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Yeah, very much agree with this.

Not convinced by him. Just no real consistency.

Just like the good old days. That fucking goal we conceded. Absolute disgrace. Beaten by 10-man Hull. Ugh.

Half expected to come in here and see a load of comparisons with Andy Cole. If someone says Shelvey is as good at picking a pass as Beardsley I think that'll be me done.

Madness. Hope somebody punched Colback in the excitement of it all.

Surprised Tiote's in there to be honest. Maybe he will play at some point this season?

Imagine he'll move to someone like Man City or Chelsea and be loaned out for a couple of years to be honest. Hope he goes somewhere decent (no offence to Anderlecht) and just plays.

I hate Lowes and Anderson so much on the radio. "We just don't know anything about QPR". Look on bloody wikipedia or Football Manager ffs. Do some research, it's YOUR JOB.

Definitely think there will be a fair bit of rotation tonight. As a few have said above, expect Hayden and Perez to start at the very least. Hopefully Colback needs a 'rest' as well.

Yeah really hope we make them pay the full whack. Bored of how Spurs drive crazy deals for their players and expect players they sign to be dirt cheap (in comparison).

Talk of signing for £5m.

Was always a bit shit defensively and his crossing was never consistent enough. Meh. Bye.

Potentially the perfect sort of player to get us out of the Championship, works hard, has moments of quality and knows the league. Once he's done that who knows, may make a Premier League player yet. And as he's in his last year shouldn't be silly money.

Half tempted to go to this tonight - anyone have any idea who's in our U23 squad for the game? Was thinking given the League Cup tie coming up it may be a very young side without the likes of Vuckic, Bigi etc?

Yeah on the radio was being talked of as one of our best performing players on the day. Albeit what they generally say isn't exactly gospel.

Yeah great stuff to see Harper back at the club. Can't see why anyone would be annoyed by this. Unless they really hate our players playing darts occasionally.

Just watched a random youtube video of him and he looks like a poor man's Shola. Good at pens mind

Don't these kids ever learn we ruin young players when we sign them in? Poor chap. Condemned to mediocre career. Unless we convert him into a goalkeeper.

Much like Van Aanholt and Harewood when we were in the Championship last time, loans like this make perfect sense in this situation. To fill a gap until a solid alternative can be found when we've got more to offer (i.e being a Premier League club).

My Liverpool supporting mate was saying how Rafa loves a boring 1-0 win. Talk about making me buzz for the new season. Going tonight and looking forward to being in the 'neutral' area. Howay the lads!

Just hope we're not signing Clark as Mbemba is one of the players still considering his future at the club. Fine as a fourth choice CB, especially given the shortages of defenders we've had in the recent past.

Played well under Rafa at the tail-end of last season. If he wants to keep him, so be it.

Yeah highly unlikely you'd get any kind of ban from a pre-season match.

Compare our strikers in the shape of Perez, Mitrovic, Gayle, Armstrong, Riviere and Toney (not to mention others who can play there like De Jong and Gouffran) with any other team in the league and I'd say we're well stocked.

Looks like Roma to me.