S-Clarke

I thought he was one of our best players at the back end of last season, one of the reasons we looked so strong. Why he was just discarded at the start of the season was bizzare. especially because Hoedt was included, who if anything, managed to get even worse over the course of the summer. The exclusion of Bedernak and Romeu are two of the mysteries Hughes may never be able to answer.

I think Rose is generally a woe be me type, looking for some attention and coverage. Look at how he acted when he wanted out of Spurs and a move to Utd. Refused to play, didn't train, spoke up like everything was bad for him. I'm not sure all Spurs fans have fully forgiven him to be honest. Racism is always going to be prevalent in eastern European countries, it's near on impossible to govern. At the end of the day the issues in this country, where he plays 90% of the time, have been wiped out in the main. He should just focus on earning his near fortune and get on with it in this country.

They think they're getting 9 points from 18, with their fixtures? Crazy land. They are gone bar a massive swing.

This is the key for me. Of all the work we did in the summer to reduce the squad, they are all coming back in the summer on exactly the same wages! Cedric, Hoedt, Bouful, Carrillo, Clasie. There is probably around 200-300k in wages per week on that bunch. Plus add in surples players already here like Fraser, Austin, maybe Long. So much wage we will have to shift before we can even move in on targets due to FFP.

I think they will, and in turn will pretty much relegate Cardiff. These last 6 points have made us pretty much safe I think. Still a bit squeeky bum, but it would take an almightly turn around to swing it now. Cardiff are gonners.

I thought we'd draw this. So this result was a surprise and a massive boost. To get 6 points from the last two games is massive and probably does it for us, I didn't see that happening when we lost to Cardiff at home! I think we only need 1 win from our remaining 6. Maybe 1 win and a draw at a push, but it's fine.

Forgot there were games tonight. Jeez, Fulham are the prime example of a bunch of individuals. At the start of the season they threw $$$$$ and everyone was going on about how impressive their £120m spending was, how they'll be up there, good to see ambiton. I wish we were fulham etc etc. But they broke what they had by doing that. And they didn't add quality to the most important area, which was attrocius at this level - their backline. If i'm honest, the bottom 3 is likley to now be the 3 in that order. I'll be very surprised if it's any different now.

They've lost an edge over recent weeks, sort of scraping results whilst not firing on all cylinders. Which unfortunately is the sign of a good team, still picking up the points whilst dropping their levels slightly. It doesn't mean much though as they will still have miles and miles too much for us, we can only really hold out hope for a tiny bit of luck on the night and see if we can get a point from that.

That's incredibly harsh on McCarthy. Forster is finished at any level, let's be honest. McCarthy still has plenty to offer and is a very good shot stopper, been a decent keeper for us. You cannot tarnish both with the same brush. One is finished, one still has a decent career ahead of him.

You're missing the point, it's not talking about games like Candy Crush or Coin Master on mobiles or tablets. We're talking proper RPG multiplayer games, maybe a bit of multiplayer Fifa on PS4/XBOX. These would be pretty much unplayable over 4G due to latency and jitter, so they'd need a stable internet connection - which is what he's blocking at their hotels. Nothing stopping them playing single player obviously, but that would be a bit boring!

An odd team to say the least. I would hope and fully expect Lemina will be on the bench. Would need his head seeing to if he drops JWP.

He's basically an incredibly limited football player, with two key attributes which have enabled him to build a career. Pace, and hard work. Now he’s aging and these attributes are slowly diminishing as well, you will eventually be left with a lower league standard footballer. He's never been a true goal scorer and never will be, he's incredibly frustrating to watch when he's your only outlet - but not so much when he's supporting others, like he was with Mane and Pelle etc. But yeah, he needs to be shipped off sharpish if we want a decent treat.

The only intention was that he was going to if it turns out he hadn't, which is why whatever the outcome it's very, very bad taste.

Of course, they'll be sticking up for it, just as they were lapping up all the tributes and flower laying outside the stadium when it occurred. At the end of the day they bought the player, he signed the contract, an absolute tragedy occurred which no one could have pre-empted. Given the money clubs earn in the PL compared to what Nantes get in the French league, Cardiff should settle out of decency and stop trying to look for ways out of an obligation. Sometimes things like this occur, but to have them lapping up the tributes and saying how it will galvanise their team spirit one min, to now saying that they don't want anything to do with the transfer is just so bad and makes me cringe. How they’ve acted around the Sala tragedy should have them relegated by default.

That's a real surprise, but if i'm honest I couldn't care less. Leaves him with us to train and practice, rather than being bogged down with national team ********. Of which there is always national team ********.

36/37 will be enough. We'll probably end up in the 40's though.

It's big, but christ what a boring, bland, unlived in property that is.

He's buying a bigger one with the huge signing on fee he's going to get from us.

