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To be fair to Jos he wont have the added pressure of being pulled out of position and having to cover for the absent full back today like he does when Fox is playing.

Gaston was not allowed to go early, the only player given permission to meet up with the Uruguay squad late was Suarez and that is because Liverpool paid to fly him out especially.

I know what you mean. I like Utd being 4 or 5 points below us

All last night shows is that we are a very good team when at full strength but if we get a couple of injuries and suspensions to key players we are going to struggle a bit. We have 14 or 15 very good players I think and to sustain a top 6 challenge you need a stronger squad than we have. Players such as Guly, Fox, Lee, Kelvin Davis, Jos and even Gaston at the moment are not going to come into the side and keep it strong. We need to buy 3 maybe 4 very very good squad players who can put pressure on the first eleven in January and mix them in with the youngsters such as Chambers who are knocking on the door. Oh and we need a decent reserve striker cos if Osvaldo and Rickie are both unavailable its all down to Jay Rod on his own. All top side have that fourth decent striker that we lack currently.

He was manager of the month in November I think it was and we didnt win another game until about March !! Neil Ruddock with a penalty at home to Newcastle from memory.

you make it sound like they went to Lowe begging him to come back and rescue the mess which is nowhere near the truth.

Not if we don't sign anyone in January smart arse

Superb stuff, well done lads :-)

I would be over the moon with a draw today. I am just looking at the fixtures and to be honest the next three - Fulham H, Stoke A and Hull H are the ones that for me will define what sort of season we will have. The old Saints would screw those games up big time. What will MP's Saints do with them ? That is my test, not today when even if we lose we are still above United with three games coming up to give us a chance of staying there for a while yet !

Oh bugger.

Well from the shots on tv there were definitely two Polish keepers out warming up and as he is on the bench either Radio 5 Live are mistaken or its a very minor knock.

Rooney scores a tap in and once again the commentators melt and fawn at his wonderfulness ! Been **** all night !

No it was Jimmy Tarbuck......and he hasn't been found guilty of anything.....yet !

Totally agree. He was poor defensively in the Championship but got away with it due to the lower standard of players he was up against. Burnley fans told us on this very forum that whilst good going forward his defending was suspect. Let's not try to rewrite history and paint him as a hero in the promotion winning side when in reality he was fair or adequate.

Dyer had the beating of him time and time and time again. Bloke behind us had the radio on and Merrington said the same. I really dont know what you were watching.

I think maybe a fairer assessment will follow us playing a few more decent teams rather than those who have come to spoil (West Ham) so we have resorted to more direct tactics. Judge it after we have played everyone once. And what is their definition of a long ball I wonder ? Does a pass from one side of the pitch to the other without gaining any ground count ? I guess it does.

How times change. Back at The Dell the old guys who sat in front of me when I was a kid would without fail get the hip flasks out at half time and have a healthy nip of whisky. Good luck to you mirrorcarp, hope it all works out well, especially given you didn't actually bring the bloody flask in to the ground in the first place.

I wonder if he applies that rule to everything he has got wrong over the years ?

No thats right he didnt, and he wasn't that great the other night against Bristol City to be honest.

Yes and to be fair a hell of a lot of us on here did the same. Nice little article that, well done Jeff :-)

Thanks for saving me the trouble. I logged on this morning to say that virtually word for word.

No you dont. Liverpool fans have always been fair. Watch Matt's goals video to see their reaction.

Always too quick to criticise players who had made a mistake publicly. I always wondered how he would have reacted if a manager had done that to him when he was playing ! As soon as you lose the players you have had it.....and he lost them pretty quickly.

Just out of interest is Yoshida injured ?

At the moment, after 4 leaue matches no. Will he be after 24 league matches ? That will be the test.