Saint_clark

Related to this, I wonder why there was no thread slating Shaw after the free-kick that went straight to a Liverpool player on saturday and nearly (possibly should have, as Sturridge wasn't offside) resulted in a goal? If it had been Fox you can be damn well sure there would be 6-7 pages about it. Similarly, had Guly messed up the one on one Lambert did...

Neither is Seaborne or Harding, or Hooiveld at LB for that matter. Personally I think Fox is more than capable at LB for a lower Prem team.

I don't give a f*ck about any of that. It'll be funny because of the way West Ham fans were so smug after beating us 4-1 at their place, and also because of your comment about them being as safe as United.

Seeing as Adkins has always been about honesty, respect and integrity and Pochettino (since coming in) has said that Adkins did a great job and he has the utmost respect for him, I think it's safe to say they will greet each other as normal...shake hands, chat for a bit, get on with the game.

I seem to remember them saying he was overrated when they beat us 3-1?

It would be hilarious if West Ham went down now, for several reasons.

I think you mean 46%

Interesting that in the half an hour he played, Hooiveld won 100% of all tackles, headers, shoulder to shoulder challenges....everything.

This has been posted before, but I agree with this anyway. He had one outstanding season and the rest were OK.

What about the crunching tackle down by the Liverpool corner flag near the end of the game?

It's not the snappiest title, is it.

Is that all!? From what I've seen of Reading on TV they haven't looked anywhere close to selling out, seems strange we wouldn't get more than that...

What was the allocation? For some reason I have 4000 in my head...?

Is that sarcasm? As it was packed out V Liverpool.

I noticed when watching the highlights that he looked mighty p*ssed off when walking down the tunnel at half time.

I remember him saying in an interview that he is incredibly nervous during games and that when Markus used to watch with him he would try to talk to him all the time, and Cortese would only be able to give one word answers as he was so engrossed in the game.

He's never had great composure. Only reason he scored a few in league one/NPC was because of how many chances he was getting.

Time to buck the trend...

I thought that was just before?

Giving odds that bad, they must be racist or something.

19/1??? Is that all??? Jesus.

Why? Is he suddenly a bad player? He has scored for the first team before, by the way - and got his fair share of goals for the reserve and youth teams.

To be honest I think that's changed already after our first few performances under Pochettino. The pundits on MOTD were all livid that Adkins was sacked, but creaming themselves about the way we played against United, City and Wigan. Besides, if we stay up then no-one can say that Cortese has made the wrong decision as we'll never know what could have happened under Adkins. All we'll know is what happened under Pochettino.

I can't believe the main board thread was locked before anyone had a chance to respond to my well thought out input to the debate.

Interesting...I'd say that being back in the Prem has done wonders for our reputation. We've been praised by a lot of people this season.