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4-0 then Hesketh haha

As someone else mentioned his distribution for long kicks is good however his short passing is cack! Last night 3 times he sand wedged a short ball over an attacker which put a defender in all sorts of problems! Eventually led to their second. You would have thought he'd have learnt his lesson on that one after Swansea at home last year.

What will the Northam sing now? Not sure Awford scans very well!!

Lambert not in the game really yet and we need to get AL more of the ball. JRod playing really well that little spin and run early 1st half was great to watch showing the England hammering he was given by the press has not had an effect! How many teams go to Arsenal and equal them for possession? Lets hope we can up our game another level 2nd half and get back in this

Might help if the Northam singers of this paced it like the Celtic fans did rather than their usual 100000000000mph version of every song.

Personally I'd keep the same team as vs Fulham. Lambert and JRod took the **** up there last year in the first half and if we'd known what a defence was that day we would have won easily.

I'm sure MLG can correct me but I was under the impression that as long as he hasn't played a full on competitive international he could still be eligible under the same rules that could say Januzaj play for us e.g. lived here for 5 years after his 18th birthday. I might be totally wrong though!

With the clamour for Januzaj for England and the need for a 5 year wait after his 18th birthday, I'm amazed that Morgan hasn't really been touted for England. Pulis said he's the most complete midfielder in the premier league and clearly isn't wanted by the French national team at present.

Lambert in the cup vs Pompey. Even the chapel stand shook with that celebration!

Wasn't he struggling to stay in the job before the Liverpool game ;-) or was that just on here? FWIW I think he looks decent. Link up around the top of the box looks good and I'm sure he'll score a decent amount this season. Looks well set to get one of those super goals we saw from Roma just needs a good bounce once like JRod on Sunday.

Certainly no worse than Cleverley or Young and on current form as good as Wilshire? Think he'll struggle to get game time when Roy's favourites are around but there we go!

What a great signing he is looking to be! 9 millionish was it? Bargain! Solid, able to go forward and looks like he will weigh in with a few headers over the course of the season. Great partnership developing with Fonte who some on here had written off last season! Hopefully stays here for his whole contract as he looks like he could play at a bigger club NOW let alone in the future.

Quick question hopefully someone on here can answer for me. I have some family coming over from Spain in a few weeks and hoping to take them to a game, currently have a season ticket but surrounded by other ST holders. Wanting to move seats for one game to sit with them does anyone know if you can do that or do they charge you for it? Seem to remember doing this in previous years but can only see a £10 fee quoted for seat transfers which seemed to be more about at the end of season moving where your season ticket is. Cheers in advance!

I've seen this "hostile atmosphere" mentioned a few times in the press RE: Why Lambert won't be able to cut it but seriously? Will the Ukraine fans really be more abusive and scary to Rickie than the skates at Fratton where oh yes he scored? Or the nearly 3,500 skates who turned up to scream abuse at a Lg 1 striker in the FA Cup game where again he scored? I think at 31 he's probably past being too worried about a crowd. Here's hoping he scores again and rams this utterly snobbish journalism down a few peoples throats.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/2597011.stm there we go, defo 2-1

Brighton in lg1 as you say Millwall last year. As for the prem I can remember a 2-1 win in the 90th min against Sunderland I know tessem scored but don't remember the year.

Love Rickie Lambert! Always going to take a victory on the first day and against a team who comfortably smashed us twice last season! First half looked good without creating a great deal but felt Lovren and Wanyama both looked good. Not sure why the offside goal wasn't given if as the commentators said it was offside against Lallana. 2nd half WBA got right back into it and it looked that our good work would count for nowt when they had their 20 mins of pressure. Soon as the peno was given though ... no doubt! You just don't save those!

Feel like a proud dad! So pleased for Rickie! Absolutely love the guy, hopefully more to come! England need to stick to this play like England stuff rather than attempting to be a budget version of a decent team!

To be fair to us, they've had a lot more practice at them

Lost 4-1 on pens :-p Oops

Pompey 4-1 down now. I 4 1 am happy with this bottom so far!

Stats seem to suggest otherwise, seeing as how he played in the prem for the whole of the last season ;-) MLG will be all over this Joe!

I understand the point you are making but Kevin Phillips scored 13? goals that season. I'd prefer a 13 goal striker to a 2 goal a season Ormerod for example!

As for Bristol Rovers they've brought in plenty so staying solvent? Only in the same way every other league 2 team does! Bet they can't wait for their big derby against York!

Personally not massively keen on the new kit but more for the fact its not in anyway just "ours". Having a kit template thats also worn by a league 1 club suggests a lack of originality in a way that wearing "the same stripes" as a Sunderland or Stoke just doesn't do. I really don't like the golden badge either seems to me that we should have won something before we go doing something that tacky. But then again I don't buy kits so I guess I won't be bothering anyone ;-) Certainly not going to stop me being there every other week cheering on the team!