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He was poor. How much have they actually played together at Tottenham?

"but the rest of the team are pretty strong". Is that fair comment?

The manager selected him because he sees him, or saw him, in the role he asks Welbeck to play. He probably won't pick him for Germany but I think he should. Bring him off the bench and give him 20 minutes in a freer role.

Did he say how?

They are trying to apply pressure in the hope that refs give them the benefit of the doubt in forthcoming matches. It's a vain hope. Peace isn't Ferguson. The Hawthorns isn't OT. The whinging doesn't reflect well on the club. They come across as losers. I had a close view of the decision at the Hawthorns. It was a penalty.

Flamini out is good. We close their @rses down as Dortmund did in his absence at Highbury. He didn't play the away leg either but Arsenal played more conservatively. Can't see them doing that against us. We have a chance here and must atone for last season's debacle.

Hull will come for a point and may get it. The crowd will have a big part to play today.

BT may go the way of all the others who have tried and failed to rival Sky.

I won't be going. Trains are £68 from Euston. Incidentally I think it's poor that the OS can't even be bothered to explain the change in it's notification. The match has been "pushed back with one other BPL fixture". http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/festive-everton-trip-pushed-back-1163328.aspx?

True, but equally our defence is reliant on our attack. If there's one player I thought was a shoe-in for the friendlies given his performances and the defciciencies of Johnson and Walker it's Cyne.

It is, but there's a danger you could win the battle and lose the war. There's a short term objective and a medium/long term aim to all this. It's a question of balance and judgement not black and white either/ or. We'd all love silverware, that's a given, but it seems the club has chosen to use the LC as a way of developing the squad and they're not the only ones to make that judgement. We have more invested in our academy than many others and potentially more to gain in the medium/long term. At the same time we want to finish higher in the league year on year. It seems a sensible approach to me much as I'd love to relive '76.

'Originally Posted by Olallana Tell me, how many great players were offering themselves to Wigan this summer? Originally Posted by Turkish So why did Ramirez and forren chose is over Liverpool? Please explain.' Maybe Liverpool chose not to sign them and maybe they were right.

That may be because we haven't in recent seasons played a PL side, one game away from the quarter finals. You can't prove a negative.

Delivery is very like Beckham. You can understand why the manager sometimes plays him on the right when he's probably better in the centre. Again similar to what happened with Beckham.

This season we're trying to get into Europe (I know the LC is a route to Europe...but there has to be more than one way to develop the youngsters and bring them through without compromising the first team and the manager needs to give the senior squad players game time).

Gus has made an immediate impact. Some classic Poyet time wasting in there. We've put out weaker sides in the LC for a while now and we've done nothing in the cups since the JPT. It's not Pochettino.

We've played weaker sides in this competition for a few seasons now.

As I read it, the article is telling us he got the sack because his chairman didn't have a viable plan.

They're different sizes. Palace, Fulham, Stoke, Tottenham have small pitches. Dembele was blaming the small pitch at WHL for their difficulty in breaking down sides that pack midfield.

Put the crayons back in the packet and tell us about Martin's head.

I think a journalist writes it from a conversation, probably over the phone, with Lawrenson.

Mourinho.

7 of our team are 25 or under. 6 of their's are 30 or older. Stats eh.

Agree, especially as many of them live south of the river and into Surrey. QPR, Palace of comparable size etc wouldn't have returned 1000 tickets.

Except that most of the footage in the analysis didn't appear in the highlights.