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Also noticed the immediate flags for offside rather than seeing the move out before flagging, it really keeps the flow and rhythm of the game. An offside is accidental by the attacking player, not a real offence so there’s no need for it to be a major stoppage (Arsenal try and fit a water break in), just put the ball down and take the free kick.

Maranakis will spend next weekend preparing his legal defence against suggestions of match fixing, meaning he will miss that days exciting 2-2 draw.

Was that the doctor Dra Cula ?

Lucky so and so, I got Kenilworth Road…….

Hey Jamie, there was a cake but the post office queue was long and the inevitable happened. Hic. Have a red bull and champagne cocktail on me tonight, great stuff, a living legend doing his thing, gives me goosebumps.

Devastating team news, we can’t play him vs Palace…..how will we cope

Losing away to Ipswich with pitch covered in snow and ice, ref considers the factors - Visibility of lines poor, risk of injury high, flow of ball inconsistent, verdict = must be postponement....then Ipswich Manager Roy Keane comes across and suddenly it's......."Game on".

Just the type of player we've been seekin'

Not the very worst but De Bruyne in one of our home games v Man City had at least 4 yellow card incidents including a blatant cynical foul on a break away attack, throwing ball away & standing over ball when conceding free kicks and several follow throughs on Kasper after clearances, he just seemed to have a free pass that day. I think the ref wanted his signed shirt for his son perhaps

I think we'll field a side of non-regulars, on paper man for man it will look stronger than QPR's side but the relevant factor could be the QPR players play alongside each other week in week out, have an understanding and established partnerships whereas our lot will act like they've never met, like the first half v Birmingham last season until Albrighton came on and steadied / improved us. With the new-ish manager there are opportunities for players to come in and impress and stake a claim for further opportunities but I'd rather it was just a couple (Alves / Wormleighton) surrounded by an otherwise "normal" starting line up to see how they fit rather than a group of players who individually can offer something but collectively don't have the character and spark of the better regular starters or any cohesion. Prediction 1-2 (Daka)

Ah, so he is capable of having a shot on target!

Re this threads relevance, in part it can answer some of our questions about our club regarding whether there have been players in the market worth signing. Of course the list of players who have been available isn't exclusive to those who have joined new clubs as some may just stay with their existing club but as each transfer comes up you can ask "Should we have been in for him?" It's pretty rare that one comes up and you think, yes that would have been a great fit for us, a position we need, affordable, we're the right sized club for them etc. Some you won't know for a few months if they're a speculative signing, a bit of an unknown but generally you can have an opinion over most by looking at what we already have and the factors around how realistic it would be. The other angle is an indication of activity by those around us in particular, if we are in a battle with Southampton, Ipswich, Wolves and Everton (or other) for survival then knowing one of them has improved significantly would be a gauge to compare our own activity with (So far Doris the Tea Lady has taken on a part time assistant...). The first point also answers those counter arguments "Well there's no-one out there", "There's no value in the January Window", "It's alright saying sign a right back but who's available" etc. It's an understanding of the current market as opposed to tunnel vision although I accept the argument that you can make things happen yourself by being pro-active, asking questions, putting in bids, it's not just an agent led cattle market with a fixed number of players available. For our club it is about what we do to improve ourselves that will have the impact and rightly the focus but a rivals bigger improvement can ultimately affect our season too.

Re this goals compilation and the evolving versions of it throughout the season you are aware that your opposition study you in minute detail looking for weaknesses in the days leading up to a game, you can be sure they didn't even have to try to conclude and back up this weakness with high resolution detail, 3D graphics or hairline lines it's so blatant and so obvious they've been exploiting it week in week out, I know exactly what I'd be telling my side leading up to facing Leicester, it's not even a fine detail, it's a massive chasm where a defender should be present.

Until we sign a right back we are effectively going into every game with a one goal handicap. If you want to improve results then that is the most obvious situation to remedy first. Delaying it by four or five matches could deny us 4-7 points on that factor alone. Usually you are looking at minor improvements, small percentages, little tweaks here and there, this a significant change that would directly impact results and directly impact the incoming points tally.

If this gets abandoned due to visibility conditions I’ll be really fogged off!

Why start Ayew, he never does anything in the first half when starting games, I mean really, he’s just….. WTF

Scheduled for 16:00, ready at 17:30 but I take a bow in anticipation of your applause….. All I can hear is the Kop pointing at my Yorkshire singing “What the ****ing hell is that” !

A touch of Altitude Sickness / Vertigo perhaps?

Look I’m not an expert specialist goalkeeping coach or anything but it seems to me that this particular unusual choice of stance is showing the opposition a little too much of the goal

Iverson Choudhury Faes Coady Okoli Thomas Winks. Soumare El Khannouss Bouananotte Daka Might keep it down to a 3 or 4-0

Playing charades with people who don’t know any books or films, eating Aunty Mildred’s home made Sherry trifle, listening to in-laws harping on about distant relatives University courses whilst watching Mary Poppins for the zillionth time suddenly becomes a utopian paradise in comparison!

It was grossly unfair. Wolves had a guy who was allowed to use his hands, we were afforded no such luxury.

We should hire a hit man?

Minus 10 minutes. At 1:50 he’ll put gloves on and believe they have a purpose

Tannoy Man at 1:59 - “Could the owner of car registration number W A R D 1 please head straight to the car park….and f*****g stay there.”