The Prophet

Pretty bog standard away performance from us, minus the goal of course.

Bottled it big time today.

Caroll (5): Offered little as an attacking threat? (5) whats his role? Ranger(4): got in the way when he wasn't aimlessly dithering on the ege of the box. The way I saw it was he was the biggest threat on goal the entire 90 mins, at least he knew what direction he was shooting towards. They were both pretty shite, gave Carroll a five on the basis he caused problems earlier on with his flick ons. Ranger got in the way of an attack at least twice, at one point Pancrate was darting into the box and Ranger just stood and got in his way. His best contriution was scoring a goal when he was a good two or three yards offside.

Not and awful performance, we didn't because of Hughton, he bottled it big time. Relentless Notts Forest finally drop points, your playing a side low on confidence after four consecutive defeats, so he sets up with two defensive midfielders, one natural winger and one striker. We had no pace to get in behind, it was very rare to see a player take someone on and we looked clueless at times. On another worrying note the defence have seemed to go back to the mode they were in last season, as in drop off, drop off, someone stick a foot in for fucks sake. There were a couple of times players just wandered through without so much as an attempt of a tackle from the near by defender. Harper 7 - Didn't have much to do, but did well when called into action. Taylor 5 - Poor defensive performance, just lets players drift past him at times. Not bad going forward, knocked the odd decent ball into the box. Williamson 6 - Steady away for the most part but makes some silly, uneeded challanges. Colo 6 - Alright, still gets muscled off the ball far too easyily. Van Aanholt 7 - Our best player going forward, overlepped well and whipped some good balls in, bit shakey defensively at times. Routledge 7 - Bit isolated early one but looked more threatening as the game went one, took his man on and whipped some decent balls into the area. Smith 5 - Was even playing? Offered very little in the middle. Butt 6 - Did OK, nothing flash but tried to get forward and link up play later on. Guthrie 4 - Pretty dreadful performance from someone you usually expect better of. Nolan 4 - See Guthrie. In fairness he did at least try to get in the box but all in all poor perormance for me. Carroll 5 - Looked promising early on, winning most of his ariel battles but offered very little as an attacking threat. Pancrate 6 - Not bad, offered some width and certianly posed more of a threat than Guthrie, not that took a lot. Ranger 4 - Absolute tosh, got in the way when he wasn't aimlessly dithering on the ege of the box.

We should probably wait until the end of the window before we start sucking each others dicks, but yeah this is definetely a positive.

He couldn't even get in the Palace first team to face us the other night, no thanks.

Possibly, or for every moment the creditors don't get paid the default payments increase, and were not talking £20 a day for being over drawn. Aye good point, never looked at it that way.

Can see this one going to deadline, Palace will no doubt wait until the last minute hoping one of the top flight panics and puts a silly bid in.

We all know Ashley is a twat, better late than never though.

Another swing and a miss from the Mail.

Spoken to a lad who lives in Nottingham at the minute, word down there is his head has been turned by our bidy but Billy isn't keen on selling him.

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The way I see it: Positives: He's a genuine right winger that will add balance to the side. He's quick and has good feet. May benafit Simpson in the long run. It shows we're looking to spend and strengthen positions we're short in. Potential for Guthrie to play in the middle. Negatives: Inconsistent end product. Probably not good enough for the Premier League.

Fancied a few tonight, after winning my first bet of the year and only Carlisle ruining a seven fold at the weekend I'm feeling quite confident: Liverpool Sheffield United Swansea Millwall Brighton Norwich Rochdale £5 returns around £250.

Can Colo speak English?

Oh and as far as this window goes, get Williamson and a striker in on loan and I'll be a very happy bunny. Would of liked another midfielder to play in the middle but you can't have everything.

Wonder what happened to the potential Perch transfer? Would of come in handy tomorrow considering he can cover right back pretty well, having said that we don't want to completely fill our squad with average players.

That's probably his main weakness, his end product is inconsistent.

I've heard that Beckford lad is canny.

Drinking from the well of bitterness are we?

Danny Welbeck loaned to Preston.

Rivlado: Palmeiras, Barcelona, Olympiacos and Bunyodkor.

Fantastic, glad we risked key members of our squad in a pointless cup run.

In providing the plan doesn't change.

Well if he isn't good enough to get in the Portsmouth team I don't want him anyway.