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It's pretty crappy all round, with particular reference to Ticket News which is usually about 6 clicks more than it needs to be and rarely gives you the information you're after. Season Tickets meanwhile, which can surely only be a once a year purchase or irrelevant altogether for 95% of OS users, have a relatively needless prominence. The enforced mobile browser was toilet too, and the regular site player profiles still don't work with an iPhone... And a decent search might be nice. I wouldn't say it was any better than most other out-of-the-box football team sites though, seeing as they're almost all interchangeable.

That's a load of ar5e. Most of Lambert's standing still successes are only successful due to teammates' movement. If they both stood there doing nothing they'd be very very easy to defend against. He's decent at getting half a yard to flick the ball on, but that relies on someone running off him to make that worthwhile.

Amusingly massive lie there. And ok, I don't spend ALL the game watching the strikers, but I do tend to watch what they're doing when our midfielders (or strikers) have the ball.

Brown Fox.

FA Cup 2008. I'd forgotten too.

Oh and according to Soccerbase he's only got 4 yellow cards so far, so that's good, can't get himself up to 10 by the Rochdale match.

Well, he's a starter for a decent team in this League, he's more accomplished than Gobern, he's playing in a position in which we needed to sign a player, and he's got a potential upside with his age, so I'm reasonably happy with this. Beats waiting around for nothing in certain parts of Saints recent history...

As a (retired as of last week) lazy centre-forward myself I assure you I spend most of the match watching Lambert and his (lack of) movement.

Anyway, why aren't we signing Furman as well, if that partnership is so great ?

I don't, but I expect a player to look like he's bothered more than 4 times a match and a striker to get into goalscoring positions when he doesn't have the ball. Can't remember the Huddersfield goal, but I can remember him not hitting the ball on the bounce when clean through (was that against Man U?), the defender getting a tackle in and us not winning from there - sign of a lack of confidence at the time which hopefully he's got back.

Didn't see the Charlton game so can't comment on that, but I have seen him 26 times this season and so far the one thing he's done to impress me was his finish against Sheff Wed. Compare that to the hundreds of occasions where he miscontrols the ball or passes the ball to an opponent, his utter failure to attack the ball if it goes on the ground in the area this season or even be in the vicinity when it happens, and our general mentality if things are failing of whacking it in his general direction, and I just think we'd be a better side using him as a late option rather than a regular starter. Barnard and Guly give us movement and creativity on the ground and Guly is good enough in the air to cover the options from crosses. I will concede that without Lambert taking free-kicks we'll need to find someone else to do that. We've got a few candidates apparently. This is of course a different argument to signing another central midfielder, but I'm surprised at just how untouchable Lambert has been this season given some of his performances.

Because he has done absolutely bugger all all season, and even in the last 3-4 matches when he's supposedly been "in form", he's done absolutely nothing outside of the 30 seconds which has been seen on the highlights. Being generous I will credit him with being "efficient" with his movements, as in doing the square root of fck all otherwise at Bournemouth he managed to set up Barnard and score a free kick, and then the one decent piece of skill I've seen from him this season with the deflection buried against Sheff Wed. If Guly did as little as Lambert has this season he'd be getting slaughtered on here.

So play 4-2-3-1 and drop Lambert.

Dodgy knee, having an op in the next few weeks, nickname "the Beast". Deserved more of a run-out this season than FC Santos could afford him... Awaits tumbleweed and whooshes...

He's very similar positionally to Guly, attacking midfielder / support striker. I should think Ox-Cham can do this as well, as I've mentioned before he's in FourFourTwo magazine this month being surprised that people compare him to Theo because he's always been a centre-mid before.

Obviously not good enough at the moment in Nige's eyes - just like Fish Mills for that matter.

To save anyone else bothering... "That's 5'8" then".

In footballing terms it's getting there. I would imagine you're onto your last "full value" contract without your lack of sell on value affecting the wages you can negotiate.

It's as good as it'll get.

You'd hope everyone would know football shirts change every year by now (especially as we have a contract which states it will and the club even announced it on the website - before ignoring it for a season due to admin!), but fair enough.

It would be funnier if Nigel actually used footballing cliches in the first place, as opposed to a set of random metaphors for football involving transport and the construction industry. Now if he was ranting on about war, sunsets or avian illnesses, they'd have a point.

But easier to do either than get you to use the correct tense of "getting promoted" out of / from the Championship. "Promote out of" indeed, FFS.

I disagree with the previous post about sizing - the sizing is weird, I've got a L and an XL in the home kit and I'm usually an XL, and an XL in the away shirt. All but the large are quite big compared to the last Umbro flybe kit (which was VERY small), but I can get into the L short-sleeved home shirt comfortably. Also, I wouldn't assume there's a new kit due yet, we've got 2 months before the end of the season yet.

Seems from this that Spurs are paranoid. Though I'd already read the bit about Bale not training so I had a pretty good idea he was referring to the media already when I saw the other comments. Also, as Wales Assistant Manager he's got nothing to worry about, it'll take the FAW another 10-15 years to remember they've got internet access. Their website up until about 2006 was comically amateurish.