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Seeing a lot about Papa Waigo on Twitter and on here but he never played in the promotion seasons, just the JPT winning one. For me I'm just looking forward to seeing Rickie back at St Mary's properly, and hopefully Nigel Adkins, two of the biggest contributors that never actually got to say goodbye properly.

I hate how nice our team is. Alli just flew into Juanmi and every other team in the league would run in with their arms up pushing and shoving and the ref would probably panic and send him off. We just walk away and he gets a yellow. Regardless of whether its a red card or not (probably not from the replay i've seen), the ref's in this league are utterly abysmal, and none more so than Kevin Friend, so put some pressure on them ffs, everybody else does because IT WORKS.

We are so used to having full back's who play high and bomb forward (Clyne, Bertrand, Shaw, even Fox and Richardson in times gone by), that having a more 'defensive' full back in Targett has been foreign to us so far this season. I can see why people wouldn't favour him as our left back because it's not 'our style' really, but he is nowhere near as bad as people make out as Shance pointed out above. He has unfortunately been put in the Yoshida bracket of 'groan every time he doesn't produce a perfect piece of play', whilst other players get away with far bigger errors without any criticism from the crowd whatsoever, and i've found over the years that it's very difficult for a player to shake that off once they've got it sadly.

VVD in Glasgow airport on his way to Southampton according to this Celtic fan. £11.5mil

Anyone notice how the press are praising Chris Smalling for a massive improvement in performances lately? The Schneiderlin effect. I've said it to people for ages, Morgan Schneiderlin can make a good centre half look great and an average one look good. Lovren struggled after he left, Toby hasn't looked as good so far (very early days) and now it's Jose's turn

As much as despise them, Liverpool's use of this for Mignolet is brilliant, fits perfectly.

Did we ever make use of the old Balotelli song from his City days? Could work well with Jordy Clasie. Oooooh Jordy Clasie, he's a... etc. Someone else can think of the rest

Feel like I'm in a parallel universe where for a change we as fans are actually playing down the quality of one of our players, whilst the rest of the country is hyping them up. Usually I'm saying how [...] is good enough to play for England and being laughed at, whereas I find myself saying to people if JWP was called up to the senior England side then I'd be a bit disappointed as I don't think he's really done a lot. I do like him however, and I do think there is a lot more to come, I just find his inability to score from open play a real irritation, especially when him and Steven Davis are playing in the same 11. Hopefully once he gets the first from open play then they will start flowing, to be fair to him I don't see him miss the target all that often, just hit them straight at a keeper or defender instead.

Part of me is glad City aren't starting any talented youngsters who are hungry to prove their worth in their one big chance. City have been uninspiring on many occasions this season, if we take it to them and are on our game then I think there's definitely something in this. Amazing that i'm hoping for us to finish 5th today after having seen Oldham sit 10 behind the ball and catch us on the break at St Mary's not too long ago, who'd have thought it!

We have a central brand logo on our two Hummel kit's for the youth team I manage, as they do for all of their team wear range. As a result we place the club crest central, underneath the brand logo, which looks brilliant. No idea why Adidas use a central brand logo given the size and placement of it, and the fact that they only seem to use it when they fancy, it just doesn't make sense! I'm a big fan of having the club crest central, but it just wouldn't work on any of the Adidas kits so it's quite bizarre! Still like the home kit mind...

Raheem Sterling won 'young player of the year' for Liverpool last night, so if we are doing it to include first team players as well, would Mané be eligible at 23? if so then i'd go Players' Player of the Season - Fonte Young Player of the Season - Mané President's Choice Award - Kelvin Davis? stepping in to replace FF, if not then Fonte again or even Schneiderlin for getting his head down after the summer episode Goal of the Season - Tough, probably Pelle, just Fans' Player of the Season - Fonte

I guess a problem with SportsDirect is they often discount (even if only slightly) which may detract from sales of shirts from the club. But sticking them in all the national Adidas shops alongside the Chelsea, United, AC Milan, Real Madrid shirts wouldn't do us any harm! (I'm not comparing us to those clubs, obviously)

Elia looks like he's got his back up and wants to take control of this shambles to be fair to him

Good signs so far from Turnball and Stephens, both like a dribble and Stephens in particular looks very calm & composed on the ball.

