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He would have been a good fit at Forest.

Fair play to those that went and fair play to those that didn't. I got a freebie, thank you football God.

Shaw, Ramirez, Puncheon, that's as good a goal as you will see all season. Anywhere.

What control is he looking with that body shape and foot position? The space is all to his front right (towards the goal), if he wanted to control it he would have played it with the inside of his left foot, no?

Ramirez has laid that off to him! What else is he trying to do? He knows exactly where Punch is, heturns and looks to see what Punch is going to do next! Awesome !!!!

Deep joy! From posting I wasn't going 'on principle' LOL on Monday morning our school football academy leader rocks up in my office Monday afternoon, Chelsea been on the phone (we have a Chelsea academy at school), we can have 40 tkts free(!), do you fancy taking the boys up? Do I! Coach booked, tenner a head, decent seats, high in the upper tier up next to the away fans. Weird watching the game from the other side of the fence, 40 of us in a mixed group and near the away fans so still able to give it a bit though! Sat in front of some teen wanna-bes, mixed Chelsea/Arsenal/Palace/Ipswich fans, absolutely drooling over our players. They reckoned Clyne, Shaw and Schneiderlin would all start for Arsenal at the moment. Our support last night, just unbelievable! Don't know how many we had, must have been 500-600 in the upper and I couldn't see the lower from where a I was. Sung from first to last, plenty of variety, bags of volume, bags of spirit, straight back on it after both their goals. I really do believe we have got a team that are really feeding off the support, a real 12th man last night. Home fans? Unbelievable, heard them for 90 seconds after each goal and for a little bit in the last 10 minutes. Don't anybody post up for the remainder of the season about the atmosphere at SMS, Chelsea fans TRULY shocking last night. Good to see NA getting it so right, tactics-wise, why do people get so uppity when RL doesn't start? He's not been 'dropped' FFS, he's been rotated, it's a 16 man game and NA ****ed all over Benitez last night. Top team spirit we've got at the moment, the players genuinely playing for the manager, each other and the fans. Take the first games out of it and I think we have lost 2 out of the last 12, we are right back on that winning mentality, 'together as one' stuff. Massive respect to: NC for sticking with NA, a lucky general or a football genius? NA for his starting line-up and the positive attacking football we play. Clyne for his pace, he makes mistakes but he's quick enough to fix most of them himself. Shaw, are there any words left? He could take us anywhere at the moment. Big up for Jos! Decent effort the last two games, always a squad player at this level, but looks like he's getting into it now. Joshi, loved him from the first game, massive heart and just loves playing football, joy to have him. Punch, starting to look like the finished article, I forgot Ashley Cole was playing the last 25 minutes, gave him a torrid time. Morgan, what's he worth this morning? Cork, he's always been good, he's now added the consistency he didn't show last season, England calling? JRod, so much more confident than when he started, looks like he is starting to believe he belongs in the Prem. RL, turned the game. Does so much off the ball, their back 4 just fell to pieces once he came on. Still buzzing now!

I sat about 4 rows away from Cortese in the Northam corner when he was on his fabled scouting mission/fans-eye-view, can't remember which game it was but it might have been Yeovil on a Tuesday night. Didn't recognise him at all, he didn't offer anybody out though.

I heard it was touch and go.

Or we could just take one game at a time?

Top of the mini-League I see. Would be a very reasonable first season if it finished like that.

Would never have happened with Zebra finance.

Burley? Strachen? Hands-off Nige, I say.

The publicity at the weekend may lead to some sort of change in the future, equally if people really do step back and refuse to pay the prices then ultimately prices will have to come down. Clearly there are discussions/proposals out there but whether they are the right ones, or whether they see the light of day is another matter. A cap on away prices of £25/ticket - would seem fair, all teams to charge all away fans the same price. Free transport for away fans (this suggestion from Stoke apparently?) - non-starter for me though lots of people might like it. Can't remember the supposed cost but in the overall scheme of things it wasn't massive. Every away ticket comes with a free bingo bus pass. Only good if you a) live in relatively reasonable commuting distance of your own ground, and b) you want to go on a supporters coach. Massively administratively heavy for the away team and not particularly what's wanted by the average travelling fan. We took 3000 to Villa on Saturday, how many of those would have taken a free place on a coach from SMS? .... stick a pin and I'd say 50% tops. What the clubs don't let on is how small 'gate receipts' are in the bigger scheme of things; gate money is a relatively small percentage of all receipts, and set to become much smaller again when the TV money rolls up next season. A big part of what makes our football attractive; whether that's live at the match, on TV or across a global audience, is the relatively full grounds and the partisan atmosphere that is created. Which in turn is to a large part dependent on having a healthy turn out of away fans. Personally I'd call their bluff and combine the two proposals, all away tickets a flat £20, bin the free transport (an administrative nightmare and not something that a good proportion of fans would want or need).

