[Danny]

What we making so far overall of the Pippo era?

For my tuppence I think he's done brilliantly given the financial constraints. Galliani basically brought in a new team, for near-enough free, and the fact we sit 4th after 7 matches is easily beyond what any of us expected.

We've lost one match, a match we did well in and only a moment of Pogba magic finished by Tevez won the 3 points for Juve. We've made two careless draws, but 4 wins against Parma, Lazio, Chievo and HV are, it has to be said, extremely impressive.

There is progress going on under Pippo, clear progress.

Naturally he makes plenty of bewildering decisions like all managers do, but judge on results, and only 7 points dropped of 21 is, frankly, absolutely excellent.

I'd say 'the big tests come against the Fiorentinas of this world' but then we took one of them on today and completely outclassed them. HV have been a fine performer the past season or so, and beat the recently-improved Torino away on the opening day. So they're a good team that only Roma then us have beaten thus far.

It obviously annoys me to see Rami ahead of Zapata, or Muntari and not MvG or Bona etc, but for all we disagree on personnel - it's results we have to judge.

On that level, and our position in the table, Pippo gets an -A.

If we beat Fiorentina next week you'd have to say it's really starting to look good for him.

[X-Offender]

I think we should aim for 3rd place this season, no doubt. Just because we finished 8th last season means nothing. Juve finished 7th in 2011 and next year they won the scudetto. This is obviously taking into consideration who are opposition is, and like Han mentioned, no-one is better than us expect for maybe Napoli, but this season they've been very inconsistent. I don't know if not making the CL demoralized them, but their stats so far have been really poor. Last night they were horrible in the first half, redeemed themselves in the second but still ended up conceding twice and throwing away 2 points.