Lighthouse

Was it Fulham a couple of years ago who were going to qualify through the fair play league but didn't fancy it, so they kicked the crap out of the other team on the last day of the season.

4 away wins already is pretty good for us. In 04/05 we didn't get our 4th win home AND away until early March and won 1 away game all season.

As much as I rate Lovren, we've actually not lost a game since he has been injured. Before that we also picked up a win at Cardiff without him. I think the only loss this season when he was missing was at the Emirates. I think it shows how we aren't actually 'desperate' for another CB and our priorities in summer should lie elsewhere.

I've played football and badminton since I was at primary school and still enjoy both (getting on for about 20 years now). Done some other stuff I got bored of though. Used to run for about half an hour a day but only to maintain fitness and in the end decided to join a gym instead. Have also gotten into paintballing over the last year and I'm playing in my first 3 man tournament next weekend. Bricking it a little bit because all the other teams are bordering on professional marksmen and we're going to get murdered. Still, it's all part of the fun I guess.

It wont be easy but their form over the last 6 away games is lost 5 and a 0-0 draw at Hull. They don't travel well and if we play to our potential we should beat them. We were definitely the better team up at the Britannia and if Begovic had left his shooting boots at home we'd have won fairly comfortably IMO.

I think the perceived improvement in Carroll's reputation is down to the fact that we've had to watch Jozy Altidore 3 times this season. Compared to him Carroll looks like Baggio.

Carroll can't have any complaints about Flores making a meal of it anyway. My overriding memory of last years abysmal game at Upton Park is of Carroll rolling around on the floor clutching his face every time Hooiveld breathed in his general direction.

So you would have bet everything you own on it?

Should both be banned for those ponytails.

Right now I would say: Fulham - Have just been awful in both games against us. I can't really say anything good about them, they will just have to pray their new signings change something. Bottom for a reason. Cardiff - Inexperienced manager in OGS and they just aren't that good. Norwich - Don't see enough goals in them to stay up. I think Sunderland, Swansea and West Ham have a couple of decent players and will be okay eventually. West Brom and Stoke will go close but should be okay IMO.

Is anyone else's screen resolution completely messed up. Mine seems to be zoomed in a lot and I'm missing half the picture. Only seems to be on BBC1 so not just my TV.

But Cleverly plays for Man Utd, surely he must be better?

It's fairly obvious that the right player was not available at the right price. Don't forget we haven't sold Osvaldo and we probably received very little in the way of up front loan fees. As such, we probably don't have another £15m lying around spare we can chuck at another centre forward. Clearly those running the club have decided it's better to make do with what we've got, rather than paying the asking price for any strikers who we have probably been looking at. This isn't Championship Manager.

Where have you got that from? Sky are reporting about £15m, which I would say is about right.

Well, she's definitely heading South.

No, it's just some bloke. Twitter is just the 21st century equivalent of, "a guy in a pub reckons..." I'd say it's fairly obvious Osvaldo is off.

Anatoli Todorov, he would sort out our striker issues.

Players who lack match practice are going to make errors, that's why Yoshi made a poor error against Villa. It's no different so Gallagher's 'horrendous' error against Arsenal, when he missed a chance to put us 2-0 up from 5 yards out. You can't expect players to instantly come into a team and be consistent. When Maya played last season he was our best CB IMO. He is definitely good enough for where we are and if the rumours are to be believe he wants out for first team action. That's the problem, you can't have 4 Lovrens in the squad because 2 of them will know they are far too good to sit on Southampton's bench and become unsettled. We're one Lambert injury away from being forced to play Gallagher every week.

Which aspects of Yoshida's performance against Arsenal did you feel weren't up to standard? I don't see the problem with him at all personally. I don't think Jos is as bad as some would have us believe either. He has a mistake in him but the worst part of his game was removed today; Fox. You wont find many better 4th choice centre halves at mid-table Premier League teams. In an ideal world we would have someone better but I don't think it's a priority. I'm more concerned about our second choice striker being an 18 year old who made his debut this month and our second choice 'keeper being badly flawed at Premier League level.

Why? We have 4 centre halves but only Lambert who has proven he can lead the line and he is out of form.

11th May

You have no idea what the club has been doing behind the scenes over the last couple of months. We could have been chasing targets which would have broken Osvaldo's transfer fee but the deal couldn't be agreed for whatever reason. There is still another day of the transfer window we may yet sign a player, even though it does look unlikely.

I don't think it particularly matters that much. That £1.8m was an investment on getting us promoted and to that extent we have made a large profit on him. We might not even get £500k, it might be simply a case of moving him on for the sake of his career and getting him off the wage books.

I thought nobody else was bothered so I gave up Agree though, the Caterham is butt ugly. The Force India is also a creature only a mother could love. Will be difficult not to laugh the first time we have contact at the first corner and end up with a couple of carbon dildos lying in the middle of the track.

Nope. Ian Harte believe it or not.