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Stephens you idiot.

The last time we showed desire like this was the league cup final. Sadly, same scoreline.

Right. We go again.

Actually trying to play the ball in the opponents half. Not bad over the last ten minutes.

On the topic of right-backs, was going to say 'What's Jason McCarthy up to now?' Only to see he's been moved on to Barnsley.

Andreas Jakobson? Callum Davenport?

Talk is cheap.

So, the Championship next season.....

Lallana? Nope, this isn't worth taking seriously.

He is an idealist, and that makes him dangerous, naïve and utterly unsuitable for a role like leader of the opposition, let alone Prime Minister. He has also been proven to be every bit as hypocritical as any other politician yet maintains the same air and tries to project the same image. On that basis he is dangerous, and so regardless of the respect I may have for some of his ideals, I hate the prospect of him becoming prime minister. It would be disastrous.

I don't think taking on someone with a spine that cannot even sustain a round of golf, or in any way train without seizing up would be a good idea. Let's stick with the guy who has scored goals in Ligue 1 and played in the Champions League.

A fully fit Rickie in his prime? Is this a trick question?

Amazing in a slightly different way, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The amazing clash of desperate poverty, people scratching a living from nothing and living in any bit of land available in the urban areas contrasting with the wealth of a few fortunate ones will stay with me for the rest of my life. The challenges that people have over there make 99% of the grumbles in the UK utterly trivial.

------------------- Austin ------------------- ---------------- Gabbiadini ----------------- Tadic --- Hojbjerg ---- Lemina ---- Boufal Bertrand - Stephens -- Hoedt ----- Cedric ---------------- McCarthy ------------------ Bench: Forster, Yoshi, Romeu, Redmond, Sims, Long, Carrillo.

More then we have been for a long long while.

Really enjoying this so far. Some good forward play from us this half after weathering Wigan's fearless first half. A goal for Carillo now to get him off the mark too would be ideal.

2 strikers! Hallelujah!!!!! Appears to be 4-4-f**king-2.

Just a question of any underlying lack of fitness that may be resulting from this lack of intensity. Something that may have been shown in our appalling second half record this season. The next two weeks to build that back to a good standard.

More to the point, I would trust Hughes to stay should we go down. Silva wouldn't.

That's very much my feeling on this. If we cannot get in Marco Silva on a short term deal until the summer, then Hughes is ok.

He was away!? What dereliction......

Not a hope in hell would he jump out of that cosy corner to our hostile plains.

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Just so long they stay away from the near post.

If only Sturrock had been more fashionable.