benjii

I agree, apart from the bit about having more respect for Puel if he kicked-off publically. That would be unprofessional and I've got far less respect for people who can't deal with their grievances privately.

I wonder how much Taylor is paid? Utterly pointless signing, by the looks of it!

Will there be dildos? #bants #lads #football #fannybatter

Sources are telling me this one is close.

Ouch! Desperate stuff. 2/10 at best. "Itk" equivalent of sticking Caulker upfront for the last ten minutes.

"Ball or aerosol?" "No, it's for my arm pits."

I agree completely. But some people's wrong apportionment of criticism to Gardos needs correcting!

Sorry: me highlighting Stephens' errors proves your point that it was all Gardos' fault? Interesting.

Quite.

Goodness me, no. There is no point signing a striker who is not as good as the ones we already have.

That's bull****. First goal Stephens suddenly stepped up strangely, allowing the pass to go where he had just stood. Second goal, he let Welbeck go. Third goal he gave the ball away.

Stephens having a mare. At least Gardos seems OK.

Saw the Arsenal team and got enthused. Then saw our team......

I think there are two issues here: 1) what are the rules? 2) are the rules enforced at the turnstile? My response was in relation to item 1 only. The ST purchase rights are for the ST holder. That's really simple and is why I am surprised if the club was vague. In terms of their response it ought to be very black and white. In relation to number 2, however, I very much doubt that your daughter will have a problem getting in with your old man's ticket!

They shouldn't have been vague, it should have been a straightforward "no". Your dad's ST entitles him to purchase a ticket for himself, not for your daughter.

Fry, don't shoot the messenger! I'm as surprised as you that all known football matches decided in this way have been wrongly reported but that seems to the the case. I checked the rules. "Counted twice". 2-1 defeat tomorrow is a 3-2 win on aggregate. 5-4 defeat tomorrow is a 9-5 aggregate win!

3-2 win under the rules. Fact.

No, because we would only have one away goal to count twice. We would win 3-2, as described above.

The competition rules state that away goals are "counted twice", which in typical football governance fashion is a nicely ambiguous way of stating things. "Counting twice" could quite easily be taken to mean "counting double", however, seeing as "twice" and "double" are synonyms. http://cup.efl.com/competition/rules/#13 Rule 13.5. So, whilst it is a preposterous formulation of how to achieve the tie-break, I think by the letter of the law, if we were to lose 2-1 after extra time on Wednesday it would be legitimate to say we won 3-2 on aggregate due to our away goal being counted twice.

I imagine there would be plenty of interest so that seems unlikely.

Yeah, that sounds realistic. Maybe a cheeky bid for Cavanni or Aubemyang as well?

Don't agree with you re the first goal. That won't be given as offside nowadays. That was the correct decision under current interpretations. Schmeichel's first reaction at the time was to be despondent - he didn't get up and complain straight away. I also don't agree re Maya. Morgan and Huth dish out far worse than that every set piece - viz. the clear foul on Clasie before Morgan's goal against us last season and the blatant penalty Leicester got away with in virtually every match! - and Morgan didn't complain at all.

Gray reminded me of how I imagine Redmond was a few years ago (if you see what I mean). Loads of potential but needs to work on the mental side of the game. I can see why Ranieri hasn't started him much.