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I have thought about that before but the main issue is there is no reason not to do it then. If the ball is going in anyway, you are not gambling anything by handling on the line. The referee might miss it and you get away with it. If they do see it, you don't lose anything as it would have been...

But we won. We didn't let them off the hook. It's not like we drew 1-1. We got three points without too much effort and now have an extra day to prepare for another game on Tuesday. All seems pretty good to me. I imagine most fans are happy to get another three points (as you can see from this...

This time last season we hadn't won a game by more than one goal. This season we are winning games by 2 goals or more regularly. We've been mixed since the international break but picked up eight points from four games (including Villa, Fulham and Leeds). I see only reasons to be positive.

Assuming he didn't replace the player who scored in the match.

He's even more wrong that you think. It ended 2-2 so wasn't even Middlesbrough's only goal! And all his comments ignore that it is not like Middlesbrough would have played with ten men the matches he played in if he wasn't playing. An alternative striker might have done better!

There's a certain irony of you saying about repeating yourself. You've not read anything anyone else has said. Rhodes is a striker who needs good service. He's not the sort to make a goal on his own. We have two players like him already. What we lack is pace up front. It really is quite simple.

Indeed or there's always Bolanos. Think we should resurrect that thread too! If we could afford him, then someone like Scott Hogan is the ideal but realistically we won't be able to afford him (and they probably wouldn't sell to us anyway).

Also a little bit of luck e.g. Duffy's late battle with Wilbraham against Bristol City

I'm not sure he could have been the difference on Saturday. We lacked a bit of quality and pace, not another target man option. What we really missed was Knockaert being completely on form in the build up, judging by the impact he had in the last 15/20 minutes. He got 6 goals in 18 games, which...

Don't think we've had any against. Hemed scored penalties against Rotherham and Burton (think they are his only two league goals)

And that is the plan. We're not a particularly open side away from home. We make sure we don't concede and hope to get a goal. If we do, then the game opens out a lot anyway. We got the goal against Burton and Wigan for example. On Saturday, as can happen, we didn't but we still didn't lose and...

But it is a completely different situation. We really needed an alternative target man last January (although we wouldn't have known that Zamora would be out for most of the rest of the season). This season we have two target men. What we lack is pace up front and, for all his qualities in the...

Not even sure there was a shot on target all game. Having said that, we had to take what we could get in terms of points that season!

Worst performance maybe but not even the worst game I've seen at Cardiff. The 0-0 under Hughton in the previous season was a terrible match. I think there were more goals last season than shots in that game.

Even the, we could have got back in it after half time. At 3-1, we missed a really good chance to make it 3-2 and then conceded a penalty minutes later to end the game as a contest. If it had become 3-2, you never know what might have happened.

I always find it really funny when this happens. Teams who time waste all game are suddenly forced to chase it. Huddersfield were a very obvious example. Time wasted for 80 minutes and then we score and suddenly they are complaining about us time wasting when we weren't really. Not at all...

You are going to get days like that. It happens. If we keep on winning, there's no way we can lose points compared to other teams.

I thought that was odd. Assumed the league would be their priority and they would rest players for the cup. Maybe Benitez assumed that his 2nd string would be good enough to beat Blackburn. Only shows that you can't put out a weakened team against any team in this league.

To be fair, India in India is about the toughest series in the world. The conditions are very different to ours. We won in South Africa last year and they were one of the best teams in the world. The biggest disappointment for me is that we started the series so well.