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The Club's strategy is clear, we have not spent 60 million £ to win the Capital One consolation trophy. Privileging the JPT when we wanted to get promoted in our first (and should have been only) season in League 1 eventually led to Pardew's demise.

Yes but as I said we won't win but it just doesn't matter. Just hopeful of an encouraging performence from Gaston and that's about all we can hope for. We need to win on Saturday, could go just 3 points off the top because of The Utd-Arse game on Sunday. Sunderland just doesn't matter. NB Guly is still injured though.

No I was answering a post that proposed putting out the same team as against Stoke with just Morgan and JWP replaced by Davis and Cork, said it wasn't going to happen. We'll put out our full "reserve side" roughly the same that was used against Bristol and get thumped unless Gaston wins it all by himself or gets a hand from Osvaldo but I don't think he'll even play either.

I wouldn't because to me winning on Saturday is far more important. The difference is that we can beat Bristol City with our reserves but we certainly can't beat Sunderland at the Stadium of Light so we'll just have to go damage limitation unless Gaston plays a blinder and beats them all by himself.

It is also a WC season, just watch all those Brazilian,English,Belgian etc stars start pulling out of tackles from about March onwards. Spurs got 4th place in 2010 with only 70 points, mainly because they beat Arsenal,Chelsea and City in the space of about 2 weeks at the end of the season, probably because they had less WC players than any of the other top sides.

Indeed it was, text-book header on goal. Didn't have to try to steer it left or right from that position and as he'd got well above the ball with his jump he had all the options available. JRod should start every week and let Lambert and Osvaldo compete for the other front runner's place.

but at this stage of the season and for the teams 9th to 14th a win or a loss is the difference between top half and bottom half. I think i'd be right in saying that if West Brom and Swansea had beaten us they'd be top half and we'd be bottom half. As for Norwich,Sunderland and West Ham it obviously took us a few games to get into our stride and despite our lofty league position we still need to be able to score more goals which was no doubt at the root of our failing to beat any of those. I just am not convinced by Lambert and still believe we need to replace him.

Don't think Guly is fit and anyway even if he was we won't win with that side, defensively far too weak. We are greatly handicapped by the fact that this match has been moved back to a Wednesday when we're at home on the following Saturday..Just can't see us winning or even putting up a creditable performace withn the side that we'll put out. Spanking 4 or 5-1. Sunderland have all the advantage, they're at home and don't play again until Sunday afternoon, at home again, agaist Citeh in a match they'll have probably already written off anyway.

Known as a Zidane roll I believe.

I'd say we have and excellent chance of finishing above Liverpool, thought they looked pretty poor against the Arse. If you can tame Suarez you can beat Liverpool fairly easily because they're not good in midfield and their 3 man defence is oft strewn with errors. Spurs looked pretty toothless yesterday as well, they seem to have spent a lot of money and gotten very little for it that they didn't already have.

Probably because we don't have "propah" defenders like Shawcross and Huth who kick everything that moves and we do in fact lack a strike option, JRod did well but Lambert wasn't much threat.

Still can't get over our strange kick off strategy. You can't see it all here but at the moment of KO we had 6 blokes on the halfway line. RL and AL kicking off, JWP to their right and JRod,MS and LS all to their left, as we kick off everybody piles forward like a scene from your average NFL snap and JWP just carelessly loses the ball, even if it doesn't go back to Begovitch but just gets punted forward from the point of recovery we're as likely as not going to be in the crapper. It's definite a big black mark for JWP and I'd suggest to them that they don't repeat the experience. I suppose JWP was supposed to send it out to his left to any one of the 3 onrushers but he just tamely toes it forward straight to a Stoke player.

yep, we've definitely changed the way we kick off after using the same system for a good while. Before it was usually Morgan and JRod (or Lambert) and we turned the ball straight back into our own half and began our habitual build up. On Saturday it was Rickie and Adam who pushed the ball forward for JWP who just seem to punt it aimlessly forward allowing Stoke to turn it back to their keeper...the rest we know. I seem to remember that we always used to turn it back to Boruc pretty early on but we've changed that. So to me their goal was in fact partially JWP's fault because they shouldn't have recovered the ball like that before we got set.

So basically a full first team less Morgan (and perhaps JWP) for some reason or other. It won't happen because we are not going to have all of our top players trekking off to Sunderland on a wdnesday evening when we have a vital home game on Saturday at 3. Side will be much the same as that of the last round with a couple of first teamers on the bench in a fire bucket role. Now if Hull had a game this week it might be different but they don't so it won't.

both attempted scissors kicks, neither of them particularly successful though.

I always imagine you as a sort of Robbie Box character.

21 ?? more like 18 or 19, Palace and Sunderland are already gone because they are both abysmal and have both sacked managers after less than 10 games, Norwich will join them because of their iffy defence. Can't see any of them getting any more than 36 points this season.

We've changed our kick off style of late I think,

Few players from Italian football actually make the grade in the PL because the game is completely different, look at Lamela, a 28 million £ sub who doesn't even get on the pitch. If I was a PL recruter I'd never ever buy a player from Italy (or a striker from Holland for that matter, there aren't too many Suarez's but there are a lot of Bonys and Wolfwinkeii:rolleyes:). Name me 5 players from Italy who've actually made the grade for the hundreds of millions we've shipped their way in the last, say, 5 years.

unless he's completely mastered the science of ball trajectories and bounce characteristics these last few days.. no . Still the ball was very bouncy on what should have been a damp pitch. Must have a look through some highlights and see if the white balls seem to bounce as much on their pitch. Still the white and yellow versions must be exactly the same right ?

Hope they are fit, the Arse will have to take out 2 good players to make room for them Liverpool had nothing in midfield today, wonder how long they can persist with the ageing Gerrard and the legless Leiva. Gives the opponents far too much time and space to manoeuvre.

Di Canio kicked him out for a reason. Poyet was naif to take him back.

ball bounces too much, like one of the lightweight vinyl things you played with as a kid.

Unsurprising, Chelsea's defence can be a bit rickety at times.

we're 5th