sandwichsaint

700 quid for a telly with 'below average contrast' and 'dimming sometimes clumsy'. You have checked it does colour pictures, yes?

TBF there's a barber in Sandwich that once a month drops to his knees to give praise that the 'flat top' never (quite) went out of fashion.

Errors leading to opposition shots at goal, 0. Obviously not been updated since Monday evening then?

Cheers for that.

Names? I'm in Sheffield this week-end so any recommendations in the town centre that would cut down on leg work would be greatly appreciated.

Yewtree will be around later, they have a certain knack.

Gotta feel sorry (?) for all those who bet on a Villa win, the 'happiness tax' someone called it yesterday, unfortunately the draw turned that little plot into a bit of a lose/lose situation.

This could be almost anything, I don't particularly 'fear' their attackers, I obviously respect them (and they are a big step up from most of those we have faced this season) but we have a very good back 6 and they have the stats to prove it. Could it be time for FF to step up and pay back for last night's howler? (or will he shrink further into his sometimes nervy paralysis? Guess we'll know quite a bit more about FF after this game). We can match them in the middle f'sure, can we score against their unpredictable back 4 and their often good/sometimes awful keeper? Guess it comes down in part to which City team turns up and after last night's reality check hopefully we can turn up and get back on our previous performance levels. I'll go for a nervy 1-0 with us scoring in the last 10 minutes and then holding on.

I see what you did there.... A player I haven't seen mentioned yet - Toby - he didn't have too much to do last night but he really does look a top class centre back, quick, good anticipation and very clean and decisive when he does intervene.

Done, definitely one of the more thoughtful questionnaires we have had on here, hopefully you can come back and share your findings.

Body language all wrong from the start, for a team that usually has loads of energy and togetherness we haven't had much of either. Did Koeman drop a bollock moaning about Xmas and saying it wasn't fair and we couldn't hope to compete with a smaller squad (I paraphrase but that was the drift of it) - has that message got to the players however subliminally?

Pathetic goal. Long struggling central, get Tadic in behind Pelle.

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.