CB Fry

"Fighting a general election at 72", ie four years time. Obviously he won't be leader then anyway. Originally I gave him until the conference of 2017 but now I'd be amazed if he lasts beyond the elections next May. He's worse than my lowest expectations and probably will go down as the worst leader of any British political party in history.

He has a nightly chatshow on CBS in the US, which is a reasonably big deal.

Edit. GB beat USA, Australia and France on the way to the final, so even if our final opponents weren't the very best, we've earnt it.

It's not my rules, but it is extremely strange.

Gawd know's what point you're making.

So when Pochettino was manager you define young players as Morgan, Jay Rod and Lallana at twenty four ish, but now Pochettino isn't manager anymore, young players you now define as under twenty one and we're "significantly older" with the likes of Cedric, Clasie and Virgil who are washed up decrepit has-beens at twenty four ish. These people with agendas and axes to grind, eh? They'll say anything.

Why have you combined Lawrie and Ted? I can't be bothered to add it up but they probably managed for more time than the rest of the list combined, so why not separate them?

Not really. We should have beaten them, we had a big enough and strong enough squad to beat them regardless of Wanyama. The manager picked an odd team with an odd approach and we were dreadful. To be honest I don't know what your point is.

Saw in the paper yesterday that the lowest any Premier League team has finished after being top (as of yesterday morning) is sixth, suggesting Leicester may well now be nailed on for that spare Europa spot - I think they'll finish seventh. So really it is about the cups and rightly we are going for it.

And Reed deserves a chance because, well, he's, err, been through the academy.

I wish we hadn't signed any players at all and just blooded all our brilliant youngsters like we did in the good old days when Pochettino was manager.

He says he quit and was not sacked.

Perfect analysis David.

I liked Micky Evans too.

I'm still waiting to see a list if all the young players that Pochettino supposedly blooded, and then an explanation of how has demonstrated being more keen to blood youngsters than Koeman. Pochettino "blooded" Chambers and absolutely no one else of consequence, I've yet to see any evidence of otherwise. You like to elevate some players to messiah status based on hope rather than actuality, a troubling position for a club historian. Pretty safe to say if Sam Gallagher was called Samir Gallagic you'd be slagging him off just like you do with our other foreign players.

I'd like a slice of that.

LOL. The days of the relentless production line of one player that Pochettino blooded for us seem like a distant memory. Oh so many, many player that he blooded.

The UKIP leaflets write themselves - tragedy when Bin Laden died, waving the little Red book in the commons, Ken's drivel from last night, a general refusal to support "our boys"/protect us/take on the enemy/etc. It's a pretty safe Labour seat so they'll still win, with the victory presented by the rabid Corbynistas as the greatest victory since Culloden.

When you write your next history book will you be portraying Sam as a more significant player than Tadic? But yeah, what a goal it was.

Waaaaaaaaaaaeverton.

Fair play to the club for agreeing to play the Senegalese national anthem before the Liverpool match. Let's hope the scousers respect it and allow us to remember him respectfully.

A seven million quid signing is blooding a young player now? Right. Lallana, a central member of the first team squad for the four/five previous seasons is blooding a young player now? Right. Shaw was obviously a great prospect but we knew that when Adkins picked him, as Koeman would have done too, unless you think Ronald would have not "blooded" one of the most expensive young players in football history.

I'm struggling to understand who this wonderful production line of young players that Pochettino supposedly blooded/developed while he was here. Chambers, fine. Who else? And Koeman has played Targett in much the same way Poch used Chambers, just probable that Chambers is better. Or should we just play young kids even when we have better players available so divs on here can get all wet about how we are blooding youngsters?

To take last season as an example, the top 3 all won 22-26 games and the bottom 3 all won 7 or 8, so basically the top three won three times as many matches. And in goals, top 3 scored 71-83 goals, bottom 3, 28 to 42, so about double. Three times as many wins and double the goals. I'd suggest there will be no significant over-index of last minute/late goals for the team in 20th vs the team in 1st, and I'd suggest the distribution will be about even through the league, in general, as the goals-for column follows league placement with only a couple of outliers (last season QPR scored more than WBA). Your theory probably sounds good in your head but I would suggest wouldn't be backed up with actual stats in any given season.

Maybe. We were going up under Pardew whatever, it's only him falling out with Cortese that stopped that. But you can't take that Championship season away from Nigel. He did it. Whatever Nige does or doesn't do for the rest of his career doesn't impact the fact that he did a great job with us. Yep, he had plenty in his favour but he still had to put a team out and do it and he did. I said many times when people were going nuts about how he was the next great young English manager/new Alex Ferguson etc that he could just as likely be the next Owen Coyle, Phil Brown, Aidy Boothroyd, Tony Mowbray etc. There's loads of managers with one purple patch at one club, maybe two and then not much anywhere else ever. I think we can agree he isn't the next great young English manager. Still love him though.