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All teams suffer a dip in form at some time in the season. If this is our dip then we are doing remarkably well...no losses and clean sheets against Manure and a Stoke team who are playing out of their skins...the goals will come again and Carroll will find his mojo it's just our turn to dip...Leicesters form will dip and so will Stokes, West Broms and the likes who we are realistically battling with to be placed above. I predict a top 8th place but no higher than 5th and in my books that is a successful first season with Bilic and a great platform for us entering the OS where I predict great things...

It has been pretty draw tastic from the hammers of late well actually for quite some time, so to beat an in form Southampton today was brilliant could have gone either way.

Is it me or is this site dying on its arse ?, I too am to blame, but to hardly have any enthusiasm over a very important win today is worrying anyway I wish you all a Happy Healthy new year.

Blimey. We got away with that one.
In that first half Soton played some lovely stuff. We were scrambling left right and centre.
Adrian again proved me more and more wrong. He exudes confidence and his shot stopping has to be up there with the best in the world.
Jenkinson is shot to pieces. It's a worry that Slav thought he could plug a hole at LB. why no Hendrie? Geezers a LB by trade? Gotta start somewhere.
For a player like Carl who is low, this was a poor decision.
Across the back, well, what more can you want from the ginger Pele? Immense, committed, hungry. If ever a new contract was earned, he did it.
I'm liking Ogbonna more and more. Looks savvy and hard.
Tomkins was very good considering he had his face smashed up. He's looking more and more confident and like a leader. I think he'll get a lot better.
Midfield....midfield....calling midfield?....looked like boys in the first half. Everyone of them.
Not sure how long Song needs to get fit. But Sully has played a blinder in his contract. Right now he doesn't near the first team. We are seeing "lazy, more time than he thinks he has and better than he thinks he is" Song. And we can't carry that.
Noble? MIA. Lovely passer when the ground work has been done, but I think his time has gone. Not quick enough, and with the way the league moves, he's a walking red card.
Kouyate. Not up to his usual until the 2nd half. Not good enough to coast and be casual. I hope he doesn't think he's made it. Needs to be hungrier.
Zarate was woeful. I he's hot and cold, but he's not for me. He's not a team player and as a result he tried so hard to redeem mistakes he loses focus and sight of the bigger picture.
Antonio. First half anonymous, 2nd he was a beast. There's a bit of marmite about him, poor first touch, head down...but he has something. He's risen to the crowd rather than shied away. He was lifted by the buzz to charge a ball down and show willing, and took off from that. This boy could be very good.
Valencia did well. He's a bridesmaid, but he works so hard he partners Sakho and those 2 hound everything in front of them. He's earned the time, and his ball in that set up the winner was wicked and undefendable. Good lad in my books.
As for Carroll. He's divided lots. I've always backed him as there's nothing like him in the English game. He's got faults, but no defender in the game fancies him, let alone defend against him.
A luxury for sure. But whilst we all wait for Payet, he provides a rudimentary route that many a side hate.
Well played him.
Oh Lanzini.
Yeah. He changed the whole game and is one of the biggest discoveries in recent times.
Dictated our play, bright, smart and honest.
A 'kin gem.
COYI