Lighthouse

Who would you say has been better run in recent seasons?

Actually he... f**k it, we're not going through this again.

This, basically. The reason we spent so much more money that anyone else was because we were a mid table Premier League club, in League 1 with a League 2 standard squad. We just shouldn't have been there.

Davide Astori to replace Gardos? What's Bierhoff up to these days?

Fonte will play unless he's injured, can't see Stephens suddenly jumping in the starting XI from nowhere. Apart from that the OP seems about right. Possibly Austin in place of Long, depending on what strategy Puel goes with.

Nothing will top Stefan Postma, getting his back door smashed in by some girl with a strap on.

Better than Gillett and Wotton from 2008.

Inclined to agree here. If those cup finals were matched by a noticeable league improvement, it would be a decent achievement. On their own they're rather less impressive and it just puts them in line with giants like Dnipro and Bradford.

I think we should at least wait for some evidence of that before we give him a new deal. I'd wait till he has 6 months left and if he is still playing well, give him a 1 year extension. No big clubs are going to come in and steal him, so there's no rush at all. Tadic I agree with. He's the one player I feel, no matter how sh*te we might be playing, can put in that one decent delivery that could earn us a last minute point, or even win.

Only 4 years? May as well be at Anfield already.

I thought the grammar was reasonable enough.

Wonder how well Sunderland will cope if and when BFS leaves. No doubt they will be dreadful for the first 30 games and miraculously stay up somehow.

I'm going for a tactical 3rd August. A relatively big name offensive (positionally speaking, I'm not talking about indecent exposure) player to boost attendance for the Athletic game on the following Sunday.

This is going to be Liverpool's year. Copyright 2016 And 2015 And 2014 And 2013 ... The team in 5th has just spent £100m on one player. It will take more than Mané and Wijnaldum to get Liverpool to the top.

Which is the problem, a like for like replacement of their 4th choice CB isn't going to improve them. If they want to do better than 8th, they need someone better than Lovren and Sakho. It would be like us when we got promoted, replacing Guly with Craig Mickail-Smith. Not going to help.

Some decent attacking options but their defence still looks sh*te to me. Ragnar Klavan, 12th in the Bundesliga last season, isn't the answer to their problems.

Was there anything to stop people printing off more than one copy and trying to get someone else in without paying. I assume the barcode would have been rejected the second time but I'll bet it caused a bit of a fuss.

Got mine a couple of days ago as a member but the only options were delivery and collection. I assume this is because I bought the ticket immediately after renewing my membership, so my smart card hadn't been 'activated' or whatever. Can't wait now, first opening day for me since Leeds in the Championship. Probably the same for most people actually since we've started away for the last 4 sodding years.

There is a certain irony to not relying on J Rod and Austin because of injury concerns, then suggesting we should sign AOC. I'd actually be underwhelmed with both the players you suggested.

Erdogan now 'purging' the country of anyone holding a differing ideology it would seem. Teachers, university deans, preachers, military leaders. This'll end well.

We will never know. I would wager Japan probably wouldn't have attacked an enemy who they knew could flatten entire cities with a single bomb. They were fanatical but not insane.

The Japanese high command knew they had 6 months to run riot in the Pacific before the US managed to properly gear up its naval capability. Their plan was to pretty much push America out of the Pacific in this period of time, so that they would eventually sue for peace. As a military strategy it was actually quite well thought out and might have succeeded had the battle of Midway panned out differently. The fact that the American aircraft carriers were out on a training operation when the Japanese attacked Pearl was also a major stroke of luck. Nukes absolutely would have made a difference, just look at how the war ended. Japan went from 'no surrender, every last man must fight to the death to defend the homeland' to unconditional surrender in 3 days, between Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Clothing should only go up to 2XL. If you don't fit into one of those sort your life out, fatty.

That's the fellar. Think he eventually ended up at Derby on a Latvian passport but didn't do much.

You're not getting the point of a deterrent. Russia would never launch nukes at us, knowing we had them too, that's the whole concept of mutually assured distruction. Put it this way, if you were in Downing St. With your finger on the red button, would you ever launch it at Russia? It's the same for them.