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And I can honestly see Morgan in a Barcelona or Madrid shirt next season.

Doesn't actually matter how well he does for Liverpool, if he starts 5+ times between now and March he'll be in the England squad.

He could be unbelievable, Jeff.

First time I've seen Jed Wallace play. Gotta say, I wouldn't pay £1 for him given how easily the Aldershot defence are dealing with him, never mind £1 million.

Sturridge out till 2015... the perfect platform for Rickie Lambert to become a club legend.

Very good goal, Wiltshire's not completely useless after all! You can tell Townsend's already decided to give him MotM.

Have we got two Reeds now? Excellent.

Sounds familiar... Lallana when he got his first call up, anyone? Doesn't seem to be an issue now he plays for the 'Pool.

More end product than Shaw...

Blind injured. Unlucky United

England 0-0 Slovenia Posted at26 mins Nathaniel Clyne has been the bright spark for England so far. He makes himself available once more and Danny Welbeck puts him in, but his low cross is defended well. Freeing Clyne down the right looks like England's only real route to goal yet.

This season everybody predicted we would be in a relegation battle, if not dead last in the Premier League. We're proving them wrong in a huge way; I think that's one of the main differences. Last season we were expected to be a mid-table club, not relegation candidates.

The argument here isn't whether or not it was rape - that's already been decided by a jury of his peers and a judge. The issue is whether or not he should be allowed back into a high-profile job, acting as a role model to children that grow up watching football and admiring footballers. Personally, I don't think he should be allowed back into the professional game - though why you'd want to sign someone that hasn't player for two and a half years is beyond me. Ultimately though, it won't be the moral issue that will decide the matter for Sheffield United, it will be the financial one of their sponsors threatening to terminate their contract. I expect he'll leave, maybe drop down a division, and keep playing for a team more desperate for a striker.

0-2 at half time please, get Morgan and Pelle off to avoid them picking up more cards, settle back for a comfortable victory. Oh, and if I could have a Ferrari 458 as well that would be great, cheers.

Quite surprised at the conservative scoreline predictions here, though I guess that just becomes habit after supporting Saints through the bad times as well as the good. If we're seriously targeting European football next season this is the kind of game we should be winning. Provided there are no high-profile injuries from the internationals (I imagine Clyne and Forster will be fine sitting on the bench), we should win by at least 0-2.

Really really poor game from him so far. Clyne will be fuming when he starts ahead of him for England.

Makes a nice change from the end of last season when every time a player was mentioned by name, he was being sold to various teams!

Bertrand, with the hypothetical caveat of us keeping Wanyama and Morgan. With those two in DM, and Yoshida's early season form, I don't think our defence would suffer too much if Toby were called back to Madrid. I'm not sure I'd want to be relying on Targett at LB for a full season though (yet!).

Yep, 2-2, Pompey with 10 men, about 2 minutes left.

So you're losing 2-0 at half time to Stoke and you take your best player, Eriksen, off? Not sure I see the logic there, unless he picked up an injury.

Robert Green: still useless. At fault for the second goal, got fortunate with Dunne on the line from his terrible kick and subsequent rubbish dive.

They're finally seeing his qualities that we've seen for the last two seasons, especially his defensive ones. A bargain at £30million for 15+ years, assuming no terrible injuries. Might even get a look in ahead of Baines now that he's at Man U!

If we stay in second no doubt we'll get a few of them jumping ship to us

One of the biggest problems I saw with our team last season was the limit of options off the bench. But this season, we're pretty sorted - nobody's going to complain about having players of Cork and Long's talent coming on, and with JRod and JWP to come back, and perhaps Gallagher if he's deemed good enough, puts us in a far better position than last year. If we can get GK sorted then we could alternate between two teams every week!

I'm bored at work, just spent 20 minutes reading through this thread. Golden stuff.