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post-match reports, most the time yeh. commentary can get very animated though. can't tell if you genuinely did not know this or are just having a dig

this now shows we do have real options and that we can switch players in and out without the whole team looking disjointed, which is brilliant. Also shows we can use more than 1 formation effectively which is something to marvel at after the last few years. I am greatly looking forward to the Liverpool fixture now! hoping this brings us great confidence in the league now too, there is a bit of a gap starting to separate the bottom few from the rest and we need to catch up quick before the gap widens any more. ABSOLUTELY BUZZING THOUGH! amazing to wake up to this result, along with Arsenal out, just hoping Chelsea come back jet-lagged and uninterested for Leeds, then we've got an amazing chance! but even with Chelsea still in it i wouldn't care, lets go for this!!

Been looking through all the championship teams to see if there any player i hadn't immediately thought of, who are playing in the championship but have good experience in the premier league, and also the quality to still compete in the prem and the knowledge to pass onto the younger players. here are just a few names, could be good/bad, just a list up for discussion rather than a group of players who i want to all be signed up Morten Gamst Pedersen Matty Phillips Martin Olsson Lee Chung-Yong Stuart Holden Chris McCann Jamie O'Hara Everybody else, unless i didn't see them, i feel have dropped down from the prem because they are either no longer good enough, or i just don't rate them personally. I wouldn't mind taking a punt on O'Hara and Chung-Yong personally, think they would greatly improve the team, they are from lower leagues and they aren't too old

Really like Coutts, follow PNE and he was a great player for them there, was always going to move up a league, i don't know whether he would cope in the premier league though, still think he is a good player for the championship though so might be worth a punt, although i think i'd prefer to go for someone more like Trotter, as mentioned by others, purely for his size and the amount of games he's played for a guy who isn't that old yet. he also is more than capable of bagging a goal from midfield, cannot go wrong providing he makes the step-up!

Not saying he hasn't had bad games at LB, but that was a while back now and since then the manager has changed and he has manned up a bit in general. i personally see it like this; Clark might not be good at LB, but Lichaj and Stevens wouldn't be able to play to their best in this game, and i feel Baker would be so much more effective against Stoke if he's placed in the middle of our defence.

I would go for Guzan Lowton Vlaar Baker Clark Westwood El Ahmadi Bannan Ireland Agbonlahor Benteke Would probably switch one of the midfield or attack for Bent in the second half, depending on how we are doing after the first 45. I think this could be an interesting match, if we get into the game from the off and stifle their style of play, put them on the back foot, then i can see us winning easily. if we play like we have the last 2 games we don't stand a chance. hoping for a win, not because of who we're playing but because of who we have to play in the next few games. Despite everyone slagging off stoke i am really looking forward to this game and want to watch it. i think this is a great test to see how far we've come and where we are currently. Prove the pundits wrong, lads.

i would like to sample one of your rants, if you'd like to pick your best one it just gets me so ridiculously wound up, and someone had done it to me a minute or 2 before i saw this thread so i was just smashing my keyboard in rage.

The only albums i've got this year, and i felt a lot of album have been hit and miss this year, but 1-6 on the list i will definitely still be listening to in a few years time. 1. Linkin Park - Living Things 2. Billy Talent - Dead Silence 3. Young Guns - Bones 4. We Are The Ocean - Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow 5. Knife Party - Centipede EP 6. Deaf Havana - Fools and Worthless Liars (Deluxe Edition) 7. Labrinth - Electronic Earth 8. All Time Low - Don't Panic! 9. Ed Sheeran & Yelawolf - The Slumdon Bridge EP 10. LostProphets - Weapons 11. Two Door Cinema Club - Beacons 12. Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour 13. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 14. Mike Shinoda - The Raid Redemption Soundtrack

realise it's a bit of a late reply now but yeh there was no need for that. seems completely unnecessary. how did it pan out next time you saw him?

People who look over your shoulder when on the laptop/mobile. Drives me up the wall. If i wanted you to see my private messages, i would show you them, or read them out to the whole %*&@#$ office. And then they drive me irrate if they then ask "who's that"? you knowing who it ********* is you're currently reading through it! get your chin off my shoulder and get your own personal life. Even if when i get a text or something, my roommate and a couple of colleagues will inform me i have had a text through because they heard the phone vibrate. I wish i was as excited as they were to look at the local province newspaper text in Chinese, my life would be so much happier. It's my phone, it's a message to me, it's in my pocket, and the fact they are only telling me so that they can wait for me to get my phone out 5 minutes later and then pull an exaggerated face of expectation, thinking i'm about to read aloud my conversations. well guess what i'm not telling you because if they wanted you to know they would be messaging you. I don't have anything private to hide it just drives me insane. Dear god i need to vent

