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No we don't. He may be better than McC and enjoying a period of good form but we shouldn't be handing out multi-year contracts on the back of temporary spikes in form. I'd like to think we've been scouting better, more consistent players for several months, if not longer.

Has nobody told them that in 2 years time Ralph will be sitting on a beach earning 20%.

He looks like he's telling a bouncer, "Alright, I've had a couple, fair play."

TBH my only hope is that someone buys him cheap in summer, possibly one of the promoted clubs. We should never have bought him back, he seems to have brought little other than sentimentality.

I generally can’t stand most punditry these days, so I’m watching the IPL auction.

Didn’t we finish off at The Dell by beating United and Arsenal consecutively in our last two games? Everyone remembers Arsenal but I think United was the game where Pahars looked about 20 yards off but wasn’t.

Just off the M80 I think.

But they did ‘still have enough time to win this’, that’s not an unreasonable thing to say.

You’d think if everyone else started seizing the assets of Russian billionaires and blocking travel, one of them would have little Vlad assassinated eventually.

Liverpool at home in 2016 also springs to mind. Goals from Pelle and Mane.

So he's so good that you'd prefer to NOT play him, have worse results and leave him feeling frustrated and unappreciated? Should drop our chances of keeping him next season from 1% to 0%. FWIW he'll probably p*ss off to Spurs when they sell Kane to City.

TBF he will be raking it in for the next three years of his part time job. Fair play to his agent.

We haven't looked anything like 'relegation fodder' since the end of September and even then we'd picked up a few points from a tough start against United, City and West Ham. We're a far, far better team than Burnley, Watford and Norwich and have been for several months.

Thankfully Truss is never going to be asked to command a tank battalion or launch an AMRAAM against an Sukhoi, so I don't think she's a particular hindrance to the military. She's just the cheese loving face of the government, there will be hundreds of people with real brains making the decisions. Besides, Russia is hardly immune from bureaucracy, jobs for the boys, secret handshakes, yes men and arse covering. They will have their own internal problems in all this.

I thought that too. Unfortunately I can't help but like Pierce because of Robot Wars.

How unfit do you think they are? It's only a second game in three days for many of them, hardly unprecedented. The 'extra day to recover' line often gets trotted out but it doesn't seem to translate into an actual difference all that often.

Oh, is that where he was trying to play? I couldn't figure it out at the time.

I think there's a whiff of Vignal about him. Committed, French LB. Not a world beater but has the potential to be a bit of a cult hero with his tenacity.

Who could forget, the only 12 minutes of Alan Tchaptchet’s professional football career.

Love it when fullbacks have a smash from that kind of position, wish it had gone in. It’s the biggest difference between this season and last IMO. Having three quality fullbacks gives us the options and the rotation Ralph has been craving to play with this intensity. The second half of last season it was just KWP, when fit, and Bertrand stamping his timesheet on the other side.

Pearce just called Spurs offside free kick, "bad defending." Since when was holding your defensive line perfectly so that five attacking players are a good yard offside ‘bad defending’?

First on MotD, just starting.

Un Be F**king Lievable

Well, HT. I think we all know how it goes from here.