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I, like others, have been concerned that he was somewhat lightweight. That said, L2 is pretty physical, so how did he look? Do you think he can develop to play at the top level?

Judging by how Hesketh seems to have adapted to League Two, I'd keep him and get rid of JWP.

Agree.

I had to log in to ask. What kind of idiot thinks the opinion of some muppet who writes for a newspaper is an 'official' and thus officially-binding *opinion* (try understanding the word) and which means that someone who e.g. at the match can't think otherwise? Answer: you (apparently). I think I'll have to even stop using this forum as a source of anything and stick with Hughes' 'objective' opinion e.g. PEH didn't blatently dive.

Some of us remember that year we came up with Reading and he played really well with them, so some of us (I think Crab Lungs is another) have rated him.

Seen loads. , Vancouver Whitecaps play indoors to a group of fans who passively enjoy not knowing much, the drone of "Come on Seattle" makes you want to pull your teeth out but at least they did call Stevie G a Wenger when he played like the immobile lump he was, and Bradley probably benefitted a great deal from Henri and Cahill playing in the same team and even though their legs had gone mentally they were 20 seconds or more ahead of their team-mates. The US players strike me as as physically adept as any reasonable professional but by and large the actual football 'talent' is still from elsewhere. The US players I've seen (I exclude Clint Dempsey because he actually is good) are functional and nothing more. They could be Burnley in disguise, but with even less talent. I would say that any half decent pro should be able to do ok over there if they work hard and have a bit of skill. It's that element that so many of them seem to lack.

Nope. Seen enough of Stephens and he didn't exactly boss it in League One, even. I'd get as much for him as we could. I'd keep the others though although I suspect that even though he has toughened up a bit Hesketh will be too lightweight for that league.

For someone with a history degree, I've highlighted the errors for you. Apart from that, having lived 100 yards from Dean Court I know full well that those who live in Bournemouth do tend to think of their 'districts' as separate entities and Boscombe as somewhere very different, particularly because of the influx of non-English and Scousers over the years as well as those terrible 'drug' things they have. Bournemouth was as different to Boscombe as it was to Poole, Christchurch and every other bit of it. Anyway, as they used to be called 'Boscombe' and some still refer to e.g. Arsenal as "Woolwich" it's entirely acceptable to refer to them in those terms. I think it's stupid, but that's just my opinion as I've always just thought of them as "Bournemouth" because that's how they were referred to when people outside of the area local to them spoke about them.

!!!!! Are you looking for us to concede double figures?

It's the plural: 'ideas', not the possessive. Yes, you got it right later which means you didn't proof read it. It's 'cack' , not 'crack'. FFS. Anyway, to answer your question I would agree with you about Hoedt; I think he thinks he's better than he is and is an average PL player at best. I'm not sure about Lemina. He is, I think, decent. I agree about Long. I think we'll get rid of the likes of Tadic, Redmond, etc. All of those who can't 'fight'. I can see PEH being taken out and Romeu put back in but I think we probably do need a midfield of PEH, OR, and Lemina because we have too many lightweights otherwise. He might well replace Cedric with Pied (who could do a job for us next season) and I think if he could he get rid of Stephens too cause he's recognised his ability to mark space rather than players. Actually, come to think of it he should try to keep the core solid: McCarthy, Yoshida, Romeu, Austin and start playing the youth while getting ready for next season.

Good? Bye?

There is a God! Shame the ****er was on holiday for the last 6 months...hope the board don't spend months doing 'due dilligence. How are the pledges?

He speaks the truth (or gives an opinion I agree with).

I think, from what I read on the Monaco forum, that is what most of them would say.

True. Which is why it should be contextualised; off you go MLG show your stats nerd (proper stats, not just quoting numbers and pretending to make an argument as modern 'maths' and so on now is considered) side and let's see how good he is. I'll raise you the fact that he hardly ever plays and that, like someone else said about him, what he looks like is someone who might score when the oppostion have forgotten about him and he has a gilt-edged chance i.e. SL but probably actually worse overall - how many chances for himself does he create? We all recognise the manager is averse to going beyond the first two thirds of the pitch so any 'forward play' for us with this clown is to pass it back to a defender from the edge of their area.

