Crab Lungs

I sincerely hope we are not paying him that. I'd rather pay Stuart Taylor that wage.

Ahhhhhh, back in the day when midfielders could do four or five things as opposed to be a specialist in one.

JWP: "We must put this right" Yeah, we've started really well. Such fire in the belly.

You're not wrong, we've been crap. However, some of the specials on here seem to think a shot into row z x 20 and a cross into no one in the box translates as a gilt-edged chance so therefore we've been battering teams. At least the stats are finally proving one thing though... Forster doesn't save anything unless it unintentionally hits him

Not sure if he provides height - he's 5'11

Nope. Sadly, Seen enough now. I'd go balls out for Marco Silva and just as importantly, BACK HIM financially

Is it an interesting possibility though?

I don't think Nigel would go there.

He's generally not that great a shot stopper... his highlights reels mainly consist of him being hit by the ball cos he's so big and in the way (which, btw, is fine because he's keeping the ball out of the net). However as goalkeeper and I'll reiterate this again... it has nothing to do with confidence and everything to do with how well protected he's been in recent seasons. He really isn't very good. McCarthy is the most reliable we've got in terms of ability.

Maybe after we get humped at Chelsea for their title winning party in April they'll tear up his contract and give him to us.

Totally mismanaged

If only. Wouldn't say no

Vvd Bertrand Rodriguez Long They'll be off

Christ, god knows why he'd want to join this sh1tstorm

I counted up 36. Not sure if that's enough.

Steep learning curve for Jack... lost Carroll and looked off the pace yesterday. We'll know a bit more about him by the end of he season and whether he can hack it or not. He's very much learning on the job.

People who keep quoting shots and crosses as 'chances' really, really don't understand football.

Yup, but you can bet your bottom dollar if he did return, Sir Leslie would be one of the first booted out the door

Yeah, I think you beat me to the punch about Silva and you've seen his teams first-hand; I only got intrigued a couple of seasons back when he joined Sporting then latterly Olympiakos but I've always been impressed with how his teams have played. Problem now is that's he gone mainstream by joining Hull so I'm worried he'll have plenty of suitors come the summer... which makes it a bit more difficult to get him here. That said, I believe he was interviewed in the summer, as was Garcia, Pellegrini, Giggs among others. And we ended up with Claude Puel. FFS

Marco Silva Roger Schmidt Pal Dardai Gary Rowett Eddie Howe

Our run-in is harder than Swansea's, Leicester and Hull's. Worrying

He is, I agree but Forster came with those frailties to begin with - you just didn't see them as he was so well protected.

Reed would probably appoint Eric Black interim manager and dawdle before landing Roy Hodgson whilst explaining "everything is under control" and we are currently interviewing some "top-class candidates thoroughly and professionally to see if they fit our long-term strategy".

Are you pretending to be an outsider of the club now, not an insider? Lolz

Potentially the most exciting season in years and it's come to this. Lolz.