Belfast Boy

This all the way. Gini was player of the year in Holland last year, I am sure he can cope as the more attacking CM against Bournemouth,

26 He's never only 26 is he? Looks as old as Mbemba!

Good on you Hatem, stick it right back up Pardew and Bruce. On a seperate note, last nights game was the first I have heard of Coman. Did I hear he is on loan from Juve?

If we can't drop one of Tiote or Anita when we are up against Dan Gosling then Thauvin is never getting a game for us

Yep, there was another show (Durham's I think) where they were mocking Wegner being on the manager of the year list, suggesting maybe Carver should be on it too.

I was thinking that, particularly that 5-0 away to Royal Antwerp

He was injured not banned, once he gets his next booking he misses another game

Am I missing something or does this "personalised interior" amount to nothing more than a cheap transfer on the inside of the door?

Where is Mbabu's natural position, CB? He seems very right footed but started well

Without a doubt he will get an early, unwarranted yellow card which will anger him and he will see red

Be good now if the ref could even it up and send a couple of chelsea players off, leading them to missing our game

Krul Janmaat Mbemba Colo Haidara Sissoko Anita Wijnaldum Thauvin De Jong Perez

McLaren was very keen to point out he had discussed exactly where he expects Thauvin to play in the team. Once everyone is fit I wonder whether that will be on the left or the right.

what's the song?

Switch Colo and Mbemba and thats spot on

is this cunt dead yet?

B'mouth 3-2 up again

Pardew changing formation after 5 minutes again today. Does he ever pick the right team?

The Arsenal game aside, our run of fixtures coming up doesn't look half as bad after that point. Yes we have consecutive games against City and Chelsea, but the rest are winnable if we play to our strengths

Is it a particularly warm day today or is this drinks break just a new daft rule?

Surely after all the talk, they have to go full strength for this. A win is needed to build on today's performance and they have plenty time to recover for the weekend after it.

Taylor played great but he has to drop back to the bench next week with Janmaat back (gets Willo off the bench too). Arsenal are a better team than Man United so need to be careful not to get carried away, if it was a lesser team I would like to see just Anita sitting with Perez much closer to Mitrovic and Thauvin in for Obertan, Sissoko for Colback. Having said that, we have Northampton on Tuesday don't we. No reason not to play a strong team there and get some confidence into the forwards.

I had wanted Aarons on for Mitrovic at the end there instead of Cisse. That break away, surely Aarons would have had the pace to run clear.

Very harsh on Mitrovic, scoring him the same as the generous 6's you give Colback and Obertan

Aarons for Mitrovic wouldn't be a bad move now. The home crowd is going to push them more and more on and pace may give us a break.