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You don’t need to drop Iwobi, just play him in the middle.

Why don't players look at the actual ball? Are defenders coached to turn their backs on it or are they just being stupid? Do they get lambasted when the player they were trying to wrestle scores anyway because he knew the ball was coming and the defender didn't?

I've been banging on about Rashid for a while now. I was just coming to accept that maybe it should be Borthwick as a batsman who bowls a bit instead and they go and stick him in at last. We've got so many competent all-rounders, and so few out-and-out middle order batsmen, that it just seems...

Agree with this. It's for others to be reliable and consistent, Stokes will do special things at big moments.

Should have been a comfortable target on this pitch, not now. I've been cursing the selection of non-scoring batsmen over all-rounders who do score for a while now. Ballance certainly wouldn't have been in my side and I'm not convinced about Vince either, although at least he has some technique...

Deulofeu's going to be good this season.

Okay. Done. How can I tell if anyone liked my post? Does it say? Why doesn't anyone like my post?

Having a proper manager will be like having 25 new signings.

Yes. But more to the point Arsenal met Suarez's release clause and Liverpool just ignored it and said no anyway. There was no legal challenge, Suarez stayed and went a year later for about £30M more.

But then where would we play Hamsik...?

Nice to see Woakes doing well. Should explain up front I'm from Warwickshire, so we've known how good he is for a long time. Not sure there's room for him once Stokes is back though. I don't know if I'm supposed to want him to stay in the England side or come back and play for us.

C Cheers, will do.

Hi everyone, this is a nice discovery. Somewhere to talk about cricket with fellow blues. Maybe you guys will listen to me rant about how we should play either Borthwick or Rashid in place of one of the batsmen who never score any runs (looking like Compton now) and simultaneously strengthen the...

I've heard scousers refer to 'seeing his arse' meaning getting angry or losing their temper. Where does that come from?

Its Park Ji-Sung. Sometimes we (er... evil capitalist westerners) change it to Ji-Sung Park because we're used to having the surname last, not first. Koreans put the family name first, apparently. His family are the Park family and his parents decided to name him Ji-Sung.

Relevance! Has everyone forgotten they're our next opponents? The Liverpool managerial situation has a direct bearing on our next match, its not just idle football gossip, or being 'obsessed' with Liverpool, we're playing them next week! This news will directly affect the result, and I think...

Its got to be Waldo Ponce. I'd get that name on the back of my pink shirt...

I wouldn't say Terry 'had a go'. I think the airing of different viewpoints is healthy. Club and country situations are different, especially with the nature of tournament football, but if Moyes was refusing to change an obviously ridiculous tactical set-up that had led to two poor...

Don't think I ever said he was 'principled', just that he gives a [Poor language removed]. Maybe you're right about him copping the blame if we fail to qualify, but everyone will be wrong. We were royally [Poor language removed] before he said anything, so he can't be blamed if we're still royally [Poor language removed] afterwards. He saw that things...

Or it sounds like England in 1990. A good manager listens to his players. Capello's achievements came at club level where is able to control every aspect. This isn't the case at international level. This may sound a bit churlish but he won things with clubs that win things anyway. They won them...