Lush Vlad

Sounds harsh, but he's always good for an injury or five. Hopefully keeps getting niggly injuries and doesn't play. Only way I can see him out the team! Would mean Ba and Best need to stay fit all season though

I would even play 4-2-3-1/4-4-1-1 against Villa, obviously HBA won't play but Marv, Jonas and Obertan could start.

So he didn't have to make a save then? Simpson and S.Taylor did it for him.

Our Wimbledon tactics can't have helped. Thought he showed the odd glimpse of class, but still looks confused when in the final third and short of confidence, take the full back on FFS. He goes missing for long spells as well which is a worry, if we started playing it on the deck, it might not be such an issue.

Got it horribly wrong last night, yet we still kept a clean sheet and Krul didn't have a save to make. A lot of that was down to their shit finishing though. Time will tell if this was a good result or not, QPR looked really lively and fast as fuck, interested to see how they get on in their next 3 or 4 matches. We did make them look like Barca though, and gave them far too much time, space and respect. Roll on Saturday, if we play the same clueless tactics, have Cabaye and Tiote both sat on the centre backs toes and continue to pump long balls to Shola, I might start to question AP's sanity. As I'm a glass half full kinda guy, I would suggest he will learn from his mistakes and make 1 or 2 changes.

Our best player last night, doesn't say a lot about our performance mind, as I've seen Besty play far better. Really does work hard though, getting better on the ball, good feet (and uses both), quite strong with his back to goal and brings others into play. Oh and he has a knack of scoring/getting a shot off when presented with a chance. Pretty much the polar opposite to the buffoon playing alongside him last night. Best on his own running channels and Marv/HBA/Vuckic playing behind him, or Ba and Best together. Shola should not be starting FFS.

If he starts Saturday, I think I'll cry. We should have matched them and gone 4-3-3/4-5-1, this useless clogger was more of a hinderance and we kept booting it long to him, don't think he won one decent header or flick on. Words cannot describe how angry I get seeing him stroll around the pitch like he doesn't give a fuck

Not sure when these quotes are from, but two weeks hopefully? :'(

I don't think it should be hard to drop Taylor. He's done the job asked of him manfully but he's still a very limited player who won't offer any of the options Santon does. We've missed Jose's ability to bring the ball out of defence and Santon will give us that again. Get him in. Hence why I said drop Simpson, who has been shite in all 4 of our games so far.

Added a striker, albeit on a free. Got some genuine wingers in Marveaux and Obertan. Cabaye already looks the part and of course Gosling and HBA are like new signings (although HBA isn't available yet) plus the fact Sammy and Vuckic are pushing into the first team. Quite clearly loads stronger

Hard to drop Raylor TBF, think he's done an ok job in the circumstances and scored two important goals. If anyone is to be dropped, it's Simpson, shift Raylor across to right back and put Santon at left back. If he doesn't start I will be spitting feathers I tell you!

Better squad and depth, yes. Better starting XI, probably not. Fail to see what's so hilarious about that comment? EDIT: I seem to remember him saying about a month ago we were weaker than last season, d'oh

Has to start against QPR. Would be a travesty if he didn't.

Going slightly off topic Randy, but Sessegnon and Colback were the only two of your players that impressed me at the SOS this season. Colback looked bang average for Ipswich, both times we played them in the CCC, but I guess he was pretty young then. Cattermole is a disgrace TBH, cannot believe he is your captain

Not quite in the same leg breaking league as Bardsley's though! I actually quite rate him TBF, but since his Man U days he has been going round smashing people, really aggressive player and often flies into challenges. Not at Cattermole's level of lumping the shit out of anything that moves yet though.

Still, Wolves away was his proposed comeback, might get on the bench for Blackburn by the sounds of it, although Stainrod (tee hee) said a lot of this sort of stuff last season, was all premature. Would like him to get some minutes in a behind closed doors friendly or two as well.

Black cats on the East stand hopefully bollocks.

Cabaye very much looks like a poor man's Xavi to me. Fair comparison from Colocho IMO. He'll be our Xavi, Sammy Ameobi is our Messi

Are we signing a new deal with Puma then? Doesn't their deal run out at the end of the season?

Kicked on the ankle take it you missed the challenge ujpest? Sure there is a picture up somewhere in this thread.

That would have broke any players leg, apart from Colo and Tiote. They're both cyborgs.

Derek Wright Oh and Hatem of course

Just watched the Everton video again, don't know why I do it to myself!