So I watched the derby in the only way I know how. In bed, hungover, surrounded by flat, left-over bottles of Pepsi and any food within reaching distance.

The hangover was well and truly justified though. It was a long Saturday. In the pub at 8.30am for the rugby. Then didn’t get in till 3.30am. It was a day that involved:

• An Eastern European guy who thinks one slice of toast equals two eggs
• Nearly getting strangled by another Welsh guy when we scored that try
• Insane amounts of ale
• Getting lured into some cocktail festival with the promise of free G&Ts, and all we had to do was design our own cocktail umbrella. Mine looked like somebody had sellotaped crayons to Michael J. Fox’s fingers. I was then told by a very posh girl that she loved what I had done with my trainers. The look they have is one of being utterly shagged and having holes in them
• Going to a gay bar where I danced around a group of lesbian friends, doing the YMCA on my own
• Going to a strip club, left entrance was ‘live shows’ the right entrance was for ‘gay hardcore porn’. Contrary to any rumours, we took the left turning. We were pretty much the only guys in there for most of the night. Surrounded by strippers, chatting and drinking with them. I pretty much felt like Tony Soprano…if he had holes in his shoes…and no money

With O’Hara and Henry naturally deep playing midfielders, there is always a gap between our forwards and midfield. This just means O’Hara tries to launch these Hollywood, game, nay, FOOTBALL changing passes that inevitably don’t work. Having somebody who links them to Doyle and Jarvis meant we were able to get at West Brom early on.

Just a shame then that we decided to go 4-4-2 and take Milijas off.

I would have liked to have seeb Jarvis and Hammill cutting in and running at their centre backs. They were able to deal with Doyle in the air and for strength, but would have struggled with somebody running at them.

So arguably we would have moved to a more 4-3-3 formation, and going back to 4-5-1 when not in possession.

Bit too risky for Mick I guess.

The biggest issue however, and one that if you follow me on Twitter is all I bloody talk about, is that our centre backs really lack pace. We couldn’t handle QPR’s pace, we couldn’t handle Long today (who was excellent and would have caused any teams problems) and this is something that other teams will surely pick up on.

Is there not an argument that when Zubar is 100% fit, or when Foley comes back, and potentially until we bring somebody in in January, we look at moving Stearman into the centre?

Yes, he has his ‘Stearman moments’, but you would hope that somebody like Johnson who can (well, he certainly used to be able to) organise a defence would certainly help that side of things.

And personally, Berra has simply been making too many basic mistakes in recent games. He can be found ball-watching, not in line and again his lack of pace there can cause real problems in letting attackers in behind our defence.

But of course, none of the above can really happen yet, so it’s handy we’re coming up against Swansea next who have quick players like Scott Sinclair, Nathan Dye and Danny Graham…

Still, I got to see about 8 naked women last night.