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Amazing and we got those points playing Leeds, Barnsley, Ipswich, Millwall, Leicester, Forest and Birmingham - hardly mug teams & all of which (with the exception of Barnsley and poss Millwall) would have fancied their chances of top 6 at the start of the season. Deffo the best start we've had in my lifetime and fingers crossed we can keep the momentum going.

In this division - Leeds In the prem - Everton

The late John Batchelor. When he bought York City he changed their name to 'York City Soccer Club' in order to appeal to 'US markets'. He also altered their crest + first team kit. When York City went into administration (Batchelor made a tidy £300k profit), he tried to buy Mansfield Town and change their name to Harchester United (after the imaginary team in Sky's TV's 'Dream team'). Just to complete the hat trick he also tried to buy Accrington Stanley with the aim of renaming them 'Lancashire United'. He was also involved in bids for Chester City and Saints (for £12.5M) in Jul 2009 (lucky escape). Died in 2010 of liver problems caused by his alcoholism. Quite possibly the most clueless chairman around - and clearly one of the worst.

I've heard that Alex Chamberlain is quite good.......

If it is, as it does seem, a head injury then they won't know if he's in the clear for at least a couple of days due to internal brain swelling. At the moment he'll still be in the 'wait and see' phase of the injury. Hope he turns out OK.

Not sure why so many have a downer on him, anyone who has played for the clubs he has must have a bit of quality about him. Looking forward to seeing what he can do for us.

Best of luck to the lad but he's gone, time to move on. Besides which, Arsenal aren't the only team that will get their ass royally kicked by Man Unt this season.

Exactly, I never disliked Harry, thought the ship was holed below the water when he came and when you read stuff like this you could understand why he probably felt demotivated. I've always maintained that the team Harry assembled in our 1st season in the champ was 1 good striker short of being top 2 and after asset stripping the 1st team what did L**e give him to spend?? Something like 90K on Fuller?? ............and all the time whilst Clifford\Woodward were on circa 500k per year. No wonder a top manager like Harry walked, L**e was running this club like a circus. I would have walked too. A pile of mad decisions + 2 relegations make him the worst chairman in our history by a country mile IMO, not even the slimey Askham managed to scale the heights of lunacy that he did.

I worked with his brother for a brief period a few years ago - he was a ref too.

Superb performance, 5 goals away to a team that has aspirations of at least a play off place is no mean feat. Looks like Lallana, Lambert and Cork put in huge performances. Special mention to MS with those last 2 assists. I've been critical of the lad but if he keeps that up and I'll gladly eat my words on here. Well done to all the supporters who made it up there and I hope there aren't too many nosebleeds after our first 3 wins.

Just dug up what I wrote last Sep before he came...... "I'll look forward to Adkins if he does finally turn up. He has a track record of getting out of this league with scant resources and comes across as a decent, intelligent and honorable guy. I really like the sound of him. To those of you who question whether he is prem material may I remind you that we are in league 1 and will never get to the prem if we don't get out of league 1. One step at at time please folks." Yup, still agree with that.

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Good to keep him on as he's young and still has potential to develop but definitely needs to show more ambition on the pitch. Currently behind Cork\Hammond\Chaplow.

Looking at that excellent goal he looks more like a winger than a left back. Maybe an alternative position for him? If we can get a quality CB + ST then I think I'll be upgrading my end of season prediction from 6-8th to top 4.

Hammond? Yes. Schneiderlin? No - least not until he gets out of his comfort zone, stops playing square balls in non threatening positions and makes much more effort to link up with the forwards. Can you imagine the reaction on here if MS had scored that goal yesterday? Geez, we'd have 'he's the greatest payer that ever lived' comments on here. LOL. For me Hammond\Cork\Chaplow are our best CMs, MS could be in that group but he's got to get braver first. Superb performance from Hammond BTW.

6th-8th so a 2.5 for me.

I'd actually be more inclined to go Cork (defensive) + Chaplow (attack) at home and Cork (defensive\attack) + Hammond (defensive) away.

So the deal is us getting a top class champ player in a position that we are actively looking at filling whilst getting rid of a talented yet temperamental misfit? I can see the Latvian filling in the Killer\Deano role whilst Fonte takes the Claus role. I'd bite their hands off. The only proviso is if we have someone even better lined up. Is the Tunisian PL standard?

Stop pointing your finger. You do realize that we are in one of the worst economic downturns in decades don't you? The UK is up to its eyeballs in debt, the Euro is seriously wobbling, the US may default (WTF???) and millions of people are having a really tough time out there. Shelling out £16 for what are essentially meaningless friendlies was probably a step too far for many. You can also throw in the school effect and people going off on their holidays with the kids. Besides which, 8k was actually very good IMO.

Looking at that video I'm already licking my lips at a strike force of De Riddler/Adam/Oxo on the wings and Rickie/Lee/Dave Connolly in the middle. The goals should flow this season.

I'd be happy with George Boyd (although he's more of a winger). However CB is a more pressing concern for me.

Agreed, looks like Sven wants to either promote them or bankrupt them. Totally mental. Much rather do it the way we are, bit by bit, adding value slowly but surely.

Outside chance of play offs, anywhere from 5th to 13th.

Yes, he's distinctly average and would be my 4th choice out of the 4 of them. That said he is young so he may yet develop into a decent player but to do that I'd would like to see him pick up the ball from defence, bring it up and distribute it into dangerous areas far more often than he does. Sorry but easy square passes in the middle of the park don't do it for me. Nothing against the lad, just saying what I see and I'd just like to add that I really hope Morgan does become the player a lot on here think he already is.

Thinking of the team that Rod played in, anyone remember this one? What a game that was.