Happinesstan

Man City had Liam Gallagher squaring up to anybody who dared to question them. We've got Ant n Dec offering sheds.

As always my hilarity is not at his expense [he's a journo doing the job of a journo] it's at those who think he is anything other than that. He may well have connections, doesn't dispute yhe fact that 99% of the time he lets the wind blow up his arse and waggle his typing fingers.

It all depends how quickly they gel. We could still be all over the place, come February.

His actual tweet was "I've been told it won't be Fonseca, but it's not certain." He basically admitted that his info couldn't be trusted.

One day the club will match the efforts of these guys.

Caulkin who said he'd heard it wouldn't be Fonseca, but it wasn't certain. Cracking journo.

Odds are affected by people placing bets, people place bets based upon what is reported.

If we can get Dubs fit for Brighton we'll see a different team. If this chocolate butt-plug is in place it'll be exactly the same.

Yep. It's difficult to have a 90 minute plan when your players can only last sixty.

Was it early in the second half that they hit the bar with Darlow at the other end of the goal, similar to how he did with their second I think. Any defender watching that performance shit's their pants.

We're a point better off than I thought we'd be two weeks ago, but my fears are heightened. But that's ignoring the fact that Dubs will be back soon.

Jones was constantly telling them to push up.

With Dubravka in goal it's a different game today. He gives confidence to the back line, which means we're not so dependent on the midfield protecting them.

Aye. Could do with a Killer, and a Sheedy. Think we better bring things forward and get Bracewell and Venison at the same time.

And we improved on keeping Palace goalless for 55 mins to keeping Chelsea goalless for 65. Jones' coaching has clearly had an impact. But the reality is we have an unfit championship squad [couple of outliers] with league two facilities. Even Pep would struggle.

I'd lick out Susan Boyle for a point.

All this team needs is the crowd singing the manager's name. If Rafa was in the dugout the atmosphere would be electric.

Doesn't have to be. If we get a draw today [I know] that's two points towards January that we could never have reasonably expected.

If you'd been a fan for longer than two weeks you'd understand. Hopefully you will never be blessed with this revelatory life experience.

I'm sure it's always been part of the plan.

Where are you?

Perfectly reasonable first half. Given that many expectations were influenced by Chelsea's 7-0 defeat of Norwich last week, I don't see how anybody can be disappointed with the overall performance. Little improvements in the second half and we might win this.

Never heard of game management? We play all our best players and what, take the lead in the first 20 mins? and that's game over, is it? They'd hammer us 7-1. If we can improve on last game, and keep these goalless until the 65th minute, who knows?

Was just going to post that. we're a lot more Rafa-like than Bruce-like. Huge improvement after 2 weeks.