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A lot of early goals predicted here!

It is a lovely print though. Taking a risk with the injury times though. They could go either way!

No goal, what the hell, I never win anything anyway!

That beats Verginis IMO

Better goal difference than Dortmund, AC Milan, Inter and Athletico Madrid too just to put some big names out there! We screwed Feyenoord and Twente over on that score too. :-)

Absolutely Bruce Hornsby- The Way it Is. My god that brought so many memories. Still one of my favourite tracks and reminds me of many a holiday in Hampshire and Dorset. Radio Solent is my one and only time of ringing up with a viewpoint. I think it was something to do with Carlton Palmer, but I froze on air, rambled on for a few seconds, and then just hung up. To this day I still hate making (and receiving) phone calls.

FFS Why can't ****ing City keep their ****ing hands to themselves etc etc FFS rant about nothing FFS

Although since then they've lost their first choice centre back partnership to injury...

No prices, just says on the website that Le Tiss, Beasant and Groves will cost you an additional fee. I'd go drinking with Matt but I don't like Malibu. :-)

Even Hodgson wouldn't be stupid enough to select Lovren at the moment. On second thoughts....

In that case, I'm going for 11.

Losing Benteke will help us a bit. Losing Vlaar would be massive for us. Still plenty of time til the game for cover though.

Oh, and Perry Groves.

Gordon Watson, Chris Perry and Dave Beasant are on there too, but weirdly Beasant will cost you extra.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25789059 'Twas a cup game.

5 points or more would push us over the 30 point mark, so that would be acceptable, but this team, especially defensively, is capable of so much more.

It's on the defectors thread. We've been having a great time mocking those less fortunate than ourselves. :-) (Schaudenfreude, while it lasts of course.)

Championship football for a player who played a lot in pre-season but now has Long and Mané ahead of him, on whichever side Tadic isn't Good move I say, ignoring the fact it's Leeds.

I don't know much but my grandfathers (RIP) both fought in WW2. My maternal grandfather was a something to do with artillery, and had CSR and was virtually deaf for the rest of his life. My paternal grandfather was captured but escaped in an ambulance. That's really the extent of what I know. Still, naturally, or I wouldn't be here, I was lucky both came out the war in one piece.

Koeman has achieved so much with us in such a short space of time, that we've quickly grown to love him as fans. Losing him even at this early stage would be a hammer blow to our ambitions, whether it be to win a trophy, get to Europe, top 4 etc etc, and one wonders, a la Pochettino, whether the talent would want to follow suit. That said I'm eerily confident he'll stay put, based on nothing but gut instinct. He's doing so well here, and at a club with ambition and, perhaps more importantly, money to spend, and as has been said, he's working with his brother which must make things go much more smoothly behind the scenes. The Dutch job is a bit of a poisoned chalice - they perhaps overachieved in the World Cup, and that will naturally put any Dutch national manager under pressure to achieve similar with a similar squad of players. I'd actually be more gutted to see Koeman go than I did Pochettino, but if it did happen, I now have faith in the powers that be to appoint a decent successor.

Id rather write it out in a stinging nettle and shove it up Rodgers' bum.

Villa could be in the bottom 3 by the time we play them. They'll be scrapping for their lives. Nobody wants to be in the zone, even at this early stage of the season.

No thanks. Reasons are on the other thread, but as someone said, it'd take us until summer to get him fit! JRod coming back don't forget, and Gallagher soon too.

Yes.

I think the media see us as some yappy little terrier dog that nips at the ankles of blokes, shortly before the blokes punt the little dog across the park. One thing we might have done is worried the "elite" with our form, and defensive strength, meaning they might be a little bit more nervous playing us than they might otherwise be. Not to mention City, United, Arsenal and even Everton are all under a little bit of pressure themselves. Beating City at the start of that tricky run, and the other "big" sides will be even more nervous. I look forward to it.