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None of these will be better than the full English breakfast at Gary Wilmot's wedding

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Excellent signing. We know what he offers at this level, he's young enough to keep improving, and has some genuine quality and end product. Who cares whether he's a Parker signing or a recruitment team signing. I expect JBL and Anthony are likely to become our first choice wingers, assuming they sta...

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I'm hoping he exaggerated the limp to avoid being accused of refusing to play. Would be fantastic to see him back.

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Can anyone explain why refs allow so much time for a long throw to be taken? Players get booked for taking 10 seconds to do a normal throw in, but that rule seems to be ignored if you are setting up for a long throw.

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Flemming has become a much more effective centre forward since Barnes returned to the club. Could be a coincidence but I reckon Ash has taught him some of the dark arts, and he's starting to look a potential Premier League forward now.

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Good report. Must admit I was happy enough with the team selection before the match. We were bringing in seasoned professionals worth many millions of pounds, not some untested kids. Those players had earnt the chance playing in the previous rounds. It was a real lesson in the importance of match sh...

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I got nowhere trying to sort my son's ticket online or by email despite Leisure's helpful advice above. But a 5 minute call to the ticket office this morning and all sorted, so fair play - I expected a much longer wait with all the chaos.

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Similar problem for me. I can renew mine online but not coming up as an option for my son, and he doesn't have his own online account as far as we are aware. Email sent to the ticket office yesterday, no reply yet. They may end up missing out on my £870 as we can't just "pop in" from 70 miles away.

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It's difficult to compare Ekdal, Egan and Worrall as we haven't seen any of them fully fit and having a long run in the team. But is Ekdal really a lot slower than the others? He looked a class act to me in the Championship, and any lack of pace was more than covered by how well he reads the game. S...

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To be fair many of these signings would benefit from another season developing in the Championship. Just look at what a run of games has done for CJ and Humphreys. I wouldn't write any of them off yet. It's not helpful for us to put pressure on them to immediately perform at their best in brief came...

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Boro were by far the best team we have faced at home so far this season. A point is fine. All the substitutions seemed to make sense at the time, but it can't be easy coming into a game like that, in those conditions, and trying to immediately make an impact. I agree, definitely a point gained rathe...

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That's a key point about needing some stability. We are a very young, inexperienced team with a huge injury list. Confidence is clearly lacking among our more creative players but that can soon change with a couple of decent results. There's no lack of effort, Parker seems popular with the players, ...

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Intersting stats, but I do find it surprising how desperate fans are to return to the Premier League at the first attempt. Our last two seasons in it were painful to watch. I'm enjoying this season far more despite the lack of goals and won't worry too much where we are in the form table. At least i...

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Surely it has to be Jay. Hountondji may improve with time and experience but he hasn't shown much to suggest he can lead a line on his own at this level yet.

This may be Jay's only chance to prove he can still do it and I really hope he makes the most of it.

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The 6 minutes by the corner flag was far more enjoyable than the last 6 minutes against West Ham last season for example.

No problem at all with game management like that, irrespective of the opposition. All part of regaining the winning mentality that we had completely lost under Kompany.

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Pompey got 97 points last season and had two good draws in their previous two away games. I'll be surprised if they struggle this season, they looked well organised. It's a bit unfair, and unrealistic, to expect us to steamroll past sides like this. We left it later than we'd like but we deserved th...

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I'm sure everyone would be more relaxed about O'Shea leaving if we knew Ekdal, Beyer and/or Al-Dakhil were going to be available soon. We know they are all good enough at this level. I understand the confidentiality issues but approximate timescales on their recovery periods would be helpful for us ...

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I suppose it was a gradual thing but I certainly remember leaving the 0-5 Arsenal match thinking he was showing absolutely no signs of learning how to help us compete at that level, with no plan B at all. I'm pleased he's leaving. I suspect he was about 10 games away from things getting a bit messy ...

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No mention yet of Craig Bellamy? If (and surely it's still a big IF) Kompany somehow gets the Bayern job, is it inevitable that CB goes with him? Or might he fancy taking the reigns himself? Not saying this would be my preference but I suppose it's a way of having continuity. But is continuity reall...

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Stay. But there simply has to be an improvement tactically and for us to show some fight in what remains of the season. If not we need to find someone else to do the next rebuild.

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If nothing else the quality of our "unused subs" looks to have improved since the last home match against them!

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Just reading Norwich boss Wagner heaping praise on "warrior" Ashley Barnes last night. They seem a different team when he is playing.

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We all know that character and leadership are vital for a relegation scrap. In not addressing this I can only think that VK thought we would have far too much quality to be anywhere near the bottom three...or that it genuinely wouldn't matter if we got relegated this season. Both scenarios are naive...

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Barnes is a Clarets legend and had confirmed that long before Sunday. But even at his age and with his experience, the lack of goals was bound to affect his confidence. He's seemed to snatch at opportunities this season and his usually excellent control has deserted him at times. Maybe he just neede...

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It seems we're down to just Cork, Jay and Brownhill from the "old guard" as first team regulars. All three are superb at this level, and fair play to VK for recognising this early and building his new team around them.

