Glad Gayle got a red, he was being a real pest before that.

Really liked the look of Ogbonna yesterday - showed his class against a very strong club. Very confident performance from a new signing who's new to this league.

Bilic just said that 80% of the players that played tonight are first team players??? WTF is he on? I know what you mean, but what I think he was trying to say was; Randolph, Jenkinson, Henry, Poyet, Nolan, Lanzini, Maiga & Lee probably all train with the first team and would be in and around t...

Seriously disappointed after going out. The ambition shown in taking such an inexperienced squad to Romania is, in my opinion, quite poor from the club. After the uninspiring end to last season, I was quite looking forward to Europe under the new manager. He's got recent experience and relative succ...

Lets be honest 11 v 11 we were in control and were looking for a 3rd. We have a selection headache now that both Collins and Tomkins are banned and Reid hasn't been selected for the squad for this round. Burke, Oxford, Henry should be available or Kouyate can play CB. Sahko will be back and Jenkinso...

Bilic sent to stands.

Ogbonna OG 2-2

Jarvis on for Zarate

Goal Astra 2-1

Another red - Collins off.

2-0 Zarate

Some pics of the match here - http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/wes ... udity=true

Getting a lot of corners and crosses into the box. Just need someone to put another away.

This sounds like were playing quite confidently and comfortably.

Payet pulling the strings.

1-0 Valencia header. Payet assist.

prophet:marginal wrote:He's surely not going to pair Noble and Nolan together in midfield again in a hurry.

Maybe if we enter a team into this league http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18380173

Poyet is 20, so should be fine.

Shame to see Downing go after a decent season from him, but if he wants to go back to the north east and drop a division, I've got nothing against that. You would hope we will replace him with someone with PL or European experience. In addition to the signing of Payet, we still need quality creative...

It was essentially our 2nd preseason game, I have no complaints with the result or performance.

Anyone else get the numerous emails from OCS Worldwide apologising for non-delivery?

I got 5 emails, but also got my delivery, looks like there's been a f'up somewhere.