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Lambert already threading it through the Ukraine defence, dropped deep, ball through onto Walcott's run. 'Keeper injured, corner to England.

Rickie's first touch, holds off a defender to lay the ball off for a Gerrard strike.

Theo starting on the right in the Welbeck role from Friday. Early threat from Ukraine, our defender caught standing.

All b*llocks aside, here we go. Heavy atmosphere there. Hope we can feed off it.

Ask your insectoid cousin Beesy if he has seen any.

I suppose it depends on which part of the statement you take in isolation. 'Tested like never before' or 'Tested like never before at International level.' As above, I would agree that he has already been tested against better teams with us last year. So yes, while he may not have been tested like this in an England shirt I am confident he's up to it.

The emergence of the 'wing' forward as it where is actually something I quite enjoy, particularly when it's used as effectively as it has been by us in recent years to get the best out of Rickie. The best moves against Moldova and with us at times have been when the quick man has switched roles with the centre forward, All of a sudden the fullbacks have someone standing off them and the centre backs having someone taking the game directly at them. This can wrong-foot the rhythm of the defending team and with the service someone like Rickie can provide from the wing feeding his fellow attacker (Welbeck, Rodriguez, etc) it can cause a lot of damage. With Welbeck out I can see Lambert being encouraged to work with Walcott in the same way tonight with Milner trying to snuff out any threat the Ukraine will have from the other wing. Whether Theo can link up in the same way we'll see. He has the pace to make it work, but end product? Well, I always rated him as a better finisher then Welbeck... could be wrong.

Remove JWP and you take away our set piece delivery. I would start him instead of Morgan.

What's the location mate?

Carroll out, injured again on returning to training. West Ham havn't looked great this season, but yes, as you would expect from Allardyce they will defend stoutly. I'll be optimistic and believe we will convert at least one of the chances we carve out, Osvaldo from a Rickie assist. 1-0.

May be relevant for any future qualifiers. "Glass Joe" has done it again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24027052

Haha, I do like that!!

Not just that, but they seem now to be going back on and undermining the business model that made them so successful in the first place. Make something game changing (iPhone original, 3, 3s, 4) and offer it in a few easily adjustable variations. (Memory required changing one component) and sell it for a huge mark up at the premium end of the market. One model, mass made, standard parts, high margin. Now they are going to be making a lower end model, alongside the premium new one and some of the older models too. Less profitable and undermining the brand's position as solely a high end aspirational one. Drawing themselves back into a dogfight with the HTC's, Sonys and Samsungs of the world and losing their 'prestige' as you have very well put it. As I say, I utterly respect how good the handsets still are, my work iPhone 5 is an excellent device. I vastly prefer the Samsung Galaxy S3 I keep as a personal phone though.

No denying they are excellent phones, but there is no reason for the average user to have anything other then an iPhone 4/4s. It's just the same routine now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEobeNfGcc Not a 'tackle' as such... but still.

I have nothing to add other then:

The story of Robbie Rogers is heartening (ex Leeds, Stevenage.) He came out after being released by Leeds United and immediately retired after feeling that he couldn't continue as a footballer with his sexuality out in the open. He has however since revived his career and now plays for L.A. Galaxy. Small steps are being made.

Towards the back end of last season when we did it worked well. Jay and Rickie's link up for the first goal at Reading immediately springs to mind.

It very much depends on what they have allocated their last remaining parachute payments for, you would hope that prudence has prevailed and they are being used to settle prior debts. If they have stuck to past precedents though they are once again totally f**ked. Their budget is said to be competitive for the level if not the biggest so perhaps, just perhaps they are running themselves on a sustainable basis now. Oh who am I kidding.

Yes, without Sturridge, Rooney and Welbeck pretty much the only option! What a prat.

Some astonishing sums of money there. £6.5 million in total which they cannot walk away from as it would undermine the very rule that saved them.

Reflecting back on last night, yes, you can only beat what is in front of you but that misses the point that England have so often laboured, looked berift of ideas and utterly unable to unlock and break down even the most ordinary of defences at international level. Rickie lambert provided a spark of composure and quality of delivery that utterly undid the Moldovan defence twice, he perfectly complimented his immediate strike partner and brought out the best in Danny Welbeck while also reacting naturally and instinctively to claim his own goal. The guy is a perfect fit in our international set up and it's wonderful to see him seize the opportunity.... and to be gaining rightful acclaim for it!

At the same time?

Bravo unions, bravo.

So much Mazda..... :s You can change the formation for what i see... Is that what you meant cellone?