CB Fry

This reads like a headline, but from where?

Nice try.

He wasn't a marquee signing.

No he wouldn't. He's sh it and will more than likely never ever play for us again.

Let's all have a meltdown.

We are never ever ever going to score.

They've all given up because they know that Koeman hates young players and will only play wizened old shrivelled up old timers like Virgil, Clasie, and James Ward Prowse.

I would think our wage bill is about £70m this season too. I'm delighted we are not signing the likes of Shaquiri who virtually had to be drugged like Mr T to get on a plane to Stoke.

Exactly this. If we steamed in an offered Vardy five years at £90k (plus £15m) I'd think we were lunatics. The new TV deal really means the differences between us and Leicester and the Villas and Newcastles is much smaller. The top six won't want Vardy and the top 10 are unlikely to want to spend that much on him.

Any commentator expecting anything other than a Labour win was a fool. What can't be avoided is the fact that he did not visit the constituency before and was not featured on the literature and reports from the door step suggested very little swing to Corbyn, mire likely the opposite. But as I said I am happy to give him all the credit for him smashing the back of the net. He will have bigger challenges to come. Let's see if the Corbynistas ever view a set back for the party as being ever anything to do with their leader.

You'd know about being obvious.

If Corbyn had managed to lose a copper bottomed safe Labour seat then it would have been a man-bites-dog level of news story, so it would have been right for him to be slaughtered if that had happened. It was a mistake for any commentators to predict defeat because it obviously wasn't going to happen, as constituencies go it was a tap in. He tapped it in.

I am happy to give Corbyn absolutely 100% of all the credit for Oldham. The victory was unanimously, unequivocally because of Corbyn. No question it was all down to Jeremy Corbyn. As long as the Corbynistas apportion the same of credit for any subsequent electoral performances, whichever the result, as unequivocally to Jeremy Corbyn that will be just great. Because they will do that, right?

If by "without problem", you mean "in and out of the team and nowhere near his previous level" then yes he's been playing without problem. I think him never really getting back to his previous level looks like the likely outcome here.

I can't really see any suggested team line ups featuring players like Gape and McQueen and Rowe and other young prospects. Lots of people on another thread complaining about lack of young players being blooded but I can only conclude they haven't contributed to this thread yet, because I have no doubt were they on this thread they'd be suggesting teams jam-packed with our youngsters. After all, that's definitely what Mauricio would be doing, right?

I think it's far more amusing that Twitter/Guardian comment section Corbynistas are dancing in the streets about the election of a moderate, centre left social democrat who voted for Liz Kendal in the leadership election. Just another red tory scumbag that the rabid twitterati can threaten to deselect.

No one needs reminding of that, no. Box of frogs.

Well, I was right as usual. Reading the Guardian comments you'd think Labour had never won a by-election before.

Great post. I reckon if Pochettino was still here then Steve Gallagher, Benedict McQueen, Ishmael Rowe and Frank Sinclair would all be first team regulars by now and some probably in the England team. Definitely Mike Gallagher would be anyway.

I think we should blood all of the youngsters. Or something.

Do you actually listen to what Les Reed says or just make it up in your own head?

Do you actually listen to what Led Reed says or just make it up in your own head?

Ralph was on Radio Five about two/three weeks ago. The fans forum was about a month back.

We would have to have signed him from Tottenham Hotspur. HTH.

If Gaston had played, we'd have won 7-6.