jasonbenali

Fantastic to see. How about the names in that Man U team? Charlton, Best, Law trounced 4-1 at home by Saints. Can't believe how much time and space they had back then but all the better to admire the skills on display. Syndenham to Davies what a combination!

2-1 win, Robertson double (second via pen). No news yet if Killer managed the full 90. Hope this gives Robertson the confidence to score us a goal or three on Saturday. I have a feeling we'll need a few to get a result...

I'm more angry about the defending. No organisation and acres of space on both goals. Happy with Pearce, he just needs an experienced defender alongside him to organise the defence. Perry or Killer when fit fine by me...

Definsively very strong?? I beg to differ...

Choose your best team out of that lot. Pretty handy team... Niemi Baird Davis Lunkekvam Bale Walcott Quashie Scheiderlin Surman Jones Rasiak

No, it's not entirely up to Lowe. Surman can decide to stay and is within his contractual rights to do so. As his hometown club and playing in his preferred position, you'd hope he'd do so at least until the end of the season.

Worth much more on current form. Has come on leaps and bounds this season. Would be gutted to see him go, particularly to a team of hoofers like Stoke. Hopefully he'll see sense and stay til end of season.

Thanks for clearing that up. You should post on here more often to help correct wrong information - any comment on Lowe picking the team?

There's a Lallana shaped hole in that formation where the question mark is. Four quality players in midfield - looks good if Killer could get back to somewhere near his best...

Why no Robertson, even on the bench? And no Pekhart either, doesn't say much about how valued our replacements for John, Rasiak and Saga are... Are we deliberately trying to avoid scoring goals so Rupert doesn't have to pay out a goal bonus?

Plenty of other ways to get it to be honest.

Why on earth couldn't that two week break have been used to get the defence organised? Somehow we were even worse today on set pieces against a side known for it. In fact that's all Watford needed to do. To compound it with some equally bad play in the final third just shows what a poor side we are at present. Watching Jan motionless on the touchline and then refusing to make a sub at half time (should have been before to get Perry on) just underlined how out of his depth he is. As for what formation we were playing in the second half, I really have no idea and neither did the players. Summed up by Thompson playing at right back when he came on until someone reminded him Cork was supposed to be switching there. I thought the youngsters were supposed to get better, not worse?

Isn't 8th our best finish in the Premier League rather than Division 1 or whatever it was called before 1992?

I also vote for Scooby. Would love to see if he can extend his wind-up to a regular column without getting bored.

Seriously attacking bench, but to be fair there's no one else to choose from aside from Jake Thompson. Who else is available to put on the bench?

Yep, but we have Le Tiss back then. Lallana's good, but he's not THAT good...

Still go as much as normal, but it's becoming more of a chore. Cost of tickets, lack of star quality (effectively £25 to watch former reserve players no matter how promising is a lot) and bad start to the season.

It's on the OS now

Kyle Davies makes the bench...

Some lovely football from the youngsters, but unless they learn how to defend we are just going to get picked off again and again. Yes, the luck didn't go our way today, but nearly every ball into our box or over the top caused mayhem with 10 or 11 men. Didn't learn the lessons from Blackpool and badly missed a leader at the back, as well as some protection from Gillett/Scheiderlin when down to 10. Sublime goal from Lallana was glorious to watch...

So was Delgado...

Sshh - don't alert other clubs on transfer deadline day...

Hope Pulis isn't the one addition Jan wanted and there's room for this guy as well. Play in different positions so may be possible if we can shift one of the above.

Hmm. Why? Really don't understand this one.

That's not actually true. Like the Olympics the U9s are allowed three overage players. When Poortvliet says training with the kids he means it and Skacel, Viafara and Dyer have the badge sewn onto their kit to prove it...