Lighthouse

I suspect he is being bullied at school and comes on here to vent, don't be too harsh on him.

Yes, that's the whole point

Yoshi has been easily as good as Fonte this season, who already played midweek. The goals will come eventually for J Rod, I'm not sure who you'd rather play instead.

Didn't we sell them Rory Delap?

Before you despair too much, please reread the bit in bold.

Rickie was over the hill 3 years ago and has done bugger all since he left. He is a Championship standard player now and the crowd would be far from excited watching him plod around after the shadows of opposing players.

You're thinking of another south coast team.

Well, you could just live without one mate

I'd much rather get rid of Long than J Rod in January, as the former has always been a distinctly average player. J Rod has shown signs recently of being back on form and has been very close to 3 goals against Prague, Boro and Stoke.

Lucky for you it's not for sale.

Got to take my hat off to a truly master troll. Amazing how he can make an entire forum talk about him, week after week.

I'd like to see someone put together a crack team of those two, Barton, Keane, Pepe, Diouff and Bowyer. I'd pay to watch.

I agree, I can see Stoke winning but shipping 3 goals is most unlike us. If it weren't for a couple of howlers, destined for a Danny Dyer, Christmas stocking blooper DVD, we wouldn't have let in 3 at Palace. I think maybe 2-1 to them. They take a 2-0 after a sluggish first hour from Saints, then we get a late goal back from a corner.

If he is, he has taken trolling to an all new level of pseudo-ironic self mockery. TBH I'm not really sure who I admire the most. alpine and Dalek, who despite being incredulously dull and repetitive still somehow get a rise out of posters who have been here long enough to know better. Or Charlie/Glasgow/Gunnery/Heisenberg/Dusic/Ice2eskimos/9-3/Richmond/Robbie/lastman73 and his/her/their relentless trolling, even to the point of arguing with their own alter-egos.

The most Arsenal thing ever to happen to Arsenal.

Ben Arfa who is playing regular Champions League football with PSG, on pretty big wages Sturridge who: Is regularly injured at Liverpool Has a bit of an attitude and wouldn't try hard Has huge wage demands Is a very selfish player and has done f**k all of note since Suarez left They wouldn't let leave anyway Celebrates goals like a monumental helmet.

Can't say I'm all that bothered about watching a friendly in 3 years, personally.

I went to that, we basically battered them but only scored 1 of the 20 shots we had, whilst they scored something like 3 out of 4. Very frustrating but we were much the better team. Think it was a Friday night too.

We've had plenty of performances as bad as Prague or BS. Everton at home last season was about as bad as it gets. We've lost at home to some gash like Cardiff and QPR too.

So was that on Boxing Day?

Can't speak for the rest of the forum but I've always thought he was a decent enough player. Probably a decent long term replacement for Davis.

As dull as that was to watch in the first half, there were some positives. Clasie had one of his best games for us and we were generally untroubled at the back. I also felt J Rod looked decent, even if he did miss that sitter. He gets into positions Austin would be nowhere near and I'd be more tempted to keep him than Long, given a choice between the two. Boufal' goal - belting but as with Thursday we seemed to settle for the bare minimum and didn't really pursue a second goal. Disappointing to watch and risky.

It's not the case. Glasgow is lying to gain attention.

It's fairly obviously the case. We have the same number of attacking players as we've had the last couple of seasons. The problem is some of them just aren't good enough, namely Long and J Rod. If they, and Boufal, were playing consistently well we wouldn't be having this conversation. If you are expecting more than one striker in, you are likely to be disappointed.

More likely Long. I half expected this sort of form from J Rod but as little as I rate Long, I expected a bit more than 0 goals in 1/3 of a season.