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At home to Palace. Bugger.

Such is the age of analytics we live in. It is more amazing that it's only just taken hold in the last few years rather then earlier, surely working to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the players who are available is just simply common sense.

Perseverance: 10/10 Execution: 1/10

Skates at home. Chance to get our confidence up.

Could this simply be a hangover from our time around 2008/09? The youngsters who should have entered the academy at that time as 11 year olds didn't due to cut backs and now we are having a barren spell as those age groups now come through.

No, go away.

Done. One of the more interesting surveys of this type asked on here.

At right back, agreed.

He wasn't cut out to be a Premier League manager but he gave us some very memorable games, the 3-3 v Newcastle, beating Liverpool. That excellent game v Blackburn at the start of the next season. Blooding Folly, Griffit and Hall. The turning point was the summer but I will always feel he was a better option then Wigley which was the first nail in the coffin. Pardew is a great shout, that day in Wembley will stay with us forever, but to miss out on the playoffs with that squad and the start to the following season? No, didn't make it.

1. Koeman 2. Adkins 3. Strachan 4. Pochettino 5. Ball 6. Sturrock 7. Hoddle

1. Wigley 2. Branfoot 3. Redknapp 4. Wotte 5. Poortvliet 6. Gray 7. Burley

Could be psychological, he had to deal with losing a parent I believe.... or similar. Hope he can fulfil his promise.

It was an enjoyable evening despite the result.... and the monsoon that caught us all on the way back to the car!!

Well, if you are going to mention kowtowing. Do keep up sunshine.

So how would you approach diplomacy with them to do it, accept their cultures and ways which stipulate over the top politeness and various quirks or just stumble through? Your degradation of 'kowtow' as simpering would indicate the latter.

So you think it's a bad idea to build economic relations with China?

Quite, it's jaw dropping in it's stupidity either way.

Just catching up on the day's politics, and really? The Shadow Chancellor quoted Chairman Mao? That must have been tongue in cheek....

Precisely, we were being run as a conventional business and that is why we would only have continued to decline.

So funny. Thank heavens our decline happened so quickly rather then turning into someone like Coventry, gradually shrinking over the course of 15 years as would have happened under Rupert Lowe's strategy. Your nearsightedness reminds me of the sentiment of a blog I wrote a few years ago. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/entry.php?58-You-can-t-always-get-what-you-want We have experienced so much, wouldn't change a thing. Thank heavens history has eventually been kind to us.

It would have been good to see how he would have developed here. Clearly a very talented guy.

It would appear that Alaska has gained independence.

Yep, looks like a fine example of backside covering.

It's probably a good sign that he is frustrated, he just wants to play and contribute to the first team. Better that then kicking back and just collecting his weekly fortune.

In other words, it's gone swimmingly.