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Since he came we've played our best stuff with him in the team. I see him as a Mark Hughes type striker, not prolific but you miss what he does when he isn't there.

He's a brilliant footballer when on the ball, off the ball, even, in fact, especially, when his team has the ball he just isn't at the races.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't say when you think he got it wrong. Very true, no one should be beyond criticism. Except me....obviously.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't say when you think he got it wrong.

it's 4 games out of 8., I'll include Bristol city.

hey, that's my drum your banging.

We resorted to having to send long balls to Gayle and he had no chance against their huge centre backs because they didn't let us pass it out from goal kicks. Was obvious that they weren't going to let Shelvey have any space either Would be interested to see what Diame was doing then - if their defence wasn't high enough to get in behind, in general play, but they were pressing relatively high then there must have been a decent gap in midfield to capitalise on? Either that or he should've pushed up to help Gayle. We have enough technical quality to beat a press, especially with a midfield 3 where the should be plenty of short options to play off. If only Mitro was on 5 minutes earlier... In the games Diame has played so far I've yet to see what his role was supposed to be.

Also have to say that from the off there was a plan, the long diagonals. Why ?to get deep and wide in order to put crosses into who ?

I can see understand changing personnel but changing so much that we change the entire pattern of a team that done well. I don't even have a clue as to where Diame was supposed to be playing. 3 defeats this season and I'll put them all down to team selection and giving the opposition too much respect.

That young journalist was slagging Sunderland off on social media last December. He's also called Sunderland fans scummy c*nts in the past. I struggle to see how he can report with any degree of impartiality after comments like that. I don't get your point. That seems like objective , fact based reporting to me.

Even in Sweden, every second division game is on TV these days. It's pathetic they aren't even being filmed with more than one camera. How do Swedish teams in the 2nd division manage to get a crowd when the games are on TV? * Don't answer affordable ticket prices. Obviously crowds aren't great, don't know what the average would be mind. Not strange considering the level would be around league 2 at best. You need to be a real fan of the team to bother with it, with how bad the quality is. Don't think championship crowds would suffer much from being televised. Are there really any evidence from around the world with crowds going down because of TV? It's incredibly shortsighted as it seems to only think about the people in the general vicinity who attend matches, not the fans all over the country and world who would like to see their football club play. I just hate that Sky is sat there recording every single match and cutting in to show goals live, so technically they are just creeping about with the feed. God, how awful. It's got very little to do with that anyway. It's to do with protecting the quite extraordinary depth within the English football pyramid. It's to try and prevent, for example, the huge amount of clubs in the Greater Manchester area from haemorrhaging new fans because the kids want to stay at home and watch Man City on the telly, and judging by the amount of people watching third and fourth tier football (and below) in England and Scotland at 3pm on Saturdays, it works extremely well in doing so. "No soul in football", you're so wrong it's frightening. The soul remains at the games that the blackout is there to protect. But this is just standard scaremongering, despite the fact there'd be many solutions that didn't actually involve the death of the football pyramid. You act like it's black and white, rather than there being plenty of grey options that could well benefit teams from all necks of the wood. Which grey options would benefit clubs from other necks of the woods ?

That's the FHL...Found His Level.

Better coaching and FHL.

I think he meant to pull it with his left foot behind him (to his left as he was facing away from the goal) swivel and shoot. Personally think that he "miscontrolled it" but he was planning on moving that way anyway and readjusted as needed. Get away man, go watch it again in slow motion. You can see by the way he flicks his foot and spins his body he was in complete control Of The whole move. Outrageous goal. I've watched loads of times over the years. Never looks good to me. Looks clumsy somehow. Stand by what I said above like. Think he was trying to flick it behind him to his left. Sometimes I disagree with but respect your opinion...not on this occasion. I was sat right behind the gallowgate goal, middle tier, when he scored that goal and live, I thought similar to you, shouted it loud and long in pubs after....till I watched it on the box and thought"fuck, he knew exactly what he was doing and it was brilliant" Still remember him being subbed at half time though because Bramble had him all ends in a later game mind.

Manically ? I know what you mean but it wasn't manic, it was calm and the natural way of power over something weaker. I only listened to it and caught highlights but it sounded like we kept going, no showboating at 3 up, relentless. To keep concentration like that is what seperates the good teams from the teams with good players. All is pointing up right now.

It's not that he's a confident bloke, more that he's honest about his teams (as were Keegan and Robson). At Liverpool I never had a problem with him, just that his team there were over rated. Won the champs league but never really looked like Prem title winners. Was the not the season they weren;t even the best on Merseyside ?

At the top level, not so much. they can in the position we are in, to the point where I wouldn't want Rafa to play with a definite 4-2-3-1 (like we did at the start of the season) for the rest of the league season.

Any reports on why he didn't travel for yesterday's game ?

It helps if you can do it with players who are better than what the opoosition have.

Much better. No need for any "keep a clean sheet and try and grab a goal". We have better players and a bigger squad than everyone else in this league and should pretty much bully most teams like we have QPR tonight.

He's edged Yedlin in for the last couple of games, wouldn't be surprised if he started, Hayden to come back in, Murphy or Mitrovic to come in for Diame. Purely rotational.

Personally I expect to see posts about our local rival's team and how they're doing in the league and opinions on if they'll stay up, how they're performaing and news related to the scummy club. Which does get discussed of course. What I don't expect to see post about how some braindead mackem is talking nonsense about a mag he knows or he heard of again or the nonsense they talk about our club and its performance because who really gives a f*** what a bunch of braindead mackem fans on their pathetic little fan forum think about anything. Bottom line I am personaly interested in the local rival's team performance as they're our competition and their failures and mediocrity brings me satisfaction but I couldn't care less about the sub-humans who support them and what they're talking about. They are doing what they always do, badly But isn't that what they always do ?

Once Huddersfield lose 1 they'll lose 3 or 4 more in a row. Going on adrenaline at the moment. Or they could have sky high confidence now after beating the league favoirtes away, given the club their best ever start of all time, and winning 5/6. Confidence can take you far and one defeat doesn't neccessaryily ruin it. Everyone thought the wheels would come off Leicester's wagon soon as they lost a game last season but the few defeats they did get didn't stop them. I am not saying I expect Huddersfield to go up I dont. I think they will finish in the top ten now and maybe get a playoff spot if they keep the spirit up. I am just saying anything can happen in football and tbh huddersfield have looked one of the best teams in the league in the first 6 games as surprising as that is. Stranger things have happened in the sport and they may not have the fade away we all expect. We shall see. Good test for Huddersfield on Tuesday at Brighton.

The more I see that penalty shout against him the more I think it really wasn't but they are given most of the time.

Still could, his competition is Janmaat Janmaat hasn't been starting for them recently has he ? Started their last game v Sweden Yeah I know and I thought it must've due to injuries. Sure he hadn't started for ages before that.