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You are right. Three centre backs and two fullbacks, which you might call wingbacks, but by and large they are more defensive than offensive. Lots of defensively minded midfielders in this game too. We really are going for a pack the defence, fill every available space and suffocate opponents type system. Boy is it working.

Absolutely this. Like many other Brits I was sceptical of this formation as usually it's resorted to through desperation as the players are poor. And because they are poor they do a bad job in it. That certainly isn't the case here. So much so I'm desperately trying to think of how,England could use it. The Forster wall stuff is fun, but putting in several of the games Forster hasn't had a manning full save to make.

Always a boring game away at Swansea and this is no different. We have just parked the bus with the odd foray forward. Romeu looks like the only midfielder likely to get up and support the two up front. Maybe keep it tight and press second half is the plan. I bloody hope so, as we are not exactly going all out for a win so far. Everyone says you can't question Koemans selections because of the recent form, but he got a lot of decisions wrong when we weren't winning IMO, so why can't you question him now? Mine would be. Why isn't Soares playing? He offers far more in attack down the wing than any of our centre midfielders. Still at 0-0 the game is there for the taking and maybe today will be when Mane finds his form again...

Very good point and seeing as the skates are joint top Cook was probably right to ignore the old bat.

Football Manager laughs at old women that correctly points out that professional athletes he is responsible for should eat the right foods. You just could not make that up.

what will happen if the junior doctors start working to rule? The example on page one is a guy working 12 hours (25%) unpaid. Is that typical? Because if you get rid of the good will that seems to hold the NHS together, and perhaps the junior doctoers work to rule, then there could be a huge gap in man hours and no finances to plug that gap.

"if 1 doctor works just 1 hour over the maximum shift length it can trigger a 66% pay rise for all doctors on that rota." is this true? If so I don't understand how something so strange finds its way into a national pay structure.

can you remind me what position Toby plays?

is it possible that you could provide us with a wage bill to league position graph type thing?

I assume the kids are supplied with periscopes to watch the game from the South stand lower or is that the point, put them down there `below sea level', so they don't actually get sight of the **** football on display?

won't there be more total patient in hospital bed hours in the long run if more people are kept alive by the better staffing at the weekends?

Cork did influence matches, but in a subtle way. His hounding of opposition helped put them under pressure and turn ball over time after time. We were a possession team, so getting the ball back allowed us to do what we wanted, keep and pass the ball. Also his forward runs stretched teams, made opponents run towards their own goal (tiring them out at the same time) creating space for players like Sir Rickie and Lallana to work in. You have to have workers in your side and no one worked harder. Now if you can find similar work rate and doggedness but with a better touch, then its a no brainer. Romeu is the closest player to that and if he continues to shine then no need for Cork.

never mind the food, that only comes into play for night games when you have run out of time, more importantly after 15 years at SMS why is the beer queue still so bloody long? The ROI of having more staff, multi piny pourers and all round faster service must be almost immediate.

do you have to be accompanied with a child to sit in the family centre?

can't argue with a saving, but personally I've never benefited from the tied in deals, cheaper merchandise etc., so just dropping the bloody ticket prices is all that interests me.

I think you misunderstood the tone of my post. I was genuinely asking if losing income from ticket sales would have any effect at all on a club, because as recent history has shown, every time the TV money goes up the player wage demands goes up. So, the clubs don't really see the money, its just filters straight through to players bank accounts. Cut ticket prices - players wages rise a fraction less - everyone is still happy.

Just imagine how this so called community club would be seen by the local community if they started putting pressure on local residents to give up their light. Allowing Tesco in has ****ed off local traders, now for the residents...

the Twickenham Stoop would be ideal

Not sure it ever works when players come back, but More than happy to have a player in our squad that is willing to do anything, even tackle with his head if it means getting the ball back. I never saw him have a bad game for us, perhaps one game are returning from a long time out of the side apart. His undoing was that he was Just not neat and tidy enough in five a sides...

Obviously red cards hurt a lot, and to a degree yellows too, but **** me I bet you would scream to high heaven if he wasn't showing comittment, competing, making tackles and maybe even taking yellows for the team. He is a tad clumsy, but we have plenty of players who don't get close enough to make tackles or are happy to jockey all game. I can live with all those yellows.

I wonder if a club chose to drop ticket prices substantially whether that drop in income would be offset by reduced demands for pay rises from its players? Right now every player and every agent knows how much new money will be in the pot and how much they can subsequently squeeze out of the club with the next pay rise. Knock £5m off the income and agents have £5m less to try and grab.

Good luck any club raising their ticket prices this summer. I thought saints took the **** two seasons ago when they raised prices despite their income going up by £30m from that TV deal. After freezing them last summer maybe they will reduce them this?

Is the answer when the ticket prices are reasonable, such as cup games. Is there anything wrong with that?

First of all I don't think the Liverpool protest was a joke. It's not like all 10,000 found out that ticket prices next season would be £77 in the main stand and then rushed out and bought a ticket so they could join the protest. Every single one will have bought their ticket weeks or in the case of season ticket holders months before. However, the simple fact is that the only real way to protest is to not buy the season ticket next summer. Or buy a match ticket next season. But as not all tickets are £77, just some in the new main stand, I suspect fans will look to move to cheaper parts of the ground and then new fans will come in and buy those expenses seats. The fact they do will justify LFCs actions.

if we are the mid table side that the season to date suggests, then we shouldn't be surprised if our form goes again. Having said that, perhaps the new formation, the players coming back from injury, and the new players finding their feet might all add up to us being a little more than a mid table side. Fine lines, and unlike earlier in the season we are falling the right side of them.