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By scoring the same number of goals from headers as Guly did. Yes, well done, great logic. Guly won plenty of headers in his deep lying striker/attacking midfielder role - those that were actually aimed near him, and he always does. He couldn't do much about the ones we whacked at Oxlade-Chamberlain as they were usually 10-15 yards from him.

He's been out wide a lot less often than he was last season, mostly because getting out there involves some kind of movement.

Fair point, but you actually have to "run" to have "pace". Mind you Berbatov seems to be managing without.

Went last year, drove there and back the same day from Southampton on a Tuesday night, so as that'll put me in superfan credit for about 5 years I utterly won't be bothered again.

I'll be going provided its no more than £25, but it'll be a weird world in which Blackpool are regarded as an attraction for plastic floating fans. I think we'll get about 19,000 if it's £25 and 25,000 if it's £18-ish. I wouldn't be surprised if the prices are ridiculous though, the justification being that they're a Prem side. We'll get fewer than for Cheltenham if tickets are £35, especially as I expect them to field nigh-on a reserve side.

Fair enough, I thought he was completely anonymous in the first half and Hammond did all his running for him. Didnt do much wrong but was nowhere near involved enough considering his position. Second half he had a lot of space and used it well, and closed down reasonably well. Both his finishes were excellent.

I you get hoofed in the ankle like he did it doesn't matter if you're 16 or 40 or how many injuries you've had before, you won't be able to carry on.

Sounds like you're completely agreeing with the previous post actually. Poor start, got better.

So far this season Guly's looked better than Lambert in the air, and he's better on the ground anyway. Plus it wouldn't do us any harm to give Barnard his due.

I agree with Arsenal away, or Dover at home. Either someone crappy at home or a day out away to get us out of it.

I went. It was cold and boring.

They haven't decided yet because the FL has a valid long-term contract for Wembley to host the Final, and I suspect they will try to enforce it, irrespective of UEFA's "clean stadium" rules which require weeks on end of not having any events prior to the CL Final.

Er, but the point is, as well as being utterly feeble, it didn't get any reaction at all - other than a patronising "oh, we've never heard THAT one before" response.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/championship/7595473/Old-Trafford-considered-as-venue-for-2010-11-Football-League-play-off-finals.html

I'll give us a 6, practically exactly the same as last year with the exception of the JPT and on one hand nothing like as good as I was hoping, on the other hand, almost exactly what I was expecting.

I at least knew what he was getting at with "cadence", though that would make "regular cadence" a tautology. Either way we appear to have signed no-one.

Well, Davis regulary playing much better than he did in 2006 pretty much covers that for me, nothing to do with Bart, who is now on his third Saints contract isn't he? Someone must be offering them to him.

Papa Waigo was a very good defender, hard working and a decent tackler. But frankly I'm completely over it.

Well, no, they're exactly the same thing. Trying to delay the return of the ball to play as much as possible in order to minimise the time goals can be conceded. That is wasting time. I'm not sure anyone's complaining about his having the ball at his feet, or even taking goal kicks from the other side of the box, but I suspect a few might have taken issue with his "short pass-no, go-long-no, wait -short pass might be on after all, oh it isn't, best kick long then" routine, which required a double or triple-taken run up before he actually kicked the ball, and began long before Saints even looked like we might score, somewhere around the time of the first goal kick after a couple of minutes or so. Thankfully by the second goal kick Saints fans were booing so much the ref was already noting the time eaten up. Though what the hell he was thinking by only adding 4 minutes at the end of the first half I don't know, the guy was on the floor for that long before the stretcher even got to him.

After Brighton dominated the first 7 or 8 minutes and we couldn't get the ball off them we resorted to panic-hoofing it away for a little bit. They then did the exact same thing when we dominated the rest of the half until El-Abd got injured which killed our momentum. And their goalkeeper should have been booked for time-wasting in the 3rd minute, which is when he started doing it. I didn't even notice Kelvin time-wasting, and he certainly wasn't doing it before Butterfield was brought on to settle for the 0-0 with a few minutes left. As for penalties, we should have had one on Lallana because they we given one for a similar thing (except with the ball unplayable and going off the pitch for the one that was given) - though I don't think either of them was penalties. They also should have had another one a few minutes later, but they'd already eaten up their allocation of dubious awarded pen decisions by then - the second foul was much more of a penalty than the one they got.

Redknapp sold Beattie for £6m which contributed to our relegation a few months later, then when relegated sold Crouch for £7m and Phillips for £1m (and he proceeded to play in the Prem AND get another side promoted from the Championship in the following seasons). You can argue the role of Lowe here all you like, but those figures about "making money" as evidence of transfer dealings only hold true if you don't cripple the side at the same time. That £14m (and therefore the measly £2m raised from the other 12 player sales, according to that link above) ended up costing Saints about £40m that year and the following year. He also spent £2.1m on Quashie in the Prem and we lost £0.9m on that when we sold him a year later. In fact the only player Redknapp made us a profit on in his time at Saints was Fuller, who cost £90k and was then sold to Stoke for a fee claimed to be £500k, which is unverified and frankly pretty unlikely. Also, he signed Marcelo Tejera. And some terrible players for the Skates (I once took the rise out of Meringovian with a list of his purchases pre-2005 which showed that about 80% of the players he'd signed for them since taking over the first time weren't first team regulars at any point or had already left). The long and short of it is wherever he goes he ships out most of the players he inherits and replaces them with other ones - this needs a load of cash, albeit some of which is raised by the number of players he sells, in haste, and usually at a loss. At the same time he usually alienates perfectly good players who go on to be better elsewhere for no apparent reason (Matt Mills, Gary O'Neil, Geovanni, Kevin Phillips, KP Boateng), and the fact he wasn't able to throw money at it is the main reason he failed at Saints.

The likelihood of Jaidi playing two matches in 3/4 days is quite slim, and we knew that when we signed him.

According to someone on here with a source in Torquay, it was Dagenham & Redbridge who made the offer.

Didn't think he was to blame for the goal, but he did run the ball off the pitch a few times. Then again, it is the third division.

He lived in our garden.