S-Clarke

few media outlets reporting that he could be out for up to nine months. Nasty.

Well, they looked quite toothless in the 2nd half I felt. They seem to be picking up a few knocks and niggles, not a bad time to face them all being said.

Well, I'll have him back then. Cheers

For some reason, this troll is allowed to continue on here.

He's a horrible, horrible person. Can't you just ban him?

It's horrendous, reminds me of the injuries Eduardo suffered for Arsenal. It was so clear, it was one of those horrible ''sick in the stomach' moments. Such a good player, was coming good this year, but this is a hammer blow for him. This is going to be 12 months +, I just can't see how it won't be based on the pictures. That was bad.

He might as well just retire, to be honest.

It truly was a great few years, I loved those seasons in the lower leagues. It was a laugh!

Yeah, somehow I don't think that'll happen. Just a hunch.

It's not like Pluto to be wrong. blimey.

There is one comment that I often see on here which does my head in. ''We could have done with Gaston on the bench to allow us to break the team down''. Please, tell me, someone, when has he ever come off the bench to help us break teams down over a consistent period of time? He has gone from Southampton, he has failed. A disastrous signing of the Osvaldo mold (although not quite as bad). Way too much of a loss for a club of our size to be making. He's made of glass, he's not suited to the physical style of this league and is never involved enough to make any long-lasting impressions on games. Really, people need to just give up on the 'hope' now. He will not come good at this level, ever.

We weren't.

Too early to come up with complete conclusions on him, as WBA didn't really threaten enough and he'll get much bigger tests (although we have been saying that for 2 years...), but in the times he was called into action and the way he handled the ball was pretty epic. He reminded me of Rio Ferdinand in his prime, that sort of ball playing centre back who is perfect for us. Looks technically so good.

Don't see why, he's better than anything else they have in CM. More Van Gal tactical genius I imagine. As much of a myth as 'Brendan 'tactical revolutionary' Rogers

Lallana is always injured it seems.

Or Stoke, what with all of their mega signings that we should have had here - apparently.

He's not a defensive midfielder, he's just a pace-setting central midfield player - just like JWP really, neither - IMO - are going to be too much of a threat in an AMC role. Wouldn't mind seeing Jay and Tadic either side of Mane just in behind Pelle, with Clasie spraying the passes from CM and Victor shielding.

The highlight was prob the red arrows display I was treated to at half time.

I'll be honest, I didn't have an issue today. Went on at about 2:30, got the TSN5 stream on via Kodi and it didn't stop once (better than it has been in the other weeks this season). Pretty happy with it today. May be something with the load balancing if some people are having issues and some aren't.

He wasn't really tested too much in a defensive sense, but looked very dominant in the jewels and picked up good positions to cover for players. But the positive about him is his ability on the ball, it was pretty immese. The commentators made the remark that he was the best passer on the pitch - and they're probably not far wrong!

We just don't move it quickly enough in the final third. There are plenty of goals in the attack though, it'll come.

To be honest, I thought we were clearly the better side. We were never in any danager and dictated the tempo through the middle. We played through the lines pretty well...until the final third! Frustrating in that sense, but if it's one of those days, then you just need to make sure you don't let it slip at the back. Positive has been our organisation, we're getting back to where we were last season. Very hard to break down, keeping teams at arms length, and you always have chance of nicking something. With Mane, Pelle, Long, Tadic to call on, we will score goals. As long as we're a little more quick once we get into the final third! Final note, Virgil looks like a bit of a Rolls Royce defender. Very, very, very composed on the ball and allowed us to build from the back a hell of a lot more successfully than we have been doing this season. Probably a better point for us than WBA. Not really too upset by the result, there were positives.

I'm watching via Kodi right now (sportsmania plugin) and it's fine. Tsn5. Could be because everyone is hitting it at the same time? I did go on a little earlier tbh.

He would have been if he didn't get that infection tbf. Everything was right on course, but that infection he had added another 6 months.

It was a rubbish game to watch tbh, but 8 wins out of 8 can't be shrugged at. I still think we'll probably come up short tactically against the bigger nations, as we play too ridged for me, but...we've beaten what's in front of us, which has been a pathetically easy group tbf.