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Agree- thought Clyne's delivery was especially poor today.

We got the rub of the green today. Webb had an OK game but that only shows how poor the general level of refereeing is in the prem. Webb > A one-eyed Uriah Renee > Clattenburg

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The collateral damage of the Clatternberg incident certainly affected Lallana...

Yep-didn't Vignal score a pen? Remember us earlier that season away at Plymouth where we had more black players than the French national side. JW was the ambassador for race relations that day.

The 5-0 at Sheff Weds was a great day out; the 5-0 at Hull in the mist was utter ****. The game at Cardiff was not much better, though my mate and I got an individual police escort back to Temple Meads station.

Good old Christian Dailly, Marathon Man.

The three Chrises: Makin, Perry and Lucketti.

Yep you're right.

Makin, ex-Marseille (!), was with us in Wright's first year (iirc); then it was Ostlund.

He was already in his 30s when he joined us and had the journeyman label. Alas he wasn't the second coming of Chrisy Marsden.

Ossie is much better when the ball is played quickly to feet or peeling off the last defender and having to take down a direct ball. Ask him to go up and win a ball in the air in front of two CBs, then he struggles massively. Same for Jrod. Shame because he's a class player.

We might press and (attempt to) keep possession like Bilbao or Barca but we're not afraid to go long (in the air rather than to feet) which neither of those two do. So while Ossie may fit those two teams, our system/style is sufficiently different that legitimate questions will be asked about his 'fit' with us.

The all-time mboard classic remains Adkins prematch interview for the Swansea game where he said he was going to do things differently. The statement was seized upon as vindicating months and months of horse**** on here that Clotese (lols) was picking the team and setting the formation. Adkins was going to go out in a blaze of glory to Sinatra's "My Way", the mboard roared. Turns out what Adkins really meant was that he was taking the team to the country for a bit of clay pigeon shooting and bingo. Memories.

Shane Long is all huff and puff - also think he lost a yard of pace after the Hutton challenge.

You better put your house up for sale the Indians are coming!

But was the standout CB at Cardiff.

Not an either/or ffs. Transfers matter but the idea that they and they only allow a club to progress is horse****. Kind of logic that explains why some were clamoring last season for a new signing to upgrade on Lallana.

Don't disagree - unlike the many others, they've hit a ceiling and ready for the glue factory (though more can be squeezed out of Yohsida IMO). They'll have to be replaced, though happy to wait till the summer to do our biz.

Get more out of your existing players? Like we have done with Lallana, Jrod, Morgan Fonte, Davis etc. Don't tell anyone, this is radical stuff, pal.

It was alright - don't think it exploited anyone's vulnerability for a cheap laugh. Certainly no Undateables. Could have done with more context -both personal and macroeconomic- to stop the hypo brigade knocking one off on mock outrage, though there were snippets and clues here and there i.e. the brass monkey and main protagonist, fungi had been abused as a child and that perverse incentives are rife. If anything, the most cringeworthy and dialed up moments were ones showing the cast at their best and most civic-minded- whether it was the zen-like state of 50p man or the two women calling up a job ad in Gumtree only to get a Bearsyesque character at the other end.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that.

They were poor in the first game -and we utterly bossed their midfield without working their keeper much. They only really rallied at the end of the game.

Rather it takes ****ing dull **** to know a ****ing dull ****.

Human? Howard Webb in narcissistic, celebrity ref shocker.