SuperMikey

Good point well made, I especially agree with "color:rgb(0, 0, 0);". Nobody's ever enlightened me like that before. Gutted I can't make it this saturday, i've got work from 4 til 10, so will have to listen to the first half on the radio and keep nipping out to get updates on my phone..

Think i'll probably end up going to Bestival instead, but I have to say the IOW line-up does look very good this year. Saw Bruce Springsteen at Glasto in 09 and he was incredible.

Hmm, a distinct lack of Cortese haters on this thread so far! I'm very excited about this work, we will have the set-up of Barca as well as being able to play like them soon as well!

If Butterfield's fit then he'll probably play at RB - if not we'll see Harding at RB before Cork is played there. Nige prefers him in midfield and Morgan + Deano is too deep in midfield.

Absolutely disgusting, what a stupid little sh!t that pre-pubescent knuckle-dragger is. Hope he gets arrested for that.

Bloody hell, scathing write-up of the game on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16921922 Never seen us called 'poor' so many times in a paragraph! Bet it was written by a WHU fan...

Deary me, they call us bitter but some of the comments on there are ridiculous... West Ham can f*ck off as far as i'm concerned, nasty little w4nker fans and only one song. Horrible hoofball and dirty players. They deserve promotion, but I hope we beat them to the title.

Blackpool will tear them apart - so much pace in their side. I think that's what we lacked today in effect, just that yard to penetrate their back 4 and also somebody to shore up the midfield - Cork too hotheaded and Schneiderlin giving away silly fouls. Sounds like Hammond did well when he came on.

He's a skate, so yes! I'm happy with a point, it's a game we could've easily lost and we played well. If Sharp hadn't missed that sitter it would be a different story...

I can feel a goal coming, it's all Saints at the moment!

As I said earlier on the thread, Guly brings out the best in Frazer's wing play as he drops inside and offers a deep option when Frazer overlaps. Given they've got somebody playing out of position at LB tonight, that's a tactic we will definitely be looking to employ! Interesting to see no De Ridder or Chaplow on the bench, f*cking 5 sub rule! Really needs to be reviewed before the end of the season - what is the point in only allowing 5 subs anyway!?

Granted. Remains to be seen whether those 3 will achieve that the WHU 3 have though...

They're still all world class players though, and would walk into pretty much any team in the world.

Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Rio Ferdinand... need any more? They've got an excellent academy but ours is pretty good too - albeit not being able to match their modern-day record of pumping out Premiership players like they have.

Oh dear, what have you done this time Jamie?

Oh. Who do they say will play there instead? They had some 17 year old that played LB for them earlier on in the season who did pretty well by all accounts. Punch has done well, but I think Guly has that technical aspect to his game which Punch doesn't quite have. Jason is much more of a wide player which inhibits Frazer's overlapping which is how we score a lot of goals. Guly drifts into the middle and plays behind the strikers when we attack which gives us that extra man in the box if Frazer has the ball out wide. Puncheon might start though because Guly does tend to disappear sometimes in away games...

The BBC Solent commentary team noted that we play our passing game better when Guly's on the right, and I must say that I agree with them. His link-up play is great and he drifts inside, allowing Frazer to overlap down the right. That's a tactic we'll be looking to employ given their LB is f*cking appalling (George McCartney)...

F*ck sake, some of our fans are thick.

Oh, and this is the team that we should play. Unchanged from a cracking performance on Saturday. ------------------DAVIS------------------ FRAZER-----FONTE-----HOOIVELD-----FOX GULY-----MORGAN------CORK-----LALLANA ----------LAMBERT-----SHARP------------ Subs: Martin, Hammond, Chaplow, De Ridder, Lee No Bart on the bench again because this is a game in which we need to be offensive.

You've definitely got a stronger squad (much more experience at the top level) but Big Sam isn't bringing out the best in them, whereas Nige is getting the best out of a team of players one might not necessarily placed in the automatic promotion places at the start of the season. I'm looking forward to the game, you've been better on the road and we've not been great away, but we'll go out and try and grab a goal before 20 minutes. We've not yet lost a game this season where we've taken the lead... Will be very interesting to see who comes out on top in this one!

I was thinking that too. Steve Bruce will probably be first choice given he's got more Premiership management experience.

He's been brilliant for Wolves since he's been there. A lack of fresh ideas and investment in quality players has seen the team stagnate in the last 2 or 3 years, but I think he can be pretty proud of what he did at that club. He'll probably wait til Trappatoni retires after the Euros this summer and nab the Ireland job back i'd say.

But why would we pay more than his release clause? It doesn't make sense. Two clubs have bids for the same amount accepted but one offers more than the other to the player in terms of wages and wins. There's no point in us bidding £2.5m for him when £1.85m would be accepted anyway. That 750k extra will pay his wages for half a year.

I respect your point, but i'm not sure there's been thousands of years of persecution, slavery, lynching and execution with fat people that there has been with black people... it's not quite in the same ball park. With football there's a thin line between 'banter' and 'abuse'. Going back to the thing about stereotypes earlier, I would say that the comments aimed at Brighton fans play more on the stereotype of a Brightonian rather than it being actual homophobic abuse. If 2 Brighton fans had been holding hands, I wouldn't abuse them for it, but because the stereotype of that exists within the folklore of Brighton, that's what people choose to pick up on when trying to start a bit of banter. Similarly, I imagine the skates will be called "fish f*ckers" or similar at some point during their visit to SMS in April, but I doubt any of them will be standing there with a fish attached to their helmet (although i'm willing to be proved wrong). Obviously some people take this kind of thing too far, but on the whole there's not too much of a problem with it.

With Rickie's career starting off in midfield, it's allowed his creative game to develop with us under Nigel instead of just being the target man he was under Pardew. He drops off into space, links up with the midfield and can play pinpoint passes in the final third which is an invaluable attribute to have in your game. Like corsacar saint said, if Holt can score 11 goals in the Prem and if Rickie continues his form into the Prem (should we be promoted) I can see him ending up on at least 15/16. He's an absolutely indispensable member of our team and I hope he's with us for much longer! What amazing vision to get him for £1m when stupid prices are paid for much worse strikers... phenomenal.