Le Timmier

*standing ovation*

The OP is clearly talking about the "Lampard role" and as such is only using the name Lampard to make it obvious the type of role in the team to which he is referring. He has made it clear he is not comparing JRod with Lampard in terms of quality. There was no reason whatsoever to shoot the OP down

I really hope this is true!

What can I say? They just happened to be the two highest bidders!

Best laid plans of mice and men mate. This may have been the aim in a perfect world. I wanted to spend yesterday evening naked in a hot tub with Scarlett Johansson and Olivia Wilde, but it looks as though that might have to wait until next week

Sunderland have 5 games to our 3 too, so maybe it is linked in some part to both them & Palace them having managers who are prone to wacky antics. Sunderland were awful to watch for much of last season!

Slow day in work so I've just totted up the number of televised games for each club. We really don't float broadcasters boats much: Chelsea 10 Liverpool 9 Man City 9 Man U 9 Arsenal 8 Spurs 8 Newcastle 7 Palace 5 Everton 5 Sunderland 5 Villa 4 Fulham 4 Norwich 4 Swansea 4 Wet Spam 4 Cardiff 3 Hull 3 SAINTS 3 Stoke 3 West Brom 3 Not necessarily a bad thing given our televised record!

Bobby Moore

Wow. Really?

Feels like a defeat. We keep dominating games but coming away with less than the performance deserves. Trying to keep the faith that it will click into place. Reading form worrying. Thanks god for late Everton equaliser.

Played regularly in a team that finished 8th and reached the cup final so I think 'very poor' is going a bit far

Have you been smoking something?

For me it's still really about this. Pochettino might well do an absolutely amazing job. However if he does and we finish top 10 or better next season will he leave if a big name side were to come knocking? I just feel that we would have eventually gone places under NA and that when we did, he'd have stayed loyal (like Moyes has to Everton). All speculation and 'what ifs' though. Time to turn the page.

Quite like Mo-po

It is

Nice comments about NA from Moyes.

A new thread on this?

Merson is only employed on that show to give brainless, illiterate louts somebody to relate to. The same sort of people who are convinced that Harry Redkanpp is some kindly, happy-go-lucky uncle figure.

Loving these threads. Belmadi was the footballing version of Penfold off Dangermouse

Bravo

Absolutely. The only way to have got anything from this game was to play all our best attackers. Nigel should have gone for a 1-0-0-10 formation. That would almost definitely have worked.

Here's an idea. Why not try and not let it "really trouble you"? Instead you could try viewing it as the old "look where we were 3 years ago gambit" raising it's head after a run of 2 defeats in eleven games. It might even cheer you up. Nice post washsaint

And he isn't bitter at all?

"Saints to be awarded 3 points for every match, regardless of the result"

You Get What You Give by the New Radicals, always takes me back to the day we beat Everton to stay up in 99