Sour Mash

Why am I being an idiot? I'm just showing you that Rodriguez was looking at the December fixtures that he could be involved in, when all along you knew it was going to be January at the earliest he could be involved. I just wish the two of you had got the chance to talk back in the summer.

But it's not as straight forward as strongest team v weaker team. Palace game we may need more attacking creativity, Chelsea game we may see less of the ball and need greater defensive bodies across midfield. Across the Palace, Chelsea and Arsenal game, somthing is going to have to give at some point, it will be interesting to see how Koeman plays it.

Sheff Utd don't. There aren't that many clubs left with a proper home end that regularly sings.

With Ward-Prowse back fit and this chap signing, we going to start having options off the bench to change the game a bit.

Have we sold out our allocation for this yet?

Good point that. Can we manage this game, whilst keeping either one of Wanyama or Schneiderlin on the bench? So a Midfield three of one of those two, Davis and JWP, with Long, Tadic and Pelle up front.

Just had a look on-line, seems they sold out yesterday, good going from them.

Have they sold all those tickets already? That's ridiculously good going.

Having a quick look through twitter, he look's to be as good as signed.

Ticket sales look slow which is surprising considering the prices.

I'm assuming English isn't your first language?

You said that they were endorsing one religion, which religion were they endorsing it? And how exactly were they endorsing it over one other religion or no religion at all?

Which one religion are they endorsing? Are you p****d tonight or something?

Who do you think he was listening to when he told the media he was hoping to be involved in December? What an idiot he must be telling the media that, you could have just told him that it was always going to be January.

You should have let the player himself know all that back in the summer http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/9358465/premier-league-southamptons-jay-rodriguez-plots-return-from-injury

9/10. Love pics of old football grounds.

Maybe I'd imagined it, but I thought earlier in the season we'd put some highlights on Youtube from League games? Maybe not!

Palace aren't going to sell Bolasie to us unless we chucked down stupid money. And I wouldn't be surprised if the player himself might be looking for European football if he was to move. Might be a different story if Palace were to go down, but I can't see that quite happening.

I think that club posted them up this morning, check on the club's Youtube.

No, I think you're right, that makes sense. Ipswich game would be a good starting point for new signings anyway.

In theory could he be available for the Arsenal game? Can we have all the paperwork signed and ready, player travelled over in advance etc?

But we're not talking about just expecting better, we're talking about demands for sacking their manager that just missed out on 4th place last season.

They made quite a big deal about tickets for this game being sold out, I haven't seen any announcement from the club that they're back on sale, so bit of a f**k up if they are! Where is the Northam Chapel corner?

Why was he never going to be ready? November can't have been wholly unrealistic. He had started tweeting himself several months ago giving an update on his training/rehabilitation progress, that went quiet a while ago, which does suggest a set back. Having a whole year out of the game is a massive set-back for any player, big ask for him return to his previous levels.

I had a good read through the match thread on the Everton "Grand Old Team" forum, cracked me up, particularly as the matey that starts those threads seems to have a real chip on his shoulder about our support, makes it even funnier. Loads and loads on there wanting Martinez to be sacked, loads questioning the commitment of their players, so much for the return of the "School of Science".