bowlingcrofty

Somebody mentioned they had and received an email back telling them that their application wasn't accepted. Cheers, just wondered if they were accepting all and filtering them, or not. Will keep my eyes peeled on Wednesday. Hoping for a reduction to 75 or 80 points.

Has anyone under 100 points tried hoying their application in?

The only way I could see it being one of Ashley's companies on the shirt would be if he was planning a massive rebrand as part of his purchase of the JJB stores and wanted to publicise the link between SD.com and whatever the newly branded company would be... [/longshot]

Well he was perfectly happy to replace about 80% of the hoardings from paying companies in the ground with freebies for Sports Direct. Good point definitely trying to be positive for once and hopefully something good comes from this I think the sponsors pulled the plug when we got relegated so he stuck Sports Direct everywhere where they used to be.

Bad news is we've pissed away 2 of the 3 easiest away points we'll get all season. And two of the easiest home points given how utterly awful Aston Villa are. Yep, agreed.

Bad news is we've pissed away 2 of the 3 easiest away points we'll get all season.

Unless Caulkin is taking the piss, Mardy said in his post game interview that Fetcher is a £35m striker

2 hours before we have a game Poor them. We'll rest players too, and isn't it 3 hours if you count the 1 hour time difference

0-2 spurs

Bordeaux have a game next Sunday 2pm which they're not happy about, so may rest some players.

Should say BST in the title btw.

Apart from the 7 game run towards the end where we settled on a 4213 system that worked, there's been no change in performance levels. It's baffling that we found a system that worked, and dropped it for no other reason than Ba getting in a huff. DIsagree that we were the same first half last season, it's not we played great footy, we played pretty direct, but we were very very resilient at the back and we went up other end and scored pretty frequently, and it was good fun. Stoke away was a highlight of that style. We then had a period when we lost our way for a while and played bit like this, but I don't like this revisionism that we weren't a good side for first half of last season. We were very tough to break down and Ba was incredible, like he still is. The difference now is that we're riding our luck to keep people from scoring. Everton, Fulham, Villa, Bolton, Wolves, Norwich, SMBs, Wigan, QPR (all home games) last season weren't 'quite fun', they were games that I didn't enjoy watching, but we did enough to win. Those games could easily have gone the other way.

How is it daft? Enjoyment, although is correlated to results, isn't the defining factor. I far more enjyed the 2nd half vs Everton away when we drew than the 1-0 Norwich win. You only mentioned 2 of the 4 potential outcomes if you use your two variables.

Funny that when someone puts decent crosses in, we score some goals. Well played to the lad.

Apart from the 7 game run towards the end where we settled on a 4213 system that worked, there's been no change in performance levels. It's baffling that we found a system that worked, and dropped it for no other reason than Ba getting in a huff.

Expecting Elliot Tavernier Williamson Perch Ferguson Obertan Bigi Gosling Marveaux Shola Cisse Drab 0-0

Serious question here. I love the club and when we get a good resut it makes my week, but I don't think i've enjoyed a full game for a long time, maybe the WBA away game last year. I like looking back on some great moments in games, but unless HBA is on fire or one of the Demba's scores a corker, there's not much enjoyment there really. It's either expecting for us to concede, or expecting the same old dull and predictable set play routines. Still, couldn't live without it!

Horrendous. Absolutely horrendous. If I was a Reading fan, I'd be gutted that my team is shit and I was a cunt, but they still should have had three points. We're lucky, lucky people today.

Don't know what the hell you're watching, like. He's been absolutely fine. Yep, thought he's done well.

That's what happens when you play 3 defensively minded midfielders out of 4.

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Pretty certain we'll go: Harper Perch Williamson Taylor Santon HBA Tiote Anita Jonas Ba Cissse

Looks very promising. Should be vying with Anita for the RB slot.

....and Bigi should start.