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Off topic slightly... but this is absolute ********

Not true any more

I thought you did okay without Flamini tbh. I don't think you'll win the league though, legs will get tired come March.

having no end of trouble with AJS today... very frequent lockups on both +10 and HD6, and rewinding doesn't seem to be helping. Taking an age to even load the page so it seems it's a bandwidth issue, but it's definitely not my end, just ran a download test and got a solid 120mbps.

Five Live today, so just get the BBC Radio iPlayer. Any other time, get TuneIn Radio. Talksport do commentary of all matches, and you can pick up their streams using TuneIn.

*ahem* Lambert 's out with a minor injury... Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Whilst I don't think it will be quite that extreme, I do agree there will be a 'correction', probably this side of Christmas, and we can safely go back to being last on motd and complaining about the media anti saints agenda Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Player A was bought by a Premier League team, having been the standout player for a weaker team in a weaker league. After initially impressing in a brief run of games, he suffered an injury and a consequent catastrophic loss of form. When brought back into the team, he was mediocre at best and became a symbol of derision amongst the club's supporters, a running joke. He lost his place to a less talented, but more committed player. He was slated for being overrated, workshy, weak and spent over a year on the sidelines, reduced to cameos from the bench. Fortunately, his club kept their faith in him, adapted his training and playing style and built his confidence, developed the physical side of his game and brought him on massively as an athlete. And it turns out that they know more about football than their fans, because although it took more than a couple of seasons to get the best out of him, he's now the most expensive player in the world. Player B was bought by a Premier League team, having been the standout player for a weaker team in a weaker league. He was undoubtedly talented, but was slated for being a one-trick pony, weak on the ball, incapable of crossing or delivering an end product, petulant and disinterested. His fitness was questioned as he seemed incapable of playing a full 90 minutes, either starting or finishing matches on the bench. Fortunately, his club kept their faith in him, adapted his training and playing style and built his confidence, developed the physical side of his game and brought him on massively as an athlete. And it turns out that they know more about football than their fans, because although it took more than a couple of seasons to get the best out of him, he's now the second-most expensive and arguably best player in the world.

I recommend that you hand back your tickets immediately out of principle

Schneiderlin wants to play for England as much as Januzaj does. 0%. Sadly, he also has about a 0% chance of playing for France whilst Deschamps is there.

The Police don't sentence people - courts do that. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

But that's not how a projection works. In fact, it's the complete opposite. Your statistical calculation is weighted in favour of older, less relevant data, instead of newer, more relevant data. That's why you think it becomes 'more accurate as time goes on' - because the inaccuracy that you've built into the model becomes further marginalised as time goes on. It doesn't become more accurate at predicting at all - it becomes less inaccurate at recording. What you should be doing is pro-rating the deviance of this year's fixtures against last year's and then applying that modifier against this year's remaining fixtures. You could 'tune' the deviation in a million different ways - modify it for form, time of year, etc - but it would then actually be a projection. What you've done is essentially say 'lets work out the difference between last year and this year - and then completely ignore it'. So it's basically worthless. You've just been MLG'd

I would certainly start Osvaldo on the bench for the next match. But with the expectation that he would come on and see a decent amount of game time. Rickie looked knackered just before half time yesterday, and definitely faded quickly in the second. More than understandable given the tempo we were playing at and the job he was being asked to do. I thought the team as a whole started to look ragged by 60-65 minutes and, had he been fit, Osvaldo would have been perfect to come on at that point to dial the pressure back up on the Fulham back 3, stretch the game and force possession back around the Fulham penalty area. I suspect what many tire of on here is the rampant myopia of some opinions. Players are apparently either amazing or useless. The reality is that both of our strikers will/should have significant parts to play for us over the season. Sometimes it will be Lambert first, sometimes Osvaldo, sometimes both. And that's okay.

How have you managed to install the app? Play Store says it's not available for me due to location.

edit: never mind, working now!

Gaston wouldnt be the first player with undoubted talent but whose skills just don't fit the playing style of the premier league. He wouldn't even be the first Uruguayan of recent years. He's clearly not a terrible player, he's just someone whose strengths are minimised and weaknesses are magnified by the system he plays in. It seems pointless to keep him when he so obviously doesn't fit into Poch's system Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

I think he was the one that we made a bid for, or came very close to, and promptly suffered a hideous injury (broken leg maybe?) I think it was the same transfer window that for some reason it became commonly accepted that Curtis Davies and Scott Dann were the second coming of Bruce and Pallister and if we didn't sign them we might as well just forfeit every game.

Finally going to be at home on a Saturday for the first time in weeks, so might as well give this a go again. Which unotelly product do I need? Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Don't be such an idiot. It's the bear every time, obviously.

The reality (and the flaw in the argument) is, however much Swansea might be the 'hipster's choice' of opponent, for each person that would be attracted to the prospect of playing them, there will be half a dozen casual fans who would far rather watch us play United/Chelsea/etc. In the same way that although fans in the know might say Saints were the best team at OT last season, you can bet we'll draw a lower attendance next weekend than one of the big teams will later in the season. Not that I'd argue that we need a 70k superstadium. But suggesting our attendance vs Swansea would be relatively high in the grand scheme of things is I think unrealistic. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4

Jacob Steinberg has written an (as usual) excellent report on the Swansea match for the guardian. "Danny Fox was an accident waiting to happen at left-back in the absence of Luke Shaw, who was ill. Swansea did not take long to work that out and almost every chance they made came from their right flank, where Dyer repeatedly made Fox's life a misery. " Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4

Pap most of your examples are over a decade old. The Office is from 2001. Spaced is 1999. The Day Today is from 94! When you use historical examples to prove that comedy of today is just as good and successful, you're essentially making the point for the other side.

Let me guess - you can't see us getting another point for the rest of the season?

I'm pretty sure I read (in an interview/article about MLT, undurprisingly) that due to their rather unique status, under FIFA regs a channel islander could play for any of the Home Nations, or France.

Is it? Gerrard is the ultimate Hollywood player, and has been for years. While 50 yard raking passes and the odd thunderbolt into the top corner might look good on MOTD, it's because you only see the 10% that were successful and not the 90% of wasted chances and lost possession due to showiness over substance. The polar opposite, in fact, to MS. Liverpool are far more fluid and dynamic without Gerrard, their movement just comes to a grinding halt when he gets the ball.