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I believe not. misses Carling cup QF according to Sky commentator.

This pretty much sums it up. One injured goalkeeper that is class most of the time. One injured goalkeeper who isn't good enough. Leaves us with a fit 21 year old that in other circumstances wouldn't even be in the match day squad. I will say that at the time he played last season Davis was left out, Boruc wasn't fit and the two games he did play before being dropped were poor. Gazzaniga, thrown in at the deep end played in some decent results which at the time was an improvement and in the end gave us the points to stay in the league. When Boruc came back it took him a few games to lose his nervousness and show what good keeper he is. As far as I am concerned Gazzaniga needs to play games, just training and watching games from the stand isn't helping him especially now unexpectedly being thrown in. He needs to get out on loan to a decent team below the Premier. We need another top class keeper to compete with Boruc and Davis as back up. Until then Gazzaniga needs all the help he can get.

I think Davis is not up to this level, neither is Gazzaniga. The more experience he gets the better. Rumour is that Davis will be out until Jan. I wouldn't drop Gazzaniga for Davis.

Fair comment, the boy needs to get away on loan to a decent team with a good goalkeeping coach when this run is over and we need to bring in a top class keeper as competition for Artur Boruc.

And fans.

No, Gazzaniga is an inexperienced youngster. Davis is a very experienced shotstopper with too many weaknesses.

A touch of common sense at last.

Of course it was, so was the back pass, he got away with it. So was Lambert losing Williamson he didn't get away with it, so was Hooiveld's slice, they gave the goal away.

Gazzaniga didn't let us down. The mistake he made under pressure from an awkward ball from Lallana, apart from that he was alright, that mistake didn't even begin to compare with Artur Boruc's aberration v Arsenal. He is a young, inexperienced lad playing in the most unforgiving place on the football pitch and he's all we've got. Lambert lost Williamson, Hooiveld sliced his clearance for the goal. Caught out of goal twice but caught the header, made a save then Chambers cleared off the line. Slaughtering him isn't going to make him better. Davis probably had his best game to date, shame about the shot, a couple of inches to the right and it was in. A lung buster run to the right and a perfect pass to Rodriguez to score. In the end a good result at an in form team.

Conservative with a damn good MP but like a lot of others will likely vote UKIP in the European elections to give the government a nudge they won't like.

No thought for Spastics. Just demonstrates your ignorance. I don't 'feel' anything it's an opinion held by many but I suspect few if any on the liberal/labour left.

I have dual nationality. In England I'm English. As a long haul airline captain I wouldn't mind betting I had a damn sight more experience of successfully mixing with different races and creeds in their countries. It seems that the discrimination in this country is mostly against the native population. Immigrants need to integrate not be encouraged to live in ghettos which certainly don't encourage integration and even now are causing problems between immigrants of different nationalities. Pakistanis patrolling their streets in Sheffield against Roma immigrants. When was the last time an ethnic English man bombed a train or bus? Went to Syria to fight or worse Afghanistan against British troops. I would suggest the influx of immigrants in this country in the last ten years can in no way be compared to Norway. We are relatively unscathed around Hampshire but the people of eg. Boston or Peterborough might well have a different view.

At a time we needed to try and shore up a back four leaking goals. Now we play two there.

At a time we needed to try and shore up a back four leaking goals. Now we play two there.

The nationalism of this country has been diluted by the immigration policies and the growth of political correctness. One only has to see the crowds of residents especially Indian and Pakistanis supporting our opponents during test matches. Or Poles etc at football matches against their mother countries.

This country couldn't have gone to war in the late thirties and was pretty much as far as the air force and army concerned, run down with no political will to do anything. It was only a few far sighted individuals that conceived, lobbied and caused the ordering of advanced aircraft that were still in short supply in 1940. The same with the army. In 1940 we were still militarily weak but by the grace of radar, hurricanes and spitfires we fought off the Luftwaffe. The two years of rearmament allowed us to survive. Should we have committed to defending Poland then going to war? The politicians who committed us were bluffing as our services were in no state to back that commitment. It was the same complacent short term expediency that our military is suffering today.

Fonte in particular often dithers and is closed down then passes back to the keeper who, unless another open outlet is available then sends it long. In those circumstances I would prefer the keeper to aim for Lambert further up rather than the chip down the line often creating a 50/50 inside our half.

Because the best defensive headers are in the centre back positions.

From 21st Dec to 4th Jan the cup game will be 5 games in 14 days, I can't see past a full shadow side.

Lambert will always see the pass to put a better positioned player in which IMO result in more goals than Dani Osvaldo can score and often ignores better placed players to do his own thing. His last two goals were examples of both styles.

Pretty good summary of where they are. If Cork plays well and the results are good with the midfield playing well as a unit, Vic should wait for his chance to get back in. I will say that Cork is a much more secure midfielder than Davis whose game is mostly finding space receiving and passing with the odd longer attacking ball but doesn't close down tightly or tackle much (2 on Sat, 27th and 75th mins when most of the team tackled a lot). I think he has been unused as a sub at times when he really was a better option than Davis. When Wanyama comes back he should be clear of the booking problem which becomes 10 before suspension at the beginning of January.

I take it you didn't go to the match. Your man of the match Steven Davis made his first tackle on 27 minutes, and his second on 75 minutes hardly a man of the match. Whilst Cork, Chambers, JWP, Shaw, and the centre backs made tackle after tackle to shut Man City out. Davis was neat and tidy but not a patch on the outstanding Cork.

No Canada Saint has come from Edmonton Alberta.

Considering Lovren, dived in and missed for the first, gave the ball away leading to the second and was nowhere in sight for the third what were some people seeing. Nobody criticising him, why not? Or Clyne and Lallana giving the ball away for the first and the third. He had no chance with any of the goals. Anybody who thinks he could have come for the angled cross for the second with two defenders present and probably wouldn't have got there lacks an appreciation of problem for him. He would have been slaughtered. I am confident neither Boruc or Davis would have come for it either.

We Didn't! When Rodriguez got down the left to the bye line in the first half nobody made the run to get into the box for his cross. This happens far too often our forwards just don't make the runs on the off chance just stand still waiting for the pass back to continue trying to walk the ball into the net.