Lighthouse

You and I clearly have vastly differing definitions of the word brilliant. Tragic, tedious or predictable would have been more apt.

I think he meant it's sad that we don't want our players in the squad. Normally I'd want our players to get recognition but with our fixtures I'd rather they get a rest.

Somehow I think he might have been.

I thought he was largely excellent for us last season. Every bit as physical as Wanyama but more cultured on the ball and less of a card magnet. I'd say he was intended as VW's replacement when we signed him as the club would have known he didn't want to extend his contract.

In other news, Wanyama has been booked.

We're not in Israel now FFS.

We're due a win at Leicester. Been 9 years since we did anything other than lose there by my reckoning (the year they got relegated to League 1, when we beat Sheff Utd on the last day).

I think it's loudly been whispered by the club that we may see him on the bench against the whippet f**kers after the break, same with J Rod. Looking forward to the game personally.

Did we win yet?

I'd still have taken a night in my own home TBH, with my loved ones and creature comforts I'd find it much easier to relax. Leicester's not all that far really, either.

Is Morgan injured? Hasn't made the 18 for Utd today.

As good as they have been, their bench looks fairly ordinary, compared to the bigger teams like Utd, City and Chelsea. The real test will come when they get a couple of injuries, later on in the season.

Because, you know, they live there and stuff. Are they really going to feel better for spending 2 nights in a hotel in Leicester?

If we had put out a team of reserves and kids, I'd have been p*ssed. We didn't though, we just rotated players with others who are more than capable. The likes of Yoshida, Clasie, Long and Martina are all good enough to get a decent result and we did.

Interestingly, Matt just made exactly the same argument on SS.

Everton have cashed in on an astonishing easy set of opening fixtures but haven't really been anything special. We can certainly beat them this season.

Ya, RLY!!

It's a flight and a coach journey, not the Paris Dakar rally. 5 hours on what will basically be a business class private jet, drinking orange juice and watching Game of Thrones on an iPad shouldn't take that much out of them.

Excellent job IMO. Rotate the squad, keep a few players fresh for the league and come away from a tough away game unbeaten and without injuries.

We're limited by the injuries to J Rod and Boufal to an extent, I'd go with the same team who started at the London Mortuary last week.

Pulis came on as a sub in preseason once. He looked dreadful. Dreadful in a team of leftovers, after we'd sold the best players from our worst team in 50 years. Think he had a shot which went into row Z AND went out for a throw in. Might have been one of those preseason games when Jo Tessem randomly turned up for a kick about. Darren Powell, Christ he was bad. One of those players who was always injured, then got fit and you'd wish he was injured again.

I presume you take similar issue with USA, Mexico, Brazil and Australia. You will also be emigrating from Britain immediately, in protest at the violent way in which Anglo Saxon invaders seized control from the ruling Roman Empire.

Romain Gasmi, anyone? Tomas Pekhart, Jordan Robertson, Zoltan Liptak, Oscar Gobern, Lloyd James, Olly Lancashire. I find it equally tragic and hilarious that they were all first team players in the same season. That's not mentioning Forecast and Pulis on the bench.

No, he makes at least one error per game which leads to Forster having to rush out and make a slightly rushed clearance under pressure. Can't remember the last goal in which Yoshida was directly at fault but it wasn't this season. Meanwhile Fonte has had 3.

Based on that game, Gardos is as good as Mané.