Window Cleaner

I think what Liverpool certainly and perhaps to some extent Tottenham as well are learning here is that without Saints midfield any player taken from us is just a bit of a spare part. Our success last season came from our midfield, it's still here and we're still doing well.

Well Morgan will no doubt be named in the French squad at 1 your time, don't know when Italy and Portugal announce their groups, today or tomorrow I suppose.

I presume that you, in your turn, mean eligible.

all arsenal players are made of glass, part of the conditions to be signed by them, unless of course they have a bad disciplinary record, one or the other or both is what you need..

Not to mention Sturridge, think he's missed their last 5 or 6 games as well. Watched Liverpool a bit last weekend and they seemed to be very wasteful in front of goal. Mignolet isn't the world's greatest keeper either, Reina is probably better actually, don't know what's going on there. Their defence is a bit Jekyll and Hyde as well, Sakho dropped, presumably because he can't play right side CB. However their biggest problem is Gerrard, once they realise that he's not up to top level any more and dump him they'll probably be OK.

Think the result might depend on which version of Adebayor turns up actually, if it's the immobile, lazy git that played against the Arse then we should stroll it. Chadli and Lamela are dangerous but with nothing at the sharp end it makes little difference.

I see that we've signed a couple of overseas pace bowlers for next season then, Bird and Arafat although the latter seems to be only for limited overs games for the moment.

Factually incorrect all over the shop dontcha know Bear, Orangina is at it's origin a spanish formula, bought out by some french trader or other and subsequently sold to Schweppes who in turn belong to Suntory, so yes they would have sued you. Try slagging off any Coke or Schweppes product on the old SM and see where it gets you.

The situation may have been confused by the fact that he was a go between for several french clubs and Bielsa.

Highly unlikely though, Spurs don't have players capable of scoring 3 goals. Watched them on Saturday, totally toothless, a bit disorganised in midfield but otherwise they're not too bad.

Not really, most become better or at least more complete players with a bit of international experience, airheads who listen to others about pay and conditions apart of course.

Good job done and the Div 2 title to boot.....

Think we need to make sure that we can make them follow on, means getting their last 4 for less than 70 now, surely that can't be that difficult really.

Hopefully that will happen then, anyway we've got the yapi out so that's a very positive thing for Hants. However at the end of the day if Essex do get to 300 we could in theory miss out on promotion because of the meagre 1 bowling point we obtained against Kent after havng them at 29/2 or something. Still with glam now at 50/3 it might not come down to that.

But now their 2nd wicket pair seem to be getting a hold on the game, still at 42/1 it's not the end of the world yet but what we don't need is another Kent ferk up, 29/2 and then they made over 500. Essex have lost a couple of wickets in the last few minutes but as they're 140 or so ahead already it probably just doesn't matter.

Frankly I"d hope the weather doesn't hold but it's the same in Chelmsford as it is in Cardiff anyway (or better in Cardiff than Chelmsford). Can't see Worcester making an effort not to suffer a resounding defeat and I've no real confidence in our bowling..may I be wrong in that this time though. We're in the box seat if both games are substantially affected by bad weather, if not I'd say Essex are more likely to come out on top in this round. Edit: Still Hants have already taken a wicket this morning and there's a bit of a rain delay at Chelmsford...good start to the day then.

900,000£ ?

Think he scored a few (33 and 4 actually) against Kent

Perhaps because he had the elements necessary to do that, players with an extra gear waiting to be used. Not seen Spurs this season so far but I suspect that without the metronomes the music is out of sync. Didn't we tail off a bit last season when JRod got injured ? There's a reason why Spurs wanted he and Morgan I don't doubt.

Might have a point though, can't imagine carnts like Kaboul taking to train till you drop and then train some more systems. Spurs transfer window was poor, they might even have sold for more than they bought.

Well I think that in 3 cases it's the problem of Wednesday/Thursday-Saturday/Sunday Spurs,Everton and Liverpool probably don't have the quality necessary to play on 2 fronts on a constant basis, as for Utd..well they just got the recrutment all wrong, go faster stripes and furry seat covers instead of brakes. I suspect that if you looked closely the teams with the least ratio of international starters/players are amongst those doing best also.

Can't understand why he doesn't use Rojo at CB and Shaw at LB, must have a poor opinion of Shaw if Blackett at CB and Rojo at LB is a better option. Mind you as I've always thought that Shaw was vastly overated perhaps I'm not entirely alone in that. Falcao was crap at Monaco last season, can't understand why they wanted him really. Berbatov is doing a far better job than Falcao ever did and that's saying something really.

Wouldn't mind if we sold him for a biggish fee..not his biggest fan myself and like Shaw I think we'd probably get as good for less.

Are there any Scottish political leaders that don't have fishy sort of names, bit of a trend developping there.

Finances of French clubs are controlled by a nebulous organisation known as the DNCG. Budgets have to be balanced, proof of financing has to be given, if not they can stop clubs signing players or limit it to a certain sum and serial offenders get relegated...just like that. You can be top 6 in the league but if your accounts a crappy then ou can easily find yourself in ligue 2 just like that. They've stopped a couple of clubs being promoted for financial reasons of late even after they earned the right on the field. Lens had to take their case to the CAS last summer before they were allowed to play in Ligue 1 and a small club who'd been promoted to Ligue 2 weren't allowed to move up and just stopped because it was too late to enter anything other than a local league. The DNCG would have had pompey and qpr in local sunday leagues long long ago.