Sheaf Saint

Decent effort from Lambert but never likely to test the keeper.

I went to see Bill Bailey at Sheffield City Hall on tuesday. It qualifies as a gig because of his musical elements, including religious dubstep (or nunstep, as he called it) and a reggae version of the Downton Abbey theme tune. The bloke really is a musical and comedic genius.

It's simply because she is more famous than he is now, and there is a whole generation of people in this country who will recognise her but not have a clue who her dad is. Pandering to populism. A bit like when Richard Harris died and the Sun had the front page headline "Dumbledore is dead" as if Harry f***ing Potter was the only thing he had ever appeared in.

Seem to remember a cup game up at OT in the early 90s where we played really well and had a perfectly good Neil Shipperley goal disallowed before losing 2-1. Also, didn't we beat them on penalties up there once as well, around the same time?

This is something I have been noticing quite a lot this season as well. The quality of our long-range shooting (Lambert's FKs aside) is really, really poor. Ramirez seems to be the only one who is willing to have a go from distance, but I can't recall a single time when he has actually tested an opposition keeper with one of them; they are either really tame efforts straight at the keeper or they end up in row Z.

I cheekily stuck a tenner on at 100/1 a few weeks back as a safety net, using the logic that I never win bets and therefore we would stay up. I have to say, after today's results it's looking more likely I'm actually gonna be collecting a grand later this month. Every cloud and all that.

This. There was a moment in the second half today when the ball was played out to Lambert on the left wing, and had it been someone with pace who could run past the defence we would have had a great opportunity to break and get in behind them. For all his plus points, Lambert slows down our attacks far too much and allows defenders to get back and regain their shape before we get the chance to stretch them.

For the last half an hour today I didn't even realise he was on the pitch. I thought he had gone off for Puncheon. That's how anonymous he was.

Because it was all over the papers this morning that he had promised he wouldn't, that's why.

If he was a striker I would be inclined to agree with you. He's not, he's a RB - therefore it was not such a glaring miss when you take that into account.

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say I reckon it's time we dropped Lambert. He's been off the boil for quite a while now and when he doesn't play well, not only do we struggle to score, we struggle to create any decent chances at all.

Not really. It was a bouncing ball and he did well to hit it as sweetly as he did, but for a LB I wouldn't say it was a 'sitter'.

Absolutely inevitable from the moment the game kicked off. Good play from Saints, good possession - waste a couple of chances and then concede a goal like that from the only person it could possibly have been. Is anybody else slightly worried that for the last 3 games we haven't really looked capable of scoring?

Come on Saints - get a goal FFS!...

It f**king had to be that chimp-faced c*ck didn't it!

Punch on for AL

It's time to wheel out the big guns...

Full time at the Hawthorns. How the fook do Wigan manage this every year?

Is it nun time yet?

Come on Saints! Got to score while we are so dominant or it's for nothing!

Get in Baggies!

Ooooh. So close!

The game must be being shown live on some foreign channel somewhere, because there's loads of really good quality streams on Wiziwig today. http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=200595&part=sports

Just for a change, he's threatening to quit snooker... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/22377103 I love the guy and think he's a brilliant entertainer. But FFS Ronnie, either p*ss or get off the pot. You keep threatening to quit, so if you're going to then do it, otherwise just shut up. If I was another of the players listening to this I would probably find it pretty insulting.

Give me a little bit more time and I will come up with some more to offer up, but for right now I'll simply stick with the one album that completely blew me away upon listening and began the process of removing my musical blinkers: Portishead - Dummy. As a teenager I was single-mindedly all about the rave scene. I was a budding DJ and had an attitude that I would only listen to anything over 130 bpm with a pumping beat. The first time I came across Portishead was in the middle of a Radio 1 essential mix by Laurent Garnier in 1994 that I copied from a mate of mine. Right in amongst his trademark driving techno, he dropped Numb. At first I thought "What the hell? This isn't techno! What's he doing?" but as I listened and absorbed the eerie beauty of Beth Gibbons' voice, and the dark, menacing rumble of the production, I had a eureka moment. I checked the tracklisting in DJ mag and went out and bought the album, and before I had even finished listening to it, I knew that something had awoken inside me and I had taken my first steps on to a journey of musical discovery. This album to this day still gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it (after 19 years!) and it's one of those albums that demands you listen from beginning to end. I was fortunate enough to go and see them live when they reformed for their Third album in 2008, and it was one of the most incredible things I have ever witnessed. My GF and me both said afterwards we felt like we had been crying for the last two hours, it was such an emotional experience.