S-Clarke

Our movement on and off the ball in the final third is too quick for QPR's back 4 at the moment.

We now need to grab QPR by the throats and just go for it. They'll be on the floor right now.

It really was, he's produced some real quality in this game.

qpr at the back are simply horrific.

Lambert!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful move again, but we left that back post short...no gambles.

But he's still kept that hideous rats tale! Looks awful.

Not sure what gazza is doing.

QPR are opening this up now.

Get the feeling we haven't made the most of that sloppy start from QPR.

Queens Park Rangers defender Fabio is available to play against Southampton on Saturday after overcoming a long-term hamstring injury. Park Ji-sung (knee) is unavailable, Bobby Zamora (hip) is a doubt, while Stephane Mbia is suspended, Kieron Dyer and Hogan Ephraim are available after overcoming their respective calf and hamstring problems, but Andrew Johnson (knee) is out.

I imagine this is just twitter waffle.

Just remember, 2 years ago Blackpool sat 7th with 28 points in December. They were relegated. I think they're a decent outfit, but nothing special. They just have nice combinations down the spine. Noble/Nolan and Diame compliment each other perfectly. But when they hit their batch of fixtures against the top sides, and go on a bad run of form, they'll slide down the league.

Why on earth would you encourage any team to ''come onto us'' with our defenders? Madness. We're not good enough to be able to deploy that tactic. We just need to keep the ball well, condense the play when they have it and close them down all over the pitch.

Our GK position is the weirdest thing about this year. We didn't really make up our minds in the summer regarding it, and we were probably a little too loyal to Kelvin.

I'd change very little from the Swansea game. Alot is being made out about Swansea missing loads of players, but I can only really see Flores, Taylor and their GK as the missing trio. We handled Pablo pretty well, and he's a very quick and technical player. Our shape and defensive setup was perfect, and over 90 mins it's as consistent as we have been in that sense.

We need a new CB and a new LB, without question. That's probably being worked on as we speak. We could also do with an upgrade to Puncheon in the RW position, and a ''powerhouse'' type of midfielder. Someone who is strong enough to retain the ball when put under pressure. As good Morgan is technically, he's as light as a feather - same can be said for Davis, Cork and JWP. We don't really have a dominating type of CM. A lot of the success West Ham have enjoyed is down to the combination in midfield - a ball playing midfielder, and a strong, dominant powerful CM in Diame. Could do with loaning out JWP for 6 months to a NPC team, in order to open up the space in the squad.

Probably better off getting down to Comet and making the most of their clearance sales, not sure how old the TV is - but if you're talking 12 months or so, it's probably not worth fixing it economically wise.

on 72 mins, a 1-0, that ball should have been launched as far up field as possible. I'm all for playing football from the back, but there are just times in a game and games in a season where you just do what has to be done. Swansea weren't going to create anything as we nullified them in general play, which makes it even more frustrating as we gave them that goal. They didn't have to work.

That's pretty much as I see it. If you go back looking at the midfield, then you're looking too far into it. The mistake was the clearance, as straight forward and simple as that.

Doubt it. Will be a very nervous and tight game though. 1 goal will decide it IMO.

TBF, if you want something from the kiosks then you need to leave at around that time. Any later, you'll queue up for 20mins only to be told there's nothing left.

Got a hunch that the fate of either manager rests on this game, although QPR's is in a slightly more precarious position. I should see it as a positive that QPR haven't won yet, but that makes me bloody nervous if I'm honest. They're going to win at some point with the players they have. But at least we're going into it with QPR still in the same state, with the same manager. I don't rate him and neither do QPR fans. Glad we're not going to get the ''new manager bounce'' from this game that I felt was inevitable a few weeks ago.

Villa lead, not good at all.

You're right about Mayuka, still very much an unknown quantity whose reputation is growing due to not playing. Similar happened with Tadanari