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All the "old" players are having to adapt to the new tactics and new positions. I'd argue Roberts' role has changed the most, and is probably the most difficult to do well. It is so different from being a standard right fullback, he will be having to think far more about positioning as it won't be i...

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Think we need to be careful not to get carried away after a couple of good performances against weaker teams. Tonight and Norwich will be a real test.

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Very early days but Bastien reminds me a bit of Arfield, which obviously is a decent complement. He seems technically good, fairly mobile and athletic, and keen to keep the ball moving quickly. It took us a while to find Arfield's role in our team, with him never really being strong enough to be one...

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I agree Barnes has never really been as effective when played as a lone forward, working best alongside eg Wood or Vokes. Jay did seem to tire yesterday, but ideally we could have brought Barnes on to play alongside him to help manage the last 30 mins as the ball had already started to come back too...

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Wow, what a horrible thread about someone who has played a huge part in our success over the last 8 years or so. I'm sure he'd agree it wasn't his best afternoon but the problems that led to us throwing the points away started long before he came on. How come we are allowed to be more patient with t...

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For me the most important thing would be to keep Brownhill as I suspect we'll be receiving offers

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The first few games are obviously huge for us, starting with Huddersfield. A good start and Cornet, Brownhill, McNeil and Taylor might be persuaded to stay with us for a promotion push. It's impossible to predict the full XI really but my team would certainly include Taylor and Lowton as fullbacks, ...

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I presume people are leaving out Brownhill because they think he is leaving? But this wouldn't explain the omission of Cork, who most felt was underused in the Premier League last season... I'll be pleasantly surprised if our new midfielders are already an improvement on those two, but somehow doubt...

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I'm sure most fans are more realistic than the extremes of opinion we see on here. I'll be happy if we stay clear of relegation and show signs of the new team moulding together. If VK achieves more than this in his first season as a championship manager, despite the total rebuild he is having to ove...

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I'm worried our season ended when Tarks went off injured. If that was anything other than precautionary then yes, we're depending on a Leeds or Everton collapse.

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I didn't think we were overrun in midfield yesterday and actually thought Stephens did ok. But we will be overrun against Man U and Liverpool. Brownhill needs to come back in, probably for Lennon (who also played reasonably well to be fair) and allow Roberts to be our main attacking threat on the ri...

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Condolences Baron Garcia, excellent tribute. It really resonates with me as I lost my Dad last April, another life-long passionate claret. He died at a similar age. A few days later we spanked Wolves 4-0, and it certainly felt like he had a hand in that. I really hope we get something similar for yo...

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He's been immense and I'd love him to stay long term. But it seems to go against the business plan of the new regime to break the bank with a new contract, or let him leave for free next year. I don't think anyone benefits by keeping him here for one final season. What we can't do is faff around and...

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That's sad news, RIP THJ.

I never met him but have fond memories of the old email group and enjoyed his contributions.

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Barnes' last minute winner V Palace is always near the top of these polls for me

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I don't have Sky and have just booked it to watch via the NowTV app. I had similar problems on the main sky website but it seems to work ok on this site:

https://sports.skyboxoffice.com/events

Lets hope it's better value than the Chelsea game was.

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This downturn in form always happens eventually when either Mee or Tarkowski are out for any length of time. And thankfully things usually improve when they are both back in the side. Sean has been irritating with some of his comments recently but I do agree with him about the injuries. Add a fully ...

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A proper pre-season is clearly so vital for how we want to play. It's all very similar to the way we started the season two years ago. The international break is coming at a good time. We need Mee back and to keep Tarks. Keep those two fit and the squad is good enough to stay up even without another...

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SD is not daft. He knows mouthing off in the media is not going to make MG change his mind on contract negotiations. These press conference comments seem likely to be a joint decision between chairman and manager to start to prepare us for the inevitable in the close season. Sadly we can't afford to...

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Let's not overcomplicate it with thoughts about fluid attacking football, we just need to get our best players back into the right positions in a 4-4-2 and work harder than the opposition, particularly against the likes of West Ham. Wood and Barnes back together up front.Taylor must come back in, an...

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VAR got most things wrong yesterday but it did get those two decisions correct.

Still want it scrapped immediately though, we may as well just flip a coin for each VAR call.

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It's a shambles. I'd be interested to know if fans were ever formally asked if they wanted VAR to be introduced in the Premier League. And if fans were involved in deciding how it should be used. And if fans are now being asked for feedback on how it is performing.

I suspect I know the answers.

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I think Everton will be well aware by now that they bought the wrong one. We're lucky nobody else seems to realise how good he is.

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The only concern with Dwight is that he tends to fade a bit in the second half of most games, though this is inevitable with the amount of running he is doing. But we now have Brady, Lennon or JBG to replace him when he tires so it isn't really a concern at all.

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It seems odd that there are so few comments about this excellent result. Cheltenham will be decent in League 2 this season, it sounds a really encouraging performance.

It won't have done the trialists chances any harm, whoever they all are.

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