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I just visited the Swansea City website and unsurprisingly there is absolutely nothing on there about who they have been linked with. Same with Norwich and Boro. Have these three clubs posted something on their social media feeds? If not, then I don't have a clue what you are on about.

If managers are not even managers these days, and they don't get to sign players and they get the sack long before player contracts run out, it's hardly surprising they don't get the respect they used to back in the day. Unless the manager wins games and survives a year or two, they are always fighting a losing battle.

He was really poor. No where near good enough technically to play in the top flight IMO.

I guess. He scored lots of goals, but my argument was always that his lack of work rate meant it was 11 v 10, so we were always behind. I was glad when he left, but we obviously got worse without him.

He was a player we discussed in the summer, pace and power - just what we needed, but these PL players just don't drop down a league these days and the foreign guys especially use their `PL fame' to get contracts abroad with half decent European sides. Awoniyi scored a lot of goals in Germany before joining Forest, so he has plenty of credibility. He has another 18 month on his PL contract. He isn't taking less money, so Forest will have to pay a sweetener to shift him. Forest fans really like him, but he is never fit. His injury record is really bad. Looking through the PL squads, I struggle to find a striker that we could get on loan. PL sides don't seem to have many CF and with such large benches, they are not going to let any go out on loan.

Wolves only just spent £25m on him in the summer. Although he's only really getting a few minutes off the bench, it seems unlikely they will loan him to a championship club at this point.

He wasn't the worst player, but we were paying him a fortune at that level and he delivered pretty much fuck all. I hated that team, especially the well liked Stern John who just stood around doing jack shit every week.

Are you thinking of Pele? Folly only played a few games for Saints. I think there was a couple of sub appearances in the PL. I recall him playing the full game at Wolves away in the Championship. He played pretty well that day, but I don't think he played again and then was sent off to Sheff Wednesday.

Personally, I was referring to Alan Bennett not Paul. If you witnessed the game against Palace at SMS in 2007 you will have seen one of the weakest and most pitiful displays at CB ever. Just looked at the 2007 squad and discovered Darren Powell...one of, if not the most talentless footballers I have ever seen in a Saints shirt.

Paul Wotton should have made my team. One of the most limited players to ever wear the shirt. At least he tried I suppose.

Andrews O'Halloran Bennett Holgate Small Falque Pulis Lee Brereton-Diaz Dia Cramb Bit harsh to compare players being shit in the PL with those not good enough to get a game in a league 1 side, but putting that to one side, in terms of what I saw of them do in a Saints shirt, these are possibly the worst signings. Talk about rabbits in headlights. I should say that Orsic pushed Brereton-Diaz close. Danso could have made the side, but he was played out of position, so I will let him off. Yes, Pulis gets in despite not playing. I said he wasn't anywhere near good enough when we signed him and it was one of the few occasions I was right. Kevin Gibbons might make the bench, and NiIssen. I'd like to get Bernhard and Nigel Quashie in somehow. I'm still scarred from that 2004/5 season. The latter's disgraceful effort away at at QPR will live in my memory forever.

It will be interesting to see if Eckhart can implement some changes in that time. Ten days isn't a lot, especially if some players disappear on international duty (how many do we lose these days?), but it is enough time to drill a back four and/or get a shape right, get a press right, get across a little bit of what he wants players to do in certain positions. It should be ample time to analyse the opposition and have things in place to nullify what they do well.

I'd like to see us push two or three up when we are defending corners. I wonder if that would give our keeper a little more room to come claim a deeper cross. More room for attackers of course.

Ah. I missed that. Real shame about the injuries and the timing otherwise he may have been at the standard we needed this season. Good luck to him.

If we hadn't just got Romeu, I'd be suggesting we look to loan Lewis Cook from Bournemouth. He was injured at the start of the season, but hasn't had much playing time since returning from injury. Maybe they are just easing him back. He's probably way out of our league.

Good to hear. He's a goalscorer, no doubt about it. The two bad injuries obviously stalled his career and ruined his chances of making it here, but every chance he forges a very good career. I am guessing we wont offer him a new contract, but if he keeps scoring at that rate the club would have to reconsider wouldn't they?

Cureton was at Saints as a youngster. Unfortunately, he and Darren Eadie slipped through our fingers.

I have to say, I was surprised they got promoted having lost a lot of their best players in the summer. Farke has to take a lot of credit for picking them back up and beating pretty much everyone on their way to 100 points. Not sure how much input he had on transfers, but Tanaka, Solomon and Rodon were astute signings. He got a few more goals out of Piroe and more from Gnonto. Not sure who was `debating' his sacking, but it feels a little far fetched. I know there will have been doubts about his ability to keep them up, but you can't really sack a guy that has got you promoted until he starts to struggle can you? Is that now though perhaps? Seems a little premature.

Swansea?

We've been playing it out from the back all season. Maybe not successfully, but short passing across the back four and down the line has been there the whole time. Was the difference that we got it into the central midfielders and between the lines more? TE got what, Monday and Tuesday and Thursday and Friday to train the players. I'd imagine Thursday training was pretty light, after a game the night before, so the idea that he was able to change the way we play in that short period is unlikely. Individual and collective performances are often about confidence and belief. The manager can be positive and give pep talks, but confidence comes from players playing well and teams winning games.

could not agree more. Can't stand him. The channel 5 documentary revealed everything.

Has he got another envelope at the ready? What a twat.

Yet to see anything from Edwards to make me want to pick him at right back or Cb.

Why does the recency matter? Is that because he might still be getting paid by them so wouldn't take another job on? I was wondering if we could go for Pereira...or is his stock too high for a championship job?

I'm not worried about losing there with GON at the helm, im worried about losing there full stop. So, let's get the right fucking guy in to give us the best chance of winning there...and everywhere else too. Is that GON? I'm not sure, but my memory of his previous jobs was that his sides competed well and Wolves were very hard done by by the officials. The question we should be asking is, is he the guy you think can galvanize the squad and turn them into a runaway train? That might be hard to imagine at this point, but a couple of tweaks, a striker in January...and then who knows. Personally, I like the idea of turning a skate into a Saint and removing a 'legend' from them. I would love seeing him win at their place. A big smile on his face as the fourth saints goal goes in.