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I would expect an alternative.

I always thought we looked best with Fonte and Yoshi at centre back that year, like in the Liverpool game when Jos had to be subbed due to injury in the first half. And yes, he did look good alongside Jos too, who deserves a little more respect then he often gets

Credit where due to Yoshi, he has reasserted himself well in the side and recaptured the form that saw Fonte and himself contribute towards our comfortable survival in 12/13. Hope he continues to play this well when called upon.

No Van Dijk for Celtic today against Dundee.

Stop feeding the troll. At least it doesn't need to argue with itself this time.

The multiple username troll has no honour by definition alone. At least it's not arguing with itself now.

I admire the optimism.

It says a lot that it took the best part of 8 months for any mention of the news reports stopping to appear on here.

I agree with the sentiment, but there are a lot of reasons why, the chief of which is maintenance costs, the old wooden stands at places like Blundell Park are horribly expensive to keep, hence why many are just left to go derelict. (Mansfield's old Bishop Street Stand for instance.)

Cortese wasn't here. He had the ambition, regardless of whether he was the predominant power, he was a driving force in the club. He went, the vision went. It is that simple, image can mean a lot. Now our current powers that be need to build their own vision. If we have an exodus on the final day their position will be untenable.

The existing poster who set that up wasted a fiver you mean. That terrible joke didn't last long.

As someone who played in the world cup, surely Taider would have been reasonably obvious for any reasonable scouting department?

Time will tell.

Considering how he was jumped on by the media for posting a picture of a training pitch it seems perfectly sensible that he would scale back his activity on there.

As friendlies go, it was one hell of a substitution.

A real pity, he looked promising. More need to retain Cork and Morgan now.

They have a clear plan B, just sell more 'shares' to property develo..... erm, errrrr, fans, clearly fans, who also have a sideline in construction. More 'fans' can pour endless quantities of money into their local building opportunity.

Why did they rip out the terracing from the corners at Blundell Park? All the best for the new stadium, but all these moves to soulless out of town locations are killing the character of the English game. At least our identikit modern bowl is walking distance in the city centre.

Oh cock.

A beautiful side foot pass to the overlapping full back in full stride while throwing in the dummy swipe with his other foot, delightfully eccentric, skillful and totally intended. A joy to watch.

Shrewsbury at home please!

Yes Graziano yes!!!! First of many please!!

Of course a player needs to be fundamentally able but there is an emerging track record of Fonte's defensive partners playing above themselves and struggling to match the same level once gone. Aaron Martin and Dan Seaborne played comfortably at Championship level yet have not looked up to it elsewhere. Who was his defensive partner at Palace?

The performance at Liverpool showed that the performance of the central midfielders is crucial, they need to take charge and support in all areas. A fully motivated Morgan Schneiderlin would be ideal, Victor will always be more inclined to support the back four and sit deep. We need our midfield to push up and support Pelle and distribute wide when pushing forward. I would actually look to bring in Taider for Morgan Schneiderlin and use Jay Rodriguez on the left of the front three. 4-3-3 was not too dissimilar to Pochettino's preferred formation, I hope it will click in soon with our new blood.

Yes. It would say a lot if he did sign a new contract.