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Heavy pitch, picked physical team to cope with the balls into our box.

Although he is required in midfield, I would see that as a sort of double teamed right back to allow James freedom to get forward and get those crosses in.

Must say I like the look of our side, I think we could get a convincing win.

solid midfield, would have preferred Papa in place of Antonio.Wasn't Mills injured? Perhaps Papa has problems with the cold, happens

Very disappointing highlights from the Exeter game as well.Well not the highlights themselves but rather the distinct lack of quantity.

I certainly hope so, how come that there is absolutely no teams news on the OS 45 minutes before kick off!!

a few posters seem to think otherwise. A dead leg is not easy to recover from in a few hours, depends how hard he got hit I suppose. It could be that we have seen the last of Lallana, probably not though.

Perhaps Hammond wasn't as important to them as you imagine. He was part of Lambert's system, may have not impressed Boothroyd to the same extent. New manager,new captain, clean slate.

Football manager eh, now there's a pastime that should go straight from the production line to the trash can.Proficiency at billiards and snooker used to be a gauge of a misspent youth, now it must be obsession with Football Manager. Except that at least you could earn a living from snooker.

Still there'll be more than enough tickets to go round.

Chesterfield- Rotherham is off

I would have thought that at least James and Lallana would have participated in the 3-0 home loss debacle against Watford last year. I don't think Pardew vs Boothroyd has any particular importance to be honest. Both will send out their best available team with a tried and tested game plan.

Not ones Pardew trusts in centre -mid.We have a lot of players but very few of them are in the picture.Just like strikers in theory we have 4 or 5,but only Connolly,Lambert and Papa are of any interest as starters.Big effective,small first team squad.It's gonna get pruned. 6 out, 2 or 3 in would be my prediction.

And so they were, is not 3-1 good enough for most people? Today will be different,we'll get cards but there'll be no quarter in the second half, unless of course we're 3-0 up by then--which we probably won't be. I think far too little is being made of today's effect on Saturday's game. I said we'd ease up and so we did,no-one important got carded and they're all in the mix for today (except maybe Lallana).We got a result and everybody is there again today, what more can you ask.

I'm not sure that AP has all that much time for him. This will be a hard nervy game.I think we'll start out with a defensive formation.

Not many virgins in Colchester though;They had their annual meeting a while back, but it rained and they held it in a telephone box.

Concord of circumstances because Morgan was out James moved forward into midfield,thus not being available to play at RB.

Not a real one, it f*cking well hurts and you can hardly move because the quadriceps is all bruised and battered, often on both face because it got hammered into the bone as well.

Pardew said he was doubtful, that means he's 75% out.Ever had a dead leg?

We'll go narrow with Papa floating about all over the show.But Wotton will probably nominally be responsible for the right side of midfield.

How could I not.Not to mention the fabulous and ephemereal Lucien Mettomo

Oh do give over, Thomas will not start at RB whilst James (or Murty) is available to play there. Connolly and Lambert in attack as usual and Lallana is out,Papa to take his place, Wotton in midfield

36 going on 37 is too old, let him drift away as a bit part player for some CCC wannabee.We already have our quota of old men.

Ahh Cesc, did you see him today? Came on for 27 minutes and everything changed.Scored 2 goals and then went off injured, without him Arse are just ordinary, probably one of the world's best players, but doesn't ever get a look in in the best player awards which always go to the showboys.

could be that they just want some of our cash, and why should they not? They're getting 12-13 K gates (against our 20K average). Why should they let us keep one of their saleable assets for free (other than paying him).They loaned us Trotman and then wefound a million quid for Lambert, perhaps Preston think we are extracting the urite. I expect us to have considerable difficulty getting good loans this January, certainly not from teams that don't get our gates and have need of ready money.On th other hand plenty of crap players will be available for loan as usual in January.