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I'd like to front foot drive him back to Luton.

He must have said it a thousand times since he joined: "aggressive and on the front foot", but what does that actually mean? If it's just a press high, then I don't believe it's possible at this level with 5 at the back, if it's something else, like kicking people and running forwards a lot, what? They are just words, but what's the actual tactics, positions, things etc. that contribute towards `it'.

Ely was the one supposedly about to get a new contract.

I'm imagining something more along the lines of a channel 5, with Jones doing the Rogers' envelope trick and other all sorted bollocks in training.

wonder who will be our Jack Rodwell and bleeding us dry on £70k a week in League 1.

why don't these owners insert "if you lose lots of games of football and we sack you, you don't get a pay off" into the small print?

I'd of thought we would have moved onto the "lets not kid ourselves, we are bottom of the league for a reason" 'we need to turn things around and quickly" "this is going to be a fight right until the end of the season" etc etc.

The difference being, when it was bad in the championship, the fans just didn't turn up. It's 14 years almost to the day when we lost at home to Sheffield United 1-2, midweek and just 13,257 ( I doubt it was that many if truth be told) of us attended and if you think there weren't a few unhappy fans at the end when Jamie Ward scored in the 90th minute, you are kidding yourself.

Blimey. Is he saying he actually wants to play long ball football, but because players want to pass it and the fans expect to see passing football he has not got players to smash it long more?

Walcott is the Saintsweb boo boy. I wouldn't try and defend him too hard, you'll have a pile on on your hands. He came on, his pace almost lead to a goal. That's about it. Contrast the posts about him with those about Perraud, who gets a complete pass every week because he `gives us balance'. Here's what he did today. first half: crap cross, a sloppy pass that put us in trouble, a total miss kick sliced hoof that went backwards into our box almost allowing them score, dropped miles too deep and kept the left winger onside, lost a header dual, a horrible poor sliced/hacked clearance ten yards straight up in the air (because he hasn't got a right foot), a decent clearance/pass ten yards forward to Che, a decent corner/cross that was cleared by the first man, piss poor attempt to win a header from a long throw, although his shirt may have bene pulled to be fair. Two attempted clearances blocked, no time so not his fault. Turned his back and ducked under a cross. Pathetic, possibly bottled??? tackle on touchline with the ricochet going straight to their midfielder subsequently leading to their second goal. When they scored, he was still jogging back and barely reached our own box. Nice little turn inside. Over hit a long ball straight through to keeper. second half: completed a simple five yard pass, short pass that put Soulamana in trouble, no pressure on Mbuemo and then didn't track his run, outpaced Mbuemo to prevent counter attack, nice work, overhit a simple one-two with ball lost, very good half volley shot which was well saved, misplaced a simple pass, overlapped and decent cross, second chipped cross was behind striker, got too tight and winger turned him (opponent wasn't found, so he got away with it), simple short pass completed, doesn't track back, at all, for about 30 seconds, luckily the three or four battles between striker and CB were all won by us, marks no one at the free kick - stands at back with hand in the air for ten second asking for offside and makes no effort to get goal side and help out as Mbeumo almost scores, completes a simple five yard pass...and another. And we wonder why we are going down. The side is full of Championship quality players, led by a championship manager. And Perraud wasn't even the worst, Diallo was a disgrace today. If he was fined every time he gave the ball away, he'd owe the club money every week. What a horrible performance from us. Reminded me of the utter shit show at their place last season, under Ralph. All that money spent and we are just as bad, maybe worse.

Brentford should have scored the open goal chance in the first two minutes. It could have been more goals.

I didn't want to say it on the transfer thread, as everyone was soooo excited, but I thought he looked quite poor in his highlight videos and not a Prem player. If this game is anything to go by, he's barely a championship player. Can you get jet lag on the Eurostar?

Tall Paul has not won a single header since he came on and we have hit it long in the air to him a lot. He looks slow. A couple of nice passes. Zero impact. Actually, we looked worse with him up front. Sulamana looks quick, decent touch and will offer a threat, but don't ask him to track back.

who could do worse?

I'm no JWP fan boy, but he has ran his heart out. Only one that looks like they give a fuck.

Mee has won every single header against Tall Paul so far.

another formation 4-4-2

If Diallo comes out for the second half, I give up.

what the fuck is Perraud doing there?

My word Diallo has been utter dross so far. Brentford don't look all that, but we can't even do the basics. Terrible.

fuck me. Controlling the football and passing the ball to a teammate looks beyond us.

Shit, sloppy pass from Diallo. Decent run from Ely, but no end product. Crap cross from Perraud. Quality marking from our CBs, should be one down. JWP free kick straight to the keeper. not the best first 10 minutes!

Sulemana will be perfect for when opponents get a little tired and he has a bit more space to work with. Will we still be in the game Here goes...

looked like a pulled muscle to me. At best a week, or two, at worst...

They mauled us last time and are in just as good form. If we avoid defeat it will be an improvement on Ralph's team.