benjii

No.

Mock the Week is pretty ****e and is a pale immitation of the shows it apes. The BBC is becoming a quite pathetic and spineless organisation.

Correct but as a guy who's never played above League One level (is that right?) and is, outside Reading and Soton, an unknown I imagine the price determined by the compensation committee would be next to nothing - about £200k tops. I suspect, in fact, that Reading will be trying to persuade us to buy him in January rather than wait until the summer.

This is spot on. The problem on Saturday was that Orient were so crap that even playing badly and hoofing it to Lambert you had that "we will score in a minute feeling" which meant we had just enough encouragement to keep playing that way. Once we changed in the second half Schneiderlin began playing it short to Lallana and Connolly and we built the play allowing the likes of Harding to get forward more also. Nothing much to do with the system.

Rod Wallace and MLT both got over 20 in 89/90 I think.

He was pretty good and his work rate is superb, however he did miss two sitters in the match and wasn't involved in the first half much at all (probably not his fault though). Either way, Pardew has achieved so much more with him in a couple of months than we managed for the whole of last year.

It was hardly a pitch invasion and the Orient stewards were having a laugh with the perpetrators afterwards, once they had let them back in the stand. If we receive a punishment it will be an absolute disgrace. But we won't.

Clearly he shouldn't be banned from working as a footballer - his punishment is his sentence. If you start banning criminals from working you will only hasten their return to crime. However, if any prospective employers wish to take a moral stance against employing him then good for them. He's a decent Championship player. It may be that 99% of the time he's a good bloke but occasionally loses his rag. Some might think it an acceptable trade-off and will be prepared to take him on that basis. Personally, I wouldn't particularly welcome him but I wouldn't criticise anyone who did.

So, sort of a common sense mandate but with the words, "evil", "despicable" and "wretched" preceding those with a different view? Only joshing. Good post.

I would say that both of those are bigger than the teams I listed for the simple fact that they are pretty well supported, but yes, compared to the likes of Forest, Leeds, Sheff Weds, Norwich and Saints they are minnows.

To be honest, EDL's first album was pretty shallow and they've gone downhill from there.

Ideally I would advocate playing a 2nd string in the FA Cup. However, it would be annoying to lose to Bristol Rovers again. I actually think it's the single worse draw we could have got for annoyance factor!

West Ham would murder us!

Exactly!

Was about to post an identical post, when I saw this! All the best to KM et al.

OK. I doubt if the event featured Sally Taylor and Fred Dineage you would be clamouring for Lawrie Mac or MLT to have got an invite though!

BTW - I voted 4-5-1 because I would rest some players for Friday's match. If the next match was the JPT match or the home match against Brighton in the league I would probably have voted 4-4-2.

What is Thy Pie?

I'm not sure if I've read Verbal's. Am going out in a minute so probably won't now. Anyway, the only people who came out of this badly were the Beeb IMO (and the idiot anti-fascist idiots outside).

A charity should do what the **** it wants really, although I'm sure they appreciate your invaluable tips on striking a chord with autistic children. If people don't want to come to its events, they won't. Clearly they thought this event would raise funds. Hopefully it did. The aim is not to put on the greatest show on Earth; it is to raise funds. It's a bit of a shame you had to try to find an angle to get your tuppence worth in on this one.

A sage observation.

Great post.

It's amazing how many tin-pot clubs there are in the Premier League at the moment: Birmingham Bolton Hull Wigan Portsmouth Fulham Blackburn It's just boring.

Good point. In total, against MK Dons and Orient, I can't remember him making a single save. As for discussion about the formation: 1) Who would you play as the "2" upfront? Saga is clearly finished at Saints. Patterson is not really that good (yet?). Connolly has been injured for two years. We have won 4 of the last 5. WTF change it by throwing in someone making their first steps on the road to recovery from the start? 2) Although we played pretty poorly yesterday we still could have scored 3 or 4 goals during the 4-5-1 period against a team giving a 110% in a rare chance to play against a much bigger club. 3) Being able to switch formation is a great attribute. 4) We have scored 4, 3, 3, 3, 2 goals in our last 5 league matches (I think!) 5) We will stuff Brighton in our next league match.

The Orient fans are basking in the after-glow of their cup final draw, I wouldn't pay a blind bit of notice to any of them.