VectisSaint

Actually from the evidence I have seen this season they have changed their style quite a bit, and are now playing some reasonably decent stuff on the floor. They still mix it up a bit when they feel like it though, which is a good thing, changing your tactics to suit, pity Woy did not do that on Friday, still trying to play pretty football around a parked bus.

Not when you can use your hands instead. Cheating b'stard.

As I said I don't really disagree with you, but you have to remember that until relatively recently Africa only had one or two entries in the World Cup, so there was no real motivation to have it less frequently, and in addition it used to be that the majority of the players played in their home countries. Its only a pain they have it every 2 years because it affects us Europeans. As I said I hate international football anyway, personally I would limit internationals to a 4 week period every summer and have done with it.

Why would we not play him? I think NA would play him if he was not injured, and given his latest injury was self-inflicted he has no-one to blame but himself. I think we will see him play quite frequently, in my opinion him and SRL up front is the best option, with Mayuka probably interchanging with Chung.

Every 2 years, is that too frequently (in my opinion it is because I hate international football)? Its happened twice in 2 years 2012 & 2013 because Blatter insisted it was changed to odd-numbered years to avoid World Cup years.

And don't forget they are missing Chung.

He is quick for a CB, I don't think pace is an issue for him. Don't see much wrong with him at all to be frank, just can't play at RB.

Zambia win 9-8, which is bad news for us, means Mayuka will be away: 19th January - 10th February 2013 in South Africa.

Now 7-7

Uganda currently 4-3 I think Now 4-4 after 5 each http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/636360-live-uganda-cranes-vs-zambia.html

Mayuka just scored penalty for Zambia in penalty shoot out against Uganda

Quote from BBC text commentary: "Daniel Fox has been the Scotland player dealt the hand of dealing with Gareth Bale for most of the night so far, and he actually is doing a pretty good job so far." Given that Scotland are 1-0 up Bale clearly hasn't taken anything to the cleaners today (except maybe his laundry), and he has been booked Quite amusing that England still only have 2 against the minnows of San Marino. I watched a complete knobhead on Sky earlier giving the odds for England winning anything up to 14-0, and 6-0 was very short odds. These people really have no idea about the dullness of international football where even a bunch of students and olive oil pressers can hold England to 0-0 for 35 minutes. I bet we would have more than 2 if SRL had been playing.

Interesting question, they are averaging nearly 47000 so far this season, actually higher than their home average for the past 2 seasons. I don't think anyone can beat Rangers with that particular stick, 47000 to watch 2 Sunday League standard teams is quite good really. Still, not much else to do in Glasgow I suppose :-)

In your case that is usually true Charmless. You are welcome to your opinion, but you just post things that are complete nonsense. And to brand Lallana's performance on Sunday as shocking really needs to be commented on. How can anyone with an ounce of sense really think his display was shocking. I read a lot of nonsense on here and post a lot of nonsense myself I'm sure, but really its like reading something a 2 year old would write sometimes, you really do wonder if some people actually watch the game or even follow football.

No you're not the only one, I think some people hear/sing the Lallana/Messi song and actually believe it, not realising it is meant to be humourous. Lallana had a decent game on Sunday, not his best but certainly not as bad as ome strange people seem to be suggesting.

No he wasn't. I can't believe anyone actually watched the game and comes away with the idea that Lallana was shocking. It is quite extraordinary. In fact he was actually pretty good (I watched the game live at SMS and then watched the full game again on Monday on Sky+). You do know which player Lallana is I assume, if you are not sure he wears 20 on his shirt. I might agree it was not his best game ever, but to say he was shocking is just unbelievable, he was partly responsible for their 2nd goal, thats all, he also supllied the corner that was converted for our first, he was the only creativity we had.

I guess it depends which Horton Heath, if it is the one in Dorset then it may explain the language difficulties.

If we'd kept both we would not have been able to bring in Boruc. We didn't ship people out to cut wages (imho) we had to make room in the squad and still leave us with an option or two to bring in an out of contract player - it is still a moot point whether we have one space left or not. In my view I would rather have kept Martin than Seaborne but Martin has not been any good at Palace so what do I know? We have 5 strikers at the moment, how would we have kept 6 happy?

Not in the bottom 3 of the PL Not having to play the Skates or Brighton or Boscombe or Swindon or Rochdale or Barnsley or ... [fill in the blanks] We have found a new home for Tommy 4Past Ramirez looks class SRL has proved any doubters wrong We play exciting football again We have replaced Kelvin and now have 2 keepers who can kick the ball inside the throw-in lines U18s top of their league U21s 3rd in a proper reserve league

except Wigan, the worst team we have played so far.

Says more about you than Miltonroader unfortunately, if you actually know that to be a fact. Some people really do post stuff they would seriously regret saying in the real world.

I guess he has a Korean name because he is of Korean descent :-) No need to feel bad about agreeing with me by the way.

Maybe because you wouldn't recognise a good player if he tweeted you directly. I've also seen all the games he played last season, don't recall him missing any sitters, recall him scoring a fantastic goal, and showing a lot of vision and ability and lots of of skill and invention. His runs off the ball are excellent. Of course he is only a Japanese international player so he must be average. He still has to show what he can do in the PL, but the short glimpses of him playing alongside RL make me believe that they will form an exciting partnership and is exactly what we needed on Sunday as he seems more than capable of holding the ball up well, which no-one apart for SRL seems able to do. He also has (or had) lightning pace, something we seriously lack elsewhere. On top of that seems like a genuinely charming bloke (unlike you) and apparently at least partly responsible for Yoshi joining us - but then you probably think he is average as well (as a RB he is actually far worse than average but as a CB he is top class).

Apparently in the US a dead leg is referred to as a "Charley Horse" - here is some scientific information about the condition and confirmation (on top of S-Clarke's below) that it can mean weeks on the sidelines. I see the physio room is now reporting 17th November for expected return. Clyne's injury was also a dead leg, but clearly not as serious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_horse http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/health_and_fitness/4284462.stm Chung is not listed as injured by the way, and it has been clear from SaintsPlayer that he has been training for the last week or more. And anyone who seriously believes that Chung was signed to improve our financials by selling stuff in the Far East has clearly not seen him play or is a complete dumbo, he is a very talented player and we are seriously missing him at the moment for his abiliaty to hold the ball up and his off-the ball running which would assist Lambo.

As an attacking force they were far far better than Wigan, but admit that is not saying very much. On a slightly different note having watched the match tonight (recorded on Sky) and after all the controversy about Suarez (and Bale) and their diving, Schwarzer should be awarded an Oscar for his dive which resulted in our 2nd goal being disallowed - no-one usually accuses keepers of diving but Tom Daly would have been proud of that effort.