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Must admit, I'm not at all confident about this one. Even without Lukaku, West Brom's counter-attacking 4-3-3 is exactly the sort of setup that we've had difficulty handling, and if they score first we could be in trouble. Hence my pick of a 3-1 Baggies win in the prediction league.

Worth noting though that during last season, the best predictor of an unusually good Saints performance was that I'd made a pre-game statement expressing a lack of confidence.

With you on that Schad. WBA are the very epitome of the type of team we struggle against. Might be a decent gauge of how we've progressed as it happens (or not).
 
Can see the physical, tall centre backs being told to stick to Lambert. After his display for England he will be a target, but think this will be the reason we win, with j rod and Lallana finding space and the pace of j rod proving the undoing of the slow west brim defence. Wba 1-2 saints (dorrans) (j rod, 2)
 
Yea i really thought that by now Poch would be able to give a press conference, surely this year, very weird having a manager in England which cant speak enough English to do a press conference

... *who* can't speak enough English... ;)
 
Artur Boruc has just posted this video from the team coach on the way to the game...

http://distilleryvesper11-7.ak.instagram.com/6b263d18067911e3b31922000a9e5b22_101.mp4

I take it he said, Tomorrow's a big game. Let's get this season started...

Featuring a headphoned and tablet/smartphone mad Kelvin Davies, an engrossed in his Nuts magazine Jos Hooiveld, a headphoned Steven Davis and a dozed off Rickie Lambert. Artur himself appears to be mischievously bright as a button.
 
Is Olsson the best player to compare with Yoshida? I think McAuley and Tamas are better.
 
I think I'm going to change my prediction to a dull 0-0 draw! <laugh>

Surprised to see Yoshida's statistic being that good and to be better than Olsson's; he's our best centre back but isn't that great on the ball or strengthwise.
 
Boruc
Chambers fonte jos shaw
Wan cork Morgan
Jrod lambert lala

Reckon a low score draw. could be anything but it will be tight and probably leaning in the favour of west brom.
 
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Yea i really thought that by now Poch would be able to give a press conference, surely this year, very weird having a manager in Englandwhich cant speak enough English to do a press conference



... *who* can't speak enough English...​


.."Whom"
 
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Yea i really thought that by now Poch would be able to give a press conference, surely this year, very weird having a manager in Englandwhich cant speak enough English to do a press conference



... *who* can't speak enough English...​


.."Whom"

"Who" is correct in that context.