Pilko

Harper looks knackared

ul Sammy

Two rather avoidable 'second yellow' red cards in a friendly tournament

Tav has been my pick of pre-season, but that pass was absolutely shit.

Harper went down like a tree being felled there

Ryan Taylor, into the goal!

Great block from Tavernier.

HUGO!

aaaand an irritating deflected equaliser from 2-0 to 1-1 in seconds

Correctly ruled offside.

Ba: 'you fucking wanker' That's a red card in the PL. Palm to the face.

Ba loves a pen miss! At least he converted the fucking rebound this time

Tiote has looked worse than Smith at times tonight.

Pardy Rockers in the house tonight

Simpson got absolutely done for pace there just before the whistle.

Tiote needs to just play the ball first time instead of deeing Parker pirouettes all over the shop and hanging onto it for ages.

Sammy did class there, Demba looked a bit leggy.

Coloccini and Tavernier is a nice little partnership in the making.

James Tav-a-near

On the bench.

brummie, your posts about Villa and O'Neill in the last few months have been one of the highlights of this forum for me. They are class.

Southampton vs Ajax is on Channel 5 in a wee while for those looking for their football fix.

Howay man, Bigi has another chance to look like he has more potential than someone of similar skin colour and haircut, Gosling will definitely be useless or really promising and Obertan will still be worse than cancer. This fixture means everything, and the result will decide the lives of numerous people who are standing on the edge of a cliff right now. what were people actually arguing about tonight? I can't be arsed to read the thread.

He looked good, but the one thing that struck me was that he dived into tackles a bit freely and early, when a few times staying on his feet would have been much more beneficial. I'll put that down to the nature of his first pre-season and wanting to really impress the manager though, if not I'm sure we'll coach him out of it.

I think Coloccini, Taylor, Williamson and Williams is a good quartet of centre-backs to go into the season with, particularly if our cover options are Perch, Tavernier, Good and Streete. Williams is a good footballer as well as a defender; I know the Swansea style gets a bit of a panning but it's great if we sign him and he's already really comfortable with using the ball well and keeping possession.