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Would have been a more attractive option for a manager as well if he had the January window to address the squad issues as he saw fit rather than be lumbered with the squad for the remainder of the season.

You'd like to think they might look at the performance, and in particular the desire among the players, and how motivated they were. But they probably won't.

We seldom have a plan A.

Bet the woman who wrote to the Echo missed a bumper sized treat today on the swearometer. And just for the record: Les Reed is a **** Pelligrino is a **** Ross Wilson is a trainee **** The team - predominantly a bunch of useless ****s. VD, Lallana et al,it goes without saying, are also...

Us without a doubt if we keep Pellegrino, and even if we sack the f^cker we've left ourselves a mountain to climb. Nice one Les.

Isn't that more to do with hankering after 'student life' than the games themselves? I wish I could roll back the years ( going back to the early 80's now) for uni days, but that's not making a choice between which game I prefer. As to original question,its been the round ball game for me most of my life, although I did play and enjoy rugby at school for a few years and then at university, although that was more about working up a thirst than playing to any great standard. I went to watch Gloucester a few times on moving over this way, and enjoyed it (late 80's/early 90's) as it was different from football in that era, especially on the terraces and in the bars. More recent visit to Kingsholm and found it a pale imitation of what football has become, corporate and sanitised. I might watch some of the 6 Nations, and England internationals, but in truth it's largely Saints or not bother now (including the national football team in that indifference as well).

We do have some delicate and precious little flowers in our support don't we?

Does seem to be our problem and a recurrent theme.

Because Dithering Les left it until the last day or so of the transfer window, and no time to go on to Plan B, or C as it might have been.

Got ours this morning but disappointed the club didn't take the whole end.

VD without a doubt. Both Lallana & Lovren behaved like a pair of c^nts, but at least they threw their toys out of the pram after the season ended whereas VD had his sulk in time to disrupt pre-season and after he had been reintegrated simply went through the motions.

... and then spend two months deliberating, before appointing an uninspired choice who of course was our number one target all along.

Just looking at the plan I wonder if A3 & A6 might be taken up. V1 & V2 are presumably the gap between supporters, and WBA giving home tickets to D1-D6.

Looked a playground squabble after some younger kid nicked his bag of sweets.

And Kevin Keegan if players are included.

I think Barcelona is probably his dream job.

So what goes wrong in the next phase of recruitment then ?

Hoarding

It also seems that some clubs yet again want to further diminish the FA Cup to a side show. Perhaps it is to some already, but I don't like the idea of scrapping replays in a particular round to ease the fixture congestion.

If the ref deemed it a penalty then should'nt the Gk have been booked at least, or sent off as he appeared the last man between Kane and goal ?

I don't disagree with you in principal, but I hope we steer clear of Silva (unless to the end of this season only as a desperate measure if things continue to go down the pan) as he has probably shown his true colours at Watford spending half his time there contemplating his next move to Everton.

The tactics and performance for the first half an hour didn't look a great deal different from some of the other MP offerings seved up, one paced ,directionless and lacking any threat.

What was the Carillo song in he concourse, pre -match , to Spandau Ballets 'Gold' ?

Think both Stephens and Hoedt would excel playing alongside a more experienced, and stronger CB, but together they lack both experience and strength. Both are beaten, intimidated by a stronger CF,added to which JS loses his man all too easy, and Hoedt often fails to stay on his feet.

Good awayday, and as it turned out excellent, andin the end a deserved, win. Lets not lose sight of the fact that the first 30 minutes were atrocious with plenty of misplaced passes. A better team than WBA would have surely been out of sight by this stage. Lemina was outstanding , goal was great to see from the away end, amazing what happens when someone is prepared to shoot and can keep it on target, something lacking for too long. McCarthy - good save from a free kick,something Forster would have still been thinking about by the time it hit the net.McCarthy also did the simple things that have been lacking from FF like coming off his line, and frequently collecting crosses. Support today - thought it pretty tame before the match in the concourse, seemed a deflated atmosphere, most probably expecting a loss. But inspired by Lemina's screamer it was quite good after. Disappointed to see an empty area on the highlights though. Substitutions - think taking Carillo off for Long added some pace but lost somrthing of the attacking threat. Long - lucky that headed opportunity didn't cost us. He really is a waste of space in front of goal. Thought WBA handled the Regis tribute well. Although I didn't see all of it, from the time we went to our seats it seemed sensible and proportionate. Several clubs would have overdone the "collective grief" and made it a public display of wallowing, but West Brom kept a better focus (even if Adrian Chiles gets on my tits most of the time). Regis wife also gave a dignified response at HT.