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Managing to stay upright would be a good start.

Thread title had me worried for a minute. Never been impressed with Chamakh for Arsenal and I don't know any Arsenal fans that rate him but I can see him doing better with West Ham.

The agent's touting for a better offer. Perhaps he's waiting for QPR to come in because the player would prefer to live in Shephards Bush.

Love the FA Cup, especially 3rd round. We should play a strong side to win it. 100%.

We're more Crewe than Manu. I'd settle for watching 50% academy graduates in a team which holds a PL place as there is a certain amount of pride in having players that have come up through the ranks. I won't give up on the dream of something better but there would have to be an exceptional set of circumstances and a major structural shift in football finance for that to become a reality.

Of the other 7 sides in the bottom 8 only Fulham and QPR have gained on us over games played yesterday and tonight. Not a bad set of results for Saints. Added to which, recent Saints performances suggest we are on the up. Certainly not "disastrous". And of course we've gained on Wigan, Reading , Sunderland and Newcastle.

Would they have risked it they'd scored and we'd lost?

Contrast this evening's performance to the 6 - 1 and we see the progress that's been made. It will be touch and go but we're good enough to stay up.

Saw him on the screen in the pub before the game but the sound was off. He looks like a tramp.

Is he one dimensional though Cam?

Big chips on their shoulders. What a bunch of pussies.

My immediate reaction on the day was keeper error but watching the other matches on the box I noticed errors by those other keepers. I put some of itndownntomthe wet conditions.

You are right it means outside the capital. It can also mean unsophisticated which could explain why you would rarely hear a massive club like say Manu described as provincial whereas you will hear it about the likes of Forest and Saints, two clubs similar in size but not of course in history, which makes their achievements all the more impressive and probably never to be repeated.

Shawcross and Cameron banned. Upson and Shotton likely to replace them. Weakens their defence a little.

Not yet.

It wasn't the best of matches so why highlight it?

Thought the midfield pair of Cork and Schneiderlin got a grip second half and we took the game to them. Pity about the final ball. Clearly miss Lallana. Must get Ramirez on the ball more. Play him in the hole.

Tatty Bye.

Your avatar. It's got a face like a sack of spanners.

Think we're capable of getting something from this one and will be looking for a reaction to the tepid performance of last Saturday. Not sure Kelvin should have been pointing out how few goals Berbatov has scored so far though.

I've seen almost all of our matches this season and I think Lambert is not being marked out of the game. His stats back this up.

You used the term one dimensional. "He is fast becoming a liability as we're too one dimensional and static in attack " The stats put lambert in the top 10 most creative players in the league alongside the likes of Cazorla, Mata, Gerrard. And he's scored 6 goals.

I remember mayuka beating the offside trap once in the first half but can't think of any others. I agree about not in the air. Would have preferred trying to move their defence around a bit more to create openings and guly might have been a better option therefore than mayuka who didnt link up well with lambert. For all the possession we created very little yesterday.

They defended well. I was impressed with Cuellar and Rose. Gardener was fairly comfortable as a stand in right back but we didn't test him.

The unexpected selections of mayuka and de ridder suggests maybe that Adkins thought we needed pace against sunderland but they sat so deep that there was rarely an opportunity to get in behind them.