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As wrong as I'd like to be, I can't see him being anything other than 5 yards off the pace if he played for us again.

Deserved but didn't get, you could say the same about Pompey. I don't think Connolly is the difference here. We dropped a lot of points away from home before he got injured as well as after.

Parts of 1 and 3 I'd say. -We miss an in form Lallana undoubtedly, although I wouldn't say he is the be all and end all of our problems. -We put in some very shabby performances at Derby, Burnley, Cardiff, Leicester and Reading before Connolly got injured, so it's not that. - The fixture lists are taking their toll, but they take their toll on everyone, hence we're still top of the League. I think it's a combination of injuries effecting Lallana and Chaplow, plus the fact that we had momentum at the start of the season. We had a winning mentality from League 1 as a lot of promoted teams do. Brighton had it, but theirs wore off a lot sooner than ours did. The true test will be the second half of the season. Which players can we attract in January, how well will they integrate and will we have enough to stay on top.

We said the same about Alex Chamberlain.

I'm not making judgement based on one game, that was just the game that stands out in the memory. He's had a lot of good games, but quite a few when I haven't been convinced.

Seriously? You're genuinely asking if Seaborne is better than Hooiveld? IF we were to get promoted this season, I wouldn't keep him. He struggled against some of the better strikers out there, notably against CMS at London Road last season. In the Championship I have yet to be convinced, although he hasn't had that much chance to prove himself.

Yes, I get the pun. Maybe I should have added a few ;) and to make it more obvious.

How does Noone getting injured mean they have a full squad?

I wouldn't change the team, other than Morgan being suspended. It's tempting to drop Lallana who hasn't done it since his injury, but we don't really have another option for the left side. Dickson, Holmes...

He started the season brightly, 4 in the first 5 games I think it was, but he has done b*gger all else since August. 1 goal since then, a relatively simple finish from that move of the centuary against Boro. He's not quick, he's not strong or good in the air and the last couple of games I saw him in he gave the ball away a lot. As for "doing well getting him to sign last year" I doubt he was beating away offers from Premier League clubs. Offered the choice of Connolly or someone 10 years younger with a bit of height or pace, I'd go for the latter.

Players I'd like to get rid of: Forte Dickson Puncheon Holmes Jaidi Connolly Forecast The last 3 wont be going anywhere and probably not Holmes either. Hopefully we can get something final for Puncheon. I'm getting pretty bored with players like him and Forecast sticking around and spending the whole season out on loan to 2 different clubs.

Get the f**k in Posh!!! :D

Apparently Navarro was booked for time wasting. I struggle to believe this.

Win at the Amex and last night is forgiven. You have to fancy your chances against a team with Taricco in it.

I still can't believe we (apprently) got Cork for £750k. If he were to go you'd be looking for 4 or 5 times that much. Quality player and still very young.

Christ, how did I forget those two, although they are Scottish so that would be more xenophobia than anything.

Well there it is then. Come on the Posh!! 1 point from Wham's 2 Christmas fixtures, you have to wonder/hope this might poison the fans and the dressing room. Especially if they end up out of the automatics this evening. Hopefully they will go for a few panic buys in January which don't work, then things will really turn against Sam.

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@ Mancs

It could have been such a great episode. India is a fascinating road trip and the concept of advertising British cars over there was a pretty good basis for an episode. Alas, Top Gear went and ruined with their puerile, slapstick behaviour. Hammond has got to go, he just acts like an 8 year old arguing with his older brother most of the time and apparently that's supposed to be funny. The bit where he is a valet and just chucks all the car keys in a bucket is silly and doesn't come close to being interesting or funny. The only parts of that episode I found at all funny were the banners on the train "SH I.T. For your business" and rewiring James brakes to set off the horn. Even that was on the lower brow of what I'd call funny. It's a shame really because I don't think TG is tired or has run out of ideas. They are just really badly executed and resemble something from Laurel and Hardy's cutting room floor.

In January Blackpool, West Ham and Brum were all 2 divisions above us. 8 months later we were above all of them in the league. Going from a team like maybe Walsall or Oldham to a team like Villa would seem an obvious choice. Going from a team chasing L1 promotion to a team near the bottom of the Prem maybe isn't so clever. Imagine if he'd gone to Wolves in January and they'd gone down. He'd look a complete tit now. Not saying he isn't loyal, but jumping from League 1 to the Prem isn't always as clever as it might look.

I think the encouraging thing is that we're top even with very poor away form. Obviously we've needed near perfect home form to maintain our possition, but if we can get close to that in the second half of the season and get 4 or 5 wins on the road, we shouldn't do too bad. 3 points at the Amex would be a most agreeable start to 2012.

West Ham have always been big spenders, I'm not sure why putting in a bid for a decent League 1 player would either surprise or annoy you.

Not a bad shout for a HCDAJFU. Will be 32 a month today, so isn't going to be a long term option, but if we could get him in cheap on an 18 month deal it would be good.

No complaints about that. Congrats Jose.