Now now, dont be so defeatist! We now have Schlupp onboard, who will strengthen the left side of play, plus Jenkinson who will do the same for the right. There are bids in for Downing, Livermore and Brady, and always the chance that Evra will sign. Sam's message will over the next few weeks start to get across, and the cleansheets will begin to arrive. We still have plenty of time to pull free of trouble....

Allardyce doesn't take fools gladly and is fairly outspoken. Maybe Benteke got a roasting after the Watford penalty debacle ? Certainly didn't look like a man busting a gut yesterday for the team.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

I can't see many players that other clubs would want !

Negative post,even by my standards!!

We will stay up unde BFS, mark my words, even many pundits agree on this.

Scott Dann will come good! He is not even 30 and was possibly our best player over the last two seasons. Has struggled since his injury clearly but I would not write him off

He had a good game against us but from what the Sports Scientist at West Ham was telling me a month ago, he's just not worth the risk in terms of injuries.

He's not got a recurring injury, it's the joints in his limbs are different to most people and they have a habit of overextending when he jumps. Apparently he is one of, if not the hardest trainer at the club and does everything right to get himself fit but the make up of his body just means he is so susceptible to injuries that there isn't much he or any medical team can do.