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That's more like it.

That would best be described as 'workman-like', is there anybody in that X1 who would get in our starting X1? (That's done it!)

Away wins at Hull and Villa, the ball's in our court now .... over to you Saints!

We've got half STs so best put us down as new additions to the mid-term roster window.

RL LS AL NC CC JR What we really should have done was kept all our old team AND added the new players, We were 30m pound away from CL certainties ................. or something like that. And changed manager obviously......

A sound maxim for life and football; looking at the last few years I'd be astonished if we hadn't scouted a new chief scout even before the news broke out.

Hopefully the over scout had set-up the under-scouts to scout out a new chief scout if the big scout ever stepped out?

11-01 please.

Villa win 2-0 Citeh win 3-1 Arsenal draw 1-1 or 2-2 Utd will be a bit of a free throw if we can take 7 points from the first three ... they look all over the shop at the back ... 3-0? :)

Damn it, Europa League here we come.

I hope people are factoring in to all of this that for the last two seasons we have barely kicked a ball in anger for the last 10-12 games of both seasons. Safe, secure, complacent, no cup football, no real competition for places. If you factor in the RK factor (he appears to want to go out to win every game we play), the mentality in this group, the improved squad depth/options, and that hopefully we will still be playing for 'big' stakes, I would expect us to pick up considerably more points in the last 12 games of this season than we have done for the previous two seasons.

Southampton Wednesday? That's going to make Save-Our-Stripes look like a vicar's tea party.

And if we can't ... we'll just have to hang in there. We keep (another) clean sheet and we take a minimum of one point. This is a bit of a Stoke away (first half!) for me, very aggressive when we have the ball, hit hard in numbers when we can, be patient when we can't. 0-1 or 0-2 will do just fine, 0-0 or 1-1 not the end of the world, we follow this with a very winnnable game against Citeh, anywhere between 2 and 6 points from those two will be great.

You know you've arrived when ..... you're in Mourinho's mind games! Can you go unbeaten? No, there's United, City, Arsenal and especially Southampton!!!

Hart's 'double kick' was probably the jammiest thing I've ever seen in 45 years of watching football!

Best uncapped player in the Prem? Assuming a) he hasn't got one and b) anybody else can come up with anyone better? Read bits on here today that he has 'stepped up' this season, rubbish. He never went away for me, one of our very best players last season, he stepped up to the PL when some doubted him, he was great in the Championship too. How good is he? He made Lovren look like £20m worth of footballer .... .

Koeman, end of.

What's eating Gary Monk in his post-match comments .... he's coming over like a Roy Keane wanna-be the last couple of weeks.

Palace West Brom Swansea* Newcastle* Leicester Saints Stoke Burnley* QPR Spurs West Ham Sunderland Hull* Everton* Man Utd Man City Liverpool Villa Chelsea Arsenal That would be my take with the following caveats: all away fans are more animated than home fans if you go to pretty much any ground the away fans will (generally) be the ones making the most noise, this applies to us away and to other teams when they come to us (this is not underselling our away support which is generally excellent as per Stoke and Hull last week, with the odd exception, for example Spurs away last season), I'm basing my purely subjective thoughts on how well the home fans back their team through the whole 90 minutes irrespective of the score - there's a lot of truth in you-only-sing-when-you're-winning - if we had a different league table for how passionate/noisy fans were when their team scored we'd see a completely different league table ... glory boys like Chelsea and Man U would be right up there. Also have to say I've not been to the *teams' grounds! Having to use my TV skills, feedback from places like this and all-round perception to give those teams a ranking. Still reckon I've done a better job than Jim White though, Saints 18th out of 20 for home support? Really? He's 'aving a giraffe isn't he?

I saw that last night, utter ****take for a Monday night televised game. Fair play to the people who will pay it (and 1500+ will), I'm 'lucky' in that I can get a disabled tkt and I hope to be going but it's a ridiculous price (that won't change until people collectively stop paying it). I feel a little bit compromised that my support supports this level of pricing but as it's a game that will go to general sale and me and the nipper love our midweek football any port in a storm and all that.

Fantastic love our 'professional approach', a simple foul on Clyne at RB and we must have taken 30 seconds to get the ball back in play. Love it (when we do it!)

Not surprising we are tired! We've just gone 186 minutes against a very physical Stoke side. Koeman's played a blinder for me, ne avoids the 8-0 hangover/banana skin and collects 3 very solid points at home to Stoke and then plays a really solid selection away in the LC and progresses into the next round, saying that the LC is a realistic and welcome goal for us. It's a bit of a free shot today really, away against a decent Hull side and with a goal start, hopefully we can get something out of the game today and go again next week. What's not to like?

Like football grounds? Went to Stoke for the first time this week, 50% was actually as you expect it to be from TV and the other 50% is like wow, I didn't realise that bit was there, that was so big, that was so small etc. Amazing that when you have been to a ground you can always picture the whole thing on TV but if you haven't then TV is prob only giving you half the picture.

Delgado Kanchelskis Idiakez KevinPhillip's head always looked somewhere else. Not Lovren, excellent last season.