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The more the virus circulates during the vaccination period, the more chance there is that mutations arise that can beat the vaccine. This is a really really critical time, because the virus will be meeting more and more vaccinated people as we roll the program out, and thus any mutations that...

Find it interesting that 12 of their 18 that day are still regular starters two years later, but just 5 of our 18 are.

Mad that if we hadn't beaten Spurs and Liverpool we'd be in the relegation zone. But we did and its partof our rise in form that doesn't feel temporary. Anyway, law of narrative demands a relegation battle, so here we are.

Is that why you voted Brighton :eek:

Shame the lad Cochrane got injured playing for then, must have been in with a shot of competing for the left back role here next season

Yup! In a baby carrier on the East terrace apparently, only woke up for the goal :lolol: two and a bit months old, would love to know if anyone has been to a game when they were younger!

The first Brighton game played after my birth. And I was there!

I think the 'big clubs' are set in stone now. I don't think it's possible for a non big club to become a big club or a big club to ever stop being a big club. And I think it does matter to a degree. Leicester, Southampton, Wolves are all doing well right now because they're being well run with...

And yet we did when Stephens, Dunk, Bridcutt (initially) , and by several accounts, White, wanted to move on. But none of those were 'big' clubs. Assuming Chelseas interest in Dunk was mainly paper talk. A Liverpool or Arsenal come seriously calling, expect to sell. But I don't think the club...

2001-02 when Zamora was banned he was replaced with 18 year old Chris Mcphee, didn't win any of the three games Bobby missed. When he got injured end of the season we signed Wayne Gray on loan and Lee Steele came back from injury, memorable 2-1 win over Bristol City to put us on the brink of...

It was Reading in particular who leveled that at us wasn't it? When he got sent off at Oldham we didn't win any of the three games he missed, and threw away a two goal lead against Notts County after he got injured. Then Waynie Gray turned up at Colchester and the rest is history. Speaking of...

Well, there is one very obvious answer and we were certainly accused of being a one man team at the time

20 years ago, almost to the day, 17th February 2001, we played away at Cheltenham, the infamous burger van on fire game. Good day out I recall, rather marred by losing 3-1 to a struggling team who played 70 minutes with 10 men. We were second in division 3, the bottom division, on our way to the...

:lolol: Managers can't put the ball in the back of the net. He put out a side that created 26 shots on goal, limited them to just 1 weak effort, transitioned beautifully from defence to attack and back again. The rest is down to the strikers, who are largely young and inexperienced at this...

Yep, we create more clear cut chances against the better sides, but of course those are also the sides that are better able to score against us. That's the conundrum, but a good one to have I guess. Part of me thinks that having two strikers against these teams would help us, one big one small...

In time. Might take new players, but I'd wager he can get closer with the current lot. Scoring is the hardest thing in football, so makes sense it takes the longest to get right. The idea that he's FINALLY accepting he needs to work on strikers is absurd. He's a football manager. In the Premier...

Still. Keeper, looking great. Defence, 1 goal conceded in 6. Dependable, brilliant on the ball. Defensive midfield. Getting better all the time, our ball winning stats amongst best in the game. Attack, getting better and better, lovely movement, pressing. Wing backs, a real strength of ours...

Me too. I'd love to see him form a partnership with a slightly younger version of Murray, think he would thrive with someone alongside him. At the moment we're so good at driving the ball to the edge of the box, he is finding himself with his back to goal 8 yards out and surrounded by defenders...

Indeedy. I like that the answer to this question is Palace, as so many of the best ones are. :)

Apropos of nothing much, but kind of on the theme of (a) defence really being the major issue (goals win you games, defence win you titles) and (b) needing more goals chipped in from elsewhere - there is only one striker in the entire premier league history who has scored 20 goals in a season...