Ashley17

I think it's going to be a strange old seaso, with lots of teams taking points off sides you wouldn't normally expect. With major changes at most teams, there's going to be a lot of bedding in and the effect of new players and a new start may well cancel each other out in a lot of cases. The promoted teams do look exceptionally shit though, Cardiff are having a go at spending some money but Palace are relying on Holloway playing mental attacking football like he did at Blackpool, whilst Hull have Steve Bruce.

Of course, bit of an oversight on my part.

Seems all the more obvious now that Bent is the backup plan if Cisse leaves. Cisse, Gomis, Remy & (sigh) Shola is a decent quartet of strikers. Bent in as a replacement for Cisse won't be too bad if we have Gomis and Remy.

Their season starts in 8 days

Radio Newcastle said we were in for a defender called Bakary Kone, that was on the 8am news

I was pleased with the second half like, it was all us pretty much. Jonas calmed it down much like he did against Anzhi, but it is a lot easier for him against European sides. Tiote is still a disaster and some of the more established players were disappointing but I expected far worse after the red card. Maybe my expectations are just very low nowadays.

Ivanovic didn't get banned for his red card in the Community Shield, so I'll be amazed if Colo gets banned from this.

Golos 1

There's only this forum who can go ballistic about the manager during a game where the captain has been sent off for strangling an opponent

Our talented players playing around our non-talented oafs

He knows what we need, I'd much rather he focuses on incomings than outgoings

He can and would in that scenario, unless he dumps Sissoko wide to stick with 2 from Cabaye/Tiote/Anita in the CM roles

Short passing and movement on Gouffran's goal, unbelievable scenes.

He was a good partner for Ba, and he really stepped up when we sold Carroll. Never going to be prolific though - unbelievable that he didn't score for us in the Championship when we were getting 3 or 4 at home most weeks.

Just realised this is on Tuesday. Looking forward to a defeat and a massive overreaction as usual Their season starts 2 weeks before ours and it's not their first friendly, worth bearing in mind.

Shola in the World Cup would be great because I wouldn't need him to do well

Urgh, that means every week the MOTD commentator will say "the man who was a bricklayer not long ago.."

Grant Holt to Wigan. Can't wait to see them in Europe...

We'll probably be on so we can be humiliated in front of the world again. No doubt it'll be the Monday night just to totally ruin it.

Remy has a release clause doesn't he? Surely they're in no position to ask for anybody in exchange? So many holes in this story ffs

Also Taylor isn't class or owt but a few months ago he was in the England squad, why do QPR reckon he would drop down to the Championship in a World Cup year?

I'm sure this guy is on the wind up. Called Gary Hooper Gary Cooper ffs

ffs