Lord Duckhunter

He's ****ing ditching all his principles pretty quickly . Republician that now will sing the dirge . White poppy pacifist that now wears a red one. Kissing The queens hand , bottling it over trident . Is this the " new politics" he's been going on about , because it looks pretty much like the old one to me .

There's no doubt Pelle is in the form of his life and really playing well this season , certainly better than i thought he could . Normally I'd be all for extending his contract. However, we need to be careful . Last thing we want is a big earner, who is older , just tipping over the hill, especially if Ron is on his bike. We could get lumbered if the new man doesn't fancy him . Hopefully les and co are onto a replacement and we will get maximum money by selling at exactly the right time .

Nonsense . They were **** poor defending set pieces . Giroud had 3 simple headers he should have buried. VvD and Jose would have defended better than that , poor defending cost them the game . I wouldn't swap Rose for RB and Walkers no better than Cedric .

Agreed . Shocking from the ref . Whether he touched Remy is ( or at least should be ) irrelevant . He had to take action to avoid being clattered . I expect Remy got some serious clog from the senior pros & coaching staff , as it was pretty simple to just allow the keeper to hit you and make sure it's a pen . You may get hurt , but you've got to take one for the team . They're down to 10 and it's 1-1 ( provided the pen goes in) . Personally , I'm not so sure it was a question of Remy " doing the right thing" more a case of jumping out the way to avoid injury . He should have let the keeper clean him out and then there's no chance the ref won't give it. There's nothing in the rules that says if you can avoid being fouled you must jump out of the way.

He looks like a bit of a steady Eddie to me . Never really makes a save that has you thinking " how did he get to that " but never really let's one in that should be saved . He saves ones he should save and lets in the ones that he shouldn't . On the whole I'm pretty positive about him , comfortable with his feet , experienced and seems to give the back 4 confidence . Would be happy for him to sign permanent as him and FF is a pretty decent one & two

Alan Johnson ex home sec , and no friend of Cameron's said that there is no doubt that Cameron will have had rock solid inteligence before making a statement like that . To put it in the Labour " good day to bury bad news" bag is nonsense.

Where was he today ? Injured , or not wanted/rated by Ron despite being short of attacking bench options . Perhaps one of his many supporters could enlighten me.

I think the story is that 40% of black managers got the sack on the same day . Why do you think that there are only a handful of black managers when there are so many black players?

By " most people watching " I assume you mean you, unless youve conducted some sort of poll. Howard Webb said technically it was a second yellow , but said the ref was " managing" the game and wanted to keep 11v11 & Graham Poll wrote in his article that it was a mistake and Lucas should have gone . I'll take those ex refs views over " most people watching". My point is that is not for refs to" manage " the game ,but to apply the rules. Its not for them to decide whether a game stays 11v11. Swearing at the ref is another example. If the rules are that it carries a red card punishment , then a red card should be shown. If it means games up up being spoilt because its 9 v 8 that's the players fault , not the ref. Refs are not applying the rules consistently , you'll never stamp out mistakes as they're only human, but they are not helping themselves .

The problem with referees isn't the lack of videos but of consistency . More and more they are being encouraged to " manage " the game , rather than follow the rules . Once they start " managing " the game , you end up with unfairness and inconsistent decisions . Lucas committed a yellow card offence against Chelsea which should have resulted in a sending off . Tough decision to make , which maybe changes the whole game, so clattenburg " manages " the game and keeps 11v11. Much easier for the same ref to send Palaces Gayle off for 2 yellows or for Sundays ref to send Victor off with minutes left . Funny how in the interests of keeping 11v11 the big clubs seem to be the ones benefitting .

A bit of Carly Simon , " Nobody does it better " would be good as well. They'd could all join in with " Baby, we're the best"

Don't quite know what happened there , at 2-0 they were gone , finished , yet we were so poor second half that we gave them a sniff . Just glad it was boscombe , because a half decent side would have punished us ( as Leicester did). . I thought Cedric was our best player second half, defended well .

I live and work amongst them . The "two team " ones are giving it large , but the two I know who have only , and do only support Boscombe , are bricking it. One of my oldest mates has followed them through thin & thin and I'm travelling up with him tomorrow , he's said he'll be happy with anything under 3-0 . He reckons they're shocking defensively

I would be OK if this " second booking " unwritten rule was applied across the board , but its not . ****enburg sent Dwight Gayle off for 2 bookable offenses , but lets Lucas off for his second one . I guess one plays for palace and one for a big club .

Are there many straight chicks in Brighton , it could be quite a good place to go pulling if there are . The more gay men there are surely there will be quite a lot of desperate hetro women . I guess the only problem maybe managing their expectations as most gay men I've met are pretty good looking and incredibly in tune with what women want. In fact , they'd be great bird magnets if they were into that sort of thing . If chicks are used to living in the Gay ghetto of Brighton , they may expect me to comment on their hair or spend time on myself getting ready .

Does Gaston get credit for the second goal, was it some sort of " assist" , I'm sure the Gastonettes can find it somehow. Perhaps the relief of seeing the genius leave the pitch , meant the villa players switched off and allowed Davis to find Tadic to set up Pelle. A bit like a batsmen seeing off the quicks and then getting out to the part time bowler after losing concentration . Personally , I'd rather Ron got the credit, wanting to put the game to bed he decided he'd had enough of Gaston mincing around and put some proper players on .

He gave it away playing simple passes, his through balls went straight to the keeper and he was too weak on a couple if occasions. One time in front of the Kingsland he completely missed controlled it , giving very simple possession back to them. He got nowhere near creating goal scoring opportunities. Although he did play a 8 yard pass to Yoshida , a pass that every single player on the park could play, but will no doubt go down in Gaston folklore as a perfectly weighted , inch perfect one that put the ball on a plate for Yoshida to tap home.

And don't forget , he hasn't had a full season , he's young and in a foreign country, he clearly has talent, he played well in the villa game , and he turned the game against Liverpool

Hopefully the Gastonettes will STFU now . He was average at best , and that's being kind to him. I just wish I had a £ for everytime he gave the ball away , cause that would've paid for a few noggins afterwards . Thankfully we've only got a few more months of him nicking a living off us .

Rubbish , he won a header that Liverpool defended poorly . Point me in the direction of one neutral or one report that claimed he " turned the game " . It's not like he did what Long did for Ireland or against Leicester last season . He won one poorly defended header for gods sake . It's becoming the bestest greatest header ever won in Saints history , the Gastinettes are wetting themselves over that header and then the famous Bestie like run ( that wasn't even shown on MoTD) . The only clever thing about him is the way he's managed to nick a 50k a week living .

So had Long and JRod been fit , he'd have been on the bench . Like he was when they were fit? . Clown

What's FFP got to do with it? What are you trying to say , if it wasn't for FFP he'd get more playing time ?

Nothing to be confused about , Ron clearly doesn't rate him . Thank god he's picking the team and not the history re -writing Gastonettes of the last dozen or so posts. **** me , you clowns will be bigging up Delgado next

Don't you think that most of the meat heads are just part of the herd . That on their own at work or socially they would just get on with it and not bat an eyelid . I'm not saying it's right and it is upsetting for the targets of their abuse , but football does tend to bring out the worst in people .

I suspect most team mates will have suspected anyway and the rest won't give a shiny shiete . We had a bloke at work who made a big fuss about coming out , and made a big announcement . He then got upset because most of us didn't care and the rest thought he batted for the other side anyway . It was the non event of the year , that then became an event because of his reaction to the fact that nobody thought it was a big deal .