Jay Rod and Austin to destroy the Prem next season :)

I reckon Jay, has been allowed ample to to recover and not rushed back, because the club believe he will get back to his old form, and Austin was always bought for the coming Season, so know no to rush him back for an end of season run, they have a good partnership before. get ya prayer beads out!! IF thay can stay fit, we willbe smashing them in ...........IF!!

Got to be huge doubts about J-Rod ever getting back to pre-injury form; if CA can get healthy and have a good pre-season I think he will score plenty. Both would benefit from Mane being at the Club next season.

I must admit to a concern about J-Rod.

Hopefully a full pre season behind him and a run of games with plenty of goals will give J Rod the confidence to get back to his best form.

The Prem to destroy J-Rod and Austin next season .. sadly.

We're all concerned J-Rod may not make it back to his best and Austin is that motor that keeps breaking down.

However, they are still ours and we will support them.

well i hope i'm not proved wrong, but i reckon they will be like caged lions!! wel always have hope

well i hope i'm not proved wrong, but i reckon they will be like caged lions!! wel always have hope

Pacing backwards and forwards with a blank expression all day?

Has the potential be absolutely lethal......also has the potential to be a absolute disaster,if fit there is 30 goals there between them hopefully

Can't see Jay-Rod making it, sadly. And Austin is a one in three player at best. Need more personnel, especially if we lose Mane and Pelle.

J-Rod took some kind of knock against City in a tussle with Nasri and worryingly he was neither seen of nor spoken of ever since, thought at least we'd get an update on his condition but no. Hope I'm wrong but I think he'll be another Michael Svensson

Is 'Prem' some sort of code for physio room?

They'll be lucky to manage 15 starts between them.

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I reckon Jay, has been allowed ample to to recover and not rushed back, because the club believe he will get back to his old form, and Austin was always bought for the coming Season, so know no to rush him back for an end of season run, they have a good partnership before. get ya prayer beads out!! IF thay can stay fit, we willbe smashing them in ...........IF!!

You been on the sauce?

I remember a comment being made by a relatively formal source (the club, Jay himself, etc) that post-injury he was able to achieve sprint times that were better than before he got injured....

Will be interesting to see which Jay Rod turns up next season...

I was surprised we offered JayRod such a long new contract before he had proved he could make it back to his old form. I have to say I was equally surprised we signed Austin. The combination of low fee, high wages, injury troubles didn't feel like a recent Saints signing at all. Wonder who pushed for that one?

I was surprised we offered JayRod such a long new contract before he had proved he could make it back to his old form. I have to say I was equally surprised we signed Austin. The combination of low fee, high wages, injury troubles didn't feel like a recent Saints signing at all. Wonder who pushed for that one?

To be fair I think we were scared of losing Jay there was a lot of rumoured interest IIRC?

I was surprised we offered JayRod such a long new contract before he had proved he could make it back to his old form. I have to say I was equally surprised we signed Austin. The combination of low fee, high wages, injury troubles didn't feel like a recent Saints signing at all. Wonder who pushed for that one?

You're not alone. I really hope that j-rod can get back to being a pl striker, he's a genuinely decent bloke and deserves another shot at it, but it doesn't look likely to me. As for charlie austin, I was over the moon when we signed him, and even more so when he nodded in that header on his debut. But he's hardly seen any game time since then, you've got to wonder how that's going to work out.

Can't ever see Jay Rod get back to where he was, looking like an poor decision to give him such a long deal and on big money no doubt.

I really hope I'm wrong.

To be fair I think we were scared of losing Jay there was a lot of rumoured interest IIRC?

Who on earth else would have given him that sort of deal until he had proved he was fit?

Seems very odd in hindsight that in a summer when we lost Pochettino, Lambert, Lallana, Lovren, Shaw, and Chambers, we drew our 'line in the sand' at Rodrigues...

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Who on earth else would have given him that sort of deal until he had proved he was fit?

To be fair, wasn't he already on quite a long deal already when he snapped his acl? I'd guess that from the clubs point of view it might have been viewed as damage limitation in the hope that he'd do a walcott and bounce back.

