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Team versus Stoke: Cech (c); Ivanovic, David Luiz, Cahill, Cole; Ramires, Mikel; Mata, Oscar, Hazard; Torres

Subs: Turnbull, Azpilicueta, Terry, Bertrand, Romeu, Lampard, Moses


Nice attacking team. Can't wait to see Trio of Mata, Oscar and Hazard playing together.

Can't you re-scale pages in your browser?

Not just me then, seems to work for some though.

Ay the multi quote only works if you click preview or full editor (that's how I always used to do on the old forums). It used to work with the reply button but then Mons made me change it so that reply could be opened in a new tab. I can eventually make it work, but it's a bit fiddly and if I did all of those little fiddly things release would be 2 months later Easier to get it all moved over and slowly iron out the bugs from there.

Thomas Hitzlsperger is on trial at Everton

That's a shit thread title.

When will we replace Mikel?

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but getting rid of Meireles seems like a mistake. He was impressive against Newcastle, and our midfield looked a lot more balanced there than it does with Lampard in there.

I don't see it happening, the clubs don't have the income to continuously do that year after year.

I think with Del Piero they've brought him in for the next two seasons, then after that Sydney FC will look to bring through a lot of youth that hopefully have been exposed to him in some way, so they can learn from his professionalism on and off the pitch. I still think the way to go is bringing in more youth players, I think the national team is suffering because not many players are coming through at A-League level and overseas.