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Have there been some squad number changes that aren't posted on the OS yet? don't recognise number 26 at all, must be one of the 2 new signings and Morgan seems to be wearing 4 (although it could be a distorted 19 I suppose)

Lallana scored 20 goals, does he not play in midfield?, Puncheon scored goals as well; for the umpteenth time, it is not the role of Morgan and Hammond to score goals or be continually floating about in the opponents box, that role is assigned to Puncheon and Lallana and they do it very very well. Ths obsession with a goal scoring central midfielder is becoming tiresome, we have Lallana and Puncheon and that's good enough for me.

or that they had courgettes for lunch

sorry Andy you're not right there, that's the Spanish game all over, keep the ball and let the other bastards come and get it if they want it, then they hit them with a mercurial acceleration when they do try to play ball, Spain's front 6 instill fear in defences and midfields, so they hang back so as not to get caught, the Spanish just grind them down and eventually score.

I very much doubt that the friable Dutch defence will last very long faced with the Spanish Steamroller, a red card for Von Bommel and 2-0 to the Spanish at half-time would be my prediction.

what do we need another striker for ? Lambert,Connolly and Barnard is that not good enough for League 1? We must have someone in the reserves who is good enough to play the odd game ,we need to be careful about signing too many players isn't it 25 senior players maximum this season? No point in signing players you can't put on the roster.

I kinda get the impression that Harding will play as left back as usual and that Dickson will play in midfield on the left,with Puncheon on the right and Lallana moving into a box to box role with Morgan doing all the dirty work and water carrying.No need for any more midfielders as that will leave us with Hammond on hand.

only 6 months out of the 9? that would be a good season for him, totally burnt out nowadays.

I wouldn't do that if I were you, mine cried for a week when she lost her cuddly elephant,took me that long to get a new one ,exactly the same and rough it up a bit so it looked like the old one.Mind you I quite enjoyed chewing it's ears

All what signings would that be then, we don't need so many, 2 really.

doubt if it will be at St Mary's, perhaps somewhere near Divoone les Bains, Gex perhaps or even Geneva. Might go along, must be about 300 miles from here

Looks like a tyro league game; Japanese bloke beats 15 players and then treads on the ball

You don't mention Argentina and Uruguay, same template for both sides, devious hard bastards at the back, exceptional talent in midfield and two clinical strikers each at the front, managed by blokes who don't have Mother Theresa attributes either.Way to go

Anyway it's not about the manager it's about the players.Many of them are made to look good in their clubs by the exceptional talents around them who aren't available to our national team.Don't forget Inter Milan won the Champions League with very few (if any) Italians in their side.Take away Drogba,Carvalho and Anelka from Chelsea and they'd be pretty crap.Managers don't make teams, players do and ours despite being amongst the best paid aren't all that good because they are so one dimensional.

Why would that be then, France beat the Irish Republic in the play-offs

But Domenech won't pick Mexes because he told him he was an idiot a couple of years back,

Did you notice that the French didn't all have the same shirt? Some had those which looked as if they're wearing some sort of black harness and some just had the same shirt but without that mark . I'm sure that must be against some rule or other. Anyway they should never have gone to the WC with Domenech, no matter how much it cost to buy him out last year they should have just coughed up and had done with it. Any bloke who thinks that Abidal (a left back) is a better central defender than Mexes is just plain loony bin mad.

What's happening on the pre-season front? Is there going to be one,I suppose the players will be reporting back sometime soon as well.

Domenech negates everything, he is a stupid, stubborn donkey brained knob who has binkies and has left better players on the beaches to play them. Rama Yade was right, he should have been removed after the Euro 2008 but the FFF couldn't afford it.Him keeping Govou in the side (or even in the group of 23) and leaving better players behind just shows what an idiot he is.

And as player recruitment seems decidely slow (not that we need a great deal really, just a right back and a competent midfield replacement when necessary) I'm a bit concerned that what we get by way of players might just depend on ST sales numbers.

if you want to re-introduce formless, amelodic noise to football grounds again why not bring back the old fashioned wooden rattle,I'm sure they could be fashioned our of kevlar nowadays to make them indestructible.

he might do Ok actually, he's better when there's no money to waste on *****wit players with big reputations and serious attitude problems.

Anyway his Mum probably wants him home for tea every day

Anyway, I really doubt that we'll be falling over ourselves to sign Papa, nowhere near sharp enough in front of goal on a consistent basis, scored a few, missed a whole lot more easy ones, like against Skate.There is no doubt more suitable which comes cheaper and more easily.

German invention though, didn't seem to put them off, must all be genetically programmed not to hear the f*cking things