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Interesting, who broke the Pinnacle story?

I know the basic level for one of our best players and that is nowhere near the excessive amounts quoted. They have a bonus scheme for results that pays out dependent on position. Below top two it drops off considerably. Therefore the overall wage would be very good but dependent on results and top two position. We have a lot of players and support staff and I can't see us breaking the structure for overpaid mercenaries on their way down. Our turnover, provided we reach the Premier, will leap up, so provided we don't go stupid, we will be in a terrific position financially.

Saints Reading Brighton, Blackburn Bolton Wigan. Too many NW and London clubs.

For me now a draw. If a team is to win I favour West Ham for the following reasons. If West Ham win they are three points behind us but we have a better goal difference but don't play us again. If Reading win they are two points behind us but could beat us in which case they would be above us by a point, but if they lose to WHU they would be five points back and the result against us wouldn't change our position.

Look at the crosses for Ron Davies' demolition of MU at Old Trafford. On You Tube.

Big Sam on SSN, we must win the next two games to have a season. Go Sam!!! Nothing like putting players under pressure, goes with our strikers can't score comment.

Eczema or skin complaint?

I believe in loyalty and am not an admirer of Kelvin Davis apart from being a magnificent reaction shot stopper, a good accurate dead ball kicker and courageous. If we are promoted and want to play out from the back then he is not the man for the job. Having said that I believe like Norwich and Swansea we should keep this team together and add talented competition to deepen and strengthen from within the English league. Not the Barton and Wright Phillips mercenaries of this world. Davis should have his chance to play but we must sign a very competent keeper who will have to fight for his place as all new players in the last two seasons have.

He should hardly be criticising a referee who ignored a GBH push inside the area on Lambert or didn't consult a linesman after SDR was felled by a follow through feet up assault which looked as deliberate as it gets. It could have been a penalty then 10 men.

A draw because WHU cannot win at home, another nail in the coffin and both Reading and WHU drop more points. It also means our result at Blackpool is at best an increased lead, no change, but only six games left or worst case a loss of one point.

Butterfield missed a trick yesterday, he had loads of possession and a very quick player in front of him, he should have just overloaded the full back by constantly putting the ball in behind him for DeRidder to blitz him. Most of the time DeRidder hardly had a pass gave him a running start. If we play DeRidder we have to put him in behind the defence, Butterfield ignoring him and turning inside or floating in a Lloyd James cross to the goalkeeper is a waste.

If he was given a few decent passes in front of him it would help. Lallana's crap pass behind him when he was right through summed it up. Feeding off scraps.

We are doing well averaging just 2 points per game for the season, with that as a bench mark unless the winning run of the last eight games, 22 points in eight or if you like 25 in 11 continues we should be ok, but it doesn't make sense to try and anticipate, it only builds pressure. Beat Doncaster then on to the next one is the sensible target. IMO just leave WHU and Reading to continue Their whining runs.

Jesus H Christ, a bloody debate about the best fans on earth. Fine, they are, obviously having an amazing influence on the performances of the quality over quantity players, where are they in the league? I think I'll stick with the quieter support of the best home record in the League with the cheaper option wages of a team top of the league.

I believe that it includes the purchase price of all SLH assets, redeeming the stadium mortgage from Aviva, paying off debts and an injection of working capital to be repaid not before 2015. There also was a mention of being converted to equity in due course.

Importantly 'Not Before 2015'.

As a matter of interest, I think this came out of the Star. McDermott is as cagey as Adkins about injury information. He is having a scan tomorrow and they are saying that they thought they had caught it in time and that it wasn't too bad. I won't believe he is out for 5 weeks until Reading let it be known officially.

Remind me! Where did they finish. He has been injured for six months.

West Ham have a unique problem because of the £37m owed to Sheffield Utd, the bulk of which they still have to pay next year, the transfer fees and wages plus other football debts they cannot go into administration and continue as a football club unless HMRC win the football creditors case.

That feeling was quoted regularly until we finally went up to division one in 1966. I was at Springhill School across from the Dell and still remember the disappointmen in the town. Maybe now people will understand why we have Sharp, Lee, Connolly, Barnard, Lambert and Guly.

This squad and manager are battle hardened and have been there before. One game at a time never mind the others. Points are going to be dropped by all the teams including us and provided we react positively it will be no big deal. Adkins is experienced at promotions and won't duck the challenge. We are on a good run of results and are capable of keeping it going. It's the anticipation and thinking of the consequences in advance that kills you. It's one tiny step at a time and control the controllables, Adkins will do that. I'm not so sure about the other teams.

The defeat figures without him are a bit misleading because Adkins selecting Hammond, Cork and Schneiderlin together in midfield was a major factor in doubling the goals against and only scoring about three goals in eight games. DeRidder was a major impact at half time v Hull, turned the game but then discarded. It does seem that he needs time after injury to get back to form.

One certain thing, a hand deflected the ball away and Hoiveldt's arm is nowhere in sight.

He was a NC signing.

Interestingly the player didn't react and the centre back looked at him and shrugged his shoulders in a sort of 'what did you do that for' way.