Chez

I know he's not flavour of the month on here, but IMO he's been our best player. Never hides, busy, keeps,the ball moving, works incredibly hard, good first touch, keeps the ball. Just his attacking passing that's not good enough, but I don't see anyone offering anything better.

Mane is not fit.

What a woeful cross from Targett.

Ever thought that the deal perhaps couldn't be concluded until Celtic had themselves concluded a deal for his replacement? The rediculous wagging of fingers at the saints management without any real understanding of what is going on behind the scenes dumbfounds me sometimes.

I'm with you on this. Gets far too much stick. In the odd game Without him leading the attack we have been terrible. Great focal point and He turns so many **** hoofs into something it's not true. He lost confidence last season and that was a real problem as Long isn't good enough to replace him in the loan striker role.

Asked not to play or said he's not well enough? Bad news either way.

If VW isn't going to play lets get Reed into that central midfield area to help put some pressure on opponents. If Mane is unfit lets get Juanmi into the side too, playing in the hole. Get Tadic playing on the left and we might start creating some chances for Pelle.

well if we are relying the new `squad' players brought in to help guide is into domestic cup finals this season, then my advice would be to keep your powder dry on any investment in a Club Wembley ticket.

Napoli away...****. Once in a lifetime trip, that would have been. If the seeding and pot etc. would have been different if Saints rather than Midtjyllland had gone through I don't want to know about it thanks. We missed out on Napoli away and that's that. I might never get a chance like that again. Oh well, at least we have yet another fixture away at Sunderland just round the corner to make up for it. ****.

In the end all our problems relate to having not enough players of a high enough quality. Need to get some talent into that first eleven be it injured players returning or late transfers.

The only positive thing I can say is that the Sheffield United performance was worse.

We will win chaps. See you at full time for I told you so's. I hope.

It might not be the best time, but when Rodriguez is fit and back,to his best,assuming that happens,him and Pelle could be a very good partnership. Pelle, like Lambert, doesn't half know how to put his partner in. A couple of blinding passes and headed by Pelle, but JRod wasn't up to speed. Just sayin like.

Out of interest do you know of the seats left and right of you are taken by ST holders

I'm gonna take a bit of that. In,the end one of these hoofs to Pelle and him dominating in the middle is going to run for us.

Steau Bucherest all over again, even the rain.

The game a couple of season ago at SMS, Dembele dominated midfield and looked a very good player to me, not sure he has replicated that too often though, otherwise he'd be first choice every week. I actually like Mason and can see why MP selects him, but I'd of thought Demblele has waited long enough on the bench to want a move. Not sure he'd come here though. Wonder what his wages are like too.

How come?

********. Another opportunity to stuff the skate ****s goes begging. Hope we get at least one chance to face them before they make it back to the championship. Still hear them harp on about the 1-4 in our back yard despite the two division gap. Would take just as much pleasure out of beating them now as any other. For all those not wanting a derby game, I simply do not understand you. Best games by far, by miles. Nothing comes close to the atmosphere, excitement and a host of other emotions your simply don't get from a bog standard prem game.

so, do Chelsea then pay Stones the £2m he missed out on?

this seems to me to be the only way. I keep reading on here that we can't compete, because we can't pay £100k a week wages, but why not? We may not be able to pay the £250k a week like united, or £100k a week to all the players, but why not £120k a week to the likes of Morgan, Lallana, Clyne and Shaw? Perhaps if we hadn't wasted god knows how many millions on Osvaldo etc. the money might have been there to do exactly that?

on the extremely limited evidence so far, he isn't very mobile and under hits too many passes which causes play to be slowed down. As a holding midfielder, those two facets of the game seem pretty important to me. I've been spoiled by Morgan though, so perhaps he's better than I think.

Keep a clean sheet and score the odd goal might be the same mantra, but I don't see any similarities in the method, style or performance yesterday when compared with last season. Chalk and cheese.

maybe his previous contract was £75k a wee in the Prem but then reduced (maybe in half) with relegation, so the new contract would increase what he is on now, but still be less than what he got in Prem? I'm just guessing here of course.

I'm not a big fan either. Started brightly but lost his way big style. In his defence he is now played out of position IMO. Why does RK play him on the right? He doesn't seem to ever want to shoot, so having the option to come inside on his favoured left foot seems pointless. Get him back on the left running down the line and getting crosses in. I had to laugh at fans last season saying he was better than Lallana. What a load of ********.