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This. I did ankle ligaments 2 years ago and kept getting odd pulls and strains that come and go. Physio tells me I'm compensating without realising it. I'm managing it with good sports injury massages, kinesiology tape and properly fitted running shoes which suit my gait.

A mate of mine got caught drinking from his own hip flask during the west game and had the same treatment. He phoned the head of security on the Monday after, explained that he didn't realise that he'd done wrong but acknowledged that he had, apologised for being a bell end, promised to be a good boy and got off with a warning. Personally I'd do exactly the same in your position.

I'd agree with that but swap JR for Gaston, play him In the hole and Guly up top.

Pretty much as above. Not much in Southampton at all. Anything good is in the surrounding areas. The pig is great but I'd go to winchester instead and try The Black Rat or the chesil rectory. Both are excellent but the black rat the better. Chanteclerc at cadnam is decent. Restaurant on one side and bistro on the other, but same food from the same kitchen. The bistro is much more relaxed and better value.

Easy choices: 1. Go and reapect their (outdated) law; or 2. Go and don't respect their law; or 3. Stay at home. The choices apply to fans and the scores of openly gay players.

I hadn't realised they're so bad. They could do a South Korea, 9 years is a long time.

You're right there is no choice, but you miss the point about advertising the fact. If a gay fella knows he'll be knicked for kissing his fella in the street he'd be pretty stupid to do that. Agree? The bottom line is that if any visitor feels unable to comply with the law of the land then they don't visit.

It's not a matter of hiding something but more about not advertising it, applying common sense and respecting the laws of the country being visited. The laws may be wrong but they are theirs laws and compliance shouldn't be an issue.

I doubt the police will go round asking blokes if they like a bit of cock or only eat kosher meat. Unless a fan advertises something that could lead to arrest he won't have an issue.

I agree.

So would a 4-3 defeat be better than 0-0? Personally I'd take a 0-0

That's actually a very good point. Playing devils advocate, we appear to all be up in arms because we think that the World Cup should revolve around our league calendar, don't we?

All fair points. For me I'm not convinced his positives outweigh the negatives and that over the course of the season that he'll help us improve as a team. I hope I'm wrong and time will tell. The Gaston point is interesting. Sunday was made for him to play in the hole and be the link between big VW and the forwards. The question is whether VW would have been able to supply him the ball. In reality his distribution is such that the manager may have preferred to keep Morgan in there knowing that he's better equipped to breakup play if/when VW gives it away. Maybe I'm being overly harsh but his limitations do affect the way we play and team selection.

But Del, Essien and even Mikel are destroyers but on evidence so far (inc his performances last season) VW isn't as good a footballer as those 2. Cork and Morgan are able to break up play but are also great footballers. Time won't give him the ability to pass better, but he may adjust to the pace and release the ball sooner. You're right on the price though. To my money he's never a 12m player, but for that price I think we should be entitled to a better footballer than we bought and I'm staggered that we spent that money on a player who has weakened us a football team.

He's not a great footballer. His distribution is poor and he's sliw to release the ball. Further, he' not proven to be a better ball winner than Morgan and Cork. Having seen him last season I questioned his signing and said that he'd do nothing to assist our footballing style. Long term i hope I'm proved wrong but so far its another 12m badly spent.

Agree with that, he was the main problem yesterday and his giving the ball away led to their first chance. I said in the signing thread that his distribution was poor and sadly it hasn't improved. Also I don't see any sign of a partnership between him and Morgan.

That's the key thing. Yesterday we were pedestrian with the ball. Too many times we just dallied on the ball or were sloppy with it. The 2 in the middle don't look a happy pairing.

I saw it as 4231. Osvaldo was usually ahead of the other 3 so not a strict 4. Anyways, whether its a line of 4 or a 3+1 its hard to disagree with the op.

Why? It's not going to alter what I've been told about our vision coach called Fran is it.

Good plan. NC truly is a genius.

That's Aaron Martin territory and less than the likes of Barnard. I doubt that we kept him from Chelsea and Man Utd for £9k pw.

No idea, I haven't read her LinkedIn. Last season we recruited a girl called Fran to work as a vision coach. She worked and continues to work with other clubs and in other sports. She is very highly rated. Personally I was impressed by the story that ronaldo was assisted to be able to follow the flight of a ball in total darkness and score a header. That suggested that his awareness had been improved somewhat. Whether that or anything else is on her LinkedIn in I don't know or don't care. I answered the question about who she is. Unless we've appointed 2 different girls called Fran to do the same job I'm confident I'm talking about the right person.

Indeed. In all seriousness though its a weird type of coaching but if you can improve the awareness of players its gonna help.

He didn't. Your point?

I don't think anyone has. What they're saying is that Glasgow's statement that his pre-season goals make him our most prolific scorer ever is a bit stupid.