Ken Tone

Wel it would be ... for us. But for him, it's better to get us to pay up a sizeable proportion of the rest of his contract, THEN go to another club on a free. (Where presumably he won't be able to con them out of such a big wage) So why should he agree to just go? It could cost us quite a bit to persuade him to leave.

I hope Ron tells him just to concentrate on defence to begin with. He won't be able to go steaming up field like he's used to, at least not till he's settled in properly.

Do people think Van Dijk will start this match, or will we phase him in to the PL? It is such a higher standard than the Scottish Premiership - he will need to adjust.

ditto. Not good enough for us now, but one of my favourite players , and unlike the mercenaries we've had more recently, only left because we needed to sell him, not to make himself richer.

Correction ..no Reed, but Stephens is on bench. (Also Cropper and Chambers playing)

Ward-Prowse and Targett start. Reed on bench.(I think)On BT sport 2, and presumably live streams, if anyone's interested.

What happened to Qpr's penalty from the football league for overspending in the year they went up? I thought they were supposed to have to pay a big fine this year , and/or have a transfer ban etc ..... And that they'd have to sell big earners to avoid breaking the rules again?

So he's just been appointed captain of the England u21s - yet still we have people on here writing him off as not good enough.

...who got expelled from school twice, spent a few months in prison, and got his A levels at a Norwich FE college. Something future generations won't be able to do after the cuts to college funding by the way.

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I just can't understand how so-called fans can slag off a good young player like this ... And he IS a good young player.

Well really, why would a player follow his current team? What would a twitter feed tell him that he doesn't already know? Whereas following his old club makes much more sense. I preferred your earlier post !

Havent been on this thread for a while. Good to see Rallyboy is as readable as always! Personally I want them to sit in safe mid-table obscurity for years to come yet .... No promotion near misses or plucky relegation escapes. No exciting cup defeats against Saints or other big teams ... Just boring nothingness as their support gradually fades away, and the 'floating voters' and the new-to-the-game kids move to watching us or Brighton, or even Havant.

ah...... There was a player! Ramirez. .... I'd be delighted if he could play for us at the level he showed in that Villa game, but let's face it he's had nearly 2 seasons of mediocrity since then, so the chances of him being brilliant aren't great. He seems to be the latest example of a player somehow getting better in people's rating when he isn't playing. Tadic .... As someone has said a blood test could just be showing a virus or similar, so no need to worry too much as yet. I am in the "play him on the left" camp personally. He looks much better on that side. But Ron seems determined to put him on the right. Now if only I had a lifetime's background of playing and managing at the top level, maybe ........

Cedric has looked better attacking than defending IMO.

Why don't PL teams use the long throw more? Delap always unsettled the opposition, and this bloke is also a bit of a nuisance. You'd think more teams would have someone who could throw well, as an another occasional attacking option. It must be mostly just a matter of practice surely?

Don't know who the commentator on BT is , but he keeps wittering on about Yoshida being left- footed and having to cope out of position on the right! he also said we weren't very convincing against Vitesse. Personally I thing 5 nil is pretty convincing?

To be fair, Brentford play in a better league than Celtic.

Might make sense IF he gets to play regularly. Was disappointed to see that Stephens was only in the subs bench for the last Middlesborough game. Not much point in loaning out players to be part of another club's reserves

How can anything beat "there's only juan -mi", to rhyme with "there's only one me" ?

Maybe be the fact that Hodgson himself has said he thinks Ward-Prowse is a future Enlgand player might be relevant? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32183150

Ticket arrived today. Right address, right car park ..... Wrong name on envelope!

So is it that celtic want to keep their best players to make sure they qualify for the champions league proper, but once they're in the league bit don't care anymore because they know full well they have no chance of winning it ... So can let players go? Bit of a cynical way to treat their fans if so. (almost as bad as West Ham last night)

The parking STs haven't included cup games for about 2 seasons at least ..... They did at first. Nowadays you have to ring and book for a cup game at extra cost. Maybe recently you've just got away with parking in your usual place unofficially

Not received my parking ticket yet. Has anyone got theirs? i rang the club a few days before the Vitesse game to ask if there would parking available for that. Was told only the operations manager knew, and to leave my number so he could ring me back. He ididn't! At the same time they said parking STs were due back from the printer and would posted out in a week or so from then, ie before now ... Hence my asking on here.