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They're a delicate bunch are the west ham players, I know it's their second string but doesn't bode well for the league season for them, lacking street smarts, falling over all the time trying to buy contact in the area etc. Should be straightforward from here if we give our usual 2nd half improvement.

Flappy flappy....

Nuremberg looking to sue us for a couple mill on missed add-ons...

Oh look.

He touched the ball 43 times, more than any other player including wood. Made 3 interceptions and 2 tackles, more than anyone other than wood, who also looked solid btw. The stats don't tell a picture of someone ball watching when they got more touches than any other player on the pitch (including Stoke players)

Solid half from Stephens, good recovery from last week and the dogs abuse he gets now just for existing. reckon we will win this one with some impact subs.

Not too worried as we can replace him with someone championship standard. It'd be nice to spend the money on some quality up the centre of the pitch, no more wingers please

Overrun? Lol. Not in soton at least, I think I've maybe met 3 Muslims in my working life, all of whom were stand up British citizens. Vast majority of people you meet are secular or Christian, and even the Christians are generally ok once you get to know them.

Pogba on the move. (MLS probably)

Kit superb. Maybe best kit we've had since the Wallace days?

Watford very lucky to get anything, celebrating like they won the world cup - strong indicator we are serious business this season - it'll be rare that anyone else gets that lucky I think. Bragg though, is a good sub, but we need more experience in the middle. Or a formation change. We don't really need two cdms in this league.

Manning out of position and scienza not tracking back has left us exposed on that side a couple of times now. It's too much pitch for Stephens yo cover on his own - not his fault - this is tactical. Manning needs to be more disciplined on the left for a while until we get on top of the game again.

They have 9th written all over them, they'll be flexing the legal muscles if they want playoffs again.

I don't think going to benfica would get him closer to the England team. He needs to go to a more competitive league (or stay in this one). Surprised there isnt a prem team interested, like a Fulham or an Everton.

He's visited the uni a couple of times, there's probably a bunch of people on here who knew him personally. I met him and he was a nice guy, and a human being, even if he wasn't treated as one towards the end.

Benfica would be a big step down, potentially career ending, if his career aim is premier league. I can see him going there when he hits 30, but right now he should want to stay in the mix, so EFL, prem, bundesliga are all viable, but Portugal? Nah.

Looks like Messi might be retiring, so if we were waiting for him, we should move on to the next target.

Walker peters was on loan with us originally.

That sold out so fast, I was gutted not to be able to get one - I will never understand why they didn't make another run.

Zero shirts, because there is a clear rule. If you are a cielab nerd, it comes down to the L difference between the stripe colours. If it is a delta of 25 or more, you can't overlay the numbers onto the stripes. Basically, if we keep red, the contrasting stripe also needs to be a dark colour. That's why Bournemouth, inter Milan etc can get away with it, but we cannot.

It's only 12,000, you need to read past the headline.

48,000 have gone back already. So it's only 12,000. Braverman says it is inevitable we will get an influx, but it is going to be a percentage of a small percentage who makes it here, hardly worth the fuss they are making.

I'm still not even convinced tonda knew - he never actually sent the guy off to spy personally - all the surreptitious nature came from the go-between. And the fact that arsenal televised their Friday training before the champions league final, and that world cup training was regularly observed by media and opponents all seem to run salt in the wound (pun intended). I hope this season we watch all opponents up until the 72 hour mark, and that we get some fans to Boros training ground before our game with them to stream some live training on YouTube, just to illustrate how stupid the rule is.

Yep, pure filth. Definitely getting it.

We will be done with them by January, so in the run up to the finish they will be taking points off our rivals. They play Boro and wolves near the end too. Let them run away with it, they'll help us solidify second.