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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.

Having had to miss the Sunderland game but having seen the Real Sociedad friendly I was looking forward to seeing Wanyama yesterday. After about 30 mins I found myself asking in what way he was worth 12 million or better than Cork. Looked to me like at half time someone told him to start passing the bloody ball forward and he was much improved. I will be very interested to see how he develops over the next few months.

No its not you, I said that to the old man yesterday. Truth of the matter is that high energy pressing game died a death after a while last season too. We only seemed to play it against the top sides like Chelsea. Man City and Liverpool. When we were told that it was a fitness issue and that MP was doing a quick fix because there were certain things he couldnt introduce until pre-season I'm afraid I totally bought that. I dont know why its vanished, I thought and hoped it was the way forward. Perhaps it will make a return at Anfield on Saturday as its the first top team we have faced this season.

You can say that again. The Jay Rod one in the first half was terrible, it was like a four year old seeing how far he could kick it in front of him ! Osvaldo must wonder what the hell he has come to !

Why drop one of those two ? Why not Jay Rod or Lallana ?

Unfortunately i have to agree.

Can narrow it down to three but if pushed would have to go with this one as well.

Wasn't Roger Johnson always accused of being a skate cos he always wore blue shirts when he used to do the sport for South Today ? Ridiculous.

If you only watched or judged the second half performance that is true. If you watched or judged the first half performance there is absolutely no way you could come to that conclusion.

He hasnt physically been banned from Staplewood, just told he wont train with the first team.

I think Danny Fox lives in Bournemouth so he's quite close to me.....probably closer than he ever is to the guy he's supposed to be marking during a game