I haven't had a chance to post on here yet, but christ what a second half that was yesterday. I felt we let Spurs control too much of the first half, we were passive in our approach and slow in our press - our attacking play was ponderous and didn't really cause them any issues. Not much else to say on the first half, but it could have been much worse. Saving grace was that it was just 1. Second half, we came out a different side - but we benefitted from Spurs drifting from the word go, complacency on their part, but we took advantage of that and put ourselves on the front foot as soon as the 2nd half started. The pace and directness of Long and Sims changed the approach of our attack and stretched their defenders, they didn't look as comfortable and were forced into making more harried clearances which meant they couldn't really get hold of the ball as they did in the first half. I wouldn't say we peppered them, but we controlled much more of the game and we opened them up so much more than we did in the first half - and it's the key element of getting down the side and I think that was a clear tactical instruction in the 2nd half – obviously aided by the introduction of a little more pace! Valery, 2 in 2? It was a lucky goal in the sense that it was a miss hit, but...if he had hit that clean, it would have been saved I'm sure. Total mess up by 3 spurs defenders, but not complaining. I thought...amazing, we've potentially rescued a point here. I then had a debate with the guy next to me....stick or twist? I wanted to see us go for it, I thought we had the head of the steam and we put them on the back foot - so we needed to use the remaining 10/15 mins to our advantage. We did. Our use of the ball on the break was so much better than I have seen for ages. I know Puel was apparently the master at counter attacking football, but the speed at which we do it under Ralph is what makes it work - and the free kick came from a really quick break from us. What a free kick by the way, I saw him put the ball down and I thought...this is your moment, it was pretty much perfect for him positionally...and he honestly couldn't have hit it any better, no goal keeper could have got to that - it was measured into the corner to exact millimetres. It's a real talent and I'm pleased we're finally seeing him fulfil his ability in that sense, but also his general play. He's more aggressive, more progressive and quicker with transitions. He seems more confident to look forward and play the pass forward. He's snappier to the tackle, stronger against midfielders and is generally influencing games in midfield against some decent opponents. So well played JWP, keep it up. Obviously he's a shoe in for England in a couple of weeks, I just hope he doesn't let that dampen his form! Overall, it was massive. Given the results of the teams around us (Newcastle, Cardiff, Brighton) a win turned into an absolutely critical result - otherwise we'd have been in deep ****! So, we've got a 3 week break, and we sit in 16th with Brighton away to come next. I would imagine we need something like 7/8 points from the available 24 on offer - that seems doable to me, given the fixtures we've got - compared to, say, Cardiff. I think we'll finish a few places away from 17th in the end, but it will still come down to the last couple of games.

There are a lot of fans who have been like this since we signed him. They felt vindicated when he had his awful run for us, they're too proud to now change up their opinion and realise that he’s actually a threat. He's no world beater, but he's our outlet and he's doing ok.

As I've always said, JWP is a tactical player. He is a dream player for someone like Poch or Ralph as you can build a team around him, you can trust them to put in a shift and they are tactically astute in themselves to not need much guidance through a game. Sure, he's never going to be quick or powerful, but he's good technically and tactically aware which means that managers like Ralph will always lean towards him.

Not expecting anything from the next two, so let's see what happens.

He looked good last night, but you have to appreciate that Fulham gave him the pitch to play in, so he was able to stand out and put in crosses at will!

We needed that win for sure, it was a game of poor quality to watch though! We certainly edged it because we pressed and harried Fulham at strategic points in the game - not all game. We were very fortunate in the fact that Fulham offered very little and were particularly ****e. I thought JWP had an extra bite to his game and won tackles I never imagined him winning a year or so ago, there was one instance in the first half where his tackle helped us break away and line Hojberjg up for a shot. The defence was particularly comfortable, dealt with Mitrovic well – but I could sense he was getting frustrated as he had no one really coming in to support him, so it was a lone man show at times and easy for our three to mop up around him. Wing backs were ok, Bertrand was better because of the space Fulham afforded down the left side – he was in tons of space and had the time to send over some delicious crosses at times. Not enough in the attacking sense from Valery though I felt, solid enough on one-ones with Babel but didn’t really offer threat on the right side – which meant we did seem a bit lopsided. I thought Redmond was busy but lacked a little bit of final product at key moments. He’s certainly miles better than he was last year though without question. Austin, whilst he was battling, was very short on quality. It’s frustrating watching him try and move around and come deep for the ball, he’s not the type to do that. Overall it was a fantastic win in a game of little quality. Still lots of work to do, but it seems to me that it’s just 1 position up for grabs now in the drop zone.

Absolute scum club. No other way around it. They're trying to get out of it. Tough ****. Tragic what happened, they milked it enough and tried to make it all about them, but now they want nothing to do with it.