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Yep, something I've thought about a ton too. Is it daft for me to ask how/what you'd think he'd do to help Hatem achieve this?

Just feel like he'd love to work with Hatem, Sylvain, Moussa, Yohan, Cisse, etc. Esp Hatem. However, I do agree he wouldn't work with this system but I just cant fathom a man being so hands-on having the time to do that much of his own scouting. Is it even possible in today's day and age? I mean, every club has their own Carr, to a bigger or lesser degree - the only difference is they haven't gotten the press or success that Graham has had.

I do actually sit and think how we would be with KK in charge with Carr doing the scouting for him.... I always wondered if that Schweinsteiger thing had any ounce of truth in it as well.

Definitely agree with that, especially on the Sissoko break away which is unusual for him he usually is good at making space for himself and others. I was chucking my remote at the tv when that happened it really p*ssed me off, but i do feel the header was a difficult one. The thing with Cisse is he tries to find the corner almost all the time, its good when it comes off but when it doesn't he looks like a mug. Perhaps its true he should have focused on hitting the target but that isn't Cisse and i don't think it ever will be he tried to hit the corner of the net and failed. Oh well we move on, hopefully he can get himself a goal or two against Southampton. Cisse tried to hit the far corner, its exactly what you should be doing in that sort of angle. He just didn't execute it right and he missed the goal completely. I don't worry about him, I worry that in an entire 90 minute match he was given 1 driven angled cross in which he had to dive backwards and head the ball across the face of goal to try and score. We don't create enough chances for him, thats still the problem here. We were so lucky that last season the 1 or 2 chances he'd get in a single match he'd just absolutely finish it better than anyone could in the world. You think of those goals man - Villa home, West Brom away (the falling over, chip over the keeper first time), Chelsea away (the first) - trap/take a touch wack into the corner. I get frustrated with him a lot too as he sometimes shoots too early when he has a moment. But like many have said above - I can't wait for him to bang a few in so we can shut this up. I hope its against Mentalist and then carries forward into the PL.

I'm always afraid of the unpredictable nature of Mike Ashley. But he seems to be sanctioning a sensible build-up of our squad. I'd love for him to "bend" his rules a bit more like we did in January in every open transfer window as well as fix our damn commercial revenue stream which is appalling, if the figures are accurate. But we know those are things may never change for us while he still owns the club. I'd welcome a buyer of this club if they continued to build the squad as we do now in terms of our meticulous scouting with some added stress relievers in maybe having a higher ceiling on what we'd pay in transfers and wages, and perhaps would pay some of our top players a little more so they wouldn't leave but for a move abroad, and of course some more transparency when windows are closed on items that aren't sensitive that would hurt a future deal or something. Obviously the items involving more cash outlay I'd be OK with that as long we are bringing in more revenue etc. But what I've described above would be probably the perfect owner, - but all-in-all, I love the soul of this club and I'd not want to compromise it - its what made me fall for this club when I began supporting it and I've always respected those who build things the right way. SO I'm OK with what we have now....

Aye good post leffe. I'll agree - another CB (or two) and another top quality striker and I'd be very happy - of course with none of our top players leaving / but if they do, replaced with players of the quality we've been signing.

Yeah - I also hope we start nearly everyone who's first choice now bar YG and Debuchy for obvious reasons. Mapou in for on the CBs and the rest get it going. Put this tie to bed at home and if we need to rest them next week then fair play.

Yep. Spot on same for me. So you'd put Mapou in at RB then Rich? Edit: Just saw Ian beat me to it. Nevermind. I know the answer.

I agree with this. Our squad is there to compete for CL spots imo.

Shayno - Debuchy isn't registered for this.

Toon Army NYC goes to Legends Pub - Football Factory - http://www.footballfactoryny.com. I went there for our Spurs match to start the season and it was the best time I've ever had watching a match with fellow supporters at a pub. I'd imagine the turnout will be a little less massive as its Valentines Day/Thursday at 3PM. But If you have a Facebook, you should contact the Toon Army NYC group anyway. Where are you in Florida?

Would love for him to get the nod for both of our Europa games and destroy Mentalist.

We split the points this season with Spurs. Beat them the first match of the season and then lost to them at their ground with 2 mistakes punished by the in-form Bale. I'm not going to overreact about this. I think the mistakes we made were there to see and we'll be playing lesser opposition that we should hopefully dominate home and away and picking up points.

To be fair to Perch, Sissoko motioned at the other players in the wall not to jump. Surely by the time the ball is nearly at Perch's head, he knows it's not going underneath him. It's not like it was hit particularly hard. I don't think preparing not to jump is much of an excuse as far as this one goes. Good point Wullie. Regardless of the instructions, Jonas obviously realized the ball was being lifted and reacted accordingly.

Not a dig at Colo or Saylor - but I'm sort of fed up with these breakdowns and also getting battered for pace. Hopefully Mapou continues his upward trend and we see him flourish here. That's more what i am inferring. Agree if Colo goes then Id like to see Saylor and Mapou begin to gel.

Hopefully he and Mapou will get the start for the Europa match and we get to see them begin to gel.

Frustrated with the loss - but won't take it too much to heart - we were in and about. Hopefully Gouff's injury isn't too bad. Bring on Southampton.

We lost all momentum when Gouffran went off. Much as I like Marveaux he didn't offer any where near the same attacking threat or defensive cover as Gouffran did. This. Pardew should have taken Perch off when he went down and feel like that was costly. Lloris made a FINE block on Shola too.

Dembele nearly done 3 times in 2 minutes. Poor bastard.

And should have brought Tiote on as soon as Perch went down.

At the same time if they all jumped and Bale shot under and scored we'd have all said "why did you f***ing jump?" It was a great free kick none the less. I myself wish he jumped as well - but we battled and answered well in the first half. I agree with Numbers though. We should put him next to Dwight naked and blast balls at them for a 24 hour period. Aye if you throw Dwight Howard in there I'm 100% on board for pelting that bastard

At the same time if they all jumped and Bale shot under and scored we'd have all said "why did you fucking jump?" It was a great free kick none the less. I myself wish he jumped as well - but we battled and answered well in the first half.

to his first half, work-rate and general play.