sadoldgit

Urgh! I thought it was only one match for a second yellow?

rocker

When did it become a "policy" to sell every summer? Our hand may have been forced during the last two summers and might be again this summer by certain players but there is a difference in pragmatically letting people go who are in the last year of their contract and selling players per se.

If you are a reasonable height with reasonable pace and a decent defender you should be able to play either CH or FB without too much trouble.

Is a mini Fontes head a euphemism?

Lose the next two home league games and I might just join the Dark Side.

The man has played at the top level and aspires to manage at the top level. He has said himself he doesn't like to lose. You might think that he is disinterested but that is purely your opinion. There is a big difference about losing interest and being frustrated.

Me neither.

It is one thing to write off a relegation battle, it is another to say, or behave if, we are in one right now.

Van Dijk, Clasie, Soares all Internationals. Are they really crap?

People seem to forget that we played plenty of matches last year when we were good in one half and poor in the other, but we got away with it whereas this season we haven't. There is a fine line between success and failure and we wont know until the end of the season where we figure on that spectrum, but to write us off as a failure at this point of the season and when we are 13th is somewhat previous.

lubricant

Thanks for the name check but I suspect that he would be more worried if he found that he was agreeing with your posts. And I do love the phrase "contrary to everything anyone posts" having just said that I have agreed with something he wrote. Isnt that a bit of a, erm, contradiction?

Sadly the irony is completely lost on Alps.

Perhaps if we were in a relegation dog fight you might have a point but we are not at this point in time. We are 7 points above third from bottom and 7 points from being 7th. With one or two exceptions we have not been terrible this season and with better finishing we wouldn't be having this conversation (well some of you would). Everton has been hld up us a team we should aspire to being like. Guess what, we are 3 points away from them! You also seem to forget the total meltdown on here before a ball was kicked last season. There are a bunch of you who seem doom round every corner and you climb out of the woodwork when things are not going so well only to disappear again when they do. If there is any sneering then it is because there are some who do not seem to enjoy finding things to ***** about. And when you say the rest of the fanbase is down I think you will find that it is only the bedwetters who are down. The rest of us realise that being midtable is nothing to slit your wrists about and are looking forward to better results rather than spending time predicting the worse.

We have spent when we haven't had any choice due to players leaving. We are not a club that spends a lot of money in mid season and we are not a club that spends to speculate.

Well, if it happens I guess it will make a few on here happy. Personally I hope it doesn't but nothing surprises me in football. Ron will have known before he joined that this club doesn't flash the cash so I am hoping it is b*ll*cks.

Yet this team wiped the floor with the likes of Arsenal! We need to play our strongest team and I am afraid that doesn't include Yoshi.

Post of the day.

water

In retrospect it might not have been the best option, but at the time, if Middlesbro come and ask for him why was it stupid? I am sure we assumed that they wanted him because they wanted to play him.

I am sure it is just cover. But then if anything happens to Fonte or VvD then that is a worry!

You would like to think he put on Ramirez because he thought he would make more of a difference. What he was expected to do from the 87th minute though is anyones guess.