Sky Sports News mentioning all day how Bournemouth have been linked with Charlie Austin. Surely a good enough option for us?

How could i forget Targett!? i knew there was someone significant I was missing haha.

Whenever I hear people criticise our lack of academy players making appearances this season in comparison with previous years, I always think how many other clubs could have three first team regular academy products (Lallana, Shaw, Chambers) taken from them and still have any even close to the squad let alone one fairly regular (JWP) and one regularly on the bench (Reed). On top of that we had Gape, Seager, Hesketh, (maybe one i've missed?) all make substitute appearances and if it wasn't for his injury Gallagher would've probably been used as well. I think it's amazing we can even field one academy player with what happened to us last summer, i'm sure we'll see more inclusion next year.

Didn't see much in Sam Gallagher when I saw him last year but what a ball that was for our second to add to him scoring the first! Really impressed so far.

Definitely don't think any of those games a definite wins for our rivals. Burnley have caused City, Chelsea and United problems away from home, picking up points in two of those three, so Liverpool won't have an easy game.

I don't know what we did differently with Tadic tonight but he looked much like his pre-christmas self when he came on, really livened us up a bit. Also impressed with Djuricic, not sure why the the commentator was saying he wasn't very good on the stream, made a few great runs forward just to be fouled in the end. Not a good game, not a good performance, but a great win. I don't think we have 'turned a corner' in terms of our quality in front of goal but it's definitely something off our backs having finally got that elusive goal.

It's all if's and but's but if she was in a nightclub or other 18+ venue, then she would have convinced door staff etc. that she was above 18, presumably with an ID that isn't her but looks like her. If the people whose job it is to detect under 18's and prevent them entering the premises cannot spot that the girl is not 18, then can you really blame Adam Johnson? If she's in there on someone else's ID, even if he did go as far as asking her to prove she's 18 then is he supposed to be able to detect the ID not to be hers? I know plenty of girls who were in nightclubs before they turned 18 using their older sisters ID due to their similarity, people are lying to themselves if they don't think this is common. And for those saying 15 year old's don't look 18, at 15 you're in the final year of secondary school, there's plenty who dress and look over 18 nowadays. Having said that, there is no suggestion either way that he did meet her out and about, for all we know he could've genuinely been doing what he shouldn't. I'm sure we'll find out soon enough!

Personally i don't begrudge Clyne moving on. I seem to remember last summer the primary complaint being about players (Lallana in particular) signing long term big contracts and then wanting out straight away, well Clyney has fulfilled most of his and will probably be sold to avoid him going on a free. He signed the contract, he's honoured it to a point where it's virtually over and from a selling point of view effectively is, therefore I don't think we can really complain, he did the same thing at Palace and why shouldn't he, thats what the contract is there for. Obviously I will be gutted to see him go, but I think for a change we are seeing a player actually stick to what he has signed, and act well within his rights to see that contract out and move on. Fair play to the lad in my opinion, and I wish him well for the future, seems a fairly sensible and switched on guy, evident from not signing for United some years ago when he had the chance but instead opting to join us for the guarantee of first team football before now seemingly bagging his 'big' move. We'll survive and move on I'm sure.

Surely due a chant to the tune of 'follow the leader' sometime soon..

Don't buy the "yes the ref was bad but.." lines. Against premier league opposition, some games you may only get one clear cut chance, today we had three and were prevented every time by two fouls and a handball. The referee completely lost us the game today, plain and simple. Utter disgrace, can't believe I had to pay to watch a performance like that from someone who rakes in about £100k a year for doing that so called job, yet if Koeman was to come out and rightly say how ****e he was, he'd get fined himself. Absolutely livid. We do need to bloody shoot though, today was deja vu of the United game at home, just screaming for someone to hit it and they buried their only two chances. Still, long way to go yet and we're in the mix.

Must add this was on TalkSport