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Meanwhile in other news, Hiwula scores with a tidy finish for Pompey and a Westbrooke 30 yards free kick for Bristol Rovers comes back of the bar, onto the Orient goalie's back and into the net. Change that, Hiwula has just got another for Pompey. Good strike

Wonder if DaCosta is there because we have nobody else. Robins has said that has happend this season already. No intention of playing him.

Is a a penalty conceded by Wilson compulsory now? has there been a rule change?

I've got 'Need to go out for the win and play two up front' on my Sky Blue Talk cliche bingo card. I'm off to a good start.

That is the point - they don't play in the first team. Only Bayliss and Shipley in the last 3.5 seasons (none at all in the last 2.5 seasons, Not one. Nada). One of the best current prospects is on the bench at Gillingham. I have hopes for Bapaga though, so we might see one next season. But we...

Even better, we are getting players that some other mug has paid to develop. We are not a charity. I suspect we will live off the left overs from the huge oversized Premiership youth schemes and the commercial academies. In fact maybe the way is to commercially link up with one of the latter...

Worth noting before we get all dewey eyed and romantic about youth programmes:- There is inherently a huge amount of wastage in them. Under Robins we have had Bayliss and Shipley in year 1 but nobody has established themselves since - two players in four years and none in the last three. And...

it would not surprise me in the least were we to beat Luton and then draw against Wycombe.

The injuries arguement does not apply as an excuse for poor perfomance, sorry chaps:- 1. Every team has some injured players (see another thread). Norwich's has 11 (eleven) names on it. 2. Particularly as we are playing two games a week. 3. The manager's job is to build a squad not an 11 man team.

Did he have the David Brent image pointing out?

Wilson is a penalty waiting to happen. He is more confrontational, comes off his line aggressively, which carries risk.

I think we can sneak this one by the odd goal.Yet another tough game, probably a bit scrappy. I do remember that we were bullied by them two seasons agon at the Ricoh - you could see the difference in physical size as the teams lined up for kick off, they were big lads compared to us. But then...

...surely one of the best acquisitions of all time £ for £. Curiously I will always remember as one of my all time fabvourite City goals, the run he put in to loop round Bayliss and set up McNulty for the second at Notts County. How did he spot it and also have the legs and lungs to do it...

Crikey that is sad. Nick, I am sure you will send something to his family on behalf of all of us.

Might have something to do with the fixture list - in general, not just us.

who All the clubs in our division, will be more than a little terrified by the cash flow situation. It could be the quietist transfer window ever.....

I initially thought this was a euphemism for having Biamou a permant fixture leading the line

Everybody including me is going for 5 at the back. Anybody want to stick up for four - 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3?

This will be very tight, imho, with both sides determined not to lose, first foremost. It was a tight affair last time, likely to be again. If it was a struggle against Derby and Forest, please explain why it will not be equally so against another fellow struggler? Regarding the team, about the...

I liked the second part - but I have absolutely no idea why you should feel 'disillusioned'. We knew it would be a struggle, and guess what, it is. Concommitant with it being a 'struggle' is that the football is hard to watch sometimes. This year is about surviving and building a platform. Of...