Lighthouse

Son is the player Shane Long fans think he is. Plenty of direct positive running but he does actually cause the defence problems, instead of just making them play a slightly earlier clearance.

When it comes down to margins that close, you can't really complain. The offside rule is to prevent people from goal hanging and ridiculous situations, like David Silva's goal against us a few years ago. If you're blaming officials for attackers being an inch, six inches or even a foot offside, you're just looking for an excuse.

Right down to selling our best player for a big fee in January, then squandering the money on mediocrity.

Don't be daft, don't you know there are some up and coming managers midtable in the Bulgarian first Division.

F**K off you useless bunch of gutless sh*t bags.

Chaplow and Cork, if you include loans.

Thankfully he is an absolute nobody with less than 100 followers, who just seems to re-tweet random, source-less rumours as "BREAKING..."

ITK as in repeating something widely rumoured in the press and on social media already, with no actual new info? I'd give him a 10... AR-10.

I'd play Gabbi instead of Long. Aside from that, the same team please.

-7 I think. I think I forgave Papa Waigo for wearing gloves in that one.

Funnily enough my Facebook feed reminded me of that fogged out penalty at Colchester, 8 years ago today. I made it to the ground 10 seconds before kick off and it was freezing. As with Leeds 10 days earlier, really wish I hadn’t bothered.

His name is The9 actually.

No to Sturridge. If he was ever fit enough to score a goal for us, I’d take a running jump accross the advertising board and do a reverse-Cantona into his face when he performed that goal celebration. Yes to Walcott.

No. This squad is capable of far better. 17th would probably mean sticking with MP and continuing with similar performances and results, only to stay up because 3 teams have served up more absolute dogsh*te than we have. A new manager and a couple of decent additions should see us comfortably midtable. We were crap last year and finished 8th, 10-14th really isn’t that hard.

Would any other club do what; accept a world record transfer fee for a defender, who doesn’t want to be here? Yeah, probably.

I voted in as I don’t think he has done an awful lot wrong. Yet. My one gripe with him was the Fonte saga in January. Fair play, getting £8m for old rope was pretty good business but doing it without a suitable replacement lined up was poor. Most of his other decisions though I was happy with. I’d much rather try new managers from abroad than jump on the Big Sam, Pardew, Pulis, Hodgson, McLaren, Moyes roundabout. We may get a few Puel and MPs through the door but we will also get a few Pochs (I know he was Nicola’s man but the point remains valid) and Koemans. Without the joy of hindsight, the decisions to appoint and sack Puel were correct, as was the decision to appoint MP. The acid test will be when he blinks on sacking MP, who he appoints and how we spend the money from Virgil. It’s a big month for Les, the jury is out as far as I’m concerned.

And a reasonable chunk of cash, which we needed at the time. This was at a time when Spurs were talking about loaning Bale to Forest and we were on the brink of administration. There are many valid criticisms of Lowe but I’d have probably done the same in that scenario.

Lovren can’t be too happy.

833 Riccardo Fullers.

Last year Long scored his first goal on New Years Eve, so you never know.

I’d personally say he hasn’t done much worse than Virgil. Saying he’s sh*t under this manager is a bit unfair really.

Looks like he will have plenty of time to play Monopoly with his missus.

This isn't blackface though, that refers specifically to wearing black makeup for the sole purpose of mocking black people. There is a huge difference in intent between doing that and dressing up as someone who happens to be black.

None of those things bare any relevance to this debate. If you honestly can't tell the difference between calling a black person a spade and dressing up as a Harlem Globetrotter then... something.