Legod Third Coming

Keith Hill should stick to his TV Burp in my view...

No it wasn't inspired, it was inspured. Pure class

Feck me. Barnsley should be relegated - to the conference. Someone tell me we have to play them and cheer me up?

I'm not disappointed. Our boys need to know what they need to do. Last time we dropped off the top spot we went on an inspured run. We only need to win five games and draw one and the title is ours.

Expecting West Ham to score 12??!!!

That keeper should be embarrased.

Barnsley are really appalling.

We just have to win all our games and the title is ours. That's what Adkins has to instil in them. Win and at all costs. Every game.

It's a tax. If you pay out more than you get in, you simple pay a lower VAT bill - but it's not your money. It's money you collected on behalf of HMRC. 'You' don't pay it out, it was never your money. This is one of the primary reasons HMRC go bonkers over unpaid VAT bills. And something I seem to spend an inordinate of time explaining to my colleagues when they are trying to spend cash in the bank which belongs to the treasury...

Never mind that, need sunshine to make sure he has the BBQ going!

Why not simply register on the Palace site and buy one in their end - the stand closest to our fans. Tickets are available in there I believe...

Even out VAT?? VAT is a tax you claim on behalf of HMRC. There's no 'evening out'. You simply pass on anything you charge, minus what you have paid, to the revenue.

Er, would I rather sleep with Heidi Klum or Bella Emberg would be a tougher question than this one friend.

The Michael Owen of his day!

Snap - sent him and Micky Channon a video of one of our great 80's goals on Twitter. When they both responded I ran upstairs like a 10 year old to tell the missus I'd been in dialogue with my TWO heroes! Good luck to Stevie - without his bad back we might have won the bloody league!

Thank you. I need say nothing, gracefully.

Hallelujah.

Tough call... if they threw in Xavi and £50m maybe...

I think I'll take Pep and Lionel over Holloway if it's all the same

I can only quote you something I have just read on Sky Sports. Lionel Messi "Coming to the Barcelona academy helped me a lot... I learned that the game is based on possession..." (You can thank Sky+ for the accuracy of the quote)

I concur that too often the defenders forget the way we play and go back to Kelvin not always because there are no other options but because they take a high % safety option rather than a slightly riskier longer ball. I don't necessarily blame them for it, they're clearly playing to instructions and also to their confidence level. There is often a choice - a speculative (40%) ball to the wing or player in a small amount of space or a safe (100%) option to give it back to Kelvin. When the players are high on confidence they will go for those 40% balls and most often they will come off. Early in the game against Blackpool, for the first ten minutes, we played ok - not Barcelona - but ok. We then conceded two sloppy goals (having had the opportunity to go 1 up AND to level). After that we became ragged, chasing a game and playing poor football. To my eyes it wouldn't have mattered what system or style we played, too many individuals played well below what we have come to expect. I can't put that down to the tactics or approach - although we lacked the nous to deal with two pacy wingers - even the commentator said in the 80th(?) minute that Fox's smash on Ince was 80 minutes too late!! As to your point about Lambert scoring, this I take massive issue with. He is paid to score goals and does it. I don't hear many Barcelona fans moaning that Messi has scored 56 goals in 48 games? And wishing that Fabregas chipped in with a few more... When we had Le Tiss, Alan Ball stood him in the centre circle and said to the remainder of the team "When you get the ball, give it to him..." We are not lucky to have Lambert, he was scouted and paid for. He is our asset who does his job. That's how successful football teams have been operating since I started following football. Be grateful that we're now run as a club should be, not thanking lady luck!!!

Accepted that was a low blow and I apologise - pure frustration, no excuse. Now let me express my opinion better. Even early in the season, the prolonged sideways and backwards passing was part of our game. You might remember one goal we scored at the end of 36 passes! Only three of which were forward more than eight to ten yards. Our midfield has performed well enough that we are the top scoring team - 72 goals (Blackpool closest on 69) and possess the third best defence (38 goals, Reading and Hull 36). Why is it relevant where the goals are scored from and by whom if we have scored 72 of them? Rickie Lambert is not playing on his own. I presume someone is passing to him and even perhaps winning the penalties? And to reprise my note to Alpine we are second in the current form table on the last six games - level with Reading (13 points) - West Ham 7 - and our game form is WDWWWDWWWWL. On Saturday we failed to score for only the 6th time in all competitions all season - that's pretty remarkable. So we are top of the league playing a style that has worked, is working and on Saturday might still have worked had we not missed three easy chances, one of which (the penalty) would almost certainly have changed the game on its head. Now can you see why it becomes frustrating (if not close to bewildering) to comprehend the constant berating of our midfield style and in particulalr Morgan, who is one of the few players in the league with a pass accuracy % as high as players at the top of the Premiership? If players like Chaplow and Lallana (playing unnaturally on the wing, granted) do not create the right opportunities by either staying wide or moving into space ahead of markers, our midfield are stuffed, frankly. I, like you reserve the right to express my opinion about players and formations and tactics, but there is a small clique of which you are one who have complained all season about ineffectual midfield tactics (mainly aimed at Morgan) and I invite you again to review the statistics above. And then re-evaluate your statement about our midfield (as DD has done a bit quicker than me, below)

What??!!! We have one bad day after a 10 game unbeaten run and you think the bubble has burst? Calm down man. I fear for your health (genuinely). Last ten results: WDWWWDWWWWL http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/league-championship/2011-2012/form-table/full Have a look at the FORM table (above link). We have 13 points from the last six games (the same as Reading). West Ham have 7.

This is the modern way. Teams 'probe' and look for an opening. It's a Spanish style that has become the accepted norm and which for the vast majority of the season has WORKED for us. Even on Saturday we missed THREE chances that would have levelled the score. The fact that Chaplow and Lallana rarely went wide is a failing of them. The fact our full backs could not push on was because they appeared to have their hands full with a couple of wingers at the top of their game! I have to say that as someone who was totally ante Pardew's sacking, I cannot comprehend fans who think they are more tactically aware than Adkins??!! The bloke has taken us from 22nd (TWENTY SECOND) in League One to TOP of the Championship in 18 months.

I think it is high, but that doesn't stop us thinking halfway through a game that it's just not going to be our day. We're not playing with the swagger we were earlier in the season, but then maybe we were finding things easier then? It's certainly not unknown for even the best teams to have an off day...