John Boy Saint

Bertrand is on 4 yellows - hopefully Deeney will pull his tail and he gets the 5th to earn a suspension: that might see the pack shuffled, a different captain, and a bit of effort from left back............alas that won’t be in Saturdays game.

Far from it, can't recall a Captain who saunters round the pitch with a face like a smacked backside. If you are wearing the Captains armband you have to put in the effort and be seen to put in the effort for 90 minutes, not put in the odd flash of a run and decent cross. Just watch back the first Wolves goal from this season Traore has the ball and has put his foot to the floor to race into our box, just as he passes the ball for the player to score, oh hello look who has just turned up in the Penalty box our Captain casually trotting back to defend. If folks notice the laissez faire attitude from the stand, then the players must notice it too. If Deeney plays on Saturday you will see fire and brimstone from the bloke wearing the Watford armband, and if this season so far is anything to go by our Captain will also be easily spotted sat on the side of the 'room' twirling his Olive around in his Martini.

With the slight possible exception of Rodgers, that top 5 looks bloody grim! Ok Moyes might have the stigma of the Man U poison chalice hanging around (bizarrely he was binned with a far better win ratio than his successors had after the same number of games). Pearson could be interesting but then is he tucked up nice and tight in Belgium on King Power money, think Billic will have probably learned where it went wrong at West Ham. Either way if the trigger is pulled, I think the bunch of stumble bums currently getting a game need someone not scared of kicking some backsides to get them fired up and performing.

To be fair he hasn’t been the worst player on the pitch, and more shots on target than Long.

My day has been cheered up by the advert on NBC Girl sat in the passenger seat of a car with a touch of HayFever - sneezes and blows the whipped cream topping off the top of her coffee - very funny.

Think I might open a bottle of wine

Wow penalty

What is it with Hoedt opening minutes v Liverpool og opening minutes v City og!

Pop up world for me

Reading the Peter Crouch column last Saturday - his headline piece was very true "Loftus Cheek - If he cost Chelsea £35m he would be playing every week". Harrison Reed v Clasie - Reed everytime, but there are loads on here who prefer us to blow a wad on a Carlos Kickaball rather than blend a talented nipper into the squad. ......................no doubt some bellend reading this will take this comment as re running the all kids relegation experiment and filling spots 1-11 with nippers: Blend them in.

Mike Dean has his bestest Spurs underpants on tonight!

Hard to disagree - some poor sod up in Row GG would have had that full in the mush!!

You obviously weren't watching on Saturday afternoon (although Saturday afternoon was the cure for insomnia) within seconds of coming on he put one of the Newcastle players up in the air leaving him in a heap on the floor, ref signaled that he had won the ball, Shelvey didnt like that and went after him with a misplaced stamp that JWP just skipped out of the way of. Aside from that its a myth he can't tackle.

The late Bobby Robson once said that if he could make his perfect player he would mould together, the strength of Shearer, the pace of Rod Wallace, and the skill of Le Tissier so them 3 and Jimmy Case to kick em all up the backside. Can I have Phil Boyer on the subs bench please?

Someones won the lottery!! May as well just as well use the £500 to light the bonfire Lighthouse is having down his garden after finishing his chores on Sunday afternoon!

A few injuries in the right places might be helpful in forcing Hughes look a bit deeper into his squad for options that might work better. Wouldn't be too upset if Bertie picks up a yellow (5th) and misses the game v Watford.........at least I wouldn't have to watch our "captain" jogging back to defend an attack in progress ahead of him. I might take up Lighthouses offer to do a different kind of shredding to that we will likely endure on Sunday afternoon! UPDATE: Steveo think you yellow card wish might go right out the window - we have Lee Mason as referee for the game

You could hardly blame him for being less than enthused (If that were the case). Pretty certain he got a renewed contract recently keeping him here until 2021(?). Same old inert strikers being named in the squad for first team games pointlessly running about the pitch or cluttering up the bench. I certainly would be bloody frustrated and slightly lacking in motivation. Just be good to see him given a run out and given as much of chance as Messrs Long and Austin have underservedly enjoyed.

Walked past a bookies today saw the game was on - thought “should put a tenner on Burton winning & Hesketh to score” - alas carried on walking Cracking volley too

Nope just a journalists mind at work - and the silly sod said what he thought out loud (well loud enough) in the wrong place. Made worse by the fact that he works for a very respected organisation.

On paper their average transfer value per player is £69.2m v our £11.2m per player, I think you are safe in that assumption. .............but then football isn’t played on paper.

Watch out I had my sanity questioned for a similar utterance............

23 years of age, shipped out on loan to one of the worse teams in the league, then the following season shipped out to another basket case club and played out of position...................... yup the lad is a steaming pile of what you would find in a farm yard. Agree throw him in the bin and keep playing the same misfiring strikers week in week out. Jeez!!!!! Only 23 give him a bloody chance, with the experience he has he can't be any worse than what is being sent out to play at the moment.

Well it is just about 4-4- One and a half!

Redmond isn't the root of the problem just the most visible frustration to those in the stands watching on, he hasn't improved since being here - his goal tally backs that up. The whole team more often than not cross the centre line and take their foot off the gas, they also seem to forget how to play football. On Saturday so many times the ball went backwards and the player who had just passed the ball turned to teamates to tell them where they should have been. Second half latter stages of the game this was highlighted by how long it took for us to take throw ins, no one moved, everyone played statues! That said our front line is a bit inert, we have one capable of being pretty damn good in the right company, one who is without doubt rusty - but even in Italy scored in fits and starts, one who looks to struggle with 60 minutes of play, and another who's feet are working in a different timezone to the rest of his body: at this level it ain't very potent. You could view it as being so lacklustre that the rest of the team are anticipating that the ball will be coming back at them within seconds of it going up front, which is probably why as was said on MOTD we are snatching at chances, as everyone else is setting themselves ready to defend.

Well for starters you can point a finger a Redmond in that department, get the ball run, then stop, dither while the oppo defence sets themselves.....resume. On the rare occasion football actually breaks out in the team and we move the ball quickly, teams open up like a can of Spam and we look a threat. Alas that is a rare freak of nature as the default setting is get the ball upfield then fanny about.