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If Lichaj becomes more used to the LB role then leave him in but i personally feel he's a bit hit and miss out there. What about the attacking line-up, that was more of the point of my post as i was trying to accommodate in-form players with Ireland and Bent

i think i would play him ahead of Clark now, but push Clark out to LB. Lichaj doesn't look quite the same at LB as he does at RB, and i think it would be unlucky for either of them to lose their place at the moment, but then again we need Vlaar back in the mix if he is fit.

don't know where the right place to ask this is, but how well is Gary Gardner doing with his injury? i heard he would be out potentially for the whole season which is a shame, i hope he recovers and pushes on to fulfill his potential, how likely is that now though?

Great album in my opinion, basically they had a push-vocalist (screamer) in the band, who left, and now they've gone for a different approach and it's worked fantastically. and for this deluxe album, they re-arranged every track on the album into a different style or genre. Great album.

wrote a massive response to this which seems to have been deleted brilliant. i'll try a shortened version Guzan Lowton Vlaar Baker Clark Holman Westwood Ireland Agbonlahor Benteke Bent changing to Guzan Lowton Vlaar Baker Clark Westwood Holman Ireland Agbonlahor Benteke Bent I think this team is what is needed against stoke, and will compliment every player in the team (bar clark). It gives us width in Holman and Agbonlahor, but can also be narrowed if necessary. I think the Benteke-Bent partnership would work wonders against stoke. Keeping Baker in the team for his size against a stoke team, but leaving clark in, pushing him to LB, as i feel all three will be useful in defense against a physical team. This set-up allows us to play 3 experienced premier league players, all of good quality, keeps the promising youngsters in the team, offers more in attack whilst still being solid defensively, and also can be switched to change tactics, and plays a formation that Lambert is known to use. What are your thoughts on this sort of team? open to all constructive criticism on this, as i am interested in other peoples views on whether anyone else feels this would work

used the premier league table predictor on the BBC to see where i think we will be. i've just put 1-0 for a win, 0-0 for a draw for all teams so ignore the GD. Got us down to draw against Stoke and Liverpool, beat Wigan and lose to Spurs and Chelsea. If Norwich and Newcastle don't do as i expect then we could be 13th by new year, can't argue with that after the start to the season we've had i think that is a reasonable expectation. Reading have a dangerous couple of games, the next 2 weeks will decide if they stay up or go down IMO, i've also been very kind to QPR with their results and they are still right in the mess so not too worried even if they start to improve.

why is that in any way football? i don't get your point. i just think it is madness to leave out better players with obvious talent. If you need goals, but the players that get you goals don't fit in the team set-up, change the set-up. It's not hard. if ireland and bent will get us goals, build a team around them, because what we need is goals! not a team of youngsters that try hard. i like the players that are currently in the team but the fact is for the last 2 games we have been lucky not to get torn apart, lucky the other team hasn't shown up either.

if it's Kammy saying it i will take it as gospel, the living legend!

for me today is not about the 3 points, it's more important that arry loses. Cannot stand the man, need to melt the smugness off his face. 3 points and pushing up the table will be a bonus

can i point out that after reading norwich fans two pennies on this topic, this sort of stance seems very much a PL trait, going cold turkey on some of the best players at the club for seemingly no real reason, then bringing them back in out of the blue, and when they come back in they are fully-fit and raring to go, more determined as their ego is wounded and they don't want to be sat in the reserves again. if he is doing this to make Bent more motivated and determined, and a harder worker on and off the pitch, then it's a great idea, as long as it works.

i would be happy with a draw although i hope and expect a win from this, i had a bad feeling about the Reading game but we pulled through that, now we just have to go out there and prove we are better than these teams. this could start to change our season completely, back-to-back wins after decent performances against top sides, then heading into a winnable game. could be great. I think the main battle is going to be the mind games, our nerves versus their morale

How long are people normally out with calf strains? would quite like him back for the QPR game to feel a little more comfortable, but don't want him rushed back as i feel we'll need him much more badly against Stoke

ireland improved the team when he came on but was that pure fluke? i think the guy can be great, can make the difference, but his inconsistency is ridiculous. At least a bad Bannan performance is uncharacteristic, you normally know what you are going to get from him in my opinion. I would leave Ireland on the bench again and bring him on at half time if we need something. Also think Bent has to start against QPR, leaving him out the 18 is getting too risky now and frankly i don't see the point. What is Bowery going to contribute coming on late. talking about the game, bad performance but 3 points is 3 points. What a relief! Really liking how we can we can play awful and still pull through with such a young side, despite them looking nervous it shows how much they have matured over this season and how important they could prove to be.