Window Cleaner

At least they made a game of it against us,completely outplayed today,Utd will have to spend a lot of money soon because what they have won't get them very far.

Let's face it whenever Lallana is out injured there are always rumours in abundance which swing from "just a precaution" to "out for the season'. He obviously doesn't heal well at all and we seem to keep trying to play him through injuries, apparently he had a very similar injury to this one last season and played through it with injections.

It's what NA seems to be doing with the midfield and to be honest the Cork/Hammond pairing worked pretty well at the start of the season. The trouble with Hammond is that his tackling is oft a bit approximate,he didn't get a shedload of yellows last season for nothing.I suppose that this season with Cork in good form Hammond has been needed a bit less in the tackling department. If you look at the slow motion from Tuesday you"ll see that the Nolan booking is actually from a foul by Hammond, Nolan slides in perfectly legally and plays the ball, Hammond then tramples him and Nolan gets booked,no wonder he was moaning all night about it. If I were NA I'd drop Hammond permanently now and let Cork and Morgan build up the partnership that we'll need in the EPL next season, both very young players with a stack of experience behind them already.

The change necessary at CB because of Fonte's injured would have limited NA's option a bit at half-time.

See we'll get a point all the same. Good result if it stays that way.

Hammond Red Card Not our day, roll on Tuesday. Still 2 yellows just 1 game

let's equalise for starters and take it from there.

Feeeeeeeeerk

Hammond booked now

you're not allowed to say that you know.

De Ridder booked?? again,must have one of the highest booking/time on the field ratios in football.

Good job that they aren't great at corners then.

oh ferk, Aaron Martin on for Fonte.

What is this De Ridder mania? if he was really all that good he'd be starting.

Oh do leave it out.....we're still in it for this match.

By the standards which we have attributed to him. We don't really have much idea as to how he was in the Championship with Palace, he was excellent in League 1. As I've said his arm waving and holding players back is a disaster in waiting as it was last season.

I'm easy to please

still 0-0 though, a totally acceptable result for me should it be that way at full-time.

Half-Time

What do you expect from a League 2 player?

not if you go by bike or scooter.

hopefully we'll do ours in the bike-shed at half-time.

no service I guess

Lucky for us the LeFondre is a league 2 striker.

Yep he and Connolly are splitting it.