Lighthouse

It is. Check his post history if you can be arsed.

Sony are Japanese.

Being a bit bored and flicking through Youtube, I ended up watching old videos of Robot Wars. That was a good show, any other fans on here? Razer was my favourite. That was one mean looking robot and it used to chew holes in pretty much everything.

I remember when Kosowski signed too. Didn't think it was that special.

If Davis is out it will be Yoshi at the back and Toby in the middle with JWP. It may well be that anyway with Davis further forward with (hopefully) Long and Tadic. Reed wont be starting.

Jeez, don't be such a soppy wet blanket. Last night was disappointing but people saying it was 'the worst game they have ever seen' and 'as bad as losing 8-0', come off it. We beat Blackpool in the Cup when we were in League 1 and they were in the Premier League. I think I will remember the 8-0 a bit longer than that somehow. It's a cup upset, they happen in every round. Give it a couple of years and even games like United losing to MK will be forgotten.

Couldn't give less of a sh*t how 'even' we are with Hull. We shouldn't have bought Long for any money IMO, he is and always has been a decent Championship/bottom half Prem player.

To me his signing still doesn't make sense. I could tell before we signed him that he wasn't particularly good. His scoring record at this level is poor and he isn't exactly velcro-boots when it comes to hold up play and bringing those in around him. I just don't see how professional football scouts, coaches and managers can think he is worth £12m when any casual Saturday afternoon fan can tell he isn't. Please don't give me the 'he offers something different' argument either. Running around a lot and not scoring is different but it isn't good. It's like saying Mane is good because he is 'unpredictable'. Just because he has toblerone feet and half of his crosses get spooned into the car park.

Agreed. Apart from maybe Tommy Forecast ... Oh and Anthony Pulis ... and Romain Gasmi ... and Sarmiento, Tejera, Poke, Gazzaniga, Robertson, Pekhart, Bignall, N'Guessan, Pericard, Wright, Makin, Nilsson, Jackobsson, Van Damme, Bernard, James, Kenton, Cranie, Falque, White, Holmes, Gillett, Euell, Gobern, Lancashire, Thompson, (World Class) Ryan Smith, Paterson, Bennett and Pernecky But apart from that, the worst player. Oh, and Darren Powell.

Every missing player seems to be the answer. For a while this season it was JWP. It has also been Morgan, Victor, Davis, Toby and (for some weird reason) Reed. We let Gaston go because we replaced him with Mane. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but at the time it seemed a sensible enough decision. In 2 years we've not had much return from Gaston and his beefy wage packet.

We've had plenty of games which were as bad or worse than that. It's barely 2 years ago we lost 6-1 to Arsenal and Sunderland in the Cup was as bad last year. There were plenty of dreadful games the season we went down from the Championship and a fair few the year before when we narrowly stayed up. Losing at Bristol Rovers in the Cup was easily as bad as tonight

Do you know for a fact he is fit enough to play 3 games in a week?

Yeah funny how 91 out of the 92 clubs always seem to blow it. There was me thinking 6 or 7 teams would win the League Cup this year but everyone seems to be blowing it again. At this rate there will only be 2 teams left by the time we get to the final.

No, tonight was our big chance at having a less than 25% chance of winning something. It was a quarter final, nothing else. There were 7 other teams all trying to win this competition.

Me, I'd have signed Yarmolenko for £12m instead of Long. Personally I don't want either of them in our squad but obviously I'd rather have £12m in the bank than £4m.

Yes. We knew we needed another striker before our poor form. Lambert wasn't the answer then and he isn't now. There are better strikers out there, Lambert is slowing and not getting any younger.

To be fair, he does run this website.

That bench is dreadful. That probably is our best side though.

So you have just described our best youth player as playing terrible, then say we need to play others who aren't as good?

Just out of interest, what would you have done differently tonight?

1 game. It's not violent conduct.

Why so people say this based on absolutely nothing. The coaches who watch these players every day don't think they are ready for first team action yet. Throwing some bright young prospect into a game like this and watching him getting battered by some League 1 clogger isn't going to do him our us any good. It's the sort of thing Redknapp used to do to prove his squad was 'bare bones innit'.

That's easy to say when things aren't going well. From what I saw there wasn't any real lack of effort, just a lack of creativity and cohesion up front. We're trying but without Pelle and Tadic in their early season form, we just aren't the same team.

Is Mane out to prove he is useless?

Apparently their isn't one suitable or we'd have done it.