Silly money. I'm on a 3 man boycott of the Chelsea game. Midweek, London, a game I would usually attend 100%. I could afford it but I'm just not prepared to pay it, I would love to see us take zero fans. Then let Sky and the FA and the home team deal with that one, not going to happen though is it?

You post this every week! Why do you go to games? What do you think's going to happen if you buy one tkt at random and go on your own? Where do you sit at home games that's so much better? I wasn't there today but our support came over really good on the stream I watched; reaction on here fro those that were there is overwhelmingly positive. I really would advise you find something better to do with your time and money if you really don't enjoy it.

One=word caption contest. 'Why?'

Doing fine so far. Not quite clicked up front but it will come. Excellent start from RL.

I've never seen Delf do anything! Lets hope he doesn't find his feet against us today.

Not everyone, I called 20 Reading, 19 Villa, 18 Sunderland at the end of Nov and I'm going to stick with that for the season, reckon I've got Reading and Villa right, 18th is a right dog fight (just like it is every year!). QPR looked a lot better today, get a 10 goal striker in the window and they will stay up comfortably, 4 points from Chels A and Spuds H is 4 more than we will get!

Gambling on starting RL/JR/GR that we won't need a game changer? Missing AL Gully and to a lesser extent Myuka is bound to stretch us. Don't seew hy everybody is writing off Lee without any sort of a chance though? Quite capable of getting a goal against this Villa side. Hopefully it won't come to that, a nice 0-3 RL pen, JR, GR will do nicely! Big game for Boruc today with a couple of changes in his back 4.

Got Charlton ST mates, Seaborne has been really poor there (playing LB), they are glad to see the back of him.

Got tons of Bowie and he was always a fave of mine but I have sort of grown away from him over the years, God dammit , I'm 51 and he's 60-something, nothing lasts forever! If I could pick one album it would be Hunky Dorey, an absolute taste of what was to come; pure thinking-pop and a chrysalis album from a real-life chameleon. After that 'Heroes' and 'Scary Monsters' show someone who was at the top of their game for 30-plus years (ignoring the many Lows in between). Great artist/icon but someone who IMO would be better remembered as they were in their prime. I've no desire to seek out the new album, Spotify keeps pushing the new single at me but I haven't bothered to listen to it once. Always thought Saints should run-out to V2 Schneider, how good and original would that be? Stick your Liquidator, Z Cars and Prokofiev, Cortese's Saints should be running out to some proper European art-house! And while we are it, have we signed a Brick art-house centre half yet? Maybe the Italian Paul McGrath? If anyone wants to do some retro time-travelling on Spotify I can thoroughly recommend early XTC, I've got lots on vinyl but I haven't heard it for 30-odd years. Check out White Music 1978 and Drums and Wires 1979 - terrific, it'll make you feel like a grown-up 16 year-old all over again.

A beautifully landscaped garden/park which will provide a fantastic family atmosphere before the game, no cans, hampers welcome ('Please don't litter. Place your corks in the bins provided') . Kids not compulsory but you may well be frowned at if you don't bring one. Strictly no away fans (it will probably need a BIG fence and turnstiles, admission by match tkt only, five pound facility fee). Lots of stewards in Security.Co bibs. Club merchandise kiosks every 50m. Big screens to show highlights of the club's glorious four-year history, these can also be used to project live showings of home games to the ticket-less masses when we have a 48k sell-out in the actual stadium. Fan-football-tastic! Or we could just leave it as it is and make sure that the away fans know they are entering a 'proper' working city and they need to watch themselves; No Liberties. Sarfampton 'til I die! Stand. No surrender. Suvverners, Suvverners Suvverners! Hold me back!

What if he's sent off at 0-0 and we win 1-0? Is that 3 points he's gained us?

Bobby Stokes has a lot to answer for - you cross 'em, I'll knock 'em in.