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71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 79, 81. Until recently most successful ladies team ever.

He'll be off to his spiritual home as soon as Portsmuff come calling, contract or no contract. Still 5 years should ensure the Skates won't be calling until his contract expires so maybe OK.

According to Lawro's astute football brain Swansea are already suffering from having sold their best player and games keep coming thick and fast. Seems to have overlooked the fact that Bony has been at the AFCON with Ivory Coast, so Swansea would have been without him anyway. I really wonder what is the point of Lawro. At least in the old days he gave a home to a slug, nowadays nothing.

Schneiderlin and Sneijder in would be excellent.

The interesting thing for me is how this is going to affect our squad with regards to number of home grown players. We already have a small number and losing Cork, potentially Morgan and even possibly Clyne (not to mention Bertrand) means we could end up with a minimal number of home growns (excluding u21s). I have no problems signing players from Eredivisie or elsewehere, but when we ned to increase our squad size (if hypothetically we qualify for Europe) this is going to put a limit on our plans.

But the one from Germany (Elia) is really an Eredivisie product as well, so that really means 4 out of 9 (because Taider really doesn't count). Still signing from the Eredivisie is a terrible idea, we could have ended up with Bony or even Suarez if we had pursued this policy before.

20 year old midfielder with 9 assists and 10 goals. Hmm, JWP but with goals.

At least he'll have Dan Harding alongside of him, could have been worse at least its not a reunion with Danny Fox. Think that would have spelled the end of the football career of Jos.

Surely if you're drinking a can of UK Fosters you would be safe anyway, there's no rule about drinking **** is there?

Perhaps we should get Kenwyne Jones in

Surely first was a world cup winning rugby coach.

According to Ronald, he was taken off because he was having a nightmare and was not doing what he was supposed to do (paraphrased a bit but that was the jist of it). Not injury and not tactical, just plain having a bad game.

or even 20 year olds. [TABLE=class: infobox vcard, width: 22] [TR] [TH]Date of birth[/TH] [TD=colspan: 3]1 November 1994 (age 20)[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

As Whitey says, he was on the bench today. Boscombe made 8 changes, obviously prioritising on the League.

Has he missed any matches through injury this season? Forster's kicking is far far better than Boruc. Otherwise there is little to choose between the two, though I would say Boruc's shot-stopping last season was better.

Forster?

If he's a "massive Saints fan" he would not even consider going to Spurs.

That would be hard boiled rather than poached

Sounds more like a replacement for Uncle Les. Perhaps Les has been poached.

Player of the season for us in 2007/08. To be fair he didn't come through our youth ranks, which was the point of David's post.

I guess you did not see Mayuka getting injured in the ACON then. Even if he was any good (which he isn't) unlikely he will be back any time soon. Why do you think Gallagher is almost back, no sign of him in training videos/photos?

So it was. Well he's been poor since then-ish

He has been poor since that night in Serbia when the Albanian drone arrived, with only very occasional flashes of his previous form. I'm not convinced its just down to poor form.

Its not really a gamble, its protecting our investment. I can understand at the start of the season the belief was that JRod and Gallagher would be back by now, going forward with just Pelle and Long was not too big a risk, but now with Long injured as well as no imminent return for the other two, it is just plain daft to go into another 16 games when we have a good chance of qualifying for Europe without investment up front.

Check the Black Box. Do you really think that there is no-one lined up as a possible option? What would you do if Graz was injured as well? Its what our club philosophy is based on, why we were able to get players in last summer. Of course if the Black Box says "no" then maybe we are ****ged, because we will certainly be very lucky to achieve our goals unless we do something now that we have only one recognised senior striker fit to play.