think he was a luxury midfielder.

That sentence is almost surreal in its delusion.

3-0 Bafra Carroll Ricky Ricardo Enricky Really? Yeah cuts in from the left, shuts his eyes and puts his right foot through - top corner. Takes his top off to reveal his muscles and Smith runs onto the pitch and licks Ricky's nipps. Got a £10 on it. Which bit? The goal, or the nipple licking. Personally I would love to see that. Whole stadium goes deathly quiet and all that can be heard is Smith noisily lapping away.

He carries the ghost. Special player.

3-0 Bafra Carroll Ricky Ricardo Enricky Really? Yeah cuts in from the left, shuts his eyes and puts his right foot through - top corner. Takes his top off to reveal his muscles and Smith runs onto the pitch and licks Ricky's nipps. Got a £10 on it.

Looked like a pretty clear elbow to the face, either that or he's been having violin lessons.

3-0 Bafra Carroll Ricky Ricardo Enricky

rubbish. We were only a couple of players short of having a team that could have qualified for europe again, which is why Keegan left. I suppose you know better than Keegan then ? I'm not saying I'd be a better manager than Keegan, but I probably knew more about what it would take to qualify for europe at that time than a man who admitted he hadn't watched a match in two years mate.

Liverpool categorically outplayed for the first 80 min. God only knows what's going on there.