Window Cleaner

Lallana and Chaplow in CM would be an absolute disaster.I know you're a friend of Adam's but please don't suggest this any more. Lallana and Hammond maybe but Chaplow is too bad in the tackle,too poor in ball control and too hit and miss for this ever to be an option.Should we ever do this we will be on the end of one of the biggest hidings we have ever had, mark my words.

leftback....say no more squire,say no more

A last passing thought on last night....it's a pity Crosby p*ssed off Jason Puncheon isn't it.Puncheon or N'Guessan ...you decide. Can we recall Puncheon?? I guess not.

Rickie seems to fancy himself as some sort of advanced midfielder these days it would seem.If you read TUI he got regally slagged off for his performance last night.

Yeah right!

Shea must be about 6th in the pecking order at Arse. Can't understand why he's gone back, unless he's absolutely useless of course,the very same reason as Forecast came back from Eastbourne .

What they lost to Ireland ? How shamemaking would that be.

Wasn't supposed to play at all if you believe the post match comments attributed to Adkins in the Echo. I hope we aren't going down injection road with him to keep him on the pitch at all costs. That's hardly nurturing is it.Said last week that we're burning him out and if he's to play whilst injured then we need to rethink all that.

Plus with the shedload of cash that they'll have made from the FA Cup they could probably afford to tell us to f*ck off.

Colchester will be fancying their chances of a play-off place now. The result will depend on who we have fit and who we don't.

Chaplow was booked as he usually is. That's 6 yellows in about what 18/20 games.

Right I've had a look about a bit and the BBC,Sky,Sporting Life etc all have Hammond as being booked for dissent and not Lallana. What's right and what's wrong I just couldn't venture to guess but as it stands I wouldn't be all surprised to find that Deano is on 9 yellow cards.

those that insist that promotion is essential need to win 3 times as many as they lose, all season long.

The only thing that NA hasn't been able to do is acquire a clinical striker. It's been our problem for the entire season.True we've scored a lot of goals on occasions but we've always been missing that one thing when the going has got tough.Lambert isn't the sort of bloke who's going to pick up a ball 40 yards out,run with it and slot it past the keeper from 18 yards(remember Channon people?) neither is Barnard.They aren't the sort of Gyan or Torres strikers either who are just going to connect effortlessly with a ball drifting about in the 18 yard box and drill it inside the post or under the bar.We've needed a clinical striker all season,starting with the first game.

Depends, could be just bruising and sinovial fluid.Could be cartilage damage though, they can clear that up pretty quickly.

Hammond seems to have somewhere between 8 and 9 bookings. If you count back to his one match suspension he's had 3 since then but the question seems to be whether he was booked last night or not. I guess you've got to trust our OS on that rather than the BBC and say it was Lallana. So Deano has 8 bookings so far. The OS has always been wrong because of a booking in the JPT game. When he was suspended the OS stats still had him on 4. Since his suspension on 23rd October Deano seems to have been booked against Brentford,Exeter and Hartlepool. If he wasn't booked last night he's on 8 if he was he's on 9 and one more will see him cop a 2 match suspension. Chappers is getting a card every other game these days and will only just make it to the amnesty if he doesn't calm it a bit.

I'm not sure that finishing in the top 6 is the objective though.I just don't fancy facing Huddersfield,Peterborough or even Bournemouth in a one off match for promotion.We'll probably be without Morgan,we have no back-up for Davis and a player like CMS is always odds on to tear us apart.We should have signed that young man, that we didn't tells me that we didn't have the money to bring the deal about.

On the look out for one are we? might be a better investment than TSW on match days.

Quite right too, why pay when you can freeload on a system funded by others. Europe's disease which now seems to spreading to the whole of the planet.

Why don't we use Connolly any more, last night might have been ideal suited to his clinical finishing when N'Guessan has to go off. Dickson also might have been able to do something more than an injured Ox.

NC said Ox wouldn't be sold,NA said Ox wouldn't be leaving, perhaps the offers weren't all that great. We have no idea what was offered, press speculation is worth nothing;

but we have back up players. Is that not why we have a development squad? I mean they're 19/20 year olds not schoolboys. That we have not many reserve games for them to develop in is the problem,not signing more players. In fact I sometimes ask myself what exactly we pay Les Reed to do.

BBC has it down to Hammond though and the Brummie commentators said it was Hammond booked as well. We'll have to see though because in the disciplinary stats Hammond is on 9 as if it was he who'd been booked last night.

Derry will be pleased,unfortunately our defence would become inordinately weak. No doubt that if Deano should cop a 2 matcher then Dickson will be pressed into service in midfield again. One thing that I wouldn't care to see is Lallana or Ox playing CM with Chaplow in the holding role, wouldn't be pretty at all.

48 from 25 games isn't exactly 2 points per game and Brighton's haul is better than ours because they really have 62 points from 31 games.