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They won because Pards did what he does best - buy well in the window. Not sure how good a coach he is, but he's a genius at spotting the right players to improve his team. SRL take a bow...

I'm not sure anyone else in our squad would have had the nerve to finish like Gaston did against QPR. Absolute ****ing quality. But he's been chronically inconsistent. We can all (well most of us) see the flashes of genius - now he needs to do it much more often. I'm still optimistic for season 2.

This thread? FFS.

Right then. Surman will score with a thirty five yard screamer obviously. So I'm going for a Rickie double and a 2-1 win. COYR

It was depressingly inevitable that Cvntflapps would come down and grab a win. Time for a large beer.

Who needs our physio We've got Mauricio

Dear God, I'm glad some of the posters on here weren't fighting in the trenches for us in 1916 or flying Spitfires over the Kent coast in 1940. Man up, for pity's sake, and see you at SMS next Saturday.

Apart from the stupid challenge to give Utd the free kick and second goal, thought J-Rod did really well at OT. And I just have a hunch that he'll be well up for it as a Burnley boy on his return to the north-west. Him, Adam and Gaston behind Rickie with Punch to come on if needed.

If that second half is the new Pochettino pressing style it's going to be ****ing brilliant. Great second half, if we'd had our shooting boots with us we'd have had a point at least. Well played lads.

Jay Rod - stoopid

Great article. Loved him from the moment he arrived - class and getting better.

Tommy Forecast: My Story

Loved him in L1. Love him now. Wenger will bid in the summer. Hope we have the balls to say do one.

Boruc. That is all.

Why will that shatter our confidence? Most teams in the Premier League would have been hammered by Chelsea playing like that. Some days the other team are just better - usually when they've spent about three hundred million on players.

At least Boruc is getting a decent workout... Get Rickie, Gaston and hoepfully Clyne back for Villa, and Corkie back into centre mid. Sorted. Worried about Jose though.

Could get ugly.

Compared to 6-1 earlier in the season, effing brilliant. Shows just how far our back four - and Nige - have come.

Gutted not to get all three, but it's a good point. And after our nightmare start to the season, I hope current form carries us to safety (best of the bottom eight). I think it will - just. Form table (last 8 matches) P W D L Pts 1 Manchester Utd 8 7 1 0 22 2 Tottenham 8 6 1 1 19 3 Stoke City 8 4 4 0 16 4 Arsenal 8 4 3 1 15 5 Manchester City 8 4 2 2 14 6 Liverpool 8 4 1 3 13 7 Everton 8 3 4 1 13 8 Chelsea 8 3 3 2 12 9 Southampton 8 3 3 2 12 10 Swansea City 8 3 3 2 12 11 Norwich City 8 3 2 3 11 12 Sunderland 8 3 1 4 10 13 West Bromwich 8 3 1 4 10 14 Aston Villa 8 2 3 3 9 15 Wigan Athletic 8 2 1 5 7 16 Newcastle Utd 8 2 0 6 6 17 QP Rangers 8 1 3 4 6 18 West Ham Utd 8 1 2 5 5 19 Fulham 8 1 2 5 5 20 Reading 8 1 1 6 4

Agreed. Kenwyne Jones running the length of the pitch and doing a swallow dive in front of the Northam would give us something to get our teeth into.

No. No-one else will do any better with our defence. Get Gaston fit, and unearth the next Michael Svensson from an obscure foreign league at Christmas.

Gaston would have had a field day to be fair - Fulham were awful.

Rescued a point, but if another team comes to SMS this season and plays that badly we really have to take all three. Pity Rickie didn't have his shooting boots on firs half today.

One of the unanswered questions about Atkins was what would he do when he had some serious money to spend. Yoshida - tick Clyne - tick Ramirez - double tick Gazza, JayRod, Mayuda - great potential Well done Nige. Great win.

Ramirez is going to open up a lot of defences this season. Lovely jubbly. COYR