VectisSaint

The fact that it was LBJ would suggest that your American company president was not the sharpest tool in the box.

Sounds like it was you that was not there. Even with your personal hatred of Davis, to have such a poor view of what he did last night is very difficult to understand, and you may notice that you are in a minority of one (unless or until Verlaine comes along with his anti-Davis venom). You are quite right that Romeu and Clasie were excellent, especially Romeu, as were Targett, Cedric and Long. The back three were very good although the middle three and wing backs meant they really didn't have much to do, but VvD won everything in the air (but was very loose with some of his passes and got us into trouble a couple of times).

No lack of commitment, but woeful finishing after doing so much great work to get into goal scoring positions. I thought subbing him off was a bad move, with 20 to go he was probably eventually going to get a lucky break and it would have done the world of good for his confidence, then again Tadic comes on and scores.

Actually for several of the calls, no I was a lot closer than the officials and better placed and II also have good 3D vision. That was part of the problem, the referee did not keep up well with the play and the decisions for corners were on the wrong side of the pitch for the lineo to have any idea of what had happened. I know how hard it is being a ref or lineo, but the decision making of the officials last night was poor if I'm being generous, and it really can't be defended. They may be "able" to view the situation in high resolution, but it doesn't work if they have their eyes closed. I don't usually knock referees, but last night they were very poor with the throw-ins, corners and offsides. Very poor. But it didn't make any difference except that we probably would have scored more (no correct that we would have scored more because Steve Davis' goal was perfectly good).

Fact was whether it was the ref or the lineo they made a lot of mistakes, especially giving goal kicks instead of corners. The ref just guessed at least twice in the second half but both times got it completely wrong. Several of the offside calls were completely wrong as well. In the end it made no difference, but the standard of decision making by the officials has become very poor of late, not so much with the big decisions (penalties etc) but with basic stuff like deciding who touched the ball last before the ball goes over the touchline.

Don't tell Turkish, this sounds like his idea of heaven. A few foam hands and Santa hats thrown in would be perfect.

It was Karl Robinson, MK Dons Manager.

Mystic Meg

FFS, do you really want to hear people shouting for Heskey in our team. You really should get out more and try to develop a sense of humour man.

Level with us on points if they win tonight.

It might be funny if it was true, but it isn't. Koeman actually said that Martina is available for backup of CB and hinted this would be his preferred choice until Gardos is back (which should be soonish). I see Stephens is still training with the first team matchday squad though (though he had a mare last night).

I know, it was so stupid an idea, and based on all the talk that had come out with regard to Rangers wanting to sell. Be honest, you really didn't think it was serious either.

No-one (except perhaps for a couple of silly blighters who think football would be better in the Championship) actually want us to go down. But a good many can see that our current form and our inability to score makes it a realistic possibility. It would be a disaster if it happened. I still think it won't happen but we really need at least 4 points this week. My view: Villa, Sunderland and Swansea

Shocked that Liverpool have got him on loan, Rangers were reportedly only interested in a permanent deal. From Liverpool perspective he is only covering Lovren so the fact that he is crap is not really an issue for them. Hope he plays for them against us later in the season.

Yes, starts in 1 hour according to OS/YouTube. Don't expect anything useful in it though. Useful stuff is usually in the second part which is embargoed until 10pm (?). The live bit in an hour will probably concentrate on burning questions about Van Gaal.

So, as expected his loan has been terminated (was saying this was happening a fortnight ago), now we have a free loan spot for the rest of the season. On the down side we have one less homegrown player which might impact the number of players we can nominate in our PL squad for the second part of the season.

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Not sure why you are getting obsessed recently with "wasting" salary and loan fees. Nothing was wasted, it was a loan to provide cover for our centre backs because at the time we only had Fonte and Yoshida and because Gardos was out for a long time. He was never meant to be first choice. He came in on occasions as planned, and actually did very well at Man City when Fonte had to go off. He had a disaster against Liverpool, and really was awful, but its not a waste of salary or fee, its just normal operations to ensure that we have a suitable squad to meet our commitments. If things had gone well he would never have played a game. I agree that getting rid is now good news though, he clearly is never going to be good enough and we have gardos coming back soon and even Stephens who is no worse (despite his awful performance in the u21s last night).

They are if they think he is going there on a loan. The only way Caulker will leave is if Rangers can sell him. Its just made up nonsense. More plausible are the noises being made about him being sold to Palace or Boscombe.

No, it's been ****, with the odd exception here and there (Arsenal and perhaps Chelsea).

Don't think it was Gazza's fault at all. Bad defensive positioning right in front of him and it looked like it took a deflection of our defender, so it could go down as an own goal, but only seen one replay. WE should have scored 4 or 5 (at least) but end up losing to the team who are bottom of the league. We really are becoming a soft touch at every level.

The Southampton Way Better team but can't take our chances then give away soft goal. Took a deflection off of Jones.

Really wish they would stop calling him Heskey though...

Terrible challenge by Stephens.

Except that 4 of them started on Saturday in the FA Cup.