Chez

No, we have Butterfield ready and waiting. Prize for anyone that can explain why we offered him an extension to his contract. Madness.

thanks for reminding me of these two pieces of play. Shaw really is top class. He is the only player that might have a sniff at getting in that Chelsea side. Sadly that might become a reality.

thank god. Was anyone else mentioned?

QPR linked with Cahill, Keane and Anelka.

who? Never heard of him. Ever considered a career in football scouting?

Guly's corners have been better than anyone else's this season. Lallana's are poor. Can we get Chamberlain back, his corners were the best I've seen at SMS.

they look really good to me. Isn't the whole point of getting promoted is to be able to pit you wits against the best? Stop worrying about relegation and enjoy the ride. Everyone keeps telling me the finances are rock solid no matter what, so there is nothing to fear.

I don't care how many times Earnshaw, Djourou, Sordell and Benayoun have looked **** against other Premiership sides. We need to aim higher than them if we are considering adding to our wage bill.

kind of like Walsall away as a result of which meant our play off hopes were hanging by a thread?

Chelsea looked more like European Champions than when they won the Champion's League. Mata and Hazard are two of the best players you will see and there were plenty of other very good players in their team to admire. Sadly admiring the opposition was all we could do second half as we just couldn't seem to get near them. Taking Morgan off killed any chances we might have of competing in the midfield, which meant 40 minutes of chasing shadows. Such is life. We've come a long way in two years, but there is a long way to go if we are to compete at that level. Boruc 6 kicking much better, although far less requirement. Throw outs really are excellent. Looks too casual to me, but better that than a rabbit in headlights. Yet to see him make a top class save. I assume he has that in him. Cork 7 given a tough game by Moses (another player I like a lot) and then Marin, but he kept fighting till then end, which must be applauded. Where on earth did he disappear to for the third goal? Why are we playing him there though. Richardson has never let us down. Yoshida 4 distribution was shockingly bad, which put us under tremendous pressure in the second half. Even with options he couldn't pass to one of his own. Didn't get tight enough either at times, but when he did he fouled. When stretched by quality strikers like Ba he does not impress. Fonte 6 pretty decent game considering the relentless attacks. The third goal went in far too easy. The injury could hurt us badly as he has been in great form. Shaw 6 very good first half, didn't seem to be able to get forward at all in the second. Guly 5 OK out wide, but when given the attacking midfield role he supposedly played in Italy he was non existent. That free role demands much more. Neither he nor Ward Prowse offered nearly enough. Might as well have gone with an extra striker and booted it down the channels. Davis 6 good first half but not good second Ward Prowse 5 putting to one side he's only 17, he didn't have his best game. I thought he not Morgan should have been subbed. Knowing that he is 17 this was great experience for him. Morgan 7 Thought he was having a very good game, our best player so to take him off when we went 1-3 down meant Adkins had given the game up. Rodriguez 7 great first half, but with no service what could he do? Made a lot of runs and perhaps tired himself out. Needed help us there. Maybe bringing Lambert on and going long would have been better than adding de Ridders non pace. Jos - won everything in the air. I' confident he will do a job next week now we need him. Time to get behind the lad. de Ridder - usual busy stuff that led to nothing. Game was done by the time he came on to be fair. Lee - he is not a right midfielder so why bother putting him out there? Get Reeves on and give him some more experience.

Jos looked fine at Stoke and his physical presence might work well against Benteke. Written off too early IMO.

I went to the early rounds of the FA cup when we were in league 1 and the atmosphere was non existent in those games. They at least had the excuse of a small crowd and stands being closed. Today was terrible, especially considering the size of the crowd. Not having a cop to get things started is probably to blame. Far too many tourists too. Still at least the chump next to me got lots of photos of the crowd on his ipad. Sigh.

has he ever shown any decent form ever?

"Play off hopes are now hanging by a thread"

Personally I'm more concerned with how we are going to pay for all these countless extra players you seem desperate for us to sign. Let's get a few out the door shall we?

Connelly was outstanding that day.

long kicking was atrocious and the underhit backpass showed just how slow he is

Would I take relegation if we won the FA Cup? Yes, so long as our current wage bill and BVI loan wouldn't cripple us financially. We've got our best side for years. Why on earth would you not want to take advantage of that by trying to win the cup?

I sincerely hope we put out our strongest side. When you put in reserve players not only does it weaken you individually, but because players haven't played together it weakens the team as a whole too. A double wammy so to speak. By and large most of our players haven't played every game every week. They have all been dropped or rested bar one or two. Fonte springs to mind, but centre backs don't do nearly as much running anyway.

I had a pair of those Quaser boots. A fella at SFC sold loads of them dirt cheap. Some of the better models were excellent. They were unusual because they had about 9 studs rather than the bog standard 6. Old hat these days. Hummel and Brooks (I forgot all about them) also make my list.

I don't go with that. Lambert was winning everything at the time and causing them all sorts of problems. I thought we should have taken Ramirez off and let Rodriguez try and get on the end of his countless flick ons. In the end we took both off and went with the extra midfielder. Our goal threat decreased not increased.

absolutely outstanding player, brilliant touch but also strong and quick too. Thought he was the stand out player. Credit to us for ensuring the other didn't benefit from his bursts into space. If only England could find another 1 or 2 of him.

Theo deserves massive credit for signing a professional contract with us ensuring we made £10m.

I haven't seen MOTD, but the flag went up immediately, so I assumed the ref blew for offside, was that not the case?