Lighthouse

He was more involved because he came on with 20 minutes left when we were 3-0 down and the game was already over. Just look at the goal he scored; he didn't sprint through their defence because he has suddenly acquired an extra 5 yards of pace. Spurs defenders were in the bar when he scored that goal and in second gear from 60th minute onward.

He did bugger all under Puel or MoPe either. He's a show off with a bad attitude.

It's his knees I was, am and all ways will be worried about.

I was. No matter how many goals he scores this season, that guaranteed £20m signing clause was a ridiculous thing to do.

Leave it with me.

Not going to get my hopes up too high too early but I'd like to think he can instill some basic organisation into our squad by the weekend. If nothing else I hope we can focus/motivate certain players and cut out some of the individual errors.

I think it's one of those ancient Chinese proverbs from that book Nigel Adkins had, so probably written before the invention of guns. Interesting thought though, what's the biggest animal you reckon you could take in a fight?

As the saying goes, I'd rather face 1000 lions lead by a sheep than 1000 sheep lead by a lion. A good manager will have this squad safe and a couple of decent signing could see us mid-table. Put it this way - I'd rather be in our shoes than any of the other bottom 6.

1. ... that actually he WAS 2. So he rarely scores because he's never fit. That's no defence of a player. 3. Gabbiadini has 13 in 2 years. Ings has 4 this season. Austin has only outscored the hopeless Shane Long.

A shouty post match interview doesn’t make him any more passionate than anyone else in our squad. If he is a goal scorer, why has he just scored his first League goal - in December? It’s his 3rd League goal in 2018, his 15th in 3 years since he signed. He is not a goal scorer.

Put me down as one of those idiots. He may have scored a meaningless goal in injury time, against a team who were already in the showers but it’s still like having 10 men the rest of the time.

Wish this woman on SSN would keep her head still. It’s like watching a woodpecker.

I can't believe anyone still defends Long, he's dreadful. His hold up play is awful, he can trap a ball into the Itchen (the river not the stand). He frequently miss-controls or is offside, immediately giving possession back to the opposition. His heading is awful. He can jump and get his head on a ball but what happens when it leaves his head is a complete lottery. Last header I remember him scoring was against West Brom 2 years ago. I'm afraid I have no recollection of excellent crosses. I think he set one up at Watford last season from out wide but that's about it.

Elyounoussi has pace?! When did this happen? That team would get battered. In Stephens’ absence, many people seem to have decided he is an improvement on Hoedt. He isn’t. Davis is never a holding midfielder and even in his preferred role he’s well past it.

He's right though. Reed was appointed a year before we were promoted from League 1 and for all the good Cortese did (and I'm willing to give both of them enormous credit) he was sacked long before Reed for mishandling the clubs finances. Rebuilding the squad in 2014 to be not only competitive but better for the next 2 years is a decent achievement and more impressive than simply spending our way out of League 1.

Gallagher's record in the Championship is 'patchy' at best. 6 goals for Brum, double figures at Blackburn and 0 at MK Dons IIRC. I've played against blokes who were 6'2" and lightning quick in my old Monday night 5-a-side league but you've got to be good enough to go with that.

Sims doesn't get into one of the worst teams in the Championship. Ralph may well get the best out of our players; Gabbiadini, Redmond, Yoshida, Bertrand, Cedric and Romeu, for example, haven't performed at their best for a while. Some players like Sims, JWP, Long and Austin just aren't good enough and no manager is going to change that.

If we were going to infract people for being unfunny, we'd be here all night.

I'm still here, so I'm not sure it's medically possible.

This. Not the Skates. This lot are so weak mentally, they’d make the 2005 bottle job at Fratton look like a picnic.

Lambert and Bridge have done it.

Whereas if you're just completely making sh*te up to look like some sort of big shot, money bags, grand-master of sports betting, to try and get attention from strangers on the internet; you're a bit sad and your life isn't changing either way.

Double yellow can't be rescinded, unless they've changed some rule I wasn't aware of.

Quite a sad reflection on our squad that I both think he is useless and agree with this statement. I'm not writing him off because of the dosen or so games he played for us (although he contributed pretty much nothing, even against Wigan). It's more the entire career averaging about 5 goals a season against French pub teams. The fact that he was straight out the door after MoPe was sacked (despite being our record signing 6 months earlier) probably shows you how much the club actually rate him.

That's Verthongen suspended then.