Chez

the ball goes up to Armstrong to his feet and he simply can not hold it up. Poor play.

They are not on the beach, they are just fucking shit. Defensively wide open.

How shit is Perraud there. Woeful.

Good example or why we are where we are. Redmond with decent vision, but the chip to Prowse is just a bit too strong, Prowse then stretching, gets the volley-cross, but Broja is never going to score. A good try, but just a fraction out - just not enough quality when we need it.

what do you want him to do?

yep. bit unlucky. However, it could easily be 3-0. Getting murdered at set pieces, on the break...every where.

Bednarek gets taken out and then we are fucked. We are wide open. They have had maybe 5 breaks now where they have had a man extra - got away it, yet still 2-0 down. Jesus.

stream a bit behind I think, but KWP positional play was fucking terrible.

Broja has done more in first four minutes than Long did all game last week.

I see Ralph has picked Broja. Maybe his attitude over the past few weeks has been perfectly fine?

I think he was coming on for the last 10, but then Tella pulled up with cramp (again) so Ely came on instead.

He came in December and we'd just signed Vestagaard from Germany in the summer. It's very much a one in one out policy at Saints these days from what I can see.

He was out of contract at the end of the season, but we had to agree a compensation fee with Reading as he was under 24. I suspect we were trying to low ball Reading and they said `lets see what the tribunal thinks' and we thus pulled out as he signed a year extension. The tribunal's have tended to be pretty fair. Nik Nak missed a trick with that one in my book.

Badger says he has a poor attitude and you say lack of desire. Is this coming from inside the club or just professional body language reading?

Broja doesn't score or shine and you conclude its his poor attitude and application? I don't see similar comments and terminology used for Che, Armstrong and Long, yet they have done absolutely fuck all in the same period. Is their application and attitude spot on? Maybe the lack of goals and impact is a team issue not a character fault?

Absolutely. He will probably end up being Chelsea's number 2 or suchlike on the £100k a week he wanted and good luck to him. But if Saints had £100k a week to spend, it wouldn't be on him.

Do you have the inside track here SG? I am not sure what difference it makes that Macca accepted a contract. Can you clarify? Forster was also offered a contract. He turned it down. If he wants to be here, then why not sign the contract? Does he want more money or is there something else?

yes leave on a free = out of contract in my mind. Forster is gone. Whether it was the requested wage cut, us farming him out on loan, or the possibility of a nice move to a bigger side, I don't know the reason he didn't want to sign the new deal, but whatever we lose £100k off our wage bill, and we need to use some of those fund to bring in quality. I expect it to be Johnstone, but I really don't know if that's an upgrade.

...give me Bowen, Antonio AND Broja every day. Liverpool are often linked with Bowen. Not sure that move will happen, but wise to have options. He has played out wide a lot too and been very effective, so makes sense to have another striker and allow him to play there with or without Antonio. I love Antonio. Him tearing Leyton Orient to shreds at Brisbane Road will live with me forever. We should have just paid the £500,000 Reading wanted, assuming that story was true. Antonio started like a train this season, but he only has 8 goals. He's had injuries issues too, so West Ham could do with another striker.

Yep. I'd guess that is exactly what happens, but the fact we didn't sign anyone from Germany really surprises me. Perhaps he had a few in mind, but we just couldn't get those.

if a manager doesn't he should be sacked.

Sure, but they train for about two hours a day and not every day either. Often the coaches take the sessions. There is media work too and lots of other stuff no doubt, but some of these managers like Pep are reported to work 10 or 12 hours a day, six of seven days a week. I mean that's not 24/7, but if you are not involved in scouting, player contracts, logistics, admin, operations, finances....

Scottish Sun reported last summer that Forster rejected our contract offer. Strange story to print unless true.

From BBC gossip page, the Sun links west ham with Broja.

Not sure I follow. I meant Forster and McCarthy. Obviously McCarthy isn't now leaving but Forster is. My question was, are those suggested keepers,Johnstone etc. better than what we currently have. I'm not so sure they are. I'd offer Caballero a new deal. Not seen anything of Lewis this season, so got nothing to rate him on.