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Well beaten in the 2nd half, you have to give credit to Jose who won that game tactically without a shadow of a doubt. He exploited our high line excellently in the 2nd half, with the agility and pace of Oscar and Willian - it worked a treat for them, and we had absolutely no answer. To be honest, it was a fair result. We weren't at the races, and when your big players have off days, then against Chelsea we don't stand a smidgen of a chance. It was all just a case of keeping the score down in that 2nd half. At least that ***** of a run fixture wise is over, now let's start consistently picking up some points again - and get Wanyama back in the side!

Still got a lot to prove! A long way from being a ready made replacement! Looks decent though in the few times I've seen him, excellent movement.

No ****.

It would be a little silly to sell him right now. What we need to do first is have a ready made replacement, who we know can come in and do a similar job for us. At the moment, we have nothing. Jay is decent, but a totally different player in that sense - he needs supply, and relies a lot on pace and beating a player etc. Osvaldo still has a hell of a lot to prove.....and that's it. If we bring in someone like Lukaku, then maybe...but until we have someone else of Lamberts ilk ready to come in, that's the reason why we can't sell him. £8m, £10m, £10m, whatever....that money would be nothing to us if we have no one of his ilk ready to come in straight away.

He's always been decent I think, but nothing special. He's probably top half championship at best, which is probably where he'll be next year.

TBF, statistically, there were very few differences in the contributions of Gaston and Puncheon last season. You could argue, that if Gaston hadn't been in and out of the side in the 2nd half of the season - he may have had better stats. And Puncheon needed to leave for personal reasons, he didn't really want to as he was finally settled here football wise, but family life came first for him. The club reluctantly agreed. He's also had a bit of a nightmare season for Palace, his best performance came last week. Palace fans have actually been asking to get shot in the January window..

the traffic setup would need to be reshaped entirely. Getting in and out of Eastleigh on a daily basis is an utter slog, throw 32k+ people there, and you wouldn't be moving for hours based on the current roads etc.

It's a modern ground, the only time I remember having an issue with rain was during the Leicester game back in 06 and Palace in 05 i think. But if anything, the rain will now slow down to the normal begin light drizzle we're renown for down here!

I'm more worried about being blown into the Itchen on my way to the ground..!

No, where exactly would you play Revel...? We're more than covered in that area!

I think it's more for their youth academy to be fair, not sure why the BBC have picked it up as news worthy news for their site though.

It's OK. They've solved their striking problems. West Ham sign 18-year-old Peterborough striker Jaanai Gordon

There's been a bit going on behind the scenes, club see's at as an opportunity for him to play and he wants to play in WC year. Oddly, the club still see him as an asset and a player for the future. But in terms of this season, however good he was on Sunday, he will not be a regular for us this year. Makes sense for both parties I guess. Can't see us actually selling him yet though.

I think he's off on loan.

He wasn't exactly poor. He struggled a little, and was probably pretty average last year, but he wasn't poor. This year he's taken his game up a notch, and I'm convinced that it's down to him having a really solid pre-season and being injury free. I have a feeling he was playing through injury quite a lot over the last couple of seasons.

This was actually potentially a decent positive thread, before it was derailed by the tool of the year. When will the mods do anything? He's only posts to get reactions and wind people up. New posters are taken in by him, and it all gets a bit messy. I think we're hard to beat, I don't think anyone has had an easy game against us this year. We may have lost a couple, but I don't think Everton will be coming away saying that it was an easy game. We're well organised, disciplined and stick to our principles - win, lose or draw. It's that panic free approach which will see us return to winning ways very soon.

Ah yes, that's the one. Wasn't he lifelongsaint on here? Blimey, this is a bit of a blast back in time. I remember having a lot of PM exchanges with him, he was very ITK on the Paul Allen saga - which let's be honest, duped a fair few of us.

The best bit of all that, was the potential zoo and theme park. I was seriously looking forward to going to the petting zoo, before we entertained Barcelona at the megadome. HelpMeRhonda indeed.

Why people pay any attention to what ''laurel and hardy'' say is beyond me.

Don't jest.....it will probably happen in one section of the crowd!

2 games are never the same, and for 45 mins at their place we kept them at arms length pretty easily. This will be a totally different game, and I'd expect us to be on the front foot for a good % of the game. I reckon we'll get ourselves onto 30 points come the end of New Years day.

It's really not worth opening debate with him. He just makes it up as he goes along to get attention, with one of his many accounts.

Personally, I think we'll finish the season smack bang where we are right now. I think we'll be at the bottom of the ''Europe'' mini league, if you know what I mean. Great progression, and then next season we can try to work ourselves up that mini-league! Bit of an ask to overhaul the likes of Everton, Spurs and Newcastle this year though.

8 pages by 7pm IMO.

Realistic position. We were never a top 3 side. Where we are now is par the course of this side, so thankfully the spell we had has allowed us to retain our true position whilst giving us the opportunity to still have aims in the 2nd half.