Lighthouse

Which senior player would you say he is keeping off the bench?

Clearly the coaches who have been training him for a large part of his development don't feel Reed is ready yet for big League games. I'm not sure why the clamour for a player who nobody has seen play a proper first team competitive match before. Remember the summer of 2008 when some people were championing our new young team and the benefits of our academy. I would have thought Jamie White and Lloyd James would have put most people off throwing kids in at the deep end.

I don't see the appeal in Guidetti TBH, he has only ever done it in Holland and Scotland but had little impact at Burnley and Stoke. One thought that did occur to me was Januzaj on loan. He doesn't seem to be getting any game time with Rooney, Falcao, RVP, Mata, Di Maria and Fellaini all ahead of him.

More likely it's different people.

A month to go until the sales are on, no doubt the club have already been doing their homework and a few cracks in our squad are starting to appear. If a Championship quality player like Mayuka is getting on the pitch, I would suggest we definitely need more fire power up front. Let's open up the floor to wild rumours of houses being bought in Winchester, dodgy photos taken through a hotel window, ear lobes, friends who do player medicals at Solent Uni and of course Carsten Janker. I would suggest we need an AM, ST and in a perfect world permanent deals for Ryan and Toby. Edit: Youtube compilation videos and Football Manager stats are mandatory for every suggestion.

I don't really get why Koeman sent him on and wasted our last sub. I know he couldn't have predicted Toby's injury but that is always the risk when you use all three subs. I would only use the third sub if you needed to make a definite, game changing decision or maybe if the game is already beyond doubt. To waste it on a nothing sub like Mayuka just seems odd when we were on course for a pretty decent point.

Pom... ah f**k. A nice easy home game for me please. Plenty of big guns over the X-mas period as it is. No doubt whoever we draw will be 'boring' to people who were expecting the 1970 Brazil team.

On the bright side, we've now gone to Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs, lost by one goal and deserved a point in all of them. Perhaps at home those games would have swung the other way, who knows. A bitter pill to swallow but saw it coming after Toby went off. Just hope the queue outside the treatment room isn't too long after this.

Nobody, it was a pointless substitution. Mayuka has done f**k in his Saints career.

Couldn't have written a worse script than that. Saw that goal coming a mile off.

Perfect, just what we needed

He's got good moobs though.

F**k sake Long.

You know the atmosphere is rocking when you can here one bloke coughing in the crowd on TV.

Are Leicester still putting our start 2 years ago to shame?

So Lovren's dream move to Liverpool has basically turned into what? 12 Premier League starts and 3 in the Champs League.

The joke posted by Mario (and the comments made by Dave Whelan) have nothing to do with the Holocaust. You can't use the gas chambers as an argument against Jews being money grabbers because the two are completely unrelated. How many Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman jokes have you heard where the punchline is the Irishman saying or doing something a bit thick? Imagine if every time you said a joke like that, an Irishman said, 'oh you can't say that about the Irish... something about the IRA etc. etc.'

There are double standards when it comes to Jewish jokes I feel. Nobody bat's an eyelid when someone makes an 'Americans are stupid/fat' joke or when Americans make an 'English people have dodgy cockney accents and terrible dentistry' joke. I don't see any real difference between than and saying Jews are tight b**tards. There is a danger of 'boy who cried wolf' with this. If people keep becoming offended at relatively trivial issues then they are less likely to be taken seriously in the event of actual prejudice.

It's a bit of a lazy stereotype but is it really that offensive? I guess it's down to specific individuals if they feel offended or not. TV shows like Family Guy show stuff like this all the time. I saw an episode last night when they put a bomb in a Jew's wallet which detonated when he opened it. Two weeks later he was still alive. I don't think there is any malice in stuff like this as it's not really meant to be serious.

Yes it is, it takes one heck of a lot of crap football to finish 17th. It would be like watching Wigley and Redknapp again, except with a win over Man Utd on the last day.

Can I just check the rules here. If losing to the team in second means we can't finish top 4, what happens if we lose to the team in 10th? I mean, we can't not finish in the top 20, or do we just get kicked out of the league?

Because they believe he will be a good player in the future. He was probably on the bench as much to make up the numbers as anything today. It's hardly as if he was keeping a better player out of the match day squad.

In South West Ireland He bottled it No need to wine Sorry, I got a Black Friday discount on sh*t puns.

Beaten by a better team in City. Time to take the soiled knickers off and stick them in the wash because the games are coming thick and fast. Wednesday night trip to the M rats. I'd be tempted to start Long instead of Mane. Hopefully Morgan is fit and Cork recovers from his illness.