Ronaldo

Like Ba he's not really got the legs/lungs to really go beyond 70 minutes for us. We defintely need one, or ideally two players to come on at that time so the game doesn't get condensed into our own half. Possibly why we're bringing Maiga in.

Speaking of Jonas, he's not perfect but he's really won me over in the last year or so. One of the first names on the teamsheet.

This forum's going to the f***ing dogs, man.

More like a brown Toyota.

I almost edged out into Jussi Jaaskelainen at a junction off Somerset Road in Bolton this afternoon. You'll never guess the model and colour of the car he was driving.

Played well. Seems to be have upped his fitness.

Word-for-word what I was going to offer.

Heard that on the radio and was convinced it was read incorrectly. Incredible.

Fair enough.

Nah. He's spoken very good English for quite some time now.

Excellent effort throughout; very peripheral second half.

How can anyone love Gattuso, man?

6 is right for Cabaye.

After 4 seasons folk are still spelling Coloccini's name wrong?

Let's not go crazy. He's not in Xavi's league, as much as I love him.

Yep, last season he put in a few displays like this in a row , that's why people where calling for him in the England team. That and the fact there's some pretty stupid people around.

Played well tonight.

Yeah; we offered boxes of Turkish Delight to Emre and a market garden to Parker, too. Bitter pricks.

Worse keepers would've been much more timid. He went out of his way to help the defence and we benefitted massively. Harper (and a lot of other keepers) would've been rooted to their line for lots of their ball in the box. Exactly, commanded the box, and made sure didn't get in too much trouble. He had weird brief moments of bad kicks and nearly falling over, but he showed a different talent to shot stopping here, and he got it spot on. That's going too far. He isn't the finished article yet and that was exposed under extremely difficult circumstances tonight. Considering his lack of experience, he did very well. A marked improvement on the last time he faced Stoke.

Even for you.

Krul did Ok.

Don't forget 2 points clear of 3rd.

I don't think he quite understands how to impose himself in the English game yet, and we've seen strong evidence of that in half of our PL games. He'll be fucking dynamite when he does.

The last time a striker of ours got to 10 goals before December was Bellamy in 04-05.

The towel that lad kept giving Simpson was different to the one he gave Delap. Pulis had smothered the former with Castrol GTX.