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If Pardew, Cortese and - more to the point - Liebherr are as excited about him as the fans, a way will be found. That's the difference between us now and us a year ago.

It would have been nice to hear our lot singing "Goodnight Irene" to them.

Every game is lessons learned. Antonio is the right side starter, we're better on the front foot with width both sides, Connolly can play off Lambert and they won't have enough markers, we're best not playing in our own end, and ... Gobern ain't a left back. We've won from behind and we've won staying ahead. Everything is cool. And if AP is the guy I think he is, he'll hold his hands up and admit his error.

James is horrendous defensively. His man is cutting across him every time.

I think he was worried about a second yellow.

Abso-fricking-lutely. As soon as we kept it on the deck we started murdering them

If we pick Papa over Antonio again I'm going to soil myself.

They're going to be slinging it out to Williams every chance they get but we can't allow ourselves to be pulled out of shape.

That's how to reward AP's faith. He's gonna score a sh*tload for us.

We need to get the ball on the ground and play to our strengths.

Harding's going to have to be careful with Williams. Against a guy like him it's easy to get a second yellow.

They show the possession 55/45 to them. I don't see how they get that.

James, if you're going to take opposite-side corners and free kicks, GET 'EM OVER THE FIRST MAN FFS.

Reminds me of Shankly's invitation to the journalists when he signed Ron Yeats: "Come and have a walk around our new centre half"

I loved the track back - especially as James took the corner, I think.

The don't seem to have an answer to Antonio.

We're inching our way into control but we need to take the chances when they come along.

Is anyone up with ADTHE.net yet?

Yeah, but he's not even a named sub. EDIT: Oh, yes he is. He has too many frigging names.

Has he for sure been dropped? I mean, not even on the bench?

I like the cut of that starting line up. We are going to take a run at them - with plenty of width.

Sorry to say it CEC, because I'd normally refrain from comments like this, but your post comes across as a rather pompous put-down of people sharing their memories. Those reminiscences don't just "fall within the (strictly interpreted) remit of the OP". In my view they WERE the focus of the OP. Why else would he ask "Who has been a whipping boy and deserved it, and who was better than the fans thought?"?

That's where I've been going wrong. I'll stop shaving right away.

I seem to remember being at Plymouth when he scored an absolutely vital goal from the edge of the box in the promotion run-in. From what I remember, it bounced about ten times and trickled between the goalie's legs. In that joyous moment most of us realized why he didn't shoot much.

Did he and Summerbee hate eachother as much as it looked like they did?