Lighthouse

CDAJF a bottom half team but if we're aiming for top 6 again next season I'd say no. If only Turkish were still here to see this thread. He always knew Michail would make it at the top level.

What do we fancy in the Liverpool Man Utd game tomorrow? Got to be a draw surely, leaves us chasing Utd in 4th and 4 points behind. Anything but Utd really.

Spurs winning thanks to a dodgy penalty, a flukey own goal and Harry Kane bailing them out. Who'd have thought.

I think we should just shout "Steeeeeeeve!" It was his favourite chant.

That's a good angle actually. I think he could also pull off a camp Latino fashionista, so to speak. Or perhaps a gun grazed, PTSD Vietnam veteran signing off every post with, "You don't know man, you weren't there!!" I'm sure he will surprise us all with something new and original.

I'm sure Turks will be back in some capacity. I think he should come back under the disguise of a lady and attempt to befriend sue.

Henry played in the Prem for 8 years. Rooney 13 and counting. Rooney is going to be England's top goalscorer again Estonia, Luxembourg and Belarus. His only World Cup goal in 3 attempts was a 2 yard tap in against the mighty Uruguay. He hasn't looked decent in any tournament for 11 years. He is overrated.

Which is why it needs to be a joint, unified effort. The various nations involved need to realise FIFA have more to lose here. People don't watch FIFA tournaments so they can look at the lovely pretty FIFA logos, they do it to watch the greatest teams from around the world. Given the choice of watching Italy against Brazil in an unaffiliated tournament, or a World Cup final between Qatar and Malta, which would you go for?

Not far off the best squad we've got available to be fair. Just shows how little genuine English talent there is. Gibbs, Shaw and Townsend are the obvious WTF candidates. On the up side I'm glad he's had the balls to drop Chambers and Lambert. Sends the right message out about leaving regular football to go and sit on a big club's bench.

What's the point in dropping players in order to avoid a ban? If we leave him out of 2 games anyway, what do we achieve? We aren't good enough to go leaving out our best players against anyone. We got mugged off at home Swansea, we'll look a right bunch of Muppets if we go leaving out our best players and lose to Burnley.

To be fair Lambert, Lallana and Lovren weren't great at playing on the bench last season. In fact they ended up starting most games, so Rogers has added that dimension to their game.

I think that put us about 13th in the form table from memory. Pretty decent I thought considering he had no time, no money and took over a club in free fall.

I'm pretty much the same, only with terrible body odour.

Tadic obviously off to Liverpool in summer. Been tapped up by Gerrard at the World Cup or something.

Neither, he only says it to annoy others and draw attention to himself. God alone knows why he hasn't been banned.

Looks like he handled it to me. Okay he was a bit irritable but it's not as if he broke down in tears. I think the idea that a decent manager should lose his job because he doesn't put on the same bland, tedious interviews as everyone else to be quite sickening. WGS did stuff like this all the time. I remember him once refusing to answer a journalists question after his phone went off. There was another post match interview where all you could hear in the background was David Moyes going mental at Marian Pahars. Effing and shouting, he completely lost his rag but didn't lose his job for it.

This year's best selling book in Lancashire. Couldn't find it anywhere in the Waterstones in St Helen's, must be sold out.

So taking Leicester to the Premier League is largely irrelevant you feel, it's more important to have a media friendly rent a quote, PR man in charge?

Don't see anything particularly wrong with that, yes Pearson was quite abrupt and obviously a bit irritable but it was hardly a Keegan style 'I would love it!' interview. To be honest I don't really watch interviews any more because they same almost exactly the same things every time. Just pick whichever clichés you like from this list Great result/disappointing result The lads are obviously disappointed Not looking at the league table One game at a time The result is more important than scoring We don't think about what everyone else is saying We've got what it takes to stay up/qualify for Europe/win the league We'll be back working hard in training on Monday. There are no easy games. The supporters were fantastic I love playing here I will play whatever position the manager asks me to They (the oposition) are a great team (or 'a tough team' if the opposition is infact sh*te)

Who does your uncle play for?

I've heard we're going to have J Rod put down. It's sad but it's the kindest thing for him.

Burnley come to St Marys, fresh off the back of a win against Man City. However that was only their second win since beating Saints at Turf Moor in December and the Clarets have only won once on the road all season (at Stoke). Incidentally, Burnley's last points away from home came in a 1-1 draw at Chelsea. I'm not sure on the team. On the one hand I want to stick with Long up front. On the other, Burnley are likely to sit far deeper than Chelsea did and Long would have a lot less space to run in to.

We thumped Everton without both of them so it's not the end of the world if they do miss a couple of games.

I'm going to trust the maths and hope for a draw. 4 points dropped by our rivals instead of just 3 for a defeat. If we assume it's going to be a Liverpool Arsenal Cup final, I don't think it makes much difference if we finish 5th or 7th. 2-0 now. Utd win is exactly what we don't need. Hope Spuds defend like this at St Mary's.

Aged 30 years watching that but an excellent point. The second half is a different game if Dean hadn't bottled sending off Matic. He even went for his pocket, then realised he didn't have the nerve.