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I don't, what you see is what you get in my case, can't imagine people actually paying multiple fivers just to titilate themselves by thinking that they're fooling others really. Strange world some of you live in.

Only Bertrand is a better player than those we sold last season, well Toby as well be he's only a loanee and doesn't look like staying. Forster is a good player as well but probably only on a par with Boruc. Lallana,Lambert have been replaced with inferior players and Chambers hasn't really been replaced at all.

They all do, those that are good enough get there, those that aren't don't. It's just possible that some of our better players are disappointed by the end of our season, we were top 4 hopefuls, now we're clinging on to a hope of 6th place or that Villa won't win the cup (which they will, just like I said they might 2 months ago, respectable side, criminally mismanaged). I mean who knows what players think, some of us believe that failure to sign an alternative striker in January was a grave error, maybe some players think that too.

Wouldn't worry about it, Arsenal are always "interested" in everybody, they actually sign about 0.1% of them. Just from what I've seen this week that makes Naingolan,Gundogan,Victor, both Benders and Howedes. Oh and add Kondogbia as well......it's just the way Arsenal do things, shake the bag and see what drops out.

Why would we get Benteke though.

Wasn't that against Arsenal away? He went off afer we'd used all of our subs and the knobbers scored. Think he was at CB to start though,might have changed afterwards, don't remember. Edit Started CB, Cork went off and Maya came on so I suppose that Toby went to MF.

You mean he's trying to become the archetypal ginger rat ? Works in the lower divisions,PL refs will have him off in a second.

No idea, perhaps one of the CM fans would know that, didn't we have an Argentine poster a while ago ?

Qatar Airways and an average 40 odd thousand home gate I expect.

Perhaps he just doesn't know how to be a 4 day batsman against decent bowlers, seems to come in and want to hit every ball out of the ground. Either that or he just can't be fagged to run between the wickets.

And therein lies the reason why we can never ever keep our better players. We don't pay enough for a top side. To really be a top side you need top players and to get top players you need top money not a pîssy 35K a week, especially when the PL gives you roughly 80 million £ a season.

Nice steady start today after being put in, in fact the kind of start I'd hoped for in the second innings last week. If only Carberry hadn't got carried away when he was set we might have won that. Adams and Dawson opening today, giving us a platform to buid on, 81 without loss after 27 overs.

If you say so, I went (ok ok but I got a free ticket) to watch Clermont-Saracens, not bad actually.

Well, the Canal+ experts were unanimous about him against Burnley, he lacks composure and snatches at any chance he gets. It was Remy Garde and that bloke who used to play for Bolton, Habib Beye I think is his name.

We'll see what is to be seen but I am concerned over the number of people who seem to think that the minute Clasie is an adequate replacement for Schneiderlin, for me he'll be way too small for today's PL.There's small and small and Clasie falls into the latter category.

Frustrating is the word that describes our season to me, good season but I just can't evacuate the feeling that we've spoilt the proverbial ship either through stubborness on someone's part or for want of the old ha'porth of tar. Didn't see yesterday's game (day out at t'Rugby) so nothing to say about that.

Ah I don't know there, sometimes there are things you can only see at the game, stuff like movement off the ball, anticipation,comportment over 90 minutes etc. Scouts don't always watch the game, just the player that they're interested in and his interactions. Saw a report on Pogba the other day, apparently if you watch him for 90 minutes there are several sectors where he needs to improve but you don't always pick them up in a televised game.

Campbell is at Villareal, on loan I think and Flanagan had some sort of fairly long term knee injury.

Listening to the BBC Solent commentary myself...seems to be some sensible batting just now, few short balls from the Australian chappie (what can you expect really) though.

Right 378 to get then, 3.5 or 4 sessions, 120 overs or so, so no one day batting required at all thanks lads.

Perhaps the wicket is tricky when there's shine on the ball or something, we had them in trouble early on yesterday and they got into us in the first 20 overs or so, still I do wish that some of our batsmen would give the 1 day batting a break.

Make that 7

Dear oh dear we seem to have been found out as a non-first division side already. Even Worcester managed 311 yesterday..

Ah well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

And where would we find the 10 million or so per annum to pay him ?