S-Clarke

The brazlian fella sounds like he's dying!

What, losing? What we're doing so far this season is fine. We have our way of challenging the opposition, we don't attack teams with the verve and swagger of previous, but that's the price you pay for defensive stability. It does sometimes frustrate me at the speed of our attack, but you cannot really argue about the improved solidity and organisation of the team.

It's clear to see that we've sacrificed some of our attacking ''verve'' and ''swagger'' for more defensive stability, something which I agree with. In my opinion that's being interpreted incorrectly as people seem to think we're playing badly as we're not as potent going forward, but this is us now in my opinion. We're a very solid, well drilled team. We won't thrash teams and we'll get a fair few 1-0's over the course of the season.

Not sure why it's a worry, we're not exactly missing anything.

Not sure what you expect..? Best defensive record in the league, our best ever start to a PL season and sitting in the top 4 with 7 games gone. I'd say we've had to play pretty damn well to get there.

Enjoy it, take some screenshots of the table, as it sure as hell won't end anything like that! Top 10 is on, but not much more than that. Over the course of the season the clubs with the big squads will come to the fore. We're just not quite there as yet.

I think our defensive stats and our clean sheets record, kind of dismiss any doubt in his ability. He was brought in to offer defensive grit and stability in the midfield to shield the back 4. That's what he does, he does it very, very well. He's not a pretty player and never will be, but his impact on our side is unquestionable. Stop trying to look for amazing passes and an amazing touch, as he's not gifted in that sense. His game is not about the pretty side of the game.

He's a central midfield player. He can be deployed centrally, slightly to the right or slightly to the left. That's his position and I think he does his job well. People still have 4-4-2 stuck in their minds, and if he's on the left or right of midfield that must mean he's playing on the wing etc. It doesn't, none of our midfielders play on the wing. We're a very narrow team and he's one of our central midfield options, whether he's slightly left or right of Morgan for e.g and I think he's a terrific option at that. He has a huge future and hopefully at this club.

His movement and touch is better than any of our other strikers to be honest. He's not done too badly. He's probably had the same sort of impact as Soldado has had at Spurs, and he cost double the amount. Still way too early for him to look the real deal.

He's out of his depth to be honest. He played as well as he could, probably, but his positioning sense at this level just isn't there and never, ever, will be. He's not a top half PL player, he may do a kind of job for a lower PL team, but I don't think we'll be seeing much more of him if we want to progress.

How on earth did we win that 2-0?? For the first 35mins, we played really well, but then Swansea came into it and just dominated the rest of the game. We allowed them a little too much space at times in the 2nd half, which MP was also vocal about on the touch line. I thought for a team that played a European game on Thursday, they were very bright and fresh for most of the game. Defensively we were ok, not as assured as recent weeks though. It was more luck that got us the clean sheet to be honest, although Boruc will have no complaints about his display again. I thought Davis was excellent too, and in my eyes he's been MP's best player since he's been at the club. Box to box, full of energy and very good technically as well. He's a really good member of the squad and our central midfield options this season are stunning really. Also a special mention for Lallana who had a storming game, in fact he's had a brilliant season so far - our best attacking player so far in my eyes. Shouldn't be far away from England on this form. But 3 wins in a row, another clean sheet and we're riding high for the next 2 weeks in the league.

It's just sensationalized journalism, awful really. Just ignore it.

Pretty **** journalism, basically. As it's clear as day that he means he'd look to move back there towards the end of the career. Awful article. Sensationalized tosh.

We won't, so don't get hung up on that. We are now a solid outfit, which will provide us with a hell of a lot more success than attacking teams for 90mins.

This time last year we had 3 points with a GD of -8 pretty conclusive in terms of progress.

We're a completely different defensive outfit to what we were at the start of last year. We read the game well, we position ourselves well, players are always available for cover. We're an incredibly well drilled defensive unit and you can see the work in training coming out on the pitch. We might not be massively exciting to watch at times, but we'll probably get more success by focusing on having a solid game if we're honest.

I thought we were very professional today, whilst not being amazing. I think the most positive thing to come from today (apart from the 3 points obviously) are the 2 goals for our strikers, that will set them up nicely for the coming weeks. The longer a striker goes on without a goal, the more it plays on his mind and the more they try to do whilst deviating from their natural game, hopefully we'll see more free and confident performances from Rickie and Osvaldo here on here, let the goals flow.... Palace huffed and puffed, but are your typical relegation fodder team. We could have had more goals if we wanted as they were particularly poor at the start of the 2nd half and they completely crumbled in front of our eyes. Great points tally, great goal stats and a great position in the league table. We've put ourselves in a position to seriously kick on now.

I think he's obsessed with making a fool of himself, really quite odd.

90% of your posts over the last 2 months have been about how crap Wanyama is and how we need Cork back. Are you related to Cork or something?

The draw is on sky tonight, after the conclusion of the live game. And it's usually the last week of October.

Puncheon can't play

Ah, not the ''someone is due a thumping'' line. I lost count of how many times I heard that at the start of our championship relegation season. I think the script was mis-read though, as we were the ones getting the thumping's in the end! I don't think we'll give anyone a thumping this year, most likely lots of 2-1's and 1-0's.

Don't see the point in changing a thing, just because Gaston scored last night doesn't push him into the first team for me - as apart from that, he was his usual absolutely frustrating self. I think Morgan and Wanyama need time to bed in together and I think against Liverpool they had their best game as a partnership. Lambert and Osvaldo is worth persevering with, but if there was one to drop out it would be Lambert on current form. But there's no need to change anything at the moment (unless we have an injury). We look a real cohesive unit.

Based on Sunday, he should be biting our hands off.

Don't think it's in Holloways game to ever park the bus, they will come to attack us. Which is why they will be relegated.