You have to presume the coaching and medical staff know what they are doing (those sprint speeds, for example). But those of us who can only go by what we saw at the end of the season, "running though treacle" I think someone said, have legitimate worries.

I must admit to a concern about J-Rod.

If doesn't get back to his old form next season I don't think he ever will. Terrible shame for the bloke, he was on fire, had just broken into the England squad, and looking like only getting better. Then one unbalanced landing with too much weight on one knee fecked it all up. Really hope he gets back but just don't think it's going to happen sadly.

Maybe if we play them together they might be effective...

Maybe if we play them together they might be effective...

 

But do they have two good legs between them?

Austin will be fine next year and get back to his 15-20 goal season. He is not injury prone, in fact the previous 4 seasons he played straight through and in almost all the games. This year was just one of those things, and he will be fit and ready to go.

Austin will be fine next year and get back to his 15-20 goal season. He is not injury prone, in fact the previous 4 seasons he played straight through and in almost all the games. This year was just one of those things, and he will be fit and ready to go.

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I reckon Jay, has been allowed ample to to recover and not rushed back, because the club believe he will get back to his old form, and Austin was always bought for the coming Season, so know no to rush him back for an end of season run, they have a good partnership before. get ya prayer beads out!!

IF thay can stay fit, we will be smashing them in ...........IF!!

well ......we live in hope.

Can't ever see Jay Rod get back to where he was, looking like an poor decision to give him such a long deal and on big money no doubt.

 

I really hope I'm wrong.

I really hope you're wrong ....time will tell.

If we manage to keep hold of Tadic & we do sign Kostic then it tells me J-Rod's days on the left wing are done & he'll be a central striker from now on.

Austin is not that much of worry for me, people are making out like he's Sturridge or Wilshere levels of injury but before last season he'd had seasons of 36, 37, 40 and 46 games.

Jay Rod I'm not so sure on, I have this worry, especially looking at him last year that they've bulked him up on muscle mass to prevent injury and he's lost a bit of his pace and agility for it.

But we'll see, a full pre-season could do wonders for him.

Austin is not that much of worry for me, people are making out like he's Sturridge or Wilshere levels of injury but before last season he'd had seasons of 36, 37, 40 and 46 games.

 

Jay Rod I'm not so sure on, I have this worry, especially looking at him last year that they've bulked him up on muscle mass to prevent injury and he's lost a bit of his pace and agility for it.

 

But we'll see, a full pre-season could do wonders for him.

I think that's the problem - wont last a full pre-season!!

Austin is not that much of worry for me, people are making out like he's Sturridge or Wilshere levels of injury but before last season he'd had seasons of 36, 37, 40 and 46 games.

 

Jay Rod I'm not so sure on, I have this worry, especially looking at him last year that they've bulked him up on muscle mass to prevent injury and he's lost a bit of his pace and agility for it.

 

But we'll see, a full pre-season could do wonders for him.

I think Jay is excellent, but I'm with a few others who have a nagging fear. The bloke has spent 2 years, pretty much, injured. He's coming on 27 now I think, so right into the prime of his career. He had a full pre-season last year, lots of goals in the games and played a part on the EL games....but then got injured around September and we didn't really see him again.

I want nothing more than to see him back on the pitch rampaging down the left and cutting in as he did so well.

There is no thread on this forum that I want to become reality more than OP's one here!

I think Jay is excellent, but I'm with a few others who have a nagging fear. The bloke has spent 2 years, pretty much, injured. He's coming on 27 now I think, so right into the prime of his career. He had a full pre-season last year, lots of goals in the games and played a part on the EL games....but then got injured around September and we didn't really see him again.

 

I want nothing more than to see him back on the pitch rampaging down the left and cutting in as he did so well.

Did he re-injure himself at the end of last season or not? I recall him not making the bench. I really hope he gets back to playing as (like you say) I have a slight fear about him.

When a knee injury drags on, I start to think about Killer's knee. Hopefully we're wrong and he's back to form in pre-season.

His knee had complications then he had a separate foot injury didn't he?