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Tonev playing as a CAM... Interesting.

You guys love MON? Or you taking the piss?

I do...

You're right, this isn't the MON thread but I still love the guy to bits. I might be his No.1 Fan.

At least I'm not alone!

For your own sake on this board, yes you should shut up now.

However, for the sake of this board, you shouldn't. At least I want to see what happens when you start that discussion.

 

Think I might be safer leaving it, as a long time viewer of VT I realise the general (almost entire) consensus is that people dislike/hate him, people that are of another opinion just don't seem to say so. But this isn't an MON thread so either way this isn't the place...

Ah sorry should've clarified I'm saying Hes better.

 

Can't say I agree with that, but I'm in the minority so I think I'll shut up now

Lambert isn't O'Neill though, and also its only like eight more points or so to get to eighth or ninth than what the team did last year and I'd be surprised if the improvement wasn't that good

 

 

 

Are you saying Lambert is better or worse, I'm unsure? It depends how other teams perform as well, I'm not sure we will reach a position that high...

I think as an upward trend finishing around 10th would show great progress, considering the way Lambert is changing his squad people shouldn't (but can if they like, it's not a bad thing) get too ahead of themselves in terms of how we finish. For example in O'Neill's first two seasons we went from 16th to 11th to 6th, in those two season we spent (don't quote me) around £35 million on 13 players of which 4 were free (including Carew swap for Baros). Some of these players were experienced and needed no time to "bed in" to a team aiming to push up the league. This is surprising similar to Lambert spending (again don't quote me) £34 million on 15 players of which possibly two were free (one not even bought by him), the difference being these players are generally younger, have less experience than O'Neills' signings and may not fit into the league immediately. So a slower form of progress should be expected in my opinion.

I am optimistic, uncharacteristically so, but don't want to get too ahead of myself in the event that we don't do as well as people are expecting. I'll be as pleased as anyone to see us finish higher than 10th though.

That was incredible.

Wow, click "HI" for better quality and we score in the second it took to change.

Another lovely goal!

No clean sheet as always...

That chip from El Ahmadi was fantastic.

I think people care and put way too much stock into this. 23 being open might mean something, it might not. Just like the chairs at a press conference. Maybe Tonev and Carruthers wanted those numbers for a particular reason so poor old 23 got left out. Maybe 23 is left open for another of the young lads to "win" this pre season?

Also KEA has 8. Squad number has no baring at all on how liked you are by the manager, unless you're number 42

Also 36 apparently...

Considering how well i thought he played towards the end of the season I'm a little shocked at him losing his number... Confidence knock x100!

Can anybody describe what happened?

Clark attempted to slide to the ball even after seeing Vlaar clearly getting there.

Anyone know what Clark was thinking there? Utterly shocking.

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