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I watched the 3-3 game last night, and he looked fine. Made a couple of cracking saves, and distributed the ball pretty well. He didn't have a chance with any of the goals really. He's probably not the player he was 2 or 3 years ago, but I think we have a good GK set up now - just what we needed as a PL team. Gazzaniga has the shirt on merit at the mo though, I think he's been a breath of fresh air in goal.

Grade 3 dead leg. You will be unable to walk properly without the aid of crutches. You will be in severe pain. You will have bad swelling appear immediately. A static contraction will be painful and might produce a bulge in the muscle. Expect to be out of competition for 3 to twelve weeks. What can the athlete do? Seek medical attention immediately. R.I.C.E. (Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate.) Use crutches. What can a Sports Injury Specialist or Doctor do? Use sports massage techniques to speed up recovery in the later stages. Do not massage in the acute painful stage or this may cause severe damage including Myositis Ossificans.. Use ultrasound and electrical stimulation. Prescribe a rehabilitation programme and monitor it. Operate if needed. Apparently he was operated on to relieve some of the pressure late last week.

Bit harsh isn't it? I think he's clearly full of ability, but the reality is that he's not available enough.

Great post. As you said, I think he's earned a fair bit of slack here. But he does need a bit more luck with injuries, otherwise his hands a seriously tied.

Damn you, you've probably put him out for another 6 months with that.

awesome, 3-3

oh dear me. same old story.

Even they've forgotten about Tadannari. Maybe it was all a dream, and we never actually signed him.

2-2 - good move

Very serious. He's a useless player. I really don't rate him, he does nothing.

2-1 sinclair. great cross

Great goal. Sinclair 1-1

Boruc looks very competent tbh. Our GK dept. suddenly looks excellent.

errr, no he shouldn't! he's no where near good enough. Which is why he's there.

Around £8m I think, and yeah - they've been well stitched up on that one. Looks such an awful player every time I've seen him, Man Utd fans have the same opinion.

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But that was with the likes of Frei, Berbatov, Petric etc. They were as weak in attack as they could be yesterday.

Great save from Boruc there to prevent it from going 2-0. We're playing pretty well though, lots of possession but it's kind of going to bits in the final third. Stephens is having a pretty dodgy game though.

What a disaster.

He's injured........6/7 weeks out.

Who?

Yeah, out for about 12 weeks +. Bad injury to his shoulder. Matt Taylor will come in and did a decent job though. They're a well drilled outfit, well suited to being a mid-table PL team. They're beatable, but we'll need our best players available and we'll need to learn how to defend high balls between now and the 20th.

We'd have little chance of doing anything without them in the side. Teams will still score against us even if we don't have those players in the midfield. So leaving those out puts us at a disadvantage straight away. I think we need to carry on playing on the front foot, if you start dropping the likes of Gaston or Lallana for away games then you're kind of accepting defeat.

Pretty much this. In comparison to other managers, NA has had a hell of a lot to spend over the last 3 years - and we've achieved success through it. Redknapp isn't a bad manager, but he's not the right sort of manager for us.

Dickson and Butterfield, seriously? They're not for this level, let's be honest. They would be torn a new one. Free agents is probably the only alternative change I would advocate at the moment, but if players are still free in October then they're generally not very good.