Saint Mikey

A player who can play more than one position? I think Forster has played CB before - cover in case Lovren goes?

When I heard Rooney touted as the next captain, I thought - Really? FFS. Then I thought, who is there with any level of experience that should be captain? Cahill? Is he captain material? Was he at Bolton? Jagielka's not good enough. There's no-one in CM with any experience now. I wouldn't give to Hart either - he needs to concentrate on GK'ing. Flags up how poor our squad is at this moment in time. As the English fan loves a player that runs around aimlessly showing 'heart' - maybe Rooney is a good fit. Either that or call-up Lee Cattermole and make him captain...

Norwich signed Snodgrass, Johnson, Howson & Becchio from Leeds over a few seasons. That worked out well...

A nice gesture no doubt. However, the England team donate ALL their money for EVERY single international to charity. Not well publicised though is it? That's because it's a bigger story to call them overpaid, greedy, lazy etc. etc.

Is this where Katharina spends her summers?

I swear that he's raised something like this before? Not sure what the fuss is about, as I saw it as old news. Good to see Gerrard has called him out though. Let's hear some names then Harry...

I spoke to a contractor a few weeks ago, who said this was being installed at the stadium over the summer. Pretty reliable source as he was checking the quality of the electrical installation.

The standard of English should tell you everything you need to know about this article. Probably written by a Work Experience kid, as everyone who can - has fooked off to Brazil.

I won't be satisfied until I hear stories of Krueger whipping out a Zippo in front of a player and burning the offer. He has to up his game and go one better than Cortese...

Wow - £20 off. Going to take some time to claw back that £1k 'investment'.

Some people really take the rivalry far too seriously. Sheringham was a terrific player to watch, the sort of player you pay to see. So what if he played for our insignificant rivals at the back end of his career.

I'm not renewing now. Not expensive enough.

1. Flowers 2. Dodd 5. Ruddock 6. Lovren 3. Shaw 4. Case 8. Schneiderlin 10. Lallana 11. Rod Wallace 9. Lambert 7. Le Tissier Manager: Chris Nicholl I've just included the players I enjoyed watching the most. How Rod Wallace doesn't get in more teams I'll never know - he was brilliant for us, a joy to watch and eclipsed Le Tiss on occasions.

When you make snap judgements about people when you know little about them, this is is usually attributed to 'projection'. Do you think you are a bellend, or maybe you think other people think you are. Something to consider...

It's comments like this that keep me coming back to this thread. Well done, sir. Simple but effective...

I used to have that as a kid. It was like a 2nd skin until I grew out of it!

Hmmm. Have we had a bye in the 5th round then? Otherwise, really not worth thinking about til the end of the game on Sat...

I agree, he offers nothing. I'd rather have Kevin 'I should have 50 caps' Nolan in the squad than Cleverley. Cork or Osman would also be a better choice, at least they keep the ball well.

I guess it does, but not by loads. You win £1.8m for the FA Cup. It's now about £1.3m a place in the Prem. I know you'd have to add up all the Gate Receipts and merchandise and all that lark, but it's not masses of difference, esp if you finished 2/3 places higher.

Some clubs are bigger than others, Some clubs are bigger than others, Some clubs coffers are bigger than other clubs coffers...

I wouldn't say wanting to wear matching socks is OCD. Shows an orderly brain, although if you were that organised it wouldn't that long to find some - surely?! Superstition is all ingrained in us somewhere. I like to think of myself as a complete atheist and don't believe in anything like ghosts or anything else dreamt up by humans in literature that's now turned into beliefs. However, I still 'touch wood' occasionally and there's probably other things as well, more to do with routine than anything else. I don't think we can completely escape it and it's pretty harmless, unless it's checking things every 5 mins. Which makes me wonder, did all of you lock the door when you left today?? ;-)

I wouldn't want Lallana taking penalties, his finishing is far from the best attribute of his game. If he was fit, I'd have Lovren taking the pens.

Agreed. This is summed up by the game v Charlton on New Years day 1990 at Selhurst Park - great interplay from Le Tiss and Wallace (backheel from Le Tiss was sublime). Rideout was also good for us around that time and never understood why we let him go. Did we just think we could cash in, as we had these youngsters anyway?

If the SF is partly Kitson, then he definitely says he got paid in full. He may have been talking about wages he was owed up to that point or some other lump sum he was owed though. That is a true roll-call of honour. It brings a tear to my eye, just what these heroes have done for us and all the South Coast.

From what I read of Dave Kitson, he got paid completely in full and isn't owed anything anymore? Was he in that list that was kicking around a while ago? If he is partly the SF, then he said he played hardball and unexpectantly got paid in full.