The same thing always happens; he gets the ball on the edge of the area but instead of just crossing it or running it into the corner, he turns around, dallies on the ball and eventually loses possession trying to pick out a pass.

I saw it happen in about 10-15 of our 23 home games last season. Hilarious looking back on it, but not so much when you’re hanging on in the dying seconds, trying to run down the clock.

I can see both sides of the argument.

He certainly isn’t proficient enough in front of goal and it’s infuriating when he’s presented with a chance and doesn’t even look like scoring.

That being said, I recognise the value he adds by dragging defenders out of position and linking play. He’s a better player away from home, which I think has a lot to do with confidence.

I didn’t think he had a particularly great game against Fulham but he competed well and setup the second goal. It was completely ridiculous that he stayed on when all those subs were being made. Like Jed says, when Kightly came on why would you take a natural wide player off like Jarvis and put Keogh out of position on the right. Strange indeed.

This debate will rage on no doubt.

Sam, I was pissed off we didn’t get Hanson & Dixon pouring over our performance with the post match analysis and praise our performance deserverd. As you rightly say Sam, we made a European team look ordinary.

Has anyone see the tabloids today? In particlar The Sun?

Keogh as the star man with the tag line of “Movement in spades” and Elokobi made there weekend prem dream team. Outstanding.

I notice the Keogh critics have decided not to show on the blog today………MMMMM, interesting!

what a great match yesterday was. ok a bit nervy near the end but to start both halfs as we did, pressure the opposition and score some good goals and create good chances, i couldnt ask for much more. kightly and seb back from injury, the hoff and castillio get home debuts and both doing well, defence shoring up. the list of positievs go on. yes it is only one match but at least we know we can do it, jsut got to keep the work rate up.

trying to follow the game online yesterday was horrible though. no live streams, i got audio for about 10mins first half, and the last 25mins in the second. the live updates on the bbc were mostly about the manchester derby. i understand why but when they only put up info when we scored and when they got the penalty, that was pretty terrible. also with only 4 games yesterday and all of them full of goals i expected a little more %share on match of the day and some analysis. we dominated and made last years 7th place team look average. our play made them poor until late into the 2nd. stupid baggie charles!

Mancienne was a little silly in grappling with him when he had his back to goal, but for me, it’s a little soft. Had that been Vidic wrestling with Keogh, there’s no way we’d get the decision.

Thomas, in what way was that penalty even slightly dubious?????

Well done to the boys, I think Berra and Edwards in particular had strong outings. We will get a Man U reserver team hammering Wed, but couldn’t care less. Use it as a training / rehabilatation session and give SEB and Kights a more competitive runout.