benjii

I thought Tadic was very decent against Palace and should be a shoe-in, frankly.

He's clearly better than Stephens will ever be and you've said Stephens is better than him in the air which, again, is clearly nonsense. Whatever you think of Yoshida, there's no reason to prefer Stephens.

As long as we can restrict the opposition to shots from within 6 yards and stop them shooting from outside the box we'll be fine.

This statement makes me wonder if you've watched either of them play?

A few selection dilemmas for this one and our first match against a good team. Will be interesting!

It's got to be front sweeper time, right? In fact, I'd play a double front sweeper. A 3/4 front sweeper and an advanced front sweeper. Virgil sweeping up in front of the back four and Longy sweeping up in front of the midfield. ****ing genius, me.

He's 24 and signed a five year deal so I expect we'll sell him when he's 27 for loads of money. Which is fine by me. Looked excellent yesterday and if he'd played against Watford last week I expect we would have had a different result. So frustrating that we didn't manage to sign one more player to compete with Redmond because the squad is actually looking very strong with Hoedt and VVD in the mix. Hopefully Sims can make an impact when he's fit.

Better, I would say. Schneiderlin used to take an age telegraphing cross field balls and would often float them over very high. Hoedt hits them quicker and with shorter preparation. To be clear, I'm not saying he is a better player, just that he plays that pass more effectively (based on a sample of two matches).

It's fine if you want the rest of the team to sit deep and then you just look to counter quickly with direct balls. But, as you say, you are going to surrender the lion's share of possession. Leicester did it and, through some weird miracle, won the league. The next team following that sort of blueprint with any sort of mediocre modicum of "success" is probably West Brom and I'm ****ed if I want to watch Pulis-ball over our current style. So, basically, as you say, no-one apart from the likes of Man City really plays an attacking style with two strikers. We could try and we might score a few more but we'd probably get stuffed more as well.

So today proved the above to be wrong as Davis, in his better position, gave a great class in tireless pressing and leading from the front.

So today proved the above to be wrong as Davis, in his better position, gave a great class in tireless pressing and leading from the front.

Hello, Does anyone park at Eastleigh station daily? What's it like? Does it get full? Parkway can be a bit of a bugger. Is Eastleigh better? I thank you.

Tosser.

Has anyone mentioned that Lemina is good? Been impressed with Hoedt as well. Gets his head up quickly.

I take your point, although those stats are purely offensive. I think most would agree that Davis offers more defensively in terms of pressing and tackling and is also quicker to cover space.

Oakley was a class player. Much better.

Should never have sent him to Redknapp. ****ing disgrace

Brexit is a great move. SAYS RINGO STARR

Husband! Two blokes, no way. Two girls, maybe.

Cape Verde?

That's something of an exaggeration but also quite irrelevant as the salient point is that it is not how our owner wanted to operate.

Mane played badly to force an exit? Bull****.

This is true.

Is John B, Tony Blair?