Pamplemousse

I'm confident we're going to win. I really hope it's comfortable but I have a feeling it will be a nervy tight game and McCarthy will keep us in it with a series of spectacular saves.

They were in Southampton for this http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/stand-up/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-comedy-central-live

Also puts to doubt the muppets who think they'd beat us easily. They really wouldn't, if we were to draw them in the cup we'd win with ease. We could name our reserves and still beat them.

Adrian has always had problems with reality. He thinks a new manager will magically solve all our problems and we'll get to the Champions League just like that. Best to ignore his views, it's just the usual nonsense.

Jake Hesketh just scored for Burton at Fratton

Hahahaha Jake Hesketh just put Burton Albion in front away at Portsmouth!

1-0 up now. Who was it trying to claim that Leicester were about to sack him, was it SKD again?

Standard

We simply have to win. They're bottom of the league, zero excuses if we get less than three points. At home against teams of a similar quality to us, we have been table to take the lead (Leicester and Brighton), so if we can maintain that side of things and show our defensive capabilities as we did against Bournemouth, we should be able to get the three points.

The standard of MLS is terrible. The attacking quality I would argue at the moment is Championship standard, the defending League 2.

Promote

Yup, I expected the worse and happy to be proved wrong. Bournemouth weren't at the races but defensively we looked solid. McCarthy didn't have a lot to do and that's down to us stopping their play.

Long was superb when he came on, caused them all sorts of problems.

Newcastle is the must win game, I said I'd be content with 4 points from these 2 games.

I only watched the second half, but we were the better team. Bournemouth, as always, bottle it against us. They almost looked scared

What game were you watching?

For that team selection alone I’ve changed my mind on Hughes. OUT now.

I just want us to go 4-2-3-1

As much as I would like him to come here, I think he's got his sights a lot higher than us. Unless we've completely changed our strategy and are going to be throwing mega bucks around.

Order

After Pellegrino left Alaves, they hired a guy called Abelardo. Now Alaves are currently top of the league in Spain... Would he come here, surely we can offer more money.

Total

I'll be judging him after the next two games. No wins in either of them and I'm afraid my judgement will be that we'll need a new manager. I do expect us to beat Newcastle at home, so that's the big game. Knowing us though he'll be judged in March when it's too late.

Yeh, in terms of achievements this century, Koeman has to be top, then it goes: Puel Strachan Pochettino Adkins (would be higher obviously but I'm going by Premier League only for this list) Sturrock Pellegrino Wigley Redknapp Relative to the strength of the squad, Puel would be top by a country mile.

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