But fewer goals. Look at the Leicester site. Puel is working his magic. Same thing as this clown: we have the ball we ... no idea, no idea, no idea, got me a coaching badge, no idea, no idea, no idea. They at least win games (for now). A manager who looks to steal the crumbs from the table and survive must only think this league is like the others and that there are genuinely a few crap teams who get promoted and go back down and as long as you survive above them then that is success. He has failure bred into him. As for Tadic; would have got rid of him ages ago, will still have shot of him. He can go back to Holland and pretend he can play football in the boys' league over there at the snail's pace he likes to play at.

I think that whatever failings Reed had at Charlton are likely to stay with him forever and he is and was a busted flush: never good enough. I think that this is patently a very politicised 'club' or probably "entertainment experience vehicle as part of a package of selling" (something) so as long as it does that it's a 'success' and the accounts (and single digits) will show it. If relegation turns the thing back into a football club it might not be a bad thing. As for the clown: the only reason can be the conceit of thinking that the club is 'better than them' i.e. football clubs, that there is no need or desire to be 'seen like them' despite the fact that we have now obliterated the myth that had been pandered to while there was some limited on-field success i.e. something to build a platform of bull**** on and that continues as any form of measurement shows the clown to be a waste of space (in a results-orientated business) and who gives a vuck if the 'players are happy' if they perform as they do and the happiness results in their being relegated. In that case, bring back Koeman the Kvnt, make them ****ed off as Hell and get them to win games and play well. In short, the management team (and probably a few others) from top to bottom should be slung in the Solent as the tide goes out and drags them east where they belong.

Meaningless ****e and badly thought-out. Has Glasgow got your login?

Seem to recollect Guan mentioned it a few months ago. Lots of people wanted to give Pellegrino time because he was the right man for the job, Les Reed wasn't, etc.

Games remaining: Stoke Newcastle Swansea West Ham Arsenal Chelsea Leicester Bournemouth Everton Man City Of those so far we've beaten Everton and West Ham already. Of the rest we've drawn against Arsenal, Swansea, Bournemouth and Newcastle. Our form is likely to reflect both how we've done this season and how we overall do historically more than it will how **** the other teams are as we are as **** as pretty much anyone. So factoring that in we'll lose at Everton and West Ham as they're both capable of of turning it on and we don't tend to do too well there overall. We might scrape a draw out of one of them if they don't have their shooting boots on. We might draw against Arsenal if they have an off-day and they will have played Stoke before us but it's a Monday night game. I see us going on to lose that. We might still draw against Swansea Bournemouth and Newcastle but we are still liable to mess things up at the back and have no conviction overall in our forward play (unless we start to see more of Sims) so we might get 3 points from those 3. Stoke is hard to predict. Nullify Shaqiri and we'll draw or maybe win. Don't and we won't. I'll go for a draw. We don't do well at Leicester, Chelsea have enough to play badly and beat us and City's under 10s would probably beat us. Let's hope 4 or 5 teams lose all their games from here on in and we scrape through on goal difference. We aren't playing well enough and our defence is dodgy enough to make those close games losses and we need 12 points to be sure. Austin probably won't be back until after then and he's our biggest hope overall as teams know his scoring record and worry about it.

That seems quite plausible actually. The number of people I walked past who didn't seem to understand that more revs =/= more speed on slush and ice was worryingly high and I bet none of them had (possibly even heard of) snow tyres. That and everyone had to go out in their car because probably made it worse, etc, etc. People seem to no longer have an idea of what to do and can only carry on as thoughtlessly as they always have. Watching people filming the snow was irritating too: they were all old enough to have seen it many times before. I'm with the grandad on this one. I would think it's likely to be called off as access will be deemed 'unsafe'.

Good point. You've convinced me. He probably needs to build up his fitness a bit more too.

From what I've seen of Rose, he looks like a proper keeper and quite vocal but seems to let a lot of goals in. Can't see this game was on anywhere - was it?

If it's biased though, won't it fail the degree criteria?