Patrick Bateman

hah! I do actually like/appreciate your analysis of footballers and matches, you're one of the more erudite posters who know what you're talking about. (god, I sound like a creep, but you know what I mean?) I like Chez's posts on matches as well, but he doesn't post enough.

1. Because he wanted more regular 1st team football 2. Because we've now had THREE managers who don't rate him as good enough for regular 1st team (starting) football Ironically he doesn't start for Hull much either, so that's now FOUR managers who don't think he's good enough for a first eleven start every week ...

Well we have, how many weeks ago was the Villa game? Which is the first game we were noticeably poorer/tired looking/injured in.

I'd much rather read match reports from people who aren't up themselves twerps, but hey ho.

Which is kind of my point, we're REALLY short on quality in depth.

I wouldn't bother. I couldn't make it tonight so I sold my ticket to a mate, couldn't find a decent stream to watch the match. Watched the Missing - worst ending ever to a good series. Sh*t evening overall, FFS

No they don't. It's now blindingly obvious we don't have the squad depth and when I say depth, I mean depth in quality, not just quantity. 3, 4 or 5 players in January would really help with both keeping us where we are in the league and a run in the FA Cup. We haven't become a bad team over night, but without our first 11 firing on all cylinders, we are short on quality to bring on to make a difference.

Do shut up you bellend.

I'd still have him back - he loves this club.

Mané is f**king awful it has to be said. As is Mayuka. Gardos isn't looking such a smart buy so far either. FFS. They can stick the "black box" up their backsides on those 3 signings. I'd rather have played Turnbull, Gallagher and Hesketh, if fit, but whatever.

Black boots = proper footballers. No, I'm not being facetious, I prefer them, they look better and, er, grown up.

Hmmm. I'll let you off ...

Well if your English above is anything to go by, I'm sure it'll be an extremely erudite read.

No.

I would rest Tadic, 100%. The guy looks knackered. Let's give him the week to train and not play in this one - maybe an option from the bench, but he looks like he needs some recovery time. Not even sure he'd excel in a match against a team like Sheffield Utd, probably need someone a bit sturdier.

Agreed - I would have him in the squad, no question.

It's utterly ridiculous to ban it and absolutely a nanny-state policy.

Definitely a Harry signing as he's a triffic lad, with a triffic talent and able to teach the squad he's struggling with a thing or two. Triffic player.

Agree with this - I liked the look of Hesketh, but playing him and Mayuka was not going to change the game. It was definitely a "If you want to get into Europe, we need 2 or 3 more players" message. Let's hope they give Koeman the choice over players rather than this black bloody box.

I think Dalek would explode!

Hah, agreed! To be fair a few on the forum did say that he was a typical World Cup wonder ...

I was going to pull out EXACTLY the same quote; "She gets £71 employment and support allowance, a sum that shrinks to £15 a week when you take off bills for gas and electricity (£25), petrol for her mother’s car to drive to appointments and job interviews (£10), mobile phone (£10) and the £11-a-week bedroom tax, which she has had to pay since her youngest moved out of their two-bed council house. " My monthly income is higher, yet I spend £12.50 a month, SIM only, on my 3 year old iPhone 4s - I get unlimited calls, unlimited texts and 2 Gb of data a month. I genuinely don't understand people wasting so much money on mobiles, especially when they're on such a tight budget.

I thought that too, haha, shameful!

Who would you have substituted for Gardos and why? Who would you have substituted for Reed and why? I'm genuinely interested in your footballing masterclass.

ANYONE would be better currently. F**king hell, Hesketh looked more lively with better runs, I'd play him instead. He CAN'T be worse on current form.