Window Cleaner

not so much, UK only

Raining

probably does commentary on coronations and state funerals as a rule.

Shrewsbury commentary is absolutely crap

not Saint's Player evidently

movement of the ball from the halfway line to the penalty spot with a throw in as well.

sort it out SP, there's a terrible echo.

Long throw merchant

Easy peasy, they'll just let him run smack into them at full pace. Don't even get a card for that as a rule.

Lallana ...nope, they'll save that treatment for AOC. Wouldn't have risked him today myself.

what's that the side for then??

Especially with that pedestrian partnership in central defence.

no Puncheon, no Morgan. Either they've been given time off same as Fonte because they've played a lot of games (Morgan might have gone home for his 21st on Monday I suppose) or there's trouble brewing.

subs:Bart, Dickson, Martin, Wotton, Holmes, Connolly and Lambert

The taming of the shrew.......probably not a great analogy for a football match really. Is not that play based on the scenario that it is a means to trick a drunken tinker into thinking that he is Lord or something like that.Now the 4-0 drubbing of D+R would probably have been more fitting for that.....not that our fans are to be compared with drunken tinkers of course.

it's still an hour before kick-off

Although 5 or 6 of our players have played more games this season than Fonte and one has made 3 or 4 international appearances to boot.Don't quite see why he's been singled out for extra leave, perhaps they all have a short break as well.

Hope we put a decent team out today because I get the feeling that Shrewsbury might give us a bit of a rough ride.Defence worries me at the best of times tbh,with no Fonte it may be both exceptionally slow and exceptionally fragile, the Shrews will come at us from the kick off and we may well have to weather an uncomfortable 20 minutes or so.

The Italians have their own 'this is the way to do it" spirit guide. Roughly the same forename as our man as well. His tomes advocate cheating, lying and consequentialism as the way to go.

so in fact you judge our current CM pairing to be inadequate for the Championship ??? But a player on the bench to be good enough? Strange logic either from yourself or Adkins.

Wouldn't doubt it:

Why Barcelona though and not Portugal ??

Didn't get anywhere near enough game time with us for Reading to extend the loan (even if we had wanted to).I guess the object of loaning out young players to lower league clubs is for them to get pitch time and not bench time.

Anyway Shrewsbury will probably give us a better game than the abysmal D+R. Think they've got that long throw merchant with a funny name playing for them, have to watch that as we aren't all that great on set pieces.

And you think that being ridiculed by a raw 17 year old is playing football the right way. Oh I know it's good for us and all that but AOC was made to look something he isn't (as yet) by the paucity of their defence.The keeper was Sunday League standard to be honest.To me to bring a side like that and ask people to pay £20 to watch it is insulting. Smacks of Derby in their EPL season,just there to take the money,although that can't